{"id":199822,"date":"2007-06-25T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/25\/good-news-wto-talks-fail\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T15:51:00","slug":"good-news-wto-talks-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/25\/good-news-wto-talks-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News: WTO Talks Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit late, but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good thing. <\/p>\n<p>The rules are about making bankers rich, depressing wages, and imposing neo-colonial regimes on less developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>Until we redefine what free trade should be, and it shouldn&#8217;t be denying drugs to babies in Guatemala, progress should stop.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/06\/21\/news\/international\/trade_talks.reut\/index.htm?postversion=2007062113\">WTO talks stumble, raising doubts over future of Doha pact<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>U.S. blames Brazil and India for asking for impossible concessions; future of World Trade Organization&#8217;s Doha pact in question.<br \/>June 21 2007: 1:23 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>POTSDAM, Germany (Reuters) &#8212; The future of World Trade Organization&#8217;s Doha pact is under doubt, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said Thursday, as talks between the United States, European Union, India and Brazil broke down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It places a very major question mark on the ability of the wider membership of the WTO to complete this round,&#8221; Mandelson told a press conference in Potsdam. &#8220;It does not in itself mean that the negotiations cannot be put back on track.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit late, but&#8230;. This is a good thing. The rules are about making bankers rich, depressing wages, and imposing neo-colonial regimes on less developed countries. Until we redefine what free trade should be, and it shouldn&#8217;t be denying drugs to babies in Guatemala, progress should stop. WTO talks stumble, raising doubts over future of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1016,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-international-commerce","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}