On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:18:18AM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
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> For those of you who did not see it last night, PBS had a program
> on P.O.V. titled "Life and Debt" about the havoc being caused in
> Jamaica by "globalization" and "free trade".
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> The show left me with the feeling that that the foxes have been
> left in charge of the hen-house.
Was this the first news coverage of this take on globalization to
hit the US mass media?
Investigative journalists in the EU have been poking at this sore
tooth for sufficiently long now that it's making most of the public
nervous. "Foxes in charge of the hen-house" is EXACTLY how to describe
a lot of the pro-globalization lobbying that's been going on since
the collapse of the USSR -- what's been sold to us, the western
public, as necessary and good measures in support of free trade
has a very seamy underside.
Remember those riots in Genoa? Here's an ... interesting ... first-
hand account from an alternative journalist who was there:
http://www.squall.co.uk/frontline.html
-- Charlie
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