'Free' Trade Beyond the WTO

WELCOME to the brave new world of 'Free' Trade. This is a world that extends beyond the World Trade Organisation. This may be difficult to comprehend, but the fact of the matter is that global capital, led by the US government, seeks more and more to tread where even the WTO did not. The US has now developed a strategy that bypasses the WTO and actually goes much beyond the onerous conditions that the WTO lays down.

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