Freedom from liability is, in fact, the real meaning of "free trade".


http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21283.cfm


The Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations
The killing fields of MNCs
By Vandana Shiva
The Asian Age, July 14, 2010
Straight to the Source


The agrochemical industry and its new avatar, the biotechnology industry, do not merely distort and manipulate knowledge, science and public policy. They also manipulate the law and the justice system. The reason justice has been denied to the victims of Bhopal is because corporations want to escape liability. Freedom from liability is, in fact, the real meaning of "free trade". The tragedy of Bhopal is dual. Interestingly, the Bhopal disaster happened precisely when corporations were seeking deregulation and freedom from liability through the instruments of "free trade", "trade liberalisation" and "globalisation", both through bilateral pressure and through the Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which led to the creation of the World Trade Organisation.

12:46 pm
September 23, 2010



 

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