If you have not heard of www.knowmore.org then you need to check it out. It is a website that profiles hundreds of corporations and rates them on a variety of issues including workers rights, environmental practices, ethical business practices, political power, etc.
If you use Mozilla Firefox, then definitely install the KnowMore add-on. For more info about the add-on, go here.
Seriously, check out this amazing documentary about the ills of free trade, international lending, and what is essentially economic slavery that is going on all around the world right now. This documentary focuses on Jamaica.
Trailer:
And here is a pretty good article in the New York Times about the documentary.
This is a pretty good video about free vs. fair trade.
An article in the New Yorker called “Exporting I.P.” illustrates what the American government is doing to the rest of the world in terms of its free trade policy. Here is a quick excerpt:
“Free trade is supposed to be a win-win situation. You sell me your televisions, I sell you my software, and we both prosper. In practice, free-trade agreements are messier than that. Since all industries crave foreign markets to expand into but fear foreign competitors encroaching on their home turf, they lobby their governments to tilt the rules in their favor. Usually, this involves manipulating tariffs and quotas.”
It goes on to explain how America bullies other countries into changing their copyright laws in order to support American pharmaceutical companies.
It is well written article, check it out. I don’t have the link though, sorry.
