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Created in 1995 to enforce and expand GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), the World Trade Organization is the most powerful legislative and judicial body in the world.

By promoting the "free trade" agenda of multinational corporations above the interests of local communities, working families, and the environment, the WTO has systematically undermined democracy around the world.

In the five years of its existence, WTO panels composed of corporate attorneys have ruled that: the US law protecting sea turtles was a barrier to "free trade"; that US clean air standards and laws protecting dolphins are too; that the European Union law banning hormone-treated beef is illegal. According to the WTO, our democratically elected public officials no longer have the rights to protect the environment and public health.

Unlike United Nations treaties, the International Labor Organization conventions, or multilateral environmental agreements, WTO rules and rulings can be enforced through sanctions. This gives the WTO more power than any other international body and even national governments.

http://www.globalexchange.org/wto/
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What a great idea! Lets let giant corporations run our planet.

The WTO has stopped the US from setting land aside for conservation, makes us buy dirty Mexican oil and now says we can’t give tax breaks to our own companies.

yes preacherman481 there is a beast