Kill The Poor Already
The failure of the Doha Round is the latest and greatest example of the first world deliberately fucking the third world via protectionist trade barriers.
Now the Doha Round has collapsed without an agriculture agreement. The U.S. refused to cut subsidies unless the Europeans agreed to deeper cuts in tariffs, while the Europeans refused to cut tariffs unless the U.S. agreed to deeper cuts in subsidies. Neither had a strong incentive to reach a consensus, because the biggest beneficiary would be the developing world. (Washington prefers to push for freer trade in “services,” by which it means industries such as banking and not, say, online medical consultations.)
What kills me is how little press this gets. No blood n’ guts for the camera, just cause and effect you can’t see, and more starving babies in Africa. Those that argue against globalization don’t really have any empirical data to go on since the world is still a loose collection of quasi-socialist nation-states. We are so far away from true free trade. Keep embracing the status quo and watch the poor stay poor. Vote Republicrat and watch wealthy elected officials protect the wealthy industries (that donate heavily to their campaigns) from true competition of an open market.