[hedgetrimmer]

Actually no it isn't. You must read the WTO charter, NAFTA, GATT and the FTAA. They clearly posit socialist policies withing their trade agreements.

[freebacon]

Do you have a link?

[Cronos]

The WTO's charter states that WTO members recognise:

“that their relations in the field of trade and economic endeavour should be conducted with a view to raising standards of living, ensuring full employment and a large and steadily growing volume of real income and effective demand, and expanding the production of and trade in goods and services, while allowing for the optimal use of the world’s resources in accordance with the objective of sustainable development, seeking both to protect and preserve the environment and to enhance the means for doing so in a manner consistent with their respective needs and concerns at different levels of economic development.”

[Cronos]

They're not socialists no more than the Stock Exchange Board is socialist. In fact they do less than the Securities Exchange board and have less powers, faar less powers. All the WTO (derived from GATT) is, is a forum for countries and trading blocs to settle disputes. If the WTO rules against, say, the EU ( as it did in the bananas case when it ruled FOR THE USA), that bloc CAN ignore it, but they don't. It's NOT a world government, it's NOT a socialist conspiracy, all it is, is a place to settle disputes, not even a court.