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A Positive Failure: The end of the WTO Doha Round talks
Thursday, August 24, 2006

By Nico Rahim

To the dismay of many in the corporate media, the WTO Doha Round failed in late July.  For the progressive and radical communities there was no ground lost, yet no ground gained. However, there are positive attributes to the failure.  The representatives from the Global South stood against the trade representatives from the developed nations and would not give into economic bullying. 

The Doha Round talks sprung from the early post-9/11 global sympathy for the US.  Early on, George W. Bush promoted the Doha Round talks as another front in the War on…

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