Market Farming

["Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>]

Robert,
    I agree totally with your statement below - our foreign policy, and the
IMF and World Bank have been inroads for corporate America and Corporate
Elsewhere - at the expense of the self-sufficiency (and democracy) of many
countries.

    It is interesting and relevant to me that a peace rally is scheduled in
Washington DC on the same date that formerly a World Bank/IMF protest rally
had been scheduled.  To me, the issues are all caught up with each other.
The World Bank/IMF protest was called off due to the Sept. 11th events.  It
had already been scaled back due to the scheduled protests.

                                    Jill

Robert wrote:
> However, we should not open the door to exploitation by corporate
> America.  In other words, we should change our usual approach to
> "developing" nations.  We need to respect their traditions, realize that
> indigenous peoples do not need to be converted to our economic system,
> and forget, for the nonce, about traditional commerce.  Supporting the
> populace is one thing; converting them, another.