Surviving Capitalism (Not) : NAFTA Is 20 Years Old – Here Are 20 Facts That Show How It Is Destroying The Economy

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, August 17, 2014

NAFTA Is 20 Years Old – Here Are 20 Facts That Show How It Is Destroying The Economy

Click here to access article by Michael Snyder from The Economic Collapse.

It's has become obvious to ordinary people that the economic opportunities for them have been severely damaged for them under NATA. (I'm proud to recall that the protests in Seattle were the first significant organized opposition to it.) In spite of carefully laid propaganda by the One Percent's media promising more jobs to Americans, the protests brought together hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of Seattle and resulted in the shutdown of the NAFTA meetings. However, NAFTA was shoved through the ruling class's government anyway, and the now the results are evident for everyone to see--except most people won't see them because they are too busy watching the mind-altering "news" brought to them by corporate media.

One obvious fact stands out, but is not mentioned in the article. NAFTA and all the other neoliberal schemes have promoted the economies of capitalist classes, and that is precisely why they were successfully promoted. Instead the author points to one of the favorite distracting right-wing themes--world government:

When you hear our politicians talk about "free trade", what they are really talking about is integrating us even further into the emerging one world economic system.

It is not world government itself that we have to fear--it the is character of the world government. It is the governments beholden to capitalist classes, particularly the current contender for top dog, the US capitalist Empire, that we have to fear taking over the world and enslaving all workers of the world.