'저는 그들의 땅을 지키기 위하여 싸웠던 인디안들의 이야기를 기억합니다. 백인들이 그들의 신성한 숲에 도로를 만들기 위하여 나무들을 잘랐습니다. 매일밤 인디안들이 나가서 백인들이 만든 그 길을 해체하면 그 다음 날 백인들이 와서 도로를 다시 짓곤 했습니다. 한동안 그 것이 반복되었습니다. 그러던 어느날, 숲에서 가장 큰 나무가 백인들이 일할 동안 그들 머리 위로 떨어져 말과 마차들을 파괴하고 그들 중 몇몇을 죽였습니다. 그러자 백인들은 떠났고 결코 다시 오지 않았습니다….' (브루스 개그논)





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Monday, February 14, 2011

[Site Fwd] Korea Report: Opposition to the Korea-US FTA Continues


Korea Report
Opposition to the Korea-US FTA Continues
Feb. 11, 2011

The Obama administration, along with Lee Myung-bak administration of South Korea, is pushing for the ratification of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) this year, despite vocal oppostion from both sides -- citizen groups and farmers in South Korea and labor and public-interest organizations in the U.S. such as the AFL-CIO. Economist Martin Hart-Landsberg takes a look at one of the component of the proposed FTA --the investment chapter-- in the following commentary from the Korea Policy Institute.

Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: The Investment Chapter

President Obama has said that the U.S. needs to compete more effectively for exports. That is why he is calling on Congress to ratify U.S. free trade agreements with Korea, Columbia, and Peru.

In the public back and forth about these free trade agreement most of the arguments are about whether the designated tariff reductions mandated by the agreements will produce jobs for U.S. workers. In fact, there is little reason to believe that they will. But, more importantly, little attention has been focused on the fact that these free trade agreements contain many chapters that have far reaching implications beyond employment numbers.

In fact, the U.S. free trade agreement with Korea includes 24 chapters. One of those chapters deals with investments. In broad brush, the investment chapter establishes broad limits on the ability of governments (at all levels) to regulate or interfere with private profit seeking investments by (foreign) corporations. See more.

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