1. On NAFTA, see Jeff Faux, The Global Class War (Wiley, 2006).
2. See Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza, The WTO (Seven Stories Press, 2000); and John R. MacArthur, The Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy (Hill and Wang, 2000).
3. On the examples given in the last two paragraphs above, see New York Times, 30 April 1996 and 9 May 1997; and Washington Post, 13 October 1998.
4. The decade-long legal battle was fought not by the Indian government but by three women—Vandana Shiva, Magda Aelvoet, and Linda Bullard—and their ecologically minded organizations. See “EPO Revokes Neem Patent Rights,” 10 March 2005, www.financialexpress.com/news/EPO%20revokes%20neem%20patent%20rights/127729/.
5. Project Censored, “Real News,” April 2007; also Arun Shrivastava, “Genetically Modified Seeds: Women in India Take on Monsanto,” Global Research, 9 October 2006.
6. Vikas Bajaj, “In India, Walmart Goes to the Farm,” New York Times, 12 April 2010.
7. Quoted in People’s Weekly World, 7 December 1996.
8. Vandana Shiva, “Monsanto’s Billion-Dollar Water Monopoly Plans,” Canadian Dimension, February 2000; Malcolm McDowell, Maude Barlow, et al., Blue Gold: World Water Wars (DVD), 2009, directed by Sam Bozzo; and Wes Enzinna, “GWOT: El Salvador,” Nation, 31 December 2007.
9. “The Codex Committee on Food Labeling Meets in Quebec,” Common Man News, 17 May 2010, http://themancommon.blogspot.com/2010/05/codex-committee-on-food-labeling-meets.html.
10. See Clive George, The Truth About Trade (Zed Books, 2010).
11. John R. MacArthur, The Selling of “Free Trade”: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy (Hill & Wang, 2000); and Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, “NAFTA’s Unhappy Anniversary,” New York Times, 7 February 1995.
12. For a detailed discussion, see Steven Shrybman, “Memorandum: United Parcel Service (UPS) v. Canada,” 27 June 2007, www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/9654/la_id/1.htm.
13. Kimberly Amadeo, “Disadvantages of NAFTA,” About.com, 21 December 2009, http://useconomy.about.com/od/tradepolicy/p/NAFTA_Problems.htm.
14. Bruce Campbell, Carlos Salas, and Robert E. Scott, “NAFTA at Seven: Its Impact on Workers in All Three Nations,” Economic Policy Institute, 31 March 2001.
15. Norm Nixon, “G8: How the Rich World Short-Changes Africa,” Green Left Weekly, 6 July 2005.
16. Paul Krugman, “The Pain Caucus,” New York Times, 31 May 2010; and Chris Isidore, “Say Goodbye to Full-time Jobs with Benefits,” 1 June 2010, http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/01/news/economy/contract_jobs/.
17. See Steven Shrybman, A Citizen’s Guide to the World Trade Organization (Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 1999); and Ian Fletcher and Robert Luttwak, Free Trade Doesn’t Work (US Business and Industry Council, 2010).
18. “US Seeks ‘Get-Out Clause’ for Illegal Farm Payments,” Oxfam, 29 June 2006, www.oxfam.org/en/news/pressreleases2006/pr060629_wto_geneva.
19. “Oxfam Reaction to WTO Judgment on US Cotton Subsidies,” 31 August 2009, www.oxfamamerica.org/press/pressreleases/oxfam-reaction-to-wto-judgment-on-us-cotton-subsidies.
20. Anthony Coughlin, correspondence to me, 24 January 2010. Coughlin has written widely about the darker side of the European Union.