Give up our "right" to continue to control resources and accumulate wealth...? Ummm... No, thanks...

It was with great fanfare five years ago that the United States and some 188 other countries signed the United Nations Millennium Declaration, a magna carta to eradicate poverty and hunger and disease among the one billion people in the world who subsist on barely anything. Chief among those goals was for the rich world to finally put muscle behind that overused phrase "level the playing field," when it comes to trade.

But so far it has been nothing but talk, talk, talk on trade. While the rich continue their shameful obfuscating, poor countries are priced out of the market.

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[F]or poor countries, the process of compromise has been a one-way street for more than half a century. It's time for the rich world to start doing a little compromising.

of all the media outlets that have the colossal nerve to make an accusation of "talk, talk, talk," it's the nyt, one of the world's biggest bastions of old money with no intent whatsoever to alter the balance of the status quo... while i agree with the sentiment expressed wholeheartedly, the underlying hypocrisy is gagging and the disingenuousness is worse...

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