Green & Red Podcast is introducing a new series . . . The Battle of Seattle at 25! On November 30th 1999, protestors shut down the WTO meeting in Seattle and put the world on notice that the forces of globalization–the international ruling class of bankers, industrialists, politicians and others–would be met with force as they reshaped the world economy and caused more precarity and hardship.
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In this, our pilot episode, Bob offers a brief backgrounder on the way the global economy was transformed from World War II to the present, including discussions of the Bretton Woods System (pictured on the graphic), which created the IMF and World Bank, other trade agreements, financial issues like the “gold crisis” and the Nixon Shocks, and of course the development and meaning of NAFTA and the WTO.
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