Coporate Globalization Kills

Globalization is a battering ram for Western corporations. And even when the consequences are literally life or death, companies are eager to utilize the World Trade Organization for their limitless hunger for profits.

Take a pending court case in India. It has the potential to adversely affect the health of not only the more than 1 billion Indian citizens but of patients throughout the developing world.

In 2005, India’s parliament amended its patent laws to comply with WTO rules, in spite of warnings by health experts that this would result in affordable medicines being no longer available in the country. “Amit Sen Gupta, head of the Delhi Science Forum, a scientists’ group, worries that product patents will turn the clock back to the 1960s, when Western drug companies dominated India, set high prices and conducted little research on tropical diseases that, like leprosy and malaria, do not affect Americans or Europeans,” the New York Times reported.

http://www.progressive.org/mag_apb021607

I don't know if I was more angry or sad when I read this.

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and hate corporate greed, and it's corporate king, GW Bush.