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GLOBAL BACKLASH AGAINST GLOBALIZATION?

Patrick Wood
July 27, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

For decades, global elitists have claimed special knowledge that they alone could solve the world’s problems if only we (the ignorant masses) would leave them alone to get on with it. It would create jobs and economic prosperity, they said. They promised peace and security. Truly, what’s not to like about their New World Order?

Imagine how shocked they were when Financial Times published the results of an FT/Harris poll (July 22, 2007)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2a735dd0-3873-1 ... fd2ac.html
which showed almost universal disdain for the very policies that were supposed to save us. According to the FT article,


The depth of anti-globalization feeling in the FT/Harris poll, which surveyed more than 1,000 people online in each of the six countries, will dismay policy-makers and corporate executives. Their view that opening economies to freer trade is beneficial to poor and rich countries alike is not shared by the citizens of rich countries, regardless of how liberal their economic traditions.

Yet, their clever defense is already built into the FT title: “Globalization backlash in rich nationsâ€