The DOHA WTO Minesterial in November 2001 just a month after the 2001 terror attack was a coercive attempt to throw our weight around and force the poor countries to dump all their public services and swallow our hegemonistic, coercive "rules based system" which prevents anything progressive and privatizes everything, trading away the jobs for global hegemony. Its not democracy, or democratic. Its a dirty deal between oligarchs that keeps them on top, and keeps the people and workforces down.

Here is the former WTO Director General the late Peter Sutherland explaining why we had to take over the world, with coercive trade deals. And why we intend to get our way. Nomatter what we had (or have) to do, they intend to do it.

"Freetrade" is slavery, Well, services are not slavery, technically, workers are working for wages, that makes it not slavery. The wages may be klow but they are willing to work for them, as they need the entry level jobs, after graduating college, especially. We agreed to be bound by it so we cannot hoard our jobs. Also if people want to pay so their children are placed in US jobs, thats the free trade system. It creates a huge lowering in wages and increase in profit. They have to work for the lowest wages The lowest wages bids win. SO to get the jobs, firms have to bid their wages down. This is why the developing countries are so against restrictions on wages, such as the US's minimum wage llaws being binding on their firms. They claim that to be a discriminatory trade barrier intended to keep them, specifically out.

After all, we agreed to it, and got rich off of it. (by the IP laws it created, especially. An example is high drug prices. The drug licensing terms and things like high drug prices, are what we are buying with those jobs we're giving up. Also the children of foreign elites are the same group that would be causing political trouble in the important natural resource countries if they didnt get the US jobs.

They might become communists. Fight for things like public healthcare which our country's government is so so against. Public healthcare devalues financial services like insurance and distorts trade.

This is why Biden absolutely had to win in 2020. This I say disliking both cndidates,

Democracy is framed as too unpredictable by neoliberals, generally. they use terms like "majoritarianism" to refer to democracy.

They frame the system they are pushing as equality. Because it nullifies the will of voters and maintains the advantage of corporations. And turns policy into property.

Watch this video where Pascal Lemy, former WTO DG tries to explain the argument for it for the UN.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISVQAD__430]

In my experience, trade bodies like the WTO are profoundly skewed in favor of rich country oligarchs as well as poor country oligarchs. The people who have kept the most unequal countries so poor, are rewarded for doing so.

It brings out the worst in everybody. are incompatible with democracy. Certainly any progressive agenda is blocked by our WTO membership. This is why they have Pied Piper candidates who throw up a wall of smoke and mirrors to conceal this from Democrats, leading young voters into a cave, never to be seen again, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who appears to have actually existed. .

Note how Sutherland said national courts can be invoked against their own governments. See him at 15:55

Here is another interview, I hadnt seen this before..

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaYD7R2um-U]

Its on regional trade agreements which are agreements within groups of countries that are used to trading with one another say a former colonial power and its satellite countries, today post colonialism. Its the top one, Its with two experts on the global trade in services and the opening of the borders to global trade in services.And MFN is a special staus, if we let anybody in to work here, we have to let them all in. We have to refrain from making them pay their workers more than what is usual and customary many of our laws likely violate the spirit of the agreement. Especially most favored nation. Many of our laws are framed as discrimination.

We cant discriminate against the poor nations, or the low wage nations. If the effect is to prevent companies from winning bids.

It is not "beyond doubt" that liberalization is good.
How will these huge changes effect employment and wages? Here is what I mean
Article XVI of the GATS

https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/publications_e/ai17_e/gats_art16_jur.pdf

Here is Suterland, who died recently. He was the first director general of the WTO.