Sounds like a creeping invasion of the juicy bits of Syria by the IDF, to me. Don't Rupert Murdohc and Dick Cheney already have illegal oil exploration rights in the Golan granted them by the miltary government of occupation? All that lovely oil, just waiting to be hoovered up by the best-connected set of NeoCons...

Since when was weakening the WTO (if that is indeed what's going on) a bad thing? The set-up of the WTO, all of its accords and the GATS in particular were all brought to us by Jeffrey Sach's 'wrong economic model of the world', the same one that brought us the onging global economic crisis and precipitated the 'Arab Spring'. Ironic though it is that the anti-democratic and oligopolistic corporatization of the world that is at the centre of all that the WTO does should have precipitated such an uprising against repression, the fact remains that the way that the WTO was conceived and built is antithetical to everything democracy is supposed to stand for.