Globalization apologia.

Editor,

American capitalists invoke two myths in defense of so-called "free" trade: (A) that the benefits of corporate globalization just happen to be concentrated in the hands of the wealthy few, when in fact the deliberate utilization of dirt-cheap labor overseas has transferred wealth from American workers to the capitalist class by design; and (B) that the immense benevolence of multinational corporations, in the form of increased standards of living for some in the developing world, motivates globalization, when in fact Firestone utilizes child labor in Liberia, Coca-Cola murders union organizers in Colombia, Monsanto monopolizes farmers' seeds in India, and labor and environmental practices by multinational corporations across the global South are -- what is the proper word? -- appalling.

"Trade" is buying products other countries make and selling them ours. Manufacturing American goods offshore for the American market is not "trade." It is a scam, in the predatory spirit of every scam engineered by big business, to maximize profits at the expense of labor, in this case both domestic and foreign.