The best way to give the poor a real voice is through a world parliament Global governance as it stands is tyranny speaking the language of democracy. We need a directly elected assembly
George Monbiot
Tuesday April 24, 2007
The Guardian
"...The campaign for a UN parliamentary assembly is being launched this week on five continents. It is backed by nearly 400 MPs from 70 countries, a long and eclectic list of artists and intellectuals - among them Günter Grass, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alfred Brendel and Arthur C Clarke - several government ministers and party leaders, including our own Ming Campbell, six former foreign secretaries, the president of the Pan-African Parliament and a former UN secretary general. After 160 years of ridicule, Tennyson's crazy idea is beginning to look plausible.
Those of us who want a world parliament are often accused of trying to invent a system of global governance.
But there is already a system of global governance. The UN security council, the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organisation...."
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