The August Review

Group of agricultural exporting nations lobbying for agricultural trade liberalization. It was formed in 1986 in Cairns, Australia just before the beginning of the Uruguay Round. Current membership: Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand and Uruguay.

Council on Foreign Relations - Founded in 1921 and quickly became a major influence on U.S. foreign policy. Membership grew over the years to about 4,000. Its primary publication, Foreign Affairs, continues to be a most likely source of globalist theories. David Rockefeller is Honorary Chairman.

Is a chapter in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that deals with foreign direct investment. This chapter has become very controversial because of a provision that established a member country system of private arbitration for foreign investors to bring injury claims against governments. These so called "investor-state" cases are litigated in special international arbitration bodies, which are closed to public participation, observation and input. Written to protect foreign investors from governments seizing their property, corporations have stretched NAFTA's Chapter 11 to undermine government decisions made to protect public health, the environment and local communities. [This should not be confused with Chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy code.]

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. A multilateral environmental agreement.

Countries must adopt specified economic policies as a condition for receiving a loan from multilateral financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. One example of conditionality is Structured Adjustment Programs  which include stringent austerity measures that in many cases have had devastating effects on struggling economies.

The WTO Committee on Trade and Development