them have protested against the new economic order globalize ation this represents one of the greatest in the sixties surely never before has the human race enjoyed such amazing capacity to create individuals an out of africa just two hundred giant corporations dominate a quarter of the world's economic activity general motors is now bigger than denmark ford is bigger than south africa unseen by sh in the high street the famous brands of almost everything from running shoes to baby clothes made in very poor countries with cheap labor at times bordering on a form of slave labor tiger woods the golf is paid more money to promote nike than most of the entire workforce actually making products here in indonesia is this the global village we are told is our future or is it merely an old project that used to be run by the right of kings and is now run by the divine right of multinational corporations and by the financial indonesia is where the old imperialism meets the new this is a country that should not be for its rich and almost everything mountains of copper and gold oil chamber and the skills and labor of its people used by its champions to suggest a coming together of people of all races of all countries and it will relieve poverty it will distribute wealth who would actually see is precisely the opposite  money make more money in this respect they could be any nationality outside this wedding there is another world in indonesia as many as seventy million people live in extreme poverty we calculate that it would take an indonesian worker like this waiter four hundred years to pay for a wedding reception like this less than five miles away is the backyard of the global economy the side of the dynamic success you don't see this is a labor camp that's home to workers who make the clothes we buy and the high streets in shopping  many of the children are undernourished and prey to disease while i was filming here i caught during the fever carried by the mosquitoes which infest these slums it kills children the conditions here are not very different from workers camps in other parts of asia in africa and latin america where the famous brands are also made cheaply for lucrative western markets and this is where they work in what is called an economic process things which means of boston area sweatshops future we found more than a thousand mostly young women working crowded together under the glare of strip lighting in temperatures that can reach forty degrees centigrade what labels you were packing do any of the people from the gap company ever visit your factory setting if they ever ask you about or investigate the working conditions your working conditions  this is what the gas company calls a code of conduct in response to criticism famous global brands like gap i've come up with these codes they say the idea is to set standards and protect workers but how whatever kind of work they have or how many how much they paid it is still worth the gap company stipulates a maximum working week of sixty hours and says workers may refuse overtime without any threat of penalty other people who do extraordinary shifts like much more than twelve hours even up to twenty four hours i these boxer shorts were made in one of the factories we investigated before we left london we bought a pair at a gap store in oxford street for eight pounds out of that eight pounds an indonesian worker gets less than f pence it's the same for running shoes that sell for one hundred pounds out of that hundred pounds a worker gets around forty pence but wouldn't even buy the laces yeah i'm point three eight billion dollars and this is typical of many multinational companies says in order to protect the workers in this film we have not named the factories we investigated in indonesia as in other countries which have sweatshop economies workers who speak out face the danger of victimization from contract does and violence from anti trade union forces the beta sorry a trade union leader was sent them a list of questions and they supplied this statement gav says it employs one of the most comprehensive factory monitoring programs in their industry for some manufacturers our standards are too tough and we refuse to do business with them we prefer to work with them to fix the problem we can't force them to comply one of the things that we can do to take action in which we can act as as informed consumer globalization in asia has a secret history the great sweat shops and banks and luxury hotels in indonesia were built on the mass murder of as many as one million people an episode the west would prefer to forget but many people here have not forgotten in recent years people all over the country have begun searching for the remains of loved ones that when general so hard to seize power in the mid nineteenth sixty's aided by the united states and britain people teachers students civil servants peasant farmers described by the cia as one of the worst mass murders of the twentieth century the origins of this terrible episode of been covered in mystery certainly brought to power gen some of what is now emerging is the extent to which he was secretly backed by the united states and britain and by western business leaders within a year of the bloodbath indonesia's economy was affectively redesigned in america giving the west access to vast mineral wealth markets and cheap labor what president nixon called the greatest prize in asia to western business the great value of general soeharto was that he succeeded in getting rid of the founder of modern indonesia who believed in economic independence for his people he kept the great western corporations out of indonesia and throughout their agents the world bank and the international monetary from it was only when one of his generals britain and the united states secretly conspired to back general so hard the american ambassador assured him that the u s government is generally sympathetic with an admiring of what they are means doing thousands were rounded up but was not known at the time was later revealed by american officials the cia had supplied a list of five thousand opponents to be assassinated and embassy officials ticked off the the american press reported these events not as a crime against humanity but in terms of their economic advantage to the west time magazine call them vengeance with a smile and the west best news for years others described a gleam of light in asia attended by the most powerful businessmen in the world such as david rockefeller the giants of western capitalism were represented the oil companies the banks general motors british leyland i c i british american tobacco lehmann brothers american express se across the table were indonesian leaders approved by general a western business it was the start of the gold rush which later became known as globaliz have never ever heard of a situation like this for any country where global capital essentially holds a meeting with state and hammers out the conditions their own entry into the country the conference went on for three days the first day was when the indonesians spoke and essentially made their case they divided into five different sections on the second day sectoral meetings mining in one room food services light industry another banking and finance in another chase manhattan was there and simultaneously they hammered out policies that we're going to be acceptable to these global on a sector by sector basis with each of the people going around the table saying this is what we need to see this this this and they basically designed the legal infrastructure for investment in indonesia  was the foreign business community here aware but they were dealing not just with a corrupt nepotistic dictatorship but also with a mass murderer began in britain in the 's when margaret thatcher dismantle much of manufacturing and poured millions of pounds into building up the arms industry indonesia became an important british credits in other words a large part of his alms bill was paid by the british taxpayer so important was a heart i was a business partner of the mass murderer was welcome to london by the queen are the new rulers of the world their empire today is greater than the british empire ever was this is the center of this new empire all within a square mile and washington down the road from the white house and the u s treasury is the world bank and the international monetary fund these two bodies are the agents of the richest countries on earth especially the united states world bank and the i m f was set up near the end of world war two to rebuild the economies of europe later they began offering loans to poor countries but only if they privatized their economies and allowed western given inclusion with governments which weren't acting in them in the interests of their people let me ask you do you know the difference between tanzania and goldman sachs tanzania is a country that has  gross national product of two point two billion dollars and shares it between twenty five million people goldman sachs is an investment firm which has your profits of two point two billion dollars and shares them among one hundred  sixty one partners that's the world we're living must to help poor people promoting what it calls global development it's an ingenious system a kind of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor the rich get richer on running up debt cheap labor and paying as little tax as possible while the poor get poorer as their jobs and public services are cut back in order to pay just the interest from their code by their governments to the world bank here in indonesia where most people up for the handouts for the rich have been extraordinary to say the least internal documents of the world bank confirm but up to a third of the bank's loans to the dictatorship of general soeharto went into the pockets of  primaries and corrupt officials that's around eight billion dollars capital big money can be moved anywhere at any time without warning in nine hundred ninety eight short term capital was suddenly pulled out of asia crippling the miracle economy overnight when the indonesian collapsed from being roughly two thousand five hundred rupee into the dollar to being what it is now ten thousand rupees to the dollar the costs to nike for each indonesian labor was cut to twenty five percent of what it had  and nike got a great discount on indonesian labor as a result and did not unilaterally raise indonesian wages to the same standard they had been prior to the devaluation of the these unfinished buildings a monument to a corruption on a scale unheard of in modern asia to what the world bank called the miracle economy the bank presents itself as an economic development agency focused on the reduction of poverty but in fact the bank operated during the entire cold war as an institution that distributed resources to mostly authoritarian regimes in the third world that supported the west in the cold war so you had the irony of the west claiming that what they were defending in the cold war was democracy and a certain vision of freedom but doing so by upholding dictatorships like indonesia around the world what they did was they had plenty of projects some of which surely were valuable many of which were not every one of these projects from the indonesian government officials point of view was an opportunity to scam to live a luxurious life and the accumulated theft over the course of suharto's new order roughly three decades was ten billion dollars that's on accounted for out of a total of about thirty billion that was loaned and when i said to the auditor general of the world bank what if a group of indonesian citizens or even the government were to challenge the world body in the world court over this loss of money the citizens who were who bear the burden of this debt never got the money why should it still sit on their shoulders to be repaid and his response was we would be bankrupted and i said why and he said because this has gone on the world over i went to washington to interview the chief economist of the world bank nicholas stern and i asked him to explain how almost thirty percent of world bank very important step forward so let's not lose sight of that ninety seven the world bank described as the condominium the so hard for in the famous reporters absolutely dynamic doing everything right terrific brilliant you know by the time the whole analysis of the economy and the politics of the time we got a number of things wrong and we have to understand that we're going to get things wrong again not so many people told the going to get it wrong some of the time i think non economists get it wrong a lot more often than economists but this isn't a precise guy and there are going to be a number of occasions in the future where we get things wrong to  and dad creates misery creates unemployment's creates the crisis creates havoc they say should a lot of states send a price being privatized so people will have to pay more to have access for for instance like health education so it's not natural that's just not natural it's designed in effect the money stolen by the soeharto family is being than one hundred million dollars is transferred in debt repayments from the forest countries on earth to the richest it is a debt that can never be paid back families like this is compounded by indonesia's huge debt the conditions of the i m f latest loan include a reduction in subsidies on certain fuel and food this man's monthly wage of less than forty pounds goes on medical treatment for his children who suffer from a serious blood disorder as prices go up he cannot even afford the special drugs but keep them alive in the global economy one american corporation dominates the world trade in food grains most hard in world's population like this family attempting to on less than two dollars a day western business the great value of general soeharto was that he succeeded in getting rid of the who believed in economic independence for his people he kept the great western corporations out of indonesia and throughout their agents the world bank and the international monetary fund it was only when one of his generals britain and the united states secretly conspired to back general soeharto the american ambassador assured him that the u s government is generally sympathetic with an admiring upon the army is doing thousands were rounded up what was not known at the time was later available by american officials the cia had supplied a list of five thousand opponents to be assassinated and embassy officials ticked off their complete and i repeat complete cancellation of debt as the only way to lift the huge number of poor people in the world out of poverty i'd say two things  first we lift people out of poverty is not counseling their debt but with the work policies that countries pursue whether they educate poor people with or they give them health and so the question and then what sort of  economies they try to run do they integrate them into the world economy or do they run corrupt economies those are the primary determinants of the how will countries will do that is the onset of two to how it will be what determines where the people get out of poverty it can be done it has been done should we cancel the debt counseling that is one way of giving resources to poor countries what i'd like to see is a much greater flow of resources to poor countries i'd like to see the markets of the industrialized countries opened so that these countries with people who are poor and can produce agriculture are able to export that's what will get them out of poverty the statement there true leaf is the only thing that will get them out of poverty is wrong it would help provided it is accompanied by a whole set of other measures which only did it even in one's own life and especially a poor person's life is the greatest cause of real poverty and when you have a country devoting ha off its budget to paying off or did when you have the poorest countries in the world sending out millions of dollars into the rich w goods invest when you don't have the resources and they'll generate an income and you repaid the notion that all day it should be cancer is a bad one financial systems operate on the basis of debt that is  the human rights commission of the united nations in a very comprehensive report said micro the institutions of globalization i've yet to seriously address the issue of human rights in a democratic fashion has caused global conditions of inequality and discrimination what's your response to that i simply contra spawn because i have no idea where what what evidence they're referring to may not be i m f prescription but certainly part of the global prescription in which it said these workers were prey for exploitation and because unemployment for instance they mentioned indonesia had been forced down by the so called economic crisis of the late ninety's they human rights were lost in didn't easy grew as a result of integrating into the global removal of a host of corrupt practices that began to weaken that regime it was not intended consequence but it was intended that we went in and help monopoly areas and because now the government as recommended by the i m f has already cut them off a lot of subsidies not only on the electricity but also want to and you cation and subsidies and  two years ago thousands of protesters from all over the world converged on the american city of seattle where the world trade organization was meeting this was news because it happened in america and yet throughout the world in africa latin america asia a deeper movement against globalization has been growing for years but this is not considered news he found every continent coverage of these events follows a pattern it seems it's only news when there is violence even when the great majority of the protestors a peaceful in contrast the violence of the economic policies they are protesting about is demonstrators by representing them collectively as violent and by suppressing the very issues that have public support the limits of tolerance our past but protest is what in the name of some spurious cause seek to inflict fear terror violence and criminal damage on our people and property to tony blair the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is a spurious cause successes we managed to stop the implementation of a crazy idea called the multilateral agreement on investment which would have allowed corporations to sue governments for the removal of any law which they didn't like now that was being promoted that idea by the twenty nine most powerful countries on earth it was being promoted by all the major multinational corporations and all the big institutions such as the world trade organization and a ragged it's a government that only it's not our government in rich countries like britain globalisation is well advanced the disastrous selling off of the railways and the creeping privatizing nation of everything from health care to air traffic control the financial pages celebrate a booming economy yet one in five british children grows up in poverty more than ten million and this is said to be a all over the world millions of ordinary people are asking why they have no say in decisions that bring hardship to their lives they don't accept the view of president bush and prime minister blair but there's no other way in britain the fact that only twenty five percent of the electorate voted for the blair government is part of this great honey why people ask should we accept a system of winners and losers a system that puts a dollar sign on every public service and almost every human value why not abolish the world bank and the i m f and the world trade organization and replace them with genuine trade and development institutions that are democratically accountable and why not cancel a debt but condemns nations like indonesia to poverty and disease these are dangerous times the one superpower left in the world has made  this is a document of the united states space command that says the globalization of the world economy will continue with a widening between have some have nots it says only military dominance will protect america's commercial interests why should we accept this why should our children have to face these divisions and dangers none of them is going to given all of them can be