The recent conflict in Palestine and Israel has seen the Oslo Accords basically end. This section looks at some of the recent events, at criticisms of Arafat and Palestinian leaders, of Barak and Israeli leaders, of the US leaders, the bias of the US media and so on. With the advances of biotechnology, a lot of traditional foods and ingredients around the world are being patented. It has been strongly criticized as biopiracy by many, because traditional, common and indigenous knowledge ends up being owned by western scientists. WTO provisions do not provide much help in this respect.
Governments often subsidize the corporate military industrial complex.
Arms corporations are receiving increased amounts of tax breaks and subsidies from the very nations that claim to promote, or be prominent in, world peace. Often, tax payers are unaware how they subsidize sales of powerful weapons, while the corporations pocket the profits. The current forms of globalization have led to many protests around the world . In the developing countries especially, protests have been occurring for many years. Media coverage of course has been minimal or, in most cases, nonexistent, from the mainstream.