WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for AfricaUS Trade Representative to Africa, Governor of Nigeria Central Bank weigh in at Wharton Important Note: Many visitors from all over the political spectrum have read this release and believed it to mean that the WTO is officially in favor of slavery. In actual fact, we at the WTO would never, ever wish to suggest that the modern version of the…

[Note: Because Dow reacted to our BBC hoax with their usual disappointing one-paragraph "nope," we decided on the spot to write them a better denial, detailing all the things they just wouldn't do for the people of Bhopal. This sort of fake denial became for us a staple of future projects—but later we learned to include them in the reveals. This one people continued to believe came from Dow for…

[Coming soon - our first fake press release on behalf of Dow Chemical, in 2002.]

This is the full email communication between the "WTO" (Andy, posing as Mike Moore, "Alice Foley," "Andreas Bichlbauer," and several others) and the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS)… and then between the "WTO" and pretty much all of the CILS conference participants. Trigger warning: it gets pretty graphic. This correspondence was edited and printed as a full-page article in the New…

It turns out that if you want to correspond convincingly as a neoliberal entity with functionaries of national governments, you have merely to understand the basis of neoliberalism: let the wealthy do whatever they like, and things will turn out fantastic for everyone. Sadly, it was this system—or rather, its embrace by the major political parties, to the exclusion of actual, sane, human vision—…