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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 10:11 AM Jul 2013

trash the TPP: why it's time to revolt against the worst 'trade agreement' in history

http://www.nationofchange.org/trash-tpp-why-its-time-revolt-against-worst-trade-agreement-history-1374584845

Odds are that you have not have heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. While the TPP has been under negotiation since 2008, talks have largely been done in secret and not covered by the mass media.

The media black-out is quite impressive since this is the largest corporate trade agreement to be negotiated since the World Trade Organization got underway in 1995. Commonly called a global corporate coup, the TPP makes transnational corporations more powerful than governments. Others call it “NAFTA on steroids” because it will multiply the failures of NAFTA.

If People Knew Its Contents, It Could Not Pass

When it comes to trade, Obama has been the most secretive president. Past trade agreements were made public and discussed in the media. The Office of the US Trade Representative would publish the text on its website, even as the treaty was being negotiated.

Not this time. The TPP is being kept secret from everyone except for the 600 corporate advisers who can read the text on their computers as it is being created, and help the US Trade Representative draft the language. These include the biggest transnational corporations like WalMart, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Pfizer and Monsanto or their trade associations. The TPP is being drafted of, by and for the transnational corporations.
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trash the TPP: why it's time to revolt against the worst 'trade agreement' in history (Original Post) xchrom Jul 2013 OP
Three Very Scary Items: bvar22 Jul 2013 #1
K and R nt Mojorabbit Jul 2013 #2
K&R liberal_at_heart Jul 2013 #3
kick and rec. nt limpyhobbler Jul 2013 #4
kr. we need 1999 revisited. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #5

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
1. Three Very Scary Items:
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 01:04 PM
Jul 2013

1) The Trade Treaty Itself ("NAFTA on Steroids&quot

2) The Fact that something like this can be "Negotiated in SECRET"

3)The now undeniable PROOF that the Entire Mainstream Media has been co-opted,
and now just serves as the Propaganda Distribution Arm of the US Government

A US Citizen NOW must go outside US Media to RT, Current, or FSTV to find anything about the the Trans Pacific Partnership.

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