An Enormous Corporate Colonization Project Is Underway -- And the US Economy Will Never Be the Same [View all]

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AlterNet / By Andrew Gavin Marshall

An Enormous Corporate Colonization Project Is Underway -- And the American Economy Will Never Be the Same
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a corporate coup, intended to expand the rights and powers of large corporations.

May 10, 2013 |


A corporate world order is emerging, and like any parasite, it is slowly killing off its host. Unfortunately, the "host" happens to be the planet, and all life upon and within it. So, while the extinction of the species will be the end result of passively accepting a corporate-driven world, on the other hand, it’s very profitable for those corporations and their shareholders.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the latest corporate-driven agenda in what is commonly called a “free trade agreement,” but which really amounts to ‘cosmopolitical corporate consolidation’: large corporations dictating and directing the policies of states – both nationally and internationally – into constructing structures which facilitate regional and global consolidation of financial, economic, and political power into the hands of relatively few large corporations.

Such agreements have little to do with actual ‘trade,’ and everything to do with expanding the rights and powers of large corporations. Corporations have become powerful economic and political entities – competing in size and wealth with the world’s largest national economies – and thus have taken on a distinctly ‘cosmopolitical’ nature. Acting through industry associations, lobby groups, think tanks and foundations, cosmopolitical corporations are engineering large projects aimed at transnational economic and political consolidation of power... into their hands. With the construction of “a European-American free-trade zone” as “an ambitious project,” we are witnessing the advancement of a new and unprecedented global project of transatlantic corporate colonization. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/world/enormous-corporate-colonization-project-underway-and-american-economy-will-never-be-same