The TPP: A Corporate Bill of Rights [View all]

[monicaangela]

One common definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.


Governments from around the world are gathering in New Zealand on Thursday to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP. People around the world are mobilizing to make sure that the agreement, even if signed, does not get ratified.

Why? It’s just another in a long line of trade deals that are aimed at growing our economies by increasing trade between our countries, right? At least that’s what we’re told.

What we aren’t told by our governments is that these so-called trade deals are really not very much about trade at all. They are international corporate constitutions, aimed at limiting the ability of our governments to control transnational corporate behavior: an international Corporate Bill of Rights.
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As we place our interest in the primaries this is going on behind the scenes. I feel this is as important if not more important than the election. Please read this article and let me know what you think.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Trans-Pacific-Partnership--A-Corporate-Bill-of-Rights--20160203-0006.html