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Showing Original Post only (View all)'Today Marks the End of TTIP': Greenpeace Leak Exposes Corporate Takeover [View all]
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/02/today-marks-end-ttip-greenpeace-leak-exposes-corporate-takeoverThe secret documents represent roughly two-thirds of the latest negotiating text, and in several cases expose for the first time the position of the U.S.
Confirming that the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) amounts to "a huge transfer of power from people to big business," Greenpeace Netherlands on Monday leaked 248 secret pages of the controversial trade deal between the U.S. and EU, exposing how environmental regulations, climate protections, and consumer rights are being "bartered away behind closed doors."
The documents represent roughly two-thirds of the latest negotiating text, according to Greenpeace, and on some topics offer for the first time the position of the United States.
"Total secrecy was the only way the European Commission could keep the European people from learning the truth about these appalling negotiations, and now the cat is out of the bag."
John Hilary, War on Want
Before Monday, elected representatives were only able to view such documents under guard, in a secure room, without access to expert consultation, while being forbidden from discussing the content with anyone else. This secrecy runs "counter to the democratic principles of both the EU and the U.S.," the website ttip-leaks.org declares.
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'Today Marks the End of TTIP': Greenpeace Leak Exposes Corporate Takeover [View all]
Ferd Berfel
May 2016
OP
Through tariffs and taxes we make it more costly to make it abroad & bring it back than
bjobotts
May 2016
#68
These trade agreements will end the trace of democracy that remains in the world.
JDPriestly
May 2016
#6
Let's hope it's the end of the line for all "free"trade deals and of neliberalism altogether
Jack Rabbit
May 2016
#21
Ah, it wasn't the Gold Standard of trade agreements, it was the Goldman Sachs standard. (n/t)
thesquanderer
May 2016
#47
Just pass it. We'lll read it and fix it later... you don't want to embarrass Hillary, right?
whereisjustice
May 2016
#23
Hillary & her supporters think "I've got mine, so everyone else can fuck-off
99th_Monkey
May 2016
#65
I agree. I wonder if any Hill supporters will actually answer my question.
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#70
Because they are either ignorant of the facts, Delusional, Neo-con opperatives
Ferd Berfel
May 2016
#74
So I assume that all commenters here have read, understood, and formed an opinion
Jitter65
May 2016
#34
The burden of paying those lost "future profits" will also fall on you and me. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#72
This literally means that loss of any future profit wins by corporations against the government...
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2016
#71
And the TPP is exactly the same thing ie: corporate takeover of power away from people.
Triana
May 2016
#39
'Free trade' isn't free, and it is not good for the people. The only people it is good for
PatrickforO
May 2016
#56
K&R TY Greenpeace. We live in the most democracy shareholders will allow. nt
raouldukelives
May 2016
#66
So far not a single Hillary supporter has responded here to this disaster.
rhett o rick
May 2016
#80
I don't give them that much credit. IMO they don't care about the issue because they
rhett o rick
May 2016
#83
I am very familiar with that book. Bought a hard copy. Authoritarian followers look to
rhett o rick
May 2016
#88