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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

aspirant

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2. But

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 06:15 AM

Mar 2015

can't corporations sue in their own countries courts and go to arbitration too?

Why do the mafia corporations have their own private tribunals and the people can't?

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TPP Expanded [View all] aspirant Mar 2015 OP

I think you can do that right now, and you get to sue in your own country's court. Hoyt Mar 2015 #1

But aspirant Mar 2015 #2

Because you are talking about international trade laws. If you were a Japanese Hoyt Mar 2015 #4

What's wrong with a trial in Detroit? aspirant Mar 2015 #5

No, because the US entered into an agreement with other countries to do certain things Hoyt Mar 2015 #6

NO, aspirant Mar 2015 #7

The problem with that line of thinking is this: stillwaiting Mar 2015 #8

Maybe the time is now aspirant Mar 2015 #3

Corporations, and the richest people in the world who own them, will keep pushing until they rule fasttense Mar 2015 #9