The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Ideology of America
I wrote an article detailing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (T.P.P.) -- it's an issue that I feel may be the most important legislative battle of the year.
In particular I give details on what's expected from the T.P.P. on important issues like economic growth, jobs, and wages for American workers.
I conclude by suggesting that the T.P.P. is more than a simple trade deal: In it can be found the very ideology of America. With the T.P.P. we are able to see the ideological underpinnings of an allegedly neutral, ideology-less United States of America.
I think many here will enjoy it:
http://propagandacheck.com/?p=796
djean111
(14,255 posts)T.P.P.s main function is the establishment of a business-friendly regulatory structure in member states. It extends patent monopolies; it would restrict the freedom of countries to impose environmental regulations; it would even restrict what health services a country could provide to its citizenry. Some fear it would be a backdoor for the wildly unpopular S.O.P.A. and P.I.P.A. bills that failed to make it through the House due to popular unrest. Pretty much everything that a government might do would be subject to the stipulations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In the words of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange: if you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if youre ill now or might one day be ill, the T.P.P. has you in its crosshairs.
Central to the T.P.P. is the creation of so-called investor-state tribunals, courts in which corporations can actually sue states over perceived limitations on their ability to make a profit. Its a loss of sovereignty: it means that if the environmental laws are lax in Vietnam, then corporations have a legal basis to expect the same lax laws in the United States as well; its a race to the bottom.
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SpearthrowerOwl
(71 posts)There's a whole industry dedicated to passing the T.P.P. -- all well within the 1%.
When it comes to covering issues like T.P.P. that are very important to corporate interests, anything goes -- no matter how misleading or outrageous the claim may be (it will lead to 650,000 new jobs, it will grow the economy, etc.)
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)But, the Third Way types, like Obama, love it.
SpearthrowerOwl
(71 posts)It just goes to show how corporate the "left" candidates are in the United States.