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Related: About this forumThom Hartmann: Trans Pacific Partnership...Trojan horse for global corporate domination?
Laurel Sutherlin, Rainforest Action Network, joins Thom Hartmann. Earlier in the Summer - we told you about The Trans - Pacific Partnership - a new so-called free trade deal that the US has been negotiating over with 8 Pacific nations for the last two years. But rather than helping Americans or improving the American economy - the TPP would give foreign transnational corporations unprecedented power to abuse American workers - pollute our environment - and destabilize our markets. When information on the TPP was first leaked - very few Americans knew what it was - and as a result - there was very little opposition towards it. But fast forward a couple months - and that seems to have changed. This week in Leesburg, Virginia - US trade negotiators met with members of the other 8 TPP nations for the 14th round of negotiations. And - for the first time - the meeting was also met by protestors.
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Thom Hartmann: Trans Pacific Partnership...Trojan horse for global corporate domination? (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Sep 2012
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Vincardog
(20,234 posts)1. Trojan horse for global corporate domination? YES. nt
msongs
(67,441 posts)2. anti-American worker poison from Obama and congress nt
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)3. Too simplistic. Besides, the American public has a role to play.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)4. TPP was written into the Democratic Party platform this year.
Despsite the fact that many, maybe even most, Democrats are against it.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)5. It feels like I am digging my own grave.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)6. The T-Pee-Pee is a blueprint for global corporate rule
Instead of having elected officials we will be ruled by a group of unelected corporate judges. If this passes, say goodbye to Farmer's Markets or anything that encourages local, non-corporate purchases.
umaysing
(12 posts)7. Spam deleted by Warren DeMontague (MIR Team)