Coming Soon? A Trade Agreement Called ‘NAFTA on Steroids’?
Nov 15 2014The new Congressional leaders, notably Mitch McConnell, cite the Trans-Pacific Partnership (or TPP) trade agreement as one of the items they and the President can work together to pass. All for it, Obama had asked for "fast track" approval but Harry Reid and Democrats in the Senate refused. Our February article titled "Corporations Press for Power Grab in Pacific Trade Pact" found that the TPP, negotiated in secret and then entirely unreported, goes well beyond trade and confers on multinational corporations powers that supersede even those of host governments.
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