Wikileaks Exposes the TPP as a Capitulation to Corporate Interests

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JAISAL NOOR: So, Kevin, even before this release, the TPP was described as a corporate wish list. What new information have we learned from what WikiLeaks has released?

KEVIN ZEESE: We learned it's as bad as we expected. The chapter that was released deals with intellectual property. And what was interesting about it was it really showed that the Obama administration was pushing for the agreement in the direction of the transnational corporations more than any other nation. In fact, other nations are resisting. And many times the United States is isolated, 'cause it's so extreme in pushing for corporate power--it's really quite amazing--going further than he has even said that his administration would go under domestic law. So it'll make things worse than Obama says he would do at home.

The agreement, what they dealt with was intellectual property. And what that means is copyrights and patents and trademarks and those kinds of things. And what it shows is that these corporate powers that are being given are going to make things much worse for the internet. We're going to see our internet freedom diminished. It'll make things much worse for health care. Prices will go up for both pharmaceuticals and for medical procedures. And much worse on almost every aspect of our life where those kinds of powers play. And they play almost all through our lives. This will be corporate power gone wild.

And it'll be an agreement that you can see was written by the corporations. As you know, for the last almost four years now there have been negotiations, and throughout that time there have been 600 corporate advisers suggesting to the Obama administration, you know, what needs to be done to make the agreement stronger from their perspective. So they've been playing in clauses and paragraphs and sections that favor corporate power. So this agreement, which will be over 1,000 pages long, is going to be a totally--written by essentially corporate lawyers for the benefit of transnational corporations. .........................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://truth-out.org/news/item/20080-wikileaks-exposes-the-tpp-as-a-capitulation-to-corporate-interests

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