Partnership or Putsch? TPP negotiator had "No position on Democracy".

[pa28]

EUGENE – In 2010, I sat across the table from Assistant US Trade Representative Barbara Weisel, who was responsible for negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the mega-regional free-trade treaty among Vietnam, Malaysia, and ten other Pacific Rim countries that President Barack Obama’s administration wants to conclude in the coming weeks. At the time, I was Senior Policy Adviser for the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and Labor – a position that made me the top congressional staff member responsible for upholding labor standards in international trade treaties.
Read more at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/gordon-lafer-calls-attention-to-the-frighteningly-anti-democratic-implications-of-the-trans-pacific-partnership#JPrjltY24ssKyuyw.99

An excellent piece examining how economic partnerships with non-democratic countries can undermine and destroy our hard won laws protecting labor and the environment.

Now that China has expressed interest in joining the TPP we may enter a regulatory race to the bottom and here a former top negotiator is saying the US has "no position on Democracy".

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/gordon-lafer-calls-attention-to-the-frighteningly-anti-democratic-implications-of-the-trans-pacific-partnership

[think]

1. Shame on the corporations, lobbyists, and the politicians /nt

[AzDar]

2. I cannot even remotely believe that anyone promoting this monstrosity has the US' best

interests at heart.

[msongs]

3. hint - TPP is a secret because if we knew we would turn it down. nt