The TPP Must Come out of the Shadows for General Scrutiny
The Trans-pacific partnership is a “free trade” agreement that would encompass the U.S. and a dozen other countries in the Pacific region. It would be massive in scope, around 40% of our global economy. The agreement includes 29 chapters of which only 5 deal with trade. What this agreement would do is sign our nation’s sovereignty over to corporate control.
These negotiations have been held in secret and the text has been labeled top secret by the US Trade Representative. So who is seeing these documents? The Obama administration has included 600 “trade advisers” in the negotiations, many of whom are corporate lobbyists and none of whom are elected officials. Among these “advisers” are corporate lobbyists for companies such as Monsanto, Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, and media companies like Disney.
With corporate lobbyists in control it is certain the deal will focus on one thing: increasing profits for large multinational corporations.
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