Why the TPP Must be Opposed at All Costs: It’s Worse Than You Think
The TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the corporate Mega-deal on
“free trade” has been concluded between the partner states, and is now
in the final stages of its ratification. This deal involves the US and
11 other countries (Canada, US, Mexico, Chile, Peru; Singapore,
Malaysia, Australia, Brunei, Japan) of the Pacific Rim, representing 40%
of global economic activity. The text was secretly negotiated by
hundreds of corporate lobbyists. It has now been released, and Congress
will have 90 days to examine the 6000 page text before approving, which
will allow the President to sign it in to law.
For six years, this corporate-drafted legislation was a pig in a
poke. Nobody knew what was in it– except the hundreds (550) of corporate
lobbyists that had been drafting it for years in total secrecy. They
wouldn’t say what was in it. They would only say it was good for you.
They just wanted you to support it. Critics were told to shut up on the
grounds that they knew nothing about it. But the outline that people had
been able to discern through leaks were monstrous.
