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Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and ''least transparent'' trade negotiation in history. The agreement stipulates that foreign corporations operating in the United States would no longer be subject to domestic U.S. laws regarding protections for the environment, finance or labor rights.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12934-why-so-secretive?-the-trans-pacific-partnership-as-global-coup



The People Bail Out the People

John Light, Moyers & Company: In canceling the debt, the Strike Debt team is taking advantage of a fairly common banking practice. When debt is severely distressed, that is, when debtors aren t paying up, banks write the loans off their books. But they often sell the debt for less than the loan was worth to recoup some of their losses.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12937-the-people-bail-out-the-people



The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What ''Free Trade'' Actually Means

Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com: While the rhetoric of ''free markets'' tends to be all about reducing state interference in the economy, in actuality state interference increases, but only for the benefit of large corporations and banks.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13082-the-trans-pacific-partnership-what-free-trade-actually-means



The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Warnings From NAFTA

Dean Baker, Truthout: The World Bank trumpeted the success of NAFTA, showing how it led to greater prosperity for Mexico. They used a mistaken analysis to get this result. This is what the opponents of the TPP can expect to encounter.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/21330-dean-baker-the-trans-pacific-partnership-warnings-from-nafta



A Fast Track to Eroding Our Rights

Wenonah Hauter, OtherWords: The Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens the very essence of our democratic process by promoting the privatization of public resources and corporate self-regulation.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21602-a-fast-track-to-eroding-our-rights

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Corporate Evil Creeps Up Unobserved

TransPacific Partnership Will Undermine Democracy

By Prof. Rodney Shakespeare

The TPP is intended to (finally) undermine democracy by handing power to the global financial elite and the big corporations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34513.htm



TPP Uncovered: WikiLeaks Releases Draft of Highly-secretive Multi-national Trade Deal

By RT

"No wonder they kept it secret. What a malicious piece of US corporate lobbying.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36869.htm



The People Can Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

Time to end the failed experiment with rigged corporate trade and put in place fair trade for the people and planet before profits.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36874.htm



Is the TPP treaty the next great threat to net freedom?

Document released by WikiLeaks raises concerns over intellectual property rules.

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201311142053-0023193


From Information Clearing House



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