...signatory countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to TPP’s rules, effecting a quiet corporate coup d’état. And, regardless of election outcomes or changes in public opinion, these extreme rules could not be altered without the consent of all signatory countries. Failure to conform to these rules would subject countries to indefinite trade sanctions.Another illustration of the seamless transition from the Bush administration to the Obama administration: the ongoing secret attempts to establish transnational corporate rule that surrenders all vestiges of bourgeois democracy to a new world order under the direct rule of the One Percent unhampered by their parliamentary and electoral procedures that have served this class so well in the past.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Under Cover of Darkness, a Corporate Coup Is Underway
Click here to access article by Lori Wallach from AlterNet.