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Des tribunaux secrets permettent aux entreprises de combustibles fossiles de poursuivre les gouvernements qui adoptent des lois pour protéger l’environnement. Source : The Guardian, Josephine Moulds Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises L’Italie pourrait être contrainte de payer des millions de livres de dommages et intérêts à une compagnie pétrolière britannique après avoir interdit […]

Public opposition to the sovereignty killing corporate giveaway marketed as a free trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has become so widespread that all the leading candidates for the U.S. Presidency are publicly against it. Specifically, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are virulently opposed, while Hillary Clinton is pretending to be against it in order to harvest votes.

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.    — Article IV, Section 4, US Constitution A republican form of government is one in which power resides in elected officials representing the citizens, and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law. In The Federalist Papers, James Madison defined a republic as […]