Media Silent as Anti-Corporate Trade Deal Protests Take Europe by Storm
Nobody is talking about this.
Nobody is talking about this.
Despite the fervent best wishes of the U.S. corporate class, President Barack Obama, and other aligned politicians, it looks like the people of Europe have killed TTIP. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber; source)by Gaius PubliusCount this as a victory. It looks like the Atlantic version of TPP, called TTIP, has failed.Background: The U.S.
An excellent, brief video produced by Wikileaks — "The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system: TPP, TTIP, TISA." Discusses the change from post-WWII U.S. economic dominance to adapting in a world with competitors. These three trade agreements are the U.S. attempt to recapture dominance by building a U.S. corporate-controlled legal superstructure.by Gaius PubliusIf you watched the video above (I hope you did), you learned how the triangle of new global super-agreements — TTP, TTIP, TiSA — are designed not just to re-establish U.S.
(COMMONDREAMS) Hundreds of thousands took to city streets across Germany on Saturday as they marched against a pair of corporate-backed trade deals they say will undermine democracy, attack workers and local economies, and accelerate the threats posed by corporate hegemony and global warming.
(COMMONDREAMS) Corporations are running the world, according to new figures released Monday from the U.K.-based Global Justice Now.
By Graham Vanbergen | TruePublica | September 9, 2016 The global mainstream media have loudly hailed the stunning success of the peoples uprising against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP in the light of its demise. In the last few years protests broke out all over Europe as the unelected bureaucrats steamed ahead […]
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