NAFTA on Steroids | The Nation - 0 views
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Since then, US negotiators have proposed new rights for Big Pharma and pushed into the text aspects of the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would limit Internet freedom, despite the derailing of SOPA in Congress earlier this year thanks to public activism. In June a text of the TPP investment chapter was leaked, revealing that US negotiators are even pushing to expand NAFTA’s notorious corporate tribunals, which have been used to attack domestic public interest laws.
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The complete article is well worth the read. I've personally read the two leaked draft U.S. chapters and this article presents a fair summary of them. They are a corporatist/globalist wet dream, so far. And yes, our stalwart "pro-jobs" Barack Obama is pushing hard to make it even easier to offshore American jobs. Remember, only the Senate gets to vote on treaties. The House is dealt out of the process by the Constitution.
