The Predators Behind the TPP
A
major cause of contemporary political ills in the world is the
misnomers that help hide what the strong and rich aspire to and already
control. A perfect example of this is the ubiquitous term ‘trade’ in
what the media are telling us these days about the TPP and the TTIP –
the transpacific and transatlantic treaties that seek to organize
business activity under one monumental umbrella of new rules. These have
been peddled as trade treaties, and hence as being great for growth and
jobs, happiness and social well-being. But neither the TPP, tying the
United States, a bit of Latin America and a series of East Asian
countries together, nor its TTIP companion that is meant to shape
American-European business relations, is primarily about trade, if
stimulating genuine trade comes into it at all. It is primarily about
power. Two kinds of it.
One is aimed at creating global disadvantages for China’s industrial
power and putting brakes on what the two formerly communist giants on
the Eurasian continent are developing together. The other is power of a
collectivity of large politically well-connected corporations to engage
in conduct unchecked by national rules, which seen by eyes unaffected by
neoliberal dogma would be recognized as predation.
http://www.unz.com/article/the-predators-behind-the-tpp/
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