{"article":{"id":267797,"heading":"BREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!!","author":"www.dailykos.com","created":"2015-03-31 12:38:34","modified":"2015-04-02 18:11:25","last_modified":"Fri, 03 Apr 2015 01:11:25","article":"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/03\/25\/1373335\/-BREAKING-WikiLeaks-Leaks-TPP-Draft#<\/a>

The Trans-Pacific Partnership — a cornerstone of Mr. Obama’s remaining economic agenda — would grant broad powers to multinational companies operating in North America, South America and Asia. Under the accord, still under negotiation but nearing completion, companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings — federal, state or local — before tribunals organized under the World Bank or the United Nations.

\n","contact":"marc1seed@yahoo.com","link":"www.alternativetrademandate.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment \u201cexpectations\u201d and hurts their business, according to a classified document.\r\n\r\n","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/03\/267797.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":267815,"heading":"Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret","article":"http:\/\/ourfuture.org\/20150327\/now-we-know-why-huge-tpp-trade-deal-is-kept-secret-from-the-public\r\n\r\nOhio Senator Sherrod Brown released the following statement:\r\n\r\n \u201cIt appears that the investor state provision being considered as part of TPP will still amount to a corporate handout at the expense of consumers despite the assurances of our negotiators. We need strong language to prevent multinational corporations \u2013 like Big Tobacco \u2013 from using trade agreements to challenge health and safety laws.\r\n\r\n \u201cIt\u2019s telling when Members of Congress and their staff have an easier time accessing national security documents than proposed trade deals, but if I were negotiating this deal I suppose I wouldn\u2019t want people to see it either. Trade agreements should lift American workers and their counterparts abroad, rather than creating a race to the bottom.\u201d\r\n\r\nFrom the Wikileaks statement:\r\n\r\n Julian Assange, WikiLeaks editor said: \u201cThe TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states. This system is a challenge to parliamentary and judicial sovereignty. Similar tribunals have already been shown to chill the adoption of sane environmental protection, public health and public transport policies.\u201d\r\n\r\nPublic Citizen\u2019s Global Trade Watch has this Analysis of Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Investment Text\r\n\r\n \u201cThe leaked text provides stark warnings about the dangers of \u2018trade\u2019 negotiations occurring without press, public or policymaker oversight. It reveals that TPP negotiators already have agreed to many radical terms that would give foreign investors expansive new substantive and procedural rights and privileges not available to domestic firms under domestic law.\u201d","author":"Dave Johnson","parent_id":267797,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-04-02 13:52:10","modified":"2015-04-02 13:52:10","fileurl":""},{"id":267819,"heading":"Why The TTIP Is Secret","article":"Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret\r\nby Dave Johnson\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/ourfuture.org\/20150327\/now-we-know-why-huge-tpp-trade-deal-is-kept-secret-from-the-public\r\n\r\nOhio Senator Sherrod Brown released the following statement:\r\n\r\n\u201cIt appears that the investor state provision being considered as part of TPP will still amount to a corporate handout at the expense of consumers despite the assurances of our negotiators. We need strong language to prevent multinational corporations \u2013 like Big Tobacco \u2013 from using trade agreements to challenge health and safety laws.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s telling when Members of Congress and their staff have an easier time accessing national security documents than proposed trade deals, but if I were negotiating this deal I suppose I wouldn\u2019t want people to see it either. Trade agreements should lift American workers and their counterparts abroad, rather than creating a race to the bottom.\u201d\r\n\r\nFrom the Wikileaks statement:\r\n\r\nJulian Assange, WikiLeaks editor said: \u201cThe TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states. This system is a challenge to parliamentary and judicial sovereignty. Similar tribunals have already been shown to chill the adoption of sane environmental protection, public health and public transport policies.\u201d\r\n\r\nPublic Citizen\u2019s Global Trade Watch has this Analysis of Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Investment Text\r\n\r\n\u201cThe leaked text provides stark warnings about the dangers of \u2018trade\u2019 negotiations occurring without press, public or policymaker oversight. It reveals that TPP negotiators already have agreed to many radical terms that would give foreign investors expansive new substantive and procedural rights and privileges not available to domestic firms under domestic law.\u201d ","author":"Dave Johnson","parent_id":267797,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-04-02 18:11:25","modified":"2015-04-02 18:11:25","fileurl":""}]}