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TBF

(34,179 posts)
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 08:40 AM Feb 2016

Fighting the TPP

Workers and youth must build a unified movement throughout Asia and internationally to abolish the capitalist system, with its irrational division of the world into competing nation states, which is the source of war and exploitation.


New Zealand to host signing of Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Tom Peters
4 February 2016

Representatives of 12 countries will meet in New Zealand today for the formal signing of the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. The TPP, negotiated in secret over 10 years, will create a US-dominated economic bloc that will dictate terms of investment and trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

The deal is the economic front of Washington’s “pivot to Asia” strategy, which aims to isolate China, roll back its economic influence and reduce it to semi-colonial status. In his belligerent January 12 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared: “With the TPP, China does not set the rules in that region; we do.”

TPP negotiations have proceeded alongside preparations for war against China, which are now far advanced. The US has systematically built-up its military assets in Asia, strengthened alliances with Japan, Australia and other countries, and staged a series of reckless provocations against China in the South China Sea ...



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Fighting the TPP (Original Post) TBF Feb 2016 OP
Trade agreements are war by another means. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #1
Add to the list of Memes Against TPP, here's 1 ... nikto Feb 2016 #2
When Bi-Partisanship SUCKS nikto Feb 2016 #3
more memes nikto Feb 2016 #4
More ... nikto Feb 2016 #5
There will be no jobs left the way these folks TBF Feb 2016 #6
But the loss of sovereignty over international corporations is the scariest part nikto Feb 2016 #8
The media is lyin' about TPP ... nikto Feb 2016 #7
And another ... nikto Feb 2016 #9
 

nikto

(3,284 posts)
8. But the loss of sovereignty over international corporations is the scariest part
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 08:40 PM
Feb 2016

IMO, that is the real Trojan-Horse aspect of TPP, and the one that is avoided completely
by the major media.

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