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Related: About this forumFighting 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 Washingtons 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
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guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)1. Trade agreements are war by another means.
War on workers on behalf of the 1%.
nikto
(3,284 posts)2. Add to the list of Memes Against TPP, here's 1 ...
Last edited Fri Feb 5, 2016, 10:30 PM - Edit history (2)
nikto
(3,284 posts)3. When Bi-Partisanship SUCKS
TBF
(34,179 posts)6. There will be no jobs left the way these folks
are shipping them out of the country ...
nikto
(3,284 posts)8. But the loss of sovereignty over international corporations is the scariest part
IMO, that is the real Trojan-Horse aspect of TPP, and the one that is avoided completely
by the major media.
nikto
(3,284 posts)7. The media is lyin' about TPP ...
nikto
(3,284 posts)9. And another ...