Posted on 19 May 2015. Tags: Food Safety, Global Trade Watch, Trans Pacific Partnership, World Trade Organization
I’ve previously written that the president is a coward, hiding behind Nike and a whole host of other corporate sponsors in his pitch to pass the Trans Pacific Partnership. Probably the lowest he’s gone is accusing people of “making stuff up”, specifically when it comes to the view that, oh, pshaw, the TPP and so-called “free trade” deals will not undermine American regulations.
So, Mr. President, what dismissive comments can you conjure up now, in light of YESTERDAY’S undermining of an important food safety regulation because of the very secretive and corporate-friendly trade deals that TPP is a bad seed of? When Americans eat tainted meat, fall sick and die, what will you say?
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: CEOs, Constitution, False Choices, Financial Crisis, Food Safety, Greed, Health and Safety, Justice, Michael Bloomberg, Middle Class, Pensions, Progress, Robbery, Savings and Loan Crisis, Social Security, Soviet Union, The Marketplace, Unions, Wal-Mart
Yes, to get back to some sane, healthy economic strategy we have to confront the Wall Street/Robert Rubins of the world, the corruption of the electoral system and a whole set of adversaries. But, I would put at the top of the list the false framing of the choices before us as a nation, and […]
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