Rule by the Corporations - Paul Craig Roberts
TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act
by Paul Craig Roberts / June 1st, 2015
The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. Free trade is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
What the partnerships do is to make private corporations immune to the laws of sovereign countries on the grounds that laws of countries adversely impact corporate profits and constitute restraint of trade.
For example, under the Transatlantic Partnership, French laws against GMOs would be overturned as restraints on trade by law suits filed by Monsanto.
Obama himself has no input into the process. Here is what is going on: The Trade Representative is a corporate stooge. He serves the private corporations and will go on to a million dollar annual salary. The corporations have bribed the political leaders in every country to sign away their sovereignty and the general welfare of their people to private corporations. Corporations have
paid US senators large sums for transferring Congress law-making powers to corporations. When these partnerships pass, no country that signed will have any legislative authority to legislate or enforce any law that any corporation regards as inimical to its bottom line.
Full article:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/06/rule-by-the-corporations/