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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDishonest White House Response to Warren's Attack on Secret Panels in Trade Deals
Dishonest White House Response to Warren's Attack on Secret Panels in Trade DealsTuesday, 03 March 2015 * By Yves Smith * Naked Capitalism | Truth Out dot com
Elizabeth Warren is clearly getting on the Administrations nerves.
The Massachusetts senator has come out forcefully against the misleadingly named trade deals, the TransPacific Partnership and its ugly sister, the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Mind you, these treaties are not about trade. Trade is already substantially liberalized and in keeping, only five of the 29 chapters of the TransPacific Partnership deal with tariffs.
What these pacts are primarily intended to do is strengthen intellectual property laws to help US software and entertainment companies, along with Big Pharma, increase their hefty profits, and to aid multinational by permitting the greatly increased use of secret, conflict-ridden arbitration panels that allow foreign investors to sue governments over laws that they contend reduced potential future profits. I am not making that up.
Warren focused on the so-called investor-state dispute settlement process in a Washington Post op-ed last week. Weve discussed these panels in gory detail in previous posts.
That article led the White House to issue a lady doth protest too much rebuttal that well shred shortly. But lets first review the state of play.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29407-the-administration-s-dishonest-response-to-elizabeth-warren-s-attack-on-secret-investor-arbitration-panels-in-trade-deals
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Dishonest White House Response to Warren's Attack on Secret Panels in Trade Deals (Original Post)
99th_Monkey
Mar 2015
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cui bono
(19,926 posts)1. k n r
pa28
(6,145 posts)2. Excellent material from Yves and as always well worth the time it takes to read.
Just as tough as Elizabeth Warren and she knows her business.
djean111
(14,255 posts)3. Thanks for the article. Good to not have the email fluff obscure the real crap that is going on.
Private email - really, I don't care.
TPP - deal breaker.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)4. Warren, Sanders, or any Senator with decency, please filibuster! k&r, nt