Do Corporations Have More Rights Than Global Citizens?

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Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Truth-Out.org begin their thought-provoking article with:

We are in the midst of an epic battle between the people of the world and transnational corporations. Wealthy governments and corporations are merging in a global system in which private corporations have absolute power over your life. This is a battle the people can win and when we do it will show that we can defeat corporate power on issue after issue.

They go on to say that the "Obama administration is currently mired in an ambitious project to accomplish both the continuation of the WTO’s agenda and a restructuring of NAFTA in ways that place corporate property rights over protection of people and the environment."

See if you agree.

Read the entire article:  Stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership:  Global Revolt Against Corporate Domination

Corporate Power-Tool: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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Bring it on:  The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a US-led free trade agreement currently being negotiated with several Pacific Rim countries (including Peru).  And Nile Bowie has something to say about it.  Read his commentary below.

TPP - Wall Street's Wet Dream and Washington's Answer to its Own Dwindling Economic Performance

About Nile Bowie:

Nile Bowie, Boiling Frogs Post contributing author and analyst, is a political analyst and photographer currently residing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Bowie grew up in New York City and is the son of two art photographers who established themselves by photographing America’s poor and destitute. Bowie left the United States in his teens to pursue photojournalism and has resettled in South East Asia. As a political analyst, he has explored issues of American foreign policy and its influence on militarism in the Islamic world, China’s emerging role as global power, and inter-Korean stability and security, contributing to outlets such as Russia Today, the New Straits Times, the Asia Times, the Tehran Times, and the Center for Research on Globalization. Visit Nile Bowie’s website here.

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President Obama Promotes Exports and Trade

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In the short clip below, President Obama emphasizes the importance of international trade and how it creates American jobs.  He also touches on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and his intentions towards E.U.-U.S. free trade agreement.

View the clip here.

Cozy Global Relationships: The Benefits

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Cozy relationships with government can influence many things.

Talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement, which the U.S. is negotiating with Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, are continuing this week (April 9-13) in Santiago, Chile in the form of an “intersessional meeting” on intellectual property (IP).

See what's brewing here.