August 2015

A plucky (and smart!) grassroots coalition has pushed the dastardly Trans-Pacific Partnership to the edge

A plucky (and smart!) grassroots coalition has pushed the dastardly Trans-Pacific Partnership to the edge

A plucky (and smart!) grassroots coalition has pushed the dastardly Trans-Pacific Partnership to the edge

Progressive forces battling that God-awful gob of global corporate gobbledygook, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, encountered an odd problem: Incredulity. As the Lowdown has detailed (August 2013, January 2015), the 1,000-page TPP trade scam is an unprecedented power grab by corporate elites. It is so unbelievably bad for workers, consumers, the environment, and our democracy that people literally can't believe what they're hearing. Read more...

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