\u00bbPublished by Association Internationale de Techniciens, Experts et Chercheurs (AITEC), Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), European Federation of Public Services Unions (EPSU), Instytut Globalnej Odpowiedzialno\u015bci (IGO), Transnational Institute (TNI), Vienna Chamber of Labour (AK Vienna), and War on Want\u00bb.<\/em>\u00a0So: it reflects a concern for workers, and for the poor, not mainly for corporate owners \u2014 the latter being the proposed Treaty\u2019s sole sponsors and beneficiaries.<\/p>\nThis new study opens by defining (page 8) \u00abPublic Service\u00bb: \u00abPublic services are those provided by a government to its population, usually based around the social consensus that certain services should be available to all regardless of income\u00bb. Another way of stating this is that a \u00abpublic service\u00bb is one provided to citizens as a right, available to all equally, instead of as a privilege, available only upon the basis of ability-to-pay.<\/p>\n
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Aristocracy aren\u2019t Satisfied; They Demand More A new analysis of the Obama-proposed TTIP \u2018trade\u2019 treaty, which the U.S. would have with Europe, finds that it was initiated and shaped by large international corporations, which will, also according to\u00a0the only independent economic analysis\u00a0that has thus far been done of TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[9978,2384,4394,281,284,1923,8203,805,1133,4912,1132,827,834],"class_list":["post-13559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-artistocracy","tag-elite","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-public-services","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-trade","tag-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership","tag-treaty","tag-ttip","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13600,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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A new analysis of the Obama-proposed TTIP \u2018trade\u2019 treaty, which the U.S. would have with Europe, finds that it was initiated and shaped by large international corporations, which will, also according to\u00a0the only independent economic analysis<\/a>\u00a0that has thus far been done of TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), be the only beneficiaries of the proposed Treaty \u2014 all at the expense of the publics in each one of the participating countries.<\/p>\n