{"id":6928,"date":"2015-03-29T08:27:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2015-03-29T08:27:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T13:27:51","slug":"marriage-made-in-corporatist-heaven-slams-into-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6928","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Made in Corporatist Heaven Slams into Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/2015\/03\/28\/don-quijones-global-corporatocracy-eu-us-trade-pact-resistance-ttip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marriage Made in Corporatist Heaven Slams into Resistance<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The new \u201ctrade\u201d pacts aim to curtail national sovereignty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After eight rounds of secret negotiations, Washington and Brussels are still struggling to breathe life into the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). According to current European Union President, Latvia, the chances of the agreement being signed by the year-end target are growing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/sections\/trade-society\/latvia-eu-us-likely-miss-year-end-target-free-trade-deal-313253\" target=\"_blank\">perilously slim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The potentially game-changing trade deal is aimed at radically reconfiguring the legal and regulatory superstructures of the world\u2019s two largest markets, the United States and the European Union \u2013 for the almost exclusive benefit of the world\u2019s biggest multinational corporations.<\/p>\n<p>However, resistance continues to mount on both sides of the Atlantic. In the U.S. Wikileaks\u2019 perfectly timed expos\u00e9 of the investment chapter of TTIP\u2019s sister treaty, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), could derail White House efforts to gain fast track approval to bulldoze the treaty through Congress. This time, even the mainstream media seems to be paying an interest, with the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/26\/business\/trans-pacific-partnership-seen-as-door-for-foreign-suits-against-us.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in particular publishing a broadly critical report.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the Atlantic, things seem to be going from bad to worse \u2014 at least for the treaty\u2019s supporters. Even the U.S.\u2019s ever-faithful ally and fellow Five-Eye member, the United Kingdom, is beginning to express reservations about TTIP. Earlier this week an all-party committee of Members of Parliament released a scathing report on the trade agreement. The Business, Innovation and Skills committee\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/mar\/25\/mps-denounce-government-ttip-plans\">said<\/a>\u00a0the government needed \u201cstronger evidence\u201d to back up its claim that TTIP would bring a boost of \u00a3100bn a year to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage Made in Corporatist Heaven Slams into Resistance The new \u201ctrade\u201d pacts aim to curtail national sovereignty. After eight rounds of secret negotiations, Washington and Brussels are still struggling to breathe life into the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). According to current European Union President, Latvia, the chances of the agreement being signed by [&hellip;]<\/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":[284,808,1133,1132,4500,827],"class_list":["post-6928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-european-union","tag-trans-pacific-partnership","tag-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership","tag-ttip","tag-ttp","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928","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=6928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6929,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions\/6929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}