{"id":8548,"date":"2015-05-28T05:58:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2015-05-28T05:58:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T10:58:19","slug":"julian-assange-on-the-tpp-deal-isnt-about-trade-its-about-corporate-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8548","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange on the TPP \u2013 \u201cDeal Isn\u2019t About Trade, It\u2019s About Corporate Control\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julian Assange on the TPP \u2013 \u201cDeal Isn\u2019t About Trade, It\u2019s About Corporate Control\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n

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It\u2019s mostly not about trade. Only 5 of the 29 chapters are about traditional trade.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Julian Assange in a recent interview with\u00a0Democracy Now<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve focused a little bit more of my attention on the Trans-Pacific Partnership lately, as the Obama Administration scrambles to attain\u00a0\u201cfast-track\u201d authority from Congress. The content of this unbelievably dangerous gift to multi-national corporations is being kept secret from the public, and for very good reason. For some background on the TPP and where it stands, see:<\/p>\n

As the Senate Prepares to Vote on \u201cFast Track,\u201d Here\u2019s a Quick Primer on the Dangers of the TP<\/a>P<\/strong><\/p>\n

What little we know about the TPP has come from whistleblower site, Wikileaks. This is what Julian Assange thinks of this \u201ctrade\u201d treaty in his own words.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to view the video…<\/p>\n

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Julian Assange on the TPP \u2013 \u201cDeal Isn\u2019t About Trade, It\u2019s About Corporate Control\u201d It\u2019s mostly not about trade. Only 5 of the 29 chapters are about traditional trade. \u2013 Julian Assange in a recent interview with\u00a0Democracy Now I\u2019ve focused a little bit more of my attention on the Trans-Pacific Partnership lately, as the Obama […]<\/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":[2,6],"tags":[171,1471,5655,3761,2001,804,805,808,880],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-corporations","tag-corporatism","tag-democracy-now","tag-global-trade","tag-julian-assange","tag-tpp","tag-trade","tag-trans-pacific-partnership","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548","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=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8549,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}