{"id":9049,"date":"2015-06-13T06:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T11:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9049"},"modified":"2015-06-13T06:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T11:38:47","slug":"trade-deals-and-the-quest-for-global-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9049","title":{"rendered":"Trade Deals and the Quest for Global Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/06\/12\/trade-deals-and-the-quest-for-global-dominance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trade Deals and the Quest for Global Dominance<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"mainauthorstyle\"><strong>The Slavery Economy<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"main-text\">\n<p><strong>The Setup<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn the factory books, you see lots of turnover. But slaves couldn\u2019t quit. While factories were worrying about filling positions and just keeping things going, plantation owners were focused on optimization. They could reallocate labor as they saw fit. I found real quantitative analysis in their records. They were literally looking at humans as capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caitlin Rosenthal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2013\/09\/plantations-practiced-modern-management\">Harvard Business Review<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As this is being written U.S. President Barack Obama is pushing the House of Representatives to give him \u2018fast-track\u2019 authority for his trade agreement, the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), granting him the authority to cede political control to global capital at will. As has now been well commented on, the agreement isn\u2019t about trade per se, but is a template for the consolidation of corporate power within an international framework. The current push for explicit \u2018political\u2019 control is only an anomaly to the historically illiterate\u2014 the growth of Western capitalism has come through use of state power in the service of predominant economic interests. Hopes that the defeat of \u2018fast-track\u2019 will represent a strategic victory against global capital have several centuries of history to overcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2015\/06\/uriefast1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-83406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2015\/06\/uriefast1-497x600.jpg\" alt=\"uriefast1\" width=\"497\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A machine that turns the toil of one group into the possession of another is invented. Presciently, the source of the labor and toil to be converted; be it through slavery, imperialism, armed robbery or capitalism, is irrelevant. Nature, as expressed through the \u2018will\u2019 of the machine, is served by the conversion. Or at least that is the explanation provided by those whose pockets its product ends up in. Original image source: flourmillmachines.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade Deals and the Quest for Global Dominance The Slavery Economy The Setup \u201cIn the factory books, you see lots of turnover. But slaves couldn\u2019t quit. While factories were worrying about filling positions and just keeping things going, plantation owners were focused on optimization. They could reallocate labor as they saw fit. I found real [&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":[2299,5949,6329,731,6330,805,3002,6331],"class_list":["post-9049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-control","tag-fast-track","tag-slave-economy","tag-slavery","tag-tpp-trans-pacific-partnership","tag-trade","tag-trade-agreements","tag-western-capitalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9049","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=9049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9049\/revisions\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}