ISDS (Investor-State Dispute Settlements) a Corporate Cluster Bomb to Obliterate Our People’s Sovereignty
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would empower global corporations to “circumvent and even overturn our local, state and national laws”—a desecration of our nation’s democratic ideals. It’s time we rebel against the aristocracy of corporate elites.
The Powers That Be are very unhappy with you and me. They’re also very unhappy with senators like Elizabeth Warren, activist groups like Public Citizen, unions like the Communications Workers of America and … well, with the majority of us Americans who oppose the establishment’s latest free-trade scam.
Despite its benign name, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a cluster bomb of legalized “gotchas” that won’t bode well for the vast majority of Americans and for our small businesses. TPP empowers global corporations from Brunei, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam and seven other nations to circumvent and even overturn our local, state and national laws. Those moneyed elites…
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