A leaked text revealed that TPP would include and even expand the controversial system of extreme corporate privileges called the “investor-state” regime. Under this system, the TPP would elevate individual foreign corporations to equal status with the sovereign governments signing the deal – allowing them to privately enforce this public treaty. The rules empower foreign corporations to skirt domestic laws and courts and directly challenge governments’ health, environmental and other public interest policies before extrajudicial tribunals authorized to order unlimited amounts of compensation with taxpayer dollars. -- exposethettp.org
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:29:54 +0000
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