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Trans Pacific Partnership v. Democracy

Massachusetts—(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2014. Last week, legislation to fast track a vote on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) was introduced in Congress.

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President Obama, who, along with advisors from several hundred corporations, has built the TPP in secret, away from the prying eyes of Congress or the public, desperately wants this fast track authority. The grant of that authority is,  according to prevailing wisdom and the pro-neoliberal agenda Forbes magazine contributor Dan Ikenson describes as something being “widely considered…

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