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  • An anti-TPP protester in Peru.
    In Depth
    3 February 2016

    An anti-TPP protester in Peru.

    Foto: 1/2 EFE


  • An anti-TPP protest in Peru.
    In Depth
    3 February 2016

    An anti-TPP protest in Peru.

    Foto: 2/2 EFE


The TPP is basically a bill of rights for corporations, with no benefits for ordinary people.

The secretive TPP will be signed Feb. 4, ending negotiations on what leaked documents suggest is one of the most brutal trade deals ever. Although individual countries will have 2 years to individually ratify the document, all signs point to the fact this deal benefits business at the expense of workers, consumers, health care and the environment.

Its passage has been enormously controversial, provoking huge protests across Latin America, but especially in the United States, Chile, Peru, Mexico,

The TPP, whose integrity has been marred by corruption allegations among other problems, has also been criticized by experts.

United Nations human rights expert Alfred de Zayas warned that guaranteeing human rights and environmental commitments within the TPP framework may be compromised, saying, “The TPP is based on an old model of trade agreements that is out of step with today’s international human rights regime.”

Meanwhile leading economist Joseph Stiglitz argues the TPP "should be unacceptable to anyone committed to democratic principles.”

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The Basics

The TPP in Numbers

Gallery

Movements from around the world told teleSUR how the TPP will affect them:

Why Should You Care?

teleSUR Opinion and Analysis

teleSUR's Shows Tackle the TPP

Days of Revolt with Chris Hedges

The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History

Chris Hedges and organizer Kevin Zeese break down the terms of the Trans-­Pacific Partnership, deconstructing how the TPP, if approved, will lead to the irreversible privatization of public services, the dismantling of people’s judiciary rights, and the further corporatization of pharmaceuticals, labor, and natural resources. Zeese highlights the importance of direct action in combating these injustices.

Imaginary Lines

Host Michael Fox interviews Melinda St. Louis of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch on what the TPP represents and how it will negatively affect Latin America.

Interviews from Washington

The Trans-Pacific Partnership

Jorge Gestoso interviews Celeste Drake, trade specialist for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. She says the AFL-CIO is especially concerned about the administration having fast track authority, which means secrecy, limited debate and no possibility for amendments.

TPP and Free Trade Agreements

Gestoso interviews Cathy Feingold, director of the international department of the AFL-CIO. Feingold criticizes the final version of the TPP as corporate driven globalization, a neoliberal model that has not benefited workers in the United States, Latin America, or anywhere else in the world. The scope of the TPP, whose exact content remains a secret, goes beyond trade and will largely define the framework in which the global economy and communities will function.

Health Care vs. Big Business

Jorge Gestoso interviews Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen's Global Access to Medicines. Maybarduk reports that a leaked TPP document on intellectual property demonstrates that Washington, pressured by the major pharmaceutical companies, is pushing to expand drug monopolies in the region and drive up prices on medicines.

The Global African

Las Castas & The Trans-­Pacific Partnership

The Trans-Pacific Partnership makes its way through Congress. What’s in it, and why is it so dangerous? The Global African host Bill Fletcher examines these subjects with Dr. Msomi Moor, scholar of the African Diaspora at University of District of Columbia, & Symone Sanders, Communications Officer for Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch.

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