Promises be damned: TPP 'benefits' are strictly for the corporations

The Ecologist
Feb 4, 2016, 9:12 am41 pts
Boosters of 'free trade' agreements - like the Trans Pacific Partnership that's being signed today - like to make big promises, writes Pete Dolack: trillions of dollars of economic gains, billions of dollars of investment, millions of new jobs. But there's only one certainty, and it's one they never mention:…

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