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المقال

4 أكتوبر 2011

الكاتب:
Tim Robertson, California Fair Trade Coalition, in Huffington Post [USA]

Obama's Free Trade Sleight of Hand

President Obama…submitted to Congress three pending Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama...In doing so, Obama is ignoring growing opposition from his Democratic base and voters across the political spectrum to resurrect policies Congress has refused to approve for over four years…This despite decades of evidence that NAFTA and other such deals have cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions of [jobs]...Beyond...these FTAs are a broad swath of new rights to multinational corporations...The deals allow corporations to challenge public interest laws in international tribunals, with domestic courts powerless to stop them. Anything from minimum wages and clean water regulations to anti-teen smoking initiatives and recycling rules are vulnerable…