Still, this president couldn't resist another lie of omission. In response to allegations from US Senator Elizabeth Warren that Congress was being denied the right to read and review the TPP; the president smugly explained that members of Congress may..."walk over...and read the text of the agreement." (Source : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/04/24/obama-escalates-push-back-against-elizabeth-warren-and-other-trade-deal-critics/)
What Obama conveniently neglected to mention is that members of Congress are prohibited by law, upon pain of criminal prosecution, from discussing any part of the TPP with the public. (Source : http://readersupportednews.org/opinion/2/277-75/29831-elizabeth-warren-sherrod-brown-letter-to-obama-on-the-dishonesty-of-tpp?)
Oxford professor calls out ISDS as 'post-law' not 'rule of law'...
Oxford University Professor Emeritus, Colin Crouch illuminates the real motive behind TTIP's (and by relation the US TPP), sole use of the ISDS corporate arbitration process, and subsequently contradicts Obama's ludicrous ISDS claims. According to Crouch:
..."Most tariff barriers have already been negotiated away in various global agreements. What remain are the so-called non-tariff barriers. These extend from rules that are clearly intended solely to keep international competitors out of domestic markets, to regulations seriously designed to protect health, labour rights and various concepts of public and collective goods. It is over these latter issues that alarm bells have been ringing." (source : http://www.ippr.org/juncture/democracy-at-a-ttiping-point-seizing-a-slim-chance-to-reassert-democratic-sovereignty-in-europe
Colin Crouch is an Emeritus Professor at the Warwick Business School, University of Oxford. His research specialties are as follows:
.."Structure of European Societies, Labour Market, Gender, Family, Economic Sociology, Neo-Institutional Analysis, Local Economic Development and Public Service Reform"
http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/academic-staff/colin-crouch.html
Crouch adds a very succinct point on ISDS, calling out the arbitration procedure as less a post-democracy action--than action which is 'post-law.'
..."TTIP proposes a procedure known as investor--state dispute settlement (ISDS). A key focus of controversy here has been that such procedures do not use normal law courts with established judges, but arbitration panels comprised solely of corporate lawyers -- people who earn most of their money working for corporations. Indeed, this is not so much post-democracy, as post-law."
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