President Obama alluded to MSM's Ed Schultz today, as he continued to defend the TPP against a rising tide of opposition from his own party, led by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. But neihter Ed nor the rest of the media is telling the American people that the trade deal hurts workers abroad as well.

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As Ed Schultz today dares President Obama to debate him on the TPP, he fails to explain to his viewers that this and its European pendant TTIP threaten the gains made by foreign workers, who have even more to lose the US workers, because the welfare state, that exists in one form or another in most countries of the world is one of the treaties' main targets.[tag]

Health care will go from being a right provided or regulated by the state to being a commercial enterprise as it is in the US. These treaties are designed to extend the reach of private enterprise and destroy every vestige of government control of the economy of signatory nations. They are designed, quite simply, to lock in capitalist globalization to the detriment of peoples of the entire world.

Americans political leaders who are fighting the TPP show their lack of worldliness when they fail to explain that it targets workers worldwide, and grass roots opponents are even more remiss in not enlisting the global community in their fight. It's time for the American left to stop being so parochial and realize that the trade agreements being foisted on the rest of the world by Washington, via compliant governments, target the global 99%, and can only be defeated by the concerted action of the global civil society. The mainstream media are of course remiss in not pointing out these truths, and the blogosphere is not doing much better. For an idea of what Europeans think of TTIP, see http://;click here.click here

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Authors Bio:

Born in Phila, I spent most of my adolescent and adult years in
Europe, resulting over time in several unique books, my latest being Russia's Americans.

CUBA: Diary of a
Revolution, Inside the Cuban Revolution with Fidel, Raul, Che, and Celia
Sanchez

Lunch with Fellini,
Dinner with Fidel: An Illustrated Personal Journey from the Cold War to the
Arab Spring

America Revealed to a
Honey-Colored World

A Taoist Politics: The
Case For Sacredness

I began my journalistic career at the French News Agency in Rome,
spent two years in Cuba finding out whether the Barbados were Communists before
they made the revolution ('Cuba 1964: When the Revolution was Young'). After
spending half a decade in Eastern Europe, and a decade in the U.S., studying
Global Survival and writing speeches in the Carter State Department, I wrote
the only book that foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall AND the dissolution of
the Soviet Union ("Une autre Europe, un autre Monde'). My memoir, 'Lunch
with Fellini, Dinner with Fidel', tells it all. 'A Taoist Politics: The Case
for Sacredness', which examines the similarities between ancient wisdom and
modern science and what this implies for political activism; and 'America Revealed
to a Honey-Colored World" is a pamphlet about how the U.S. came down from
the City on a Hill'.