Mr. Wolf rather naively pushes back on Capitalism, in it’s Neo-Liberal form, yet for all the hectoring rhetoric he seems to have missed the fact that President Obama, the ersatz Progressive, has identified the TPP as a part of his ‘Legacy’. The links below demonstrate that fact without question:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/obama-trade-deal-tpp-227038
Obama to take trade battle to the heartland
Obama Readies One Last Push for Trans-Pacific Partnership
AUG. 21, 2016
Obama defends a cornerstone of his legacy in Asia as it keeps getting shredded at home
Allen Smith May 30, 2016
The TPP is Corporatism, the placing of political power and the welfare of those citizens of the polity, under the indirect rule of Market Players: by means of lawsuits directed at countries whose rules and regulations cost those Corporations profits. Just one instance of the power of the TPP, which Mr. Wolf has decided to leave out of his commentary. All this adds a kind of comic pathos to Mr. Wolf’s wan defense of democracy.
Almost Marx
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e46e8c00-6b72-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c.html#axzz4J2vd4Sz4
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