Comments on: What are the Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Latin America’s energy sector? https://energytransition.org/2016/06/what-are-the-implications-of-the-trans-pacific-partnership-on-latin-americas-energy-sector/ The Global Energiewende Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Vivi https://energytransition.org/2016/06/what-are-the-implications-of-the-trans-pacific-partnership-on-latin-americas-energy-sector/#comment-4755 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 22:12:31 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10373#comment-4755 @Nathanael:
The injustice of the trade ‘agreements’ that the US and its corporations are trying to force on the rest of the world (TTIP isn’t much better) are the whole point of the thing. Just like it was with NAFTA before. And what does the US government care if million or two go on the streets to protest against it? That’s less than a single percent of the voters, and in any case, it’s not like Americans who care about what happens to people in other countries would ever vote for the Republicans instead (who would never be against TTP if it hadn’t been Obama’s baby, anyway). It’s actually one of the reasons that large parts of the world are kind of hoping Trump will be the next president. Yeah, he’s a narcissist, manipulative sociopath and demagogue, but at least he might cancel Obama’s ‘legacy’ treaties out of sheer spite. Clinton is just as much in the pocket of big business as Trump is (and a ruthless warmonger to boot), but she’s clearly just pretending to be against TPP for the election. She was all for it, before Sanders started campaigning against it.

Hey, if the UK parliament actually ratifies the Brexit referendum (unlikely, but still, maybe they’ll at least vote to leave if only to avoid more political murders and with the intention to then stall the divorce negotiations with the EU beyond the 2-year period after which membership renewal becomes automatic), does that mean their conservative, pro-business government lost its seat at the table in the EU’s collective negotiations about TTIP? With France already set against it, and Merkel enough of a real-politician that she might still bow to German public opinion on the matter (if even the union of judges and lawyers speaks out against a proposed treaty, you have a problem), then maybe we have a decent chance yet to stop the awful thing.

]]> By: Nathanael https://energytransition.org/2016/06/what-are-the-implications-of-the-trans-pacific-partnership-on-latin-americas-energy-sector/#comment-4754 Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:58:07 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10373#comment-4754 TPP is a dead letter. It is recognized in every country in the world that its provisions are unjust, contrary to sovereignty, and often plainly evil. If it is passed, it will be repudiated immediately and civil disobedience will follow.

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