From: Daily Kos
by Don Quijones
WolfStreet.com
December 25, 2014
WolfStreet.com
December 25, 2014
The ugly ramifications of the Trade in Services Act (TiSA)
By Don Quijones, freelance writer, translator in Barcelona, Spain, and editor at WOLF STREET. Mexico is his country-in-law. Raging Bull-Shit is his modest attempt to scrub away the lathers of soft soap peddled by political and business leaders and their loyal mainstream media.
Much
has been written, at least in the alternative media, about the Trans
Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP), two multilateral trade treaties being negotiated
between the representatives of dozens of national governments and armies
of corporate lawyers and lobbyists (on which you can read more here, here and here).
However, much less is known about the decidedly more secretive Trade in
Services Act (TiSA), which involves more countries than either of the
other two.
At least until now, that is. Thanks to a leaked document jointly
published by the Associated Whistleblowing Press and Filtrala, the
potential ramifications of the treaty being hashed out behind
hermetically sealed doors in Geneva are finally seeping out into the
public arena. MORE
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