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US pushing for corporate control of world: Analyst

Saturday, 17 September 2016 2:55 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 17 September 2016 2:54 PM ]

Demonstrators protest against the massive transatlantic trade deals CETA and TTIP on September 17, 2016 in Munich, southern Germany. (AFP photo)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Stephen Lendman, an author and radio host from Chicago, about protests against US proposed free trade deal in Germany.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: I guess the biggest questions even them and I would think at this point would be you have an outgoing administration and you have both US presidential candidates at least so far saying that they're against these free trade deals so it doesn't that mean that there's no point of even having discussions at this point?

Lendman: Well, Obama is making a big push on the two major deals. They're really not trade deals. They’re erroneously called that. They’re corporate coup d'états if these things become law in America and other countries.

It's a scheme by major corporations led by US once to simply abolish national sovereignty and run their businesses the way they want unobstructed by regulations or any rules put in place by laws in various governments including America. They can simply subvert them and ignore them and do with a please causing enormous harm to the environment, to consumer freedoms and so on. Trade is really a minor part of the deal.

It's really corporate control overrunning the world is what it's all about. Obama is pushing for TPP - the Asian deal - and for TTIP - the transatlantic deal. He's got a few months to go what he may do when the lame-duck session of Congress at the end of the year. We'll have to wait and see.

Hillary despite saying she's against TPP now let's certain what she said on TTIP for me the same thing she now said she's against TPP. Earlier she called it “the gold standard” of trade deals and against other trade deal.

So, it to take your choice of what you really stands for. She absolutely would support these deals. Trump has been very very adamant against them so hopefully if he becomes president he will not go along with letting these things become law in America.

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