U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China’s Orwellian State
The trio of global trade treaties, TISA, TTIP and TPP had small writing permitting larger corporations to ignore or even rewrite international laws should said laws promote regulations. They also had a clause, as Assange himself wrote about, where if a government was doing something which one of these corporations could profit from, then the government was no longer permitted to pursue, lest they be sanctioned and embargoed by every other participating nation-state. I've been saying all along, the deals are dead in name only.<p>We've passed that sci-fi trope where corporations now wield more authority than governments.