{"id":1504,"date":"2013-10-06T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/blog\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2013-10-06T21:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T21:00:31","slug":"a-corporate-trojan-horse-obama-pushes-secretive-tpp-trade-pact-would-rewrite-swath-of-u-s-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Corporate Trojan Horse&#8221;: Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2013\/10\/4\/a_corporate_trojan_horse_obama_pushes','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly\\&quot; style=\\&quot;max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/87\/23487\/splash\/Wallach.jpg?20130924\\&quot; class=\\&quot;thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2013\/10\/4\/a_corporate_trojan_horse_obama_pushes\\'&gt;\\&quot;A Corporate Trojan Horse\\&quot;: Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws&lt;\/a&gt;As the federal government shutdown continues, Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Asia for secret talks on a sweeping new trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is often referred to by critics as \\&quot;NAFTA on steroids,\\&quot; and would establish a free trade zone that would stretch from Vietnam to Chile, encompassing 800 million people - about a third of world trade and nearly 40 percent of the global economy.&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;span class=\\&quot;embedly-powered\\&quot; style=\\&quot;float:right;display:block\\&quot;&gt;&lt;a target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\/\/embed.ly?src=anywhere\\&quot; title=\\&quot;Powered by Embedly\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\&quot; alt=\\&quot;Embedly Powered\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;media-attribution\\&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;via &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;a href=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\\&quot; class=\\&quot;media-attribution-link\\&quot; target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot;&gt;Democracynow&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;'}\">\n<div class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/87\/23487\/splash\/Wallach.jpg?20130924\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" \/><a class='embedly-title' href='http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2013\/10\/4\/a_corporate_trojan_horse_obama_pushes'>&#8220;A Corporate Trojan Horse&#8221;: Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws<\/a>As the federal government shutdown continues, Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Asia for secret talks on a sweeping new trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is often referred to by critics as &#8220;NAFTA on steroids,&#8221; and would establish a free trade zone that would stretch from Vietnam to Chile, encompassing 800 million people &#8211; about a third of world trade and nearly 40 percent of the global economy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attribution\"><span>via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Democracynow<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Corporate Trojan Horse&#8221;: Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. LawsAs the federal government shutdown continues, Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Asia for secret talks on a sweeping new trade deal, the Trans-Pacific &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=1504\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tranzitioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}