[Infowarrior] - USTR's whacky wish list

[Richard Forno]

US trade rep demands end to other nations' healthcare, privacy rules, food labelling...
http://boingboing.net/2014/05/14/us-trade-rep-demands-end-to-ot.html

"Public Citizen analyzes the new Obama 2014 National Trade Estimate Report, in which the US Trade Rep demands that: Japan abolish its privacy rules and its requirement that food be labelled with its ingredients; Canada abolish its rules limited pharmaceutical patents; Malaysia get rid of its tariffs on pork and booze; Mexico nuke its junk food taxes, and more. It's great reading, and leaves little room for doubt about the neoliberal future, in which anything that's bad for corporate profits -- even if it's good for society or reflects national values -- is killed in the name of free trade."

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