{"id":189558,"date":"2015-10-08T01:13:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T01:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=189558"},"modified":"2015-10-08T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T07:22:19","slug":"marketplace-program-from-nonprofit-npr-pumps-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/marketplace-program-from-nonprofit-npr-pumps-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"“Marketplace” Program, from ‘Nonprofit’ NPR, Pumps Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a pretty blatant example:<\/span><\/p>\n

On October 7th, U.S. National Public Radio\u2019s (NPR\u2019s) \u201cMarketplace\u2019 show headlined glowingly\u00a0“How the TPP will drive\u00a0domestic reform in Asia,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and reported that: <\/span><\/p>\n

In an <\/i>interview with Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal<\/i><\/span><\/a>, <\/i>President Obama<\/i><\/b> gave a nod to the idea [that \u2019trade agreements can also be about changes countries want to make for themselves\u2019]. The TPP, he said, ‘will strengthen the hand of reformers inside China.\u2019 \u2026 \u2018These kind of\u00a0trade-liberalization efforts are not just drivers of\u00a0reforms; in a lot\u00a0of cases they are the actual reforms\u00a0themselves,’ said <\/i>Nick Consonery<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0an analyst with with Eurasia\u00a0Group. \u2026 <\/i>Peter Petri<\/i><\/b>, a professor at Brandeis, said \u2026 ‘It\u2019s when you use foreign pressure to do the things that\u00a0you know you have to do but are politically very difficult.\u2019 \u2026 Vietnamese officials also said they want to use TPP to push domestic reforms, including limiting support for state-owned\u00a0enterprises. ‘And if they say this is an unmatched opportunity for us to be\u00a0able\u00a0to export to the U.S. and Japan and other TPP members,\u00a0and you got to\u00a0bite the bullet, it gives them a reason to drive\u00a0those reforms over\u00a0domestic opposition,’ said <\/i>Derek Scissors<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0with the American Enterprise\u00a0Institute. But Scissors cautioned that we can\u2019t say how much change the\u00a0TPP\u00a0might spur until we know more about the terms that were\u00a0agreed to this\u00a0week.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Ryssdahl reported there the views of only those four<\/b> people, one of them President Obama, who created his three mega-\u2018trade\u2019 deals \u2013 TPP, TTIP & TISA \u2013 and three supporters of these \u2018trade\u2019 deals. That\u2019s all.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, in reality, these \u2018trade\u2019 deals are the most corrupt and dangerous three treaties in the history of the world; and, if they get passed into law, then democracy will be dead, or else meaningless, in the signing nations, because regulations there will get locked in permanently, with no ability to be increased where needed in order to accommodate new scientific findings; and sovereignty will to a large extent pass from voters via national elections, to huge international corporations, whose \u2018rights\u2019 are in these deals placed above the rights of the voters and taxpayers of the participating signatory nations.<\/span><\/a> It would be international corporate fascism, but the \u2019nonprofit\u2019 NPR propaganda-operation in the U.S. calls it \u2018reform\u2019 and other such lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example (see at that last link):<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone who has seen the agreement (the negotiators for those international corporations, and their politicians) has signed <\/i>a form<\/i><\/span><\/a> promising:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cto treat negotiating texts and other documents exchanged in the course of the negotiations as confidential government information,\u201d and \u201cthat these confidentiality requirements shall apply for four years after entry into force of the TPP.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Compare that reality, versus this<\/i> <\/span>from the propagandist Ryssdahl (and NPR):<\/span><\/p>\n

But Scissors cautioned that we can\u2019t say how much change the\u00a0TPP\u00a0might spur until we know more about the terms that were\u00a0agreed to this\u00a0week.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t add: \u201cand that won\u2019t be made public until the agreement has already been in force for four years \u2013 if ever.\u201d And, of course, that will be more than four years too late to be able to do anything about it. This is now \u2018Western democracy,\u2019 and \u2018our free press.\u2019 The Ministry of Truth has trained us to believe in it. But this example exposes the fraud like few others can.<\/span><\/p>\n

These deals are a wet dream for the controlling stockholders in international corporations; and \u2018news\u2019 media such as NPR are merely their propagandists. It\u2019s the only way that we can go from democracy (however corrupted) to outright fascism; so, this is what we\u2019re getting, and how we\u2019re getting there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse Here\u2019s a pretty blatant example: On October 7th, U.S. National Public Radio\u2019s (NPR\u2019s) \u201cMarketplace\u2019 show headlined glowingly\u00a0“How the TPP will drive\u00a0domestic reform in Asia,\u201d\u00a0and reported that: In an interview with Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal, President Obama gave a nod to the idea [that \u2019trade agreements can also be about changes countries want to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":145661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,461,1622],"tags":[115,30,1036,96,535,1034,1017,1020,5775,753,804,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-189558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-editorials","9":"category-featured","10":"tag-barack-obama","11":"tag-big-brother","12":"tag-breaking-news","13":"tag-cover-up","14":"tag-global-news","15":"tag-independent-media","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nightly-news","18":"tag-orwells-nightmare-1984","19":"tag-police-state","20":"tag-politics-2","21":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}