With a powerful gang of corporations eager to use massive agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), now under negotiation, or the looming U.S.-EU Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) to steamroll policies supported by the public and enacted by Congress, the threats posed by such an extreme procedure are severe.
In August, Bank of America reached a massive $16.65bn agreement, for instance.
Last month BP filed a petition to the supreme court seeking to undo parts of the massive settlement agreement agreed in the New Orleans court related to the fatal spill.
Canada may be on the brink of a massive trade agreement with Europe that some feel could have negative repercussions for the country.
The TPP or the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a massive trade agreement, encompassing almost a billion people in twelve countries.
Clinton pledged again to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade agreement pushed by President Obama that has been a lightning rod in the campaign.
Unfortunately, a massive trade agreement currently under negotiation between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries seems to leave shark fins on the chopping block.
In other words, the specific provisions of a massive trade agreement being negotiated in complete secrecy would become law without public scrutiny, despite the proven potential of such agreements to do severe harm to working families and their communities.
The TPP is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade agreement between 12 countries -- the United States, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru -- that has been coined by anti-TPP activists as NAFTA on steroids.
On April 22, 2015, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade agreement that would override our republican form of government and hand judicial and legislative authority to a foreign three-person panel of corporate lawyers.
