Privatized Planet: Free Trade as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment

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T J Coles

Privatized Planet

Free Trade as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment

T J Coles

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New Internationalist Publications Ltd
01 July 2019

Political science & theory

President Trump has torn up the TTIP and TPP. Britain is distancing itself from the European Union. Does this means that corporate globalisation is in retreat? Privatized Planet exposes the truth about 'free trade' in this new era of globalisation. Quoting leaked documents, corporate lobby memos and a host of other primary sources, it seeks to prove that corporate globalisation is simply changing shape, not coming to an end.

Author T.J. Coles takes us on a tour of US-led corporate free trade deals from WWII to the present. He argues that activists helped beat back the big multilateral trade deals, TTIP and TPP, and that they must now pay attention to the 'noodle bowl' of bilateral deals being signed in secret, like the ongoing US-UK free trade deal. Whether it's privatising Britain's National Health Service, lobbying to get genetically-modified foods and hormone-treated beef into Europe, pushing fracking on Eastern European countries, or murdering environmental activists in the developing world, the US-led corporate empire will stop at nothing until the planet is in private hands.

By: T J Coles
Imprint: New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781780265018
ISBN 10: 1780265018
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 July 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface: 'Retain that fatter profit share' Part I Evolving world order Introduction: Reshaping globalization Chapter 1 Free trade: From WWII to the WTO Chapter 2 Free trade: Bush & Obama Chapter 3 Free trade: The Trump years Chapter 4 Rivalries: 'Globalization is a brutal process' Part II Our environment Introduction Energy & transport: 'Eliminating the limits' Chapter 5 Clinton's State Department: 'Get a life’ Chapter 6 Fossil fuels: `Exploitation should be guaranteed’ Chapter 7 Vehicles: ISDS as `gunboat diplomacy’ Chapter 8 Food and agriculture: `Mere law’ Part III Health and finance Chapter 9 Financialization: `A highway without speed limits’ Chapter 10 Health: `The NHS will be shown no mercy’ Conclusion: `Make it impossible to reverse privatisation’

T.J. Coles was awarded a PhD from Plymouth University (UK) for his work on the aesthetic experiences of blind and visually impaired people. His thesis The Knotweed Factor draws on the philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive psychology. A columnist with Axis of Logic, Coles regularly writes about politics and human rights. His work has appeared in Newsweek, the New Statesman, Peace Review, teleSUR, Truthout and Z Magazine. Books include Britain's Secret Wars, The Great Brexit Swindle, President Trump, Inc., Fire and Fury and the anthology Voices for Peace (2017), which he edited.

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Privatized Planet

Free Trade as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment

T J Coles

$29.99

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