Big Tobacco Eyes Easing Restrictions Via TTIP

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” — John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962

If Kennedy was right, then the United States and its partners in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) must be very afraid indeed of their people. Most documents of the TTP/TTIP negoations are still secret.

In one example typical of the amount of pre-publication editing, a 14-page letter from British American Tobacco revealed fewer than five percent of the text. What was visible was little more than the written version of small talk.

Read more http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/21526-big-tobacco-eyes-easing-restrictions-via-ttip

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