Hazel Healy looks at two monster US-led free-trade deals.
Critics have labelled them ‘a huge corporate wish-list’ and a ‘blank cheque for US companies’.
Under the guise of restarting the lagging world economy, two sweeping free-trade treaties are under negotiation that, if agreed, would swing the power balance away from states in favour of big business.
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