Jack Rasmus

If interested in my interview with Labor Express Radio in Chicago on the subject of the recent TPP agreement, go to:

http://www.kyklosproductions.com/audiocds.html

or

https://archive.org/details/LaborExpressFor10-11-2015

INTERVIEW CONTENT:

Jerry Mead-Lucero Interviews Jack Rasmus on TPP
Labor Express Radio,
Chicago, Illinois (October 11, 2015, 41 min 52 sec)

Dr. Jack Rasmus

Jerry Mead-Lucero of Labor Express Radio in Chicago interviews Jack Rasmus on the recent TPP agreement signed by the US and 11 other nations. While the full text of the agreement is not available yet, Jack explains what the various ‘leaks’ suggest, including Big Pharma companies enhanced ability to price gouge not only Americans but poor and working classes throughout the TPP economies. Deals made by US negotiators with Australia and New Zealand will enable Big Pharma to prevent cheaper drugs for up to 11 years, not the 5 indicated by the business press, only one year less than in the US. Jack explains how auto and manufacturing job losses in the US will now accelerate, due to terms favoring Japan and its China based auto parts production. Jack and Jerry discuss the anti-democracy and sovereignty issues in the TPP, that will mean legislation to protect jobs and prevent Big Pharma price gouging of Americans (already driving up drug insurance costs in the US) will not be allowed due to provisions of TPP. Nor will the EPA be able to issue regulations to mitigate climate change. TPP is the tip of the iceberg of a growing corporate global government structure that will eventually obsolete democracy. Jack predicts Washington politicians of both parties will eventually pass the TPP in 2016, in exchange for massive campaign contributions from big multinational US corporations, for whom TPP is their number one priority.