democracynow | Despite the Senate vote approving a measure to give President
Obama fast-track authority to negotiate the secretive Trans-Pacific
Partnership deal, opposition to the deal continues to mount ahead of
this month’s House vote. Critics, including a number of Democratic
lawmakers, oppose the TPP, saying it will fuel
inequality, kill jobs, and undermine health, environmental and
financial regulations. The negotiations have been secret, and the public
has never seen most of the deal’s text. Well, this morning the
whistleblowing group WikiLeaks launched a campaign to change that. The
group is seeking to raise $100,000 to offer what they describe as a
bounty for the leaking of the unseen chapters of the TPP. We speak to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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AMY GOODMAN:
Despite the Senate vote approving a measure to give President Obama
fast-track authority to negotiate the secretive Trans-Pacific
Partnership deal, opposition to the deal continues to mount ahead of
this month’s House vote. Critics, including a number of Democratic
lawmakers, oppose the TPP, saying it will fuel
inequality, kill jobs, and undermine health, environmental and
financial regulations. The negotiations have been secret, and the public
has never seen most of the deal’s text. Well, this morning, the
whistleblowing group WikiLeaks launched a campaign to change that. The
group is seeking to raise $100,000 to offer what they describe as a
bounty for the leaking of the unseen chapters of the TPP. WikiLeaks just posted this video online.
