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TTIP……the right to sit in judgment of national laws and constitution. …..

    These agreements aren’t focused on lowering barriers, but harmonizing global regulations at the cost of sovereignty.   Nowhere is this more clear than in the new enthusiasm for special “investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) mechanisms. ISDS gives foreign corporations the right to sue national governments for regulations that interfere with their expected profits. It…

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New Decade has begun with A Glorious Example of the Indefatigable Courage of the Human Spirit.

Anyone who read “The Yacoubian Building”, a novel published in 2002 by Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany, will regard the revolution in Egypt as long overdue. The novel’s readers will not have been astonished by the ease with which the rotting hulk of Hosni Mubarak’s regime was dashed against the rocks, nor by the spirit…