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A multi-partisan activist group established to expose and resist US imperialism, corpora-terrorism, and the New World Order
Senate approves Obama's secret fast-track 'trade' bill, includes sharia law nation of Brunei | 22 May 2015 | President Obama's trade corporate welfare agenda received a critical boost from the U.S. Senate late Friday with a bipartisan vote in favor of a “fast track” trade bill. “It's important to President Obama, and it's important to a lot of us here in the chamber,” said Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a lead sponsor of the bill. The Senate voted, 62-37, to approve a six-year renewal of trade promotion authority (TPA), which provides an expedited process to submit trade pacts to Congress. The bill now heads to the U.S. House, which is expected to begin work on the bill in June. [Start reading.]