In Peru, Kuczynski And Obama Greenwash TPP and Neo-Colonialism

WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling This week, one of the Online Free Dictionary’s Words of the Day was “extirpate.” It not only means to destroy totally, when describing a powerful leader’s first order of business upon assuming power, but it could possibly be applied to the cozy relationship between Presidents Barack Obama and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. To be sure, Obama was one of the first leaders to congratulate Peru’s new president, reaffirming their commitment to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement which they plan to impose on other Latin American countries and peoples. What’s more, under the banner of Green Economy rhetoric like “sustainability,” the TPP has been...