Big Papers Want Foreign Companies, Not War Crime Victims, to Sue US

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  • Les #MSM étasuniens n’ont aucun problème à ce que les #multinationales poursuivent en justice leur propre pays (ou plutôt le contribuable étasunien) mais sont très inquiets quant aux poursuites judiciaires que pourraient subir les #Etats-Unis (ou plutôt les différents agents de la « #sécurité_nationale ») du fait de leurs #crimes de guerre,

    Big Papers Want Foreign Companies, Not War Crime Victims, to Sue US
    http://fair.org/home/big-papers-want-foreign-companies-not-war-crime-victims-to-sue-us

    The irony is that none of these publications were overly concerned with exposing the US to foreign lawsuits when they offered support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a corporate trade deal that includes a provision for Investor-State Dispute Settlement—meaning it permits corporations to sue governments, including the US, in the event that a regulation undermines corporate profits. So increased exposure to liability to the US government when it gives more power to corporations is permissible, even desirable, but when it might provide recourse for victims of US war crimes? Not so much.