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Business supremacy treaties

jeudi 22 août 2019 à 02:00

A UK mining company used an ISDS treaty to force Armenia to allow a gold mine that threatens the country's main water supply: Lake Sevan.

Armenia is rather arid to begin with.

ISDS stands for "I Sue Democratic States", and it is one of the ways business subjugate the governments that are supposed to be democratic.