trade agreements

"The agreements would significantly inhibit the ability of developing countries' governments to protect their environment from mining and other companies; their citizens from the tobacco companies that knowingly purvey a product that causes death and disease; and their economies from the ruinous financial products that played such a large role in the 2008 global financial crisis." "Corporations are attempting to achieve by stealth – through secretly negotiated trade agreements – what they could not attain in an open political process."