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David Powell
@europeanpowell.bsky.social
Artist, senior lecturer in Fine Art, and since 2016 a political activist exposing the corporate takeover of the UK via 74 deregulated Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports. ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
3k followers2.8k following794 posts
Previous ISDS cases have been challenges to environmental protections; minimum wage legislation; and taxes that companies don’t want to pay. Welcome to zone fever in Brexit UK. jacobin.com/2023/10/in-t...
In the 1960s, the World Bank Created a Mechanism That Allows Corporations to Sue States
The investor-state dispute settlement is a system that empowers foreign investors to sue a sovereign government. It was instituted in the 1960s against the votes of most Latin American countries — and...
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David Powell
@europeanpowell.bsky.social
Artist, senior lecturer in Fine Art, and since 2016 a political activist exposing the corporate takeover of the UK via 74 deregulated Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports. ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
3k followers2.8k following794 posts