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Haiti’s fraudulent presidential frontrunner seizes land for his own banana republic
22-Jan-2016 Other Worlds
Farmers remain homeless and out of work while the land grabbed by the company Jovenel Moïse founded, Agritrans, now hosts a private banana plantation. Moïse is the only man running in Haiti’s fraudulent runoff presidential elections this Sunday, and is connected to the land grab responsible for the expulsion of as many as 800 peasants.
EU appeals ECJ annulment of EU-Morocco Free Trade deal
15-Dec-2015 WSRW
The European Union has appealed the judgement from the EU Court of Justice.
New TTIP ‘transparency’ agenda still leaves public in the dark
7-Dec-2015 War on Want
The Brussels deal, a product of intense public pressure, is wholly undermined by the fact that MEPs will still face draconian secrecy measures.
All MEPs to have access to all confidential TTIP documents
4-Dec-2015 European Parliament
All Members of the European Parliament will have access to all categories of confidential documents relating to the EU’s Transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) talks with the USA.
TPP is about many things, but free trade? Not so much
10-Nov-2015 The Globe and Mail
Let’s be clear about the just-released, negotiated-in-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership deal: it is definitely not a “free-trade” agreement. It’s much more than that.
TTIP trade talks continue under veil of secrecy in miami - official
23-Oct-2015 Sputnik
A trade official from America’s largest labor union said that chief negotiators of TTIP agreement persisted to show contempt for transparency by failing to provide any meaningful details to the deal’s most critical stakeholders.
German government hits back after TTIP demo
14-Oct-2015 EurActiv
Despite the massive anti-TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) protest in Berlin, the German government and industry still want to press on with the negotiations
Court finds against Trade Minister on TPPA Secrecy
13-Oct-2015 Scoop
Court finds against Trade Minister on TPPA Secrecy; Chief Ombudsman wrongly upheld his unlawful decision
Trans-Pacific Partnership: we’re selling economic sovereignty for little return
13-Oct-2015 The Age
Part of the cost of free trade deals is standardisation – in this case it means adopting US practices.
I didn’t think TTIP could get any scarier, but then I spoke to the EU official in charge of it
13-Oct-2015 The Independent
With just eight words she exposed everything that’s wrong with the deal, and why it needs to be defeated
No to FTAs!
8-Oct-2015 Ibon
TPP, like other Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), is fashioned by industrial countries and their transnational corporations to further intensify the concentration of resources, wealth, and power into their hands leaving developing countries.
Malaysia should withdraw from TPP, says Malay economic body
2-Oct-2015 The Malaysian Insider
Malaysia should withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) now, said a Malay economic group, warning that the contentious trade deal will result in negative economic growth and have implications on the country’s sovereignty.
A need for preventive investment protection?
2-Oct-2015 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
There is an obvious need at the investors’ side for a mechanism making it possible to prevent the threatened violation of their investment. It is fair to say that where the violation of the investment is still only potential, notifying the dispute should be the primary tool for investment protection.
NBR Radio Special: Jane Kelsey on TPP legal action
29-Sep-2015 NBR
Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey is challenging an “unlawful” government decision to deny an official trade document request.
Anti-TPP campaigners argue text ban is unlawful
28-Sep-2015 Radio New Zealand
A court has been told that the government’s refusal to release information about the Trans-Pacific Partnership is unlawful and constitutionally dangerous.
Gordon Campbell on TPP dairy , and investor-state disputes
28-Sep-2015 Scoop
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s TPP done deal on dairy, and on investor-state disputes
French minister: ’TTIP talks are not transparent’
28-Sep-2015 EU Observer
Negotiations for an EU-US free trade agreement "are not transparent" and could end if no progress is made, French trade minister Mathias Fekl said.
Australia’s treaty-making process is broken. The China free trade deal is a case in point
13-Sep-2015 The Guardian
By the time a free trade agreement like Chafta reaches parliament it has already been agreed to. Democracy demands more than a ‘take it or leave it’ approach
Local councils tearing strips off TTIP
13-Sep-2015 New Internationalist
Politicians in both Brussels and Westminster have taken great pains to try and brush off people’s many concerns about the toxic trade deal being pushed through by the EU and the United States.
The TPP will finish what Chile’s dictatorship started
11-Sep-2015 The Nation
This September 11th will be the forty-second anniversary of the US-backed coup against the democratically-elected Chilean government. Salvador Allende warned against neoliberalism’s disastrous effects just before he was overthrown. He was right to be worried.