Tag Archives: Trans Pacific Trade Deal

Hightower: Lessons From Confronting The Global Goliath

Posted on September 3, 2015 by markt

A plucky (and smart!) grassroots coalition has pushed the dastardly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership to the edge. By Jim Hightower Hightower Lowdown (August 2015) Progressive forces battling that God-awful gob of global corporate gobbledygook, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, encountered an odd problem: … Continue reading →

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Disposable People: Obama, The TPP, And Betrayal of Human Rights

Posted on September 2, 2015 by markt

We live in a world where the market is the final measure of all things and anything that stands in the way of profit is ultimately disposable. By Jim Miller San Diego (8/31/15) By Jim Miller During the lead-up to the … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Fast Track To The Wall Street Corporate Wish List

Posted on August 31, 2015 by markt

www.commondreams.org (Editor’s Note: This article is one of the best one-stop articles you can read to understand the great danger represented by Obama’s corporate-written, completely secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade scheme. While trade policy may sound like a snoozer of a … Continue reading →

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Dear President Obama: “Let an informed public be your partner and together work with you during these trade negotiations”

Posted on August 24, 2015 by dennis

By Dennis Brault The Daily Call (8/24/15) Dear President Obama As you know, with the passage of fast track authority, you have been granted the legislative power to write our laws into compliance with trade treaties. Most notably the TPP, TTIP … Continue reading →

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Congress Is Getting Sick Of The Secrecy Around Obama’s TPP Deal

Posted on August 21, 2015 by markt

thetyee.ca Meanwhile, close to 600 corporate executives and lobbyists enjoy wide-ranging access and input to the draft text. By George Zornick The Nation (8/20/15) The Trans-Pacific Partnership is in its final stages, though nobody seems certain when talks over the massive … Continue reading →

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Slave Trading: Obama Political Staff Overruled Human Rights Experts On Slavery Report

Posted on August 4, 2015 by markt

“There’s almost an orientation of diplomats to cover the ass of countries that they’re posted in.”   By Zach Carter The Huffington Post (8/3/15) WASHINGTON — Top diplomats at the State Department repeatedly overruled human rights experts in the crafting … Continue reading →

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Let’s Hope! ‘Do-Or-Die’ Talks End In Failure, Could TPP Be Derailed For Good?

Posted on August 3, 2015 by dennis

Could mean the death of the deal, and a win for the public interest all over the world.   By Sarah Lazare Common Dreams (8/1/15) This week’s closed-door Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in Maui, which President Barack Obama hoped would … Continue reading →

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For The Love Of Corporate Cash: Malaysia Needed a Clean Human Rights Record—So the State Department Just Gave It to Them

Posted on July 30, 2015 by markt

By William Greider The Nation (7/28/15) When President Obama was selling Congress on granting “fast track” for his Trans-Pacific Partnership, he made lots of huge (and improbable) promises. His new 12-nation trade deal would protect worker rights better than ever before in … Continue reading →

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Obama Shrugs Off Global Slavery To Protect Trade Deal

Posted on July 29, 2015 by markt

You thought competing against $2 a day would be tough … Try competing against zero a day, America.   By Zach Carter The Huffington Post (7/27/15) WASHINGTON — The Obama administration outraged human rights advocates on Monday by removing Malaysia … Continue reading →

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Six Ways TPP Opponents Have Won—Even As Fast Track Advances

Posted on July 28, 2015 by markt

  By Sarah Anderson Yes! Magazine (6/24/15) I tried to stay emotionally distanced from this one. It didn’t work. When the White House and Republican leaders got the votes they needed in the Senate to advance “fast track” Trade Promotion … Continue reading →

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Ron Kind Doubles Down On Letting Your Medication Costs Soar Under Secretive Trade Deal

Posted on July 27, 2015 by markt

(Daily Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2015. Open source and free to use with link to www.thedailycall.org )   (Editor’s Note: Working to represent the self-interest of the largest corporations you will note Rep. Ron Kind — who led … Continue reading →

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House Democrats & Health Advocates Blast Secretive Trade Deal Protections For Drug Companies

Posted on July 19, 2015 by markt

The Obama administration advancing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of drug affordability? By Daniel Marans The Huffington Post (7/17/15) House Democrats and health care advocates blasted drug patent provisions in a current draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership … Continue reading →

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Obama Won’t Let Slavery & Mass Graves Stop Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Scheme

Posted on July 18, 2015 by markt

“If it happened on House of Cards, I’d say ‘Oh, that’s not plausible.’” (Editor’s Note: Thanks to Obama and TPP pusher Rep. Ron Kind, American workers better get ready to compete with slave wages — literally. Anything for a dollar. Anything … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up With The Times And The Democratic Party On Destructive Corporate Trade Deals

Posted on July 10, 2015 by markt

President Obama won the final vote but not the heart of the majority of Democrats who opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership.   By Rep. Rosa DeLauro The Huffington Post (7/2/15) Here’s the real message behind the congressional votes on fast-track authority and … Continue reading →

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Anything For A Dollar: Obama Upgrades Malaysia Human Rights Status To Help Secretive TPP Trade Deal

Posted on July 9, 2015 by markt

(Editor’s Note: Let’s be real about the secretive TPP. Obama and Ron Kind assurances about protections of human rights in this corporate giveaway are nothing but lies. The sudden upgrade of human rights violator Malaysia in order to get around … Continue reading →

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