This is a Major Alert EVERYTHING Is About To Change TPP & Sustainable Development
Published on Oct 6, 2017
Dig a Little DEEPER: TPP
This is a Major Alert EVERYTHING Is About To Change TPP & Sustainable Development
Published on Oct 6, 2017
Dig a Little DEEPER: TPP
Featured Image: TPP political map. dark green – currently in negotiations; light green – announced interest. CREDIT:Japinderum. SOURCE: Wikipedia (This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.)
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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
You may not have heard of the biggest trade deal in recent US history — and that’s the way world governments like it. So what is this thing? Why should it matter to you?
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Five Scary Things About the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is set to be one of the biggest trade agreements in recent US history. So why are so many people furious about it?
Breaking ’08 Pledge, Leaked Trade Doc Shows Obama Wants to Help Corporations Avoid Regulations
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Description: A draft agreement leaked Wednesday shows the Obama administration is pushing a secretive trade agreement that could vastly expand corporate power and directly contradict a 2008 campaign promise by President Obama. A U.S. proposal for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact between the United States and eight Pacific nations would allow foreign corporations operating in the U.S. to appeal key regulations to an international tribunal. The body would have the power to override U.S. law and issue penalties for failure to comply with its ruling. We speak to Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, a fair trade group that posted the leaked documents on its website. “This isn’t just a bad trade agreement,” Wallach says. “This is a ‘one-percenter’ power tool that could rip up our basic needs and rights.” . . . Read Complete Post