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Pacific Trade Deal Will Test Trudeau’s Resolve

November 13, 2015

Pacific Trade Deal Will Test Trudeau’s Resolve As chorus of critics sound alarm, this is PM’s chance to show us he’s listening. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau renewed his promise to listen to labour’s TPP concerns this week. Justin Trudeau has proven to be much more bold in his first couple of weeks than almost anyone […]

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Leaked TAFTA/TTIP Chapter Shows EU Breaking Its Promises On The Environment

October 27, 2015

Leaked TAFTA/TTIP Chapter Shows EU Breaking Its Promises On The Environment from the toxic-trade-deal dept As far as trade agreements are concerned, the recent focus here on Techdirt and elsewhere has been on TPP as it finally achieved some kind of agreement — what kind, we still don’t know, despite promises that the text would be released as soon as […]

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Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election

October 15, 2015

Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election Government officials say haggling by lawyers from 12 countries delaying release of trade agreement Play Media Trade deal details 2:54 Canadians won’t be able to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal before they vote. Government officials told CBC News on Wednesday that the exact wording […]

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President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal

July 10, 2015

President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal So that U.S. President Barack Obama can end a roadblock and win the agreement of other nations for his proposed Trans Pacific Partnership, he has decided to remove one of the nations, Malaysia, from the U.S. State Department’s official list of countries that allow […]

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Revolution’s Matchstick

July 1, 2015

Revolution’s Matchstick Fighting The Trans-Pacific Partnership Rolling down the corporate-political assembly line is a trade deal so treasonous to the peoples of the world that it should serve as revolution’s matchstick. The treaty is secret, but one fact is well known: the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is being negotiated by transnational corporations without a single US […]

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Obama: TPP a secret treaty because ‘US War on Terror requires secrecy’

June 24, 2015

Obama: TPP a secret treaty because ‘US War on Terror requires secrecy’ (Satire): President Obama announced at a White House press conference today that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade treaty details must remain secret because the now 14-year-old US War on Terror requires secrecy from terrorist enemies, secrecy is the founding principle of American freedom, and […]

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Forget the TPP – Wikileaks Releases Documents from the Equally Shady “Trade in Services Agreement,” or TISA

June 6, 2015

Forget the TPP – Wikileaks Releases Documents from the Equally Shady “Trade in Services Agreement,” or TISA If it sounds complicated, it is. The important point is that this trade agreement contains a crucial discussion of governments’ abilities to meaningfully protect civil liberties. And it is not being treated as a human rights discussion. It is […]

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