There’s a growing recognition within the legal community that the ISDS provisions of treaties like NAFTA, TPP, many trade agreements already signed and almost all agreements going forward … may well be unconstitutional
Read more...After a decisive defeat on TAA, a provision which needed to be passed to secure Fast Track approval, the Administration is trying to secure a stealth reversal.
Read more...The role of UK Partnerships in a $1Bn bank fraud in Moldova
Read more...An explanation of the votes on TAA and Fast Track last week, and the options open to the Administration for trying to reverse this defeat.
Read more...The idea that a loyal ally like Australia is even considering not signing the TPP is yet another sign that the deal is in trouble overseas as well as in the US.
Read more...This post presents the latest whip count on the Fast Track vote and how support is weakening among Republicans. Please keep up your calls to Representatives against the bill. You can find phone numbers here.
Read more...Greece’s creditors are not pleased, and perhaps more important, the Greek government has lost one of its few remaining advocates, Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission. The Eurocrats are finally waking up to the degree to which the two sides have talking past each other. The implication is that it is far less likely than they had believed.
Read more...Limiting greenhouse gas production requires more radical measures to reduce fossil fuel use, and that means on production as well.
Read more...Debunking “free trade” and other spurious defenses of the multinational enrichment, democracy stripmining programs known as the Trade in Services Agreement, the TransPacific Partnership, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Read more...America’s current leadership has failed to grasp the significance of a radical global change underway inside the Eurasian land mass. If China succeeds in linking its rising industries to the vast natural resources of the Eurasian heartland, then quite possibly, as Sir Halford Mackinder predicted on that cold London night in 1904, “the empire of the world would be in sight.”
Read more...By Richard Smith It’s high time for an update on this vast fraud story, which has, near its core, Bryan Cook and Thomas Yi, of bogus international investment bank London Capital. Here’s a synopsis of the story so far at NC, and the global press coverage that has ensued. First, there was “Is Power8, Sponsor of […]
Read more...Fast Track is not just a path to TPP … it’s evil all on its own. There’s now another leaked “trade” deal, called TISA, and Fast Track will “fast-track” that one too. Want your municipal water service privatized? How about your government postal service? Read on
Read more...Why Nancy Pelosi is the White House’s secret weapon for the pending Fast Track bill.
Read more...A 2004 book by Martin Wolf provided the intellectual foundation for the competitiveness fad. Ironically, Wolf debunked his own thesis in it.
Read more...The opposition has done vastly better than expected on stymieing Obama’s toxic trade deals. Thinking ahead to how to block them in the House, and if it gets that far, when the Fast Track fix goes to the Senate.
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