Will the US Keep Winning Indefinitely? With ISDS Trade Panels, That Is
The threat to regulation, democracy, and the rule of law posed by investor-state dispute settlement is very real.
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Groundhog Day for NZ FSPs: Bryan Cook of Asia Finance Corporation is a Crook, but Does NZ’s FMA Care?
Why is it Groundhog Day? Back in 2011, I wrote a seriously messy blog post about dodgy New Zealand FSPs (Financial Services Providers), their dodgy web sites and people and addresses, and the evidently nonexistent oversight of all of this by the NZ Ministry of Economic Development and the NZ Companies Office. To my surprise, […]
Read more...TPP: 13 Democratic Senators Invite Republicans to Make Them Laughing Stocks and More Serious Matters
Despite the Obama victory in the Senate yesterday on the TPP, the bill still has some remaining hurdles to surmount. Can it be beaten?
Read more...15 Ways Bill Clinton’s White House Failed America and the World
How Bill Clinton hurt the American middle class and US interests abroad
Read more...TPP: Will Voters Re-elect Laughing Stocks to the Senate?
Fast Track authority, whose passage is tantamount to passing the TPP, the TTIP, and TISA, goes back to the Senate. Please call your Senators ASAP, particularly Patty Murray (D-WA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) .
Read more...Scotland: the Moldovan Connection
How modest homes in some of Scotland’s poorest areas became prolific ‘company factories’, and how those companies were used in a giant Moldovan bank fraud
Read more...Joe Firestone: Administration Tries to Resurrect Toxic Trade Deals After Big Defeat. Will It Succeed?
Well, that didn’t take too long. The wonks in the White House, the Republican Leadership and the “free trade” Democrats, have hatched another devious process for passing the Trade Promotion Authority bill, otherwise known as Fast Track.
Read more...Gaius Publius: ISDS Provisions in TPP Violate Article III of the U.S. Constitution
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...Call Your Representative to Oppose Administration Ruse to Keep TAA/Fast Track Alive
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...A Billion-Dollar Bank Fraud in Moldova, and 20,000 Opaque British Corporations
The role of UK Partnerships in a $1Bn bank fraud in Moldova
Read more...Joe Firestone: TPP – Fast Track, the Next Rounds In Congress
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...Will the Australian Government Walk Away from the TPP?
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...Joe Firestone: Fast –Track: It Looks Like It’s In Pelosi’s Lap or Maybe Not!
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...Creditors Reject Latest Greek Proposal, Tsipras Meeting with Merkel and Hollande in Doubt as Default Risk Rises
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...Gaius Publius: The Only Solution to Climate Change — Outlaw Fossil Fuel Production
Limiting greenhouse gas production requires more radical measures to reduce fossil fuel use, and that means on production as well.
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