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Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Canada Lurches Left As Justin Trudeau Victory Ends Neo-Conservative Era
Like the surge of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary in the U.S. and the nomination of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in the U.K., Canada’s election of a Liberal government under Justin Trudeau signals a sea change.
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TTIP Revolt: Why 250K Berliners Mobilized Against the Mega U.S.-EU Trade Deal
Fears in Europe about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership mirror Americans’ anxieties about the TPP – and there is vociferous opposition to the deal in Germany.
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Acronym TV - Think Corporate Personhood is Bad? The TPP Will Give Us Corporate Nationhood
Leading activist and anti-TPP campaigner Kevin Zeese talks about the battle that still remains to defeat the TPP, Hillary Clinton's reversal on the deal, and the long trail of lies told by President Obama's Trade Rep Michael Froman.
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A Spoilt Deal: How a Dispute Over Dairy Helped Sidetrack the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The dispute between Canada and New Zealand hinges on Canada's supply management system, which features high tariffs on imports and no subsidies for farmers, keeping the price of Canada's milk products high while New Zealand's are low.
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Why Global Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Keeps Growing, and Growing
Over the past month, trade officials have been frantically working to resolve outstanding disagreements over provisions in the TPP in the midst of speculation that the deal is in deep trouble.
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Corporate Lobbying Costs Hit $380 Million In 9 Months Pushing Pacific Trade Deal
Washington lobbying by companies and groups involved in global trade boomed in the past nine months.
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Question to Lawmakers: Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Unconstitutional?
Obama and Congress need to explain how the Constitution allows the United States to submit the validity of its federal, state and local laws to "corporate tribunals" with no possibility of U.S. court review.
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A Coup for Corporate America As U.S. Senate Passes Fast Track
In a win for multinational corporations and the 1 percent, the Senate advanced Fast Track.
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$200 Million Went to House Members to Pass Fast Track – Here's Who Took the Cash
John Boehner received $5.3 million for a "yea" vote on Trade Promotion Authority, while Kevin McCarthy received $2.4 million and Paul Ryan took $2.4 million.
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Why Fast Track Would Hand Total Control of the Money Supply to Private Banks — Permanently
The Trade in Services Agreement now being debated for Fast Track would open the doors even wider for private banks and commercial service industries – and slam the door on governments seeking to open private banking sectors to public ownership.
