From Truth-Out
''To discuss “free trade agreements” or the “free market,” we must first
identify the theoretical versus the functional definitions of these
terms – because theoretical definitions look at what those terms should
mean, whereas functional definitions look at what the terms mean
actually.''
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Showing posts with label TPP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TPP. Show all posts
Monday, December 3, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Andrew Gavin Marshall on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)
From OCCUPY.com
By Andrew Gavin Marshall
''What makes the TPP unique is not simply the fact that it may be the largest “free trade agreement” ever negotiated, nor even the fact that only two of its roughly 26 articles actually deal with “trade,” but that it is also the most secretive trade negotiations in history, with no public oversight, input, or consultations.''
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By Andrew Gavin Marshall
''What makes the TPP unique is not simply the fact that it may be the largest “free trade agreement” ever negotiated, nor even the fact that only two of its roughly 26 articles actually deal with “trade,” but that it is also the most secretive trade negotiations in history, with no public oversight, input, or consultations.''
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
''Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secret Surrender of Sovereignty''
From The New American
''After undergoing the requisite review of its domestic trade policies, Canada eagerly joined the negotiations on the trade pact. With Canada, there are now 11 nations participating in the TPP negotiations: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. This group of nations is working to establish “a comprehensive free trade agreement across the region.” Of course, as was the case with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the trade conducted under these multinational agreements is never free of government control. Globalist bureaucrats who are unaccountable to and unelected by the American people would establish domestic trade policies in all member nations, including the United States.''
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''After undergoing the requisite review of its domestic trade policies, Canada eagerly joined the negotiations on the trade pact. With Canada, there are now 11 nations participating in the TPP negotiations: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. This group of nations is working to establish “a comprehensive free trade agreement across the region.” Of course, as was the case with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the trade conducted under these multinational agreements is never free of government control. Globalist bureaucrats who are unaccountable to and unelected by the American people would establish domestic trade policies in all member nations, including the United States.''
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
''TPP Treaty Tolls Death Knell for Mexican Countryside''
From Upside Down World
''The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations, which Mexico is to join in December, are threatening to eliminate the last defences of the country’s agricultural sector.
Farmers in the United States, one of the future partners in the treaty, have asked their government to negotiate flexibilisation of the phytosanitary measures applied by Mexico, which are the final barrier against free entrance of agricultural products that compete against local crops.''
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''The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations, which Mexico is to join in December, are threatening to eliminate the last defences of the country’s agricultural sector.
Farmers in the United States, one of the future partners in the treaty, have asked their government to negotiate flexibilisation of the phytosanitary measures applied by Mexico, which are the final barrier against free entrance of agricultural products that compete against local crops.''
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
TPP: ''Stealth Corporate Coup d'Etat''
From Steve Lendman Blog
''Public Citizen's Lori Wallach heads its Global Trade Watch division. It monitors destructive trade deals like TPP.
On June 27, she headlined her Nation magazine article "NAFTA on Steroids," saying:
TPP, like other destructive trade deals, is being secretly negotiated. Most people never heard of it. Media scoundrels ignore it. Whatever corporations want they support.''
''Russia looks east for business; cool on US-led Asia trade group''
From BNE
''On the eve of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, scheduled for September 8-9, Russia is making it clear that it wants to scale down relations with the West and throw in its lot with the rising economies in the east.
Apec, a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries that counts both Russia and the US as members, is a key piece in this diversification strategy. Russia won't abandon western markets, but as it exports little other than raw materials it is indifferent to where these resources go. The politics of hate that have marred the West's relationship with Russia is coming back to bite and Russia is now actively trying to build an alliance with the east that excludes the US.
Russia wants to increase business in the Asia-Pacific region through Apec, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on August 28. But Moscow sees no place in Apec for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a grouping of nine Apec countries, championed by President Barack Obama, that are trying to negotiate an agreement which will enhance trade and investment among the TPP partner countries, promote innovation, economic growth and development, and support the creation and retention of jobs.''
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''On the eve of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, scheduled for September 8-9, Russia is making it clear that it wants to scale down relations with the West and throw in its lot with the rising economies in the east.
Apec, a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries that counts both Russia and the US as members, is a key piece in this diversification strategy. Russia won't abandon western markets, but as it exports little other than raw materials it is indifferent to where these resources go. The politics of hate that have marred the West's relationship with Russia is coming back to bite and Russia is now actively trying to build an alliance with the east that excludes the US.
Russia wants to increase business in the Asia-Pacific region through Apec, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on August 28. But Moscow sees no place in Apec for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a grouping of nine Apec countries, championed by President Barack Obama, that are trying to negotiate an agreement which will enhance trade and investment among the TPP partner countries, promote innovation, economic growth and development, and support the creation and retention of jobs.''
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Monday, August 20, 2012
''Let's Help #WikiLeaks Liberate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiating Text''
From Common Dreams
''On September 6, negotiators will go to Leesburg, Virginia, for the latest round of secretive talks on the "Trans-Pacific Partnership" agreement. This proposed agreement threatens access to essential medicines in developing countries, threatens environmental regulations, and threatens internet freedom. Even Members of Congress and their staff have been blocked from seeing the draft text, while corporate representatives have been allowed to see it.
Americans - and citizens of the other countries that would be covered by the agreement - have a right to see what our governments are proposing to do. Parts of the draft negotiating text have been leaked. But don't we have a right to see the whole text before the agreement is signed? After the agreement is signed, if there's anything in it we don't like, we'll be told that it's too late to change it.''
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''On September 6, negotiators will go to Leesburg, Virginia, for the latest round of secretive talks on the "Trans-Pacific Partnership" agreement. This proposed agreement threatens access to essential medicines in developing countries, threatens environmental regulations, and threatens internet freedom. Even Members of Congress and their staff have been blocked from seeing the draft text, while corporate representatives have been allowed to see it.
Americans - and citizens of the other countries that would be covered by the agreement - have a right to see what our governments are proposing to do. Parts of the draft negotiating text have been leaked. But don't we have a right to see the whole text before the agreement is signed? After the agreement is signed, if there's anything in it we don't like, we'll be told that it's too late to change it.''
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