Winning in Maui: TPP Ministerial Negotiations Fail, with No Date Set for the Next Round
Winning a battle in the long campaign against TPP: It was “domestic politics” that preserved our national sovereignty
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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...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...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: Get Ready to Call ‘Em Out On the TPP!
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.
Read more...America’s First Black President Throwing Slaves Under the Bus on TPP
The sausage-making on the TPP has gotten messier…..
Read more...Ron Wyden Calls NAFTA Insufficient Now; In 1993, He Called It a “Vote For Less Pollution”
One of the common rhetorical tropes supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have used to sell it is to declaim all prior trade agreements as inferior, relative to this bright, shiny and new deal. Ron Wyden, the Democrat in Congress most responsible for moving TPP through, gave a particularly juicy example of this yesterday.
Read more...Gaius Publius: If Fast Track Passes, Anything Attached to a “Trade” Treaty Will Pass
How the Administration’s Fast Track authority would transfer more power to the President by limiting Congressional authority on “trade” bills.
Read more...Senate Democrats Work with Republicans to Throw Medicare Under the Bus as Part of TPP Fast Track Sausage-Making
TAA, a training program for workers displaced by TPP, would be funded by money diverted from Medicare. It doesn’t work, either.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren’s Trade Deal Fears Confirmed: Canada Uses NAFTA to Challenge Volcker Rule
Elizabeth Warren’s concerns about trade deals undermining financial regulations get an unexpected confirmation from Canada.
Read more...Give the Democratic Trade Turncoats Hell Over Fast Track Vote
The real fight against Fast Track authorization will take place in the House. but the Senate sellouts should be made to feel the wrath of their constituents.
Read more...Fast Track Authority for Toxic Trade Deals Fails Key Vote in Senate
Democratic Senators delivered an embarrassing procedural defeat to Obama on Fast Track authority.
Read more...Sovereignty For International Investors (Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP))
Why the investor state dispute settlement panels in the Trans-Pacific Partnership are a Trojan horse for enriching multinationals and gutting national sovereignity.
Read more...First Quarter GDP Likely Negative as Trade Deficit Soars
By David Dayen, a lapsed blogger. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen. Because of the blinkered way we talk about the economy in this country, news that the trade deficit widened in March well above consensus expectations will undoubtedly be met by cries that we must create more free trade deals to counteract that. Of course, […]
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