by Dave Johnson | Aug 23, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
Members of Congress are starting to pay attention to the upcoming, secretly-negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "trade" agreement that isn't really about trade. And the public is also becoming aware that this runaway job-loss express train is coming straight at...
by Wenonah Hauter | Aug 23, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
The United States is negotiating a NAFTA-style trade deal that should be alarming to American consumers. The main reason it’s not getting much attention is that the mainstream media is largely ignoring it. This pact deserves more news coverage. It threatens to...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 12, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The giant multinationals are pushing a trade deal that will literally let them bypass our laws. This deal is called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and it is coming at us in the next few months. The corporations are trying to switch this gravy-train onto the "Fast...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 22, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Trans-Pacific Partnership – the corporate sovereignty treaty – is coming and they're going to try to push it through Congress with "Fast Track." It's really, really important to pay attention to this one. You have seen what the "free trade" agreements have done to...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
You know how big-company lobbyists get some states to pass laws that block cities and counties from doing something about problems like tobacco or guns? Well there is a "trade" treaty called the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the works that sets down international rules...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 5, 2013 | Financial Reform, Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After 237 years, we’re becoming a colony again. Our nation's losing the right to self-determination it fought so hard to win, and it’s happening on a scale unseen since the days of George III. As is so often the case these days, this wholesale loss of our rights is...
