by Dave Johnson | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Wall Street, the multinational corporations and President Obama are pushing for a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the "lame duck" session of Congress that follows the election. Wednesday, September 14, is a national call-in day to Congress to stop this....
by Dave Johnson | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned Wednesday that the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS or "corporate court") provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will give big, multinational corporations "leverage" to "threaten and intimidate governments that...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Before "globalism," countries kept a lot of their problems to themselves. But now they can easily spread the pain. "Free trade" is letting China disrupt the world's steel industry. China was booming. Investment in infrastructure, housing and industry was going...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, and the Consumer Federation of America, a coalition of 250 U.S. consumer organizations, both announced on Tuesday their opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The organizations sent joint letters to...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The enormous, humongous US trade deficit continues to drain jobs, wages, and prosperity from our country's economy. We close factories and fire workers here, move factories and jobs there, and because the goods now cross a border our elites brag that they have...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/nO4k2lLXiT8[/fve] BuzzFeed is running a very important investigative series called "Secrets of a Global Super Court." It describes what they call "a parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else."...