The US Senate passed a controversial “fast-track” trade bill in a 62-37 vote on Friday. It is a key part…
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership sounds deadly boring. It’s not. The potential impact on humanity from this proposed mega-deal is impossible to…
A controversial trade deal being touted by the White House is expected to give American corporations broad new authority if…
The environment protection provisions in the draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement will not be enforceable, says…
The US is ramping up pressure to secure a Trans-Pacific Trade Deal with conditions that could undermine the national interests…
By Daniel Tencer Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Trade Minister Ed Fast are headed to Malaysia and Indonesia this week,…
By Diane Petryk-Bloom Imagine. While some of us are working to curtail fracking, assure GMO labeling, promote various green and…
By Jane Slaughter Many people know NAFTA has cost U.S. workers 700,000 jobs. But how many know another effect was…
We reported last year: Democratic Senator Wyden – the head of the committee which is supposed to oversee it –…
By Kristen Beifus A super-sized NAFTA, the TPP gives foreign corporations privileges that can override domestic laws on environmental health…
A summit with leaders of the member states of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) in November, 2010. (Photo:…
By Cory Doctorow BoingBoing The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the son of ACTA, a secretive copyright and trade treaty being negotiated…
By Joe Wolverton, II New American This week President Obama and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk announced that Canada and Mexico…