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European Mining Dispute Illustrates Risks of Corporate-Friendly Trade Deals

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A Canadian corporation is seeking damages after being blocked from creating an open-pit mine over environmental concerns Written by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 7-28-15. Offering a stark warning of how corporate-friendly trade pacts like the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) put both democracy and the environment at risk, a Canadian company […]

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TISA Exposed: ‘Holy Grail’ of Leaks Reveals Detailed Plot for Corporate Takeover

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Fifty-two-nation Trade in Services Agreement uses trade regulations ‘as a smokescreen to limit citizen rights,’ says labor leader Written by Deidre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 7-1-15. Days ahead of another round of secret international negotiations, WikiLeaks on Wednesday released what it described as “a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the […]

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Keeping Up With The Neighbors

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The relationship between Canada and the United States is friendly for the most part. We share a common border. Official business is done in English for the most part in both countries. Until a couple years ago, you didn’t need a passport or Real ID to travel between the two countries. However, as will happen in […]

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Is It All Over But the Denying?

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By occupostal for Occupy World Writes When you know how the outcome is going to play out—and not well—the old expression goes “It’s all over but the crying.” We may very well be in that spot with passage of the Trade Promotion Authority(TPA)—which has already passed in the U.S. Senate and is due for a […]

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WikiLeaks Strikes Again: Leaked TISA Docs Expose Corporate Plan For Reshaping Global Economy

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Leaked Docs reveal that little-known corporate treaty poised to privatize and deregulate public services across globe By Sarah Lazare, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published June 3, 2015 An enormous corporate-friendly treaty that many people haven’t heard of was thrust into the public limelight Wednesday when famed publisher of government and corporate secrets, WikiLeaks, released […]

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Is US Trade Rep a Wall Street Crony? Groups Demand Transparency.

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Public interest watchdogs say Americans deserve to know what US top trade negotiator Michael Froman ‘has been privately saying to big banks’ By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published May 28, 2015 Noting deep ties between the country’s top trade negotiator and Wall Street banks, ten groups representing millions of Americans are calling […]

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TPP vs. Democracy: Leaked Draft of Secretive Trade Deal Spells Out Plan for Corporate Power Grab

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WikiLeaks reveals negotiators planning to expand secret corporate tribunals Written by Sarah Lazare, staff writer for CommonDreams, published March 26, 2015 Newly leaked classified documents show that the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, if it goes through as written, will dramatically expand the power of corporations to use closed-door tribunals to challenge—and supersede—domestic laws, including environmental, labor, […]

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The Honduras Experiment – ZEDE Limits

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Ever since the 1980 elections and the Reagan administration, we’ve seen an ever increasing implementation of neo-liberal policies. Disastrous “free trade deals” such as NAFTA, the TPP and TTIP that outsource jobs and cut wages here at home. The privatization of public utilities and our educational system.  Deregulation of industries and the financial sector. The […]

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Have A Cigar And Follow The Money

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Last Wednesday President Obama and President Raul Castro of Cuba made simultaneous announcements that the two nations would start working towards normalizing relations between the two countries 54 years after diplomatic ties were severed. The reactions in the US, as with anything else over the last six years, was basically split along ideological lines, with […]

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Follow The Yellow Brick Road

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When I was a really young kid (late ’50s/early ’60s), one of the highlights of TV programming was the annual broadcast of The Wizard of Oz. The story of Dorothy and her companions following the yellow brick road never loses its charm; how they struggle through adversity and evil to see the Wizard, only to […]

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