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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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The Perfect Storm

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When America fought WWI and WWII, there was an expression used by those who returned home to describe “war” to friends and family. “War is days of unimaginable boredom interspersed with moments of abject terror.” There are times when daily news presents nothing but trivial stories that mean little to the conscious plane of activism. There are […]

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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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UK Doctors Warn TTIP Means Certain Death for Public Healthcare

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Physicians say national health service faces lawsuits, bullying, and privatization under contentious trade pact By Lauren McCauley, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published June 23, 2015. Doctors in the United Kingdom are warning that passage of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will mean certain death for the country’s public healthcare system, opening 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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MEPs’ mounting TTIP opposition scandalously silenced ahead of knife-edge US vote

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Faced with a possible shock rejection of TTIP by MEPs, Brussels simply cancelled the vote this week – and now Washington moves swiftly to speed up the publicly unpopular trade deal. By Molly Scott-Cato. Published June 11, 2015 at openDemocracy. For a while there, it looked like the EU/US TTIP deal – the monumental power […]

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In Your Hands: One Massive Political Object Lesson

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By occupostal for Occupy World Writes. Friday’s House of Representatives vote against Trade Promotion Authority was a mixed victory, which some (like me) would say is a temporary one. The House had split TPA into two parts, unlike the Senate which had passed it—the second part being for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) to fund retraining […]

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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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Food, Water, Health, Life: UN Experts Warn of Threats Posed by Secret ‘Trade’ Deals

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‘All draft treaty texts should be published so that Parliamentarians and civil society have sufficient time to review them and to weigh the pros and cons in a democratic manner,’ say officials Written by Sarah Lazare, staff writer for CommonDreams. Published 6-2-2015. Echoing the protests of civil society organizations and social movements around the world, a […]

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