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It's been a very confusing time for TTIP and other pro-corporate trade deals. There has been huge public opposition to them, often based around the fact that they would allow corporations to sue elected governments if they introduce policies that threaten their profits - even environmental legistlation or a minimum wage! The Brexit vote and the ele ....
Here are two sources of information about CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) - and both of them are completely biased. They are biased against the interests of the corporate sector and in favour of the interests of ordinary people and communities. That's the kind of bias we like.
CETA is a similar EU deal to TTIP, but with Canada ....
Ha Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism and Economics: The User's Guide explains that TTIP is not about 'free trade' - trade is already more-or-less free. TTIP is about helping corporations to sue countries if they dare to do anything - anything at all - that can be shown to get in the way of corporate profits.
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Trade deals (and in fact, the EU) exist to maximise growth and to orient our economies towards exports. From an environmental perspective, this is the exact opposite of what we should be doing. If we ever want to live in harmony with the nature of our home planet (and therefore avoid extinction), then we have to stabilise our economies and orient ....
Can you take 10 mins to send this letter, or something very similar, to your MP? People have been asking MPs some of these questions and getting silly answers, which suggests we are hitting a nerve - so we need to keep on hitting it.
Please let us know if you have written, and to which MP.
NB: here's lots more info about TTIP, to inform, ....
A report for the Bertelsmann Foundation has shown plummeting support for TTIP in Germany and in the US - down to 17% in Germany and 15% in the US, with 18% of Americans and a full third of Germans saying that it is 'a bad thing'. The striking thing however, is the number of people saying that they haven't heard enough about it - 30% of Germans and ....
'Corporate interests have got to stop coming first' - well said, Juliet Stevenson. A group of artists including actors Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott and Juliet Stevenson and designer Vivienne Westwood are fronting a campaign (artistsagainstttip.org) to raise public awareness of the trade deal TTIP (pronounced tee-tip) which is being secretly negotiated ....
So, you all know about TTIP? Here's a link if you don't, plus see the posts to the right. It's a proposed 'trade deal' that is designed to give more of our economy to the corporate sector. It's supposed to be 'transparent', but of course it's completely secret. Now, German MPs can see the text, in a special 'reading room' - a tiny room, with a gua ....
Just allow a few seconds for that to sink in. Simon Stevens was Vice President of UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurer in the US. He was in charge of global expansion of their business. Now he's Chief Executive of the NHS. He was a founder member of the Alliance for Healthcare Competitiveness, a pro-TTIP lobby group that campaigned for he ....
I'm beginning to think that we could actually win this struggle against TTIP - the latest in the corporate strategy to undermine democracy. Yesterday, 'Business Against TTIP' launched - no corporations involved, obviously, but it made me realise that a much wider cross-section of society is becoming aware of what they're up to.
Business Against ....
Investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) have been around for over fifty years. Originally meant to protect investors from losses due to government actions - what may have seemed a good idea at the time has spiralled out of control with international trade deals like NAFTA, CETA, TPP and TTIP. They have now become a means of transferring even more ....
A new report from the US Department of Agriculture assesses the potential effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on farmers. It's pretty difficult to decipher, but our position is that we don't want an increase in Transatlantic trade when it comes to agriculture. This will only benefit the corporate sector, at the expense of ....
Promoters of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) claim it’s good for all business, but is this really true? The European Commission (EC) and the USA say it will especially help SME businesses (small and medium-sized enterprises), not just multinationals.
Here's a report by the Veblen Institute on the potential effects o ....
ISDS is a legal instrument within international trade treaties that allows corporations to sue elected governments if they introduce legislation that can be shown to be detrimental to the profits of corporations active in their country. So, for example, Egypt has been sued for introducing a minimum wage, Australia and Uruguay for introducing plain ....
It's called Investor-state Dispute Settlement (ISDS), and it's a mechanism whereby corporations can sue governments that introduce legislation that they claim reduce their potential to make profit - for example, requiring plain packaging for cigarettes (Australia and Uruguay sued) or introducing a minimum wage (Egypt sued) or introducing a moratori ....
The Deregulation Bill, proposed by Tory privatiser Oliver Letwin, slipped into law at the end of the last Parliament. It can change all other law, according to criteria of 'growth' ie business interests. It fits perfectly with the EU's deregulatory agenda, and that of TTIP and the other new 'trade' agreements, which have largely come out of the Ci ....
Here is a quiz developed by the wonderful Transnational Institute to test your knowledge of TTIP.
The quiz is intended to increase everyone’s critical knowledge of TTIP, and especially ISDS. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has gained considerable attention last year. The Investor to State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) has ....
Although the UK consumer organisation ‘Which?’ expresses some concerns about TTIP (the US/EU free trade agreement) the organisation’s main message is that TTIP is likely to be good for consumers as it may possibly mean some lower prices.
Generally, the price reduction possibilities in free trade agreements are from reduced tariffs ( ....
I don't know who slipped these anti-TTIP posters onto London Underground trains, but respect to them. If you don't know about TTIP, here's some basic information.
What is TTIP exactly, and what's it for? Interview with the World Development Movement
It's the brainchild of the corporate Empire - a way to transfer more money and power to them a ....
The biggest objection from the European public to the proposed TTIP trade deal (see here if you don't know about it) is that multinational corporations will be able to sue elected governments (national or local) if it can be shown that legislation reduces corporate profits in any way. This could mean legislation for environmental protection, suppor ....
