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Acronym TV - Think Corporate Personhood is Bad? The TPP Will Give Us Corporate Nationhood
Leading activist and anti-TPP campaigner Kevin Zeese talks about the battle that still remains to defeat the TPP, Hillary Clinton's reversal on the deal, and the long trail of lies told by President Obama's Trade Rep Michael Froman.
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Act Out! [32] - The Sound of Science, Divest for Our future, Trade 4 People & Scream at Me
This week, it's about time we hear about climate change – but really hear it.
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A Spoilt Deal: How a Dispute Over Dairy Helped Sidetrack the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The dispute between Canada and New Zealand hinges on Canada's supply management system, which features high tariffs on imports and no subsidies for farmers, keeping the price of Canada's milk products high while New Zealand's are low.
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Why Global Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Keeps Growing, and Growing
Over the past month, trade officials have been frantically working to resolve outstanding disagreements over provisions in the TPP in the midst of speculation that the deal is in deep trouble.
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Corporate Lobbying Costs Hit $380 Million In 9 Months Pushing Pacific Trade Deal
Washington lobbying by companies and groups involved in global trade boomed in the past nine months.
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U.S.-European Corporate Maneuvers: When Privacy Becomes A Barrier to Economic Growth
With all eyes focused on Greece, the European parliament has quietly passed a non-binding resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a damning corporate trade pact between Europe and the U.S.
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Question to Lawmakers: Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Unconstitutional?
Obama and Congress need to explain how the Constitution allows the United States to submit the validity of its federal, state and local laws to "corporate tribunals" with no possibility of U.S. court review.
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People's Anti-Mining Struggle in El Salvador Highlights The Perils of Global Trade Deals
Here is the story of how free trade agreements like the TPP pave the way for transnational corporate plunder – by establishing legal protections for companies to pollute with impunity, then get a big pay-out afterwards.
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G7 Protesters Unite In Opposition to Transatlantic Trade Deal
The massive police presence was a show of political power and a suppression of political protest.
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Final Phase In the Battle To Stop Rigged Corporate Trade
The movement against rigged corporate trade is going to have to escalate its campaign if we are to hold the majority and stop Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.