TTIP

Revolving Door In Office Of U.S. Trade Representative, Part 1

June 1, 2016 Bill Waren, www.medium.com Educate! TISA, TPP, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Bill Waren for Medium - The Obama White House and the Republican leadership in Congress are pushing hard for three massive and environmentally- destructive[2] trade agreements: the Trans Pacific Partnership[3], the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership[4] and the Trade in Services Agreement[5]. These three agreements and similar deals going back to the North American Free Trade Agreement reflect the philosophy and culture of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which assume that many forms of regulation by democratic institutions inhibit global economic growth.[6]

Faith In Big Trade Deals Keeps Crumbling

May 30, 2016 Murray Dobbin, www.informationclearinghouse.info Resist! Trade Deal, TTIP

By Murray Dobbin for Information Clearing House - Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of globalization? May 28, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "The Tyee" - At the height of the battle over the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in the 1980s, full page ads promised the deal would bring "more jobs, better jobs." The ads were expensive, but easily afforded by Canada's 160 largest public corporations, who paid for them as the Business Council on National Issues.

Trade Deals And The Environmental Crisis

May 16, 2016 Rob Urie, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Environment, TPP, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Rob Urie for Counter Punch - With the release of leaked documents from the TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) ‘trade’ deal Greenpeace framed its conclusions more diplomatically than I will: the actions of the U.S. political leadership undertaken at the behest of American corporate ‘leaders’ and their masters in the capitalist class make it among the most profoundly destructive forces in human history. At a time when environmental milestones pointing to irreversible global warming are being reached on a daily basis...

TTIP Talks ‘Likely To Stop’, Signaling France Will Reject Deal

May 4, 2016 Andrew Griffin, www.independent.co.uk Resist! France, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Andrew Griffin for Independent - Talks over the hugely controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement could be about to fail after France threatened to block the deal. Paris officials have said negotiations between the US and EU are "likely to stop" amid significant disagreements between the two sides over the free-trade agreement. President Hollande has said he will "never accept" the deal in its current guise because of the rules it enforces on France and the rest of Europe

Leaked TTIP Documents Cast Doubt On EU-US Trade Deal

May 4, 2016 Arthur Neslen, www.theguardian.com Resist! Europe, Trade Deal, TTIP, United States

By Arthur Neslen for The Guardian - Talks for a free trade deal between Europe and the US face a serious impasse with “irreconcilable” differences in some areas, according to leaked negotiating texts. The two sides are also at odds over US demands that would require the EU to break promises it has made on environmental protection. President Obama said last week he was confident a deal could be reached. But the leaked negotiating drafts and internal positions, which were obtained by Greenpeace and seen by the Guardian, paint a very different picture.

#TTIPleaks: Confidential TTIP Papers Unveil US Position

May 2, 2016 Staff, www.greenpeace.org Educate! Leak, TTIP

By Staff of Green Peace - Brussels, 1 May 2016 – Greenpeace Netherlands has obtained 248 pages of leaked Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts [1], which will be published on Monday 2 May at 11:00 CET. The documents unveil for the first time the US position and deliberate attempts to change the EU democratic legislative process. The classified documents represent more than two-thirds of the overall TTIP text as of April, at the 13th round of TTIP negotiations in New York.

TPP & TTIP Are Bad Enough, But TISA Is Catastrophic

April 27, 2016 Kevin, www.itsecurity.co.uk Educate! TISA, TPP, TTIP

By Kevin for IT Security - The United States dominates the world not because of the strength of its economy but because the US Dollar is the world’s reserve currency, used in almost all major international transactions. This position is primarily maintained by the world’s practice of buying and selling oil in dollars. It means that the US economy doesn’t have to earn its wealth, it can simply print more money knowing the almost every other country in the world will buy those dollars so that they in turn can buy oil.

90,000 Protest Obama: ‘Free Love, Not Free Trade’

April 24, 2016 Jon Queally, www.commonmdreams.org Resist! European Union (EU), Obama, Trade, TTIP

By Jon Queally for CommonDreams. Hannover, Germany - On the eve of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Germany on Saturday to voice emphatic opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement (TTIP), a deal they argue benefits global capitalism and corporate elites at the expense of the public good and local democracy. With a 1960′s “Summer of Love” theme informing the march, many participants grooved under banners reading “Freie Liebe – Statt Freihandel” (Free Love – Not Free Trade) as organizers estimated 90,000 people in attendance. With Obama arriving to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday to push for the deal, the expression of dissent in the city of Hannover matches recent reporting explaining how support for the TTIP has fallen on both sides of the Atlantic.

As Support Plummets, Is EU Moving Closer To Becoming ‘TTIP Free Zone’?

April 22, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! European Union (EU), TTIP

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Intercontinental opposition to the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) continues to grow, with a new poll out Thursday showing that support for the controversial deal has "plummeted" in Germany and the U.S. over the last two years. The survey (pdf), conducted by YouGov for Germany's Bertelsmann Foundation, showed that only 17 percent of Germans believe the corporate-friendly trade agreement is a good thing, down from 55 percent in 2014. Likewise, in the United States, only 18 percent support the deal, compared to 53 percent two years ago...

From TPP To TTIP: Clues To New Food Trade Rules

March 28, 2016 Karen Hansen-Kuhn, www.iatp.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, TPP, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Karen Hansen-Kuhn for IATP - While civil society groups around the world raise a variety of concerns about the substance of free trade agreements, for the most part their criticisms begin with the lack of transparency. Instead of a robust public debate on the merits of the issues under negotiation, civil society groups are forced to rely on bits of leaked text or the evidence of past trade agreements to guess at what might be under negotiation. In the U.S., members of Trade Advisory Committees (which are heavily dominated by corporate advisors) have greater access, but are sworn to secrecy.

TTIP: Big Business And US To Have Major Say In EU Trade Deals

March 19, 2016 Paul Gallagher, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Americas, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Paul Gallagher for Independent - The European Commission will be obliged to consult with US authorities before adopting new legislative proposals following passage of a controversial series of trade negotiations being carried out mostly in secret. A leaked document obtained by campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and the Independent from the ongoing EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations reveals the unelected Commission will have authority to decide in which areas there should be cooperation with the US – leaving EU member states and the European Parliament further sidelined.

EU Promised ExxonMobil TTIP Would Erase Enviro Obstacles

February 25, 2016 Arthur Neslen, www.theguardian.com Educate! European Union (EU), Exxon, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Arthur Neslen for The Guardian - The European Union’s trade commissioner told the multinational oil company ExxonMobil that a major free trade deal being negotiated with the US would help remove obstacles to fossil fuel development in Africa and South America, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal. At a meeting in Brussels in October 2013, Karel de Gucht told the firm that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) could address its concerns about regulations in developing countries that restrict the company’s activities.

Five Reasons Why The TTIP Talks Are Looking A Bit Wobbly

February 23, 2016 Guy Taylor, www.globaljustice.org.uk Resist! Trade Deal, TTIP

By Guy Taylor for Global Justice Now - The twelfth round of negotiations for TTIP, the biggest trade deal of them all, starts today in Brussels. The impacts of TTIP are disturbing and well documented elsewhere on this site, but we are seeing signs of panic setting in on the pro-TTIP side of the fence. They’re right to panic. 1) TTIP is hugely behind schedule. It should have been signed off by now, and well into the ‘legal scrubbing’ stage where the lawyers tie up the legal loose ends and smooth of the rough edges. These negotiations are not open ended...

TTIP Negotiations Blockaded By Activists From Seven Countries

February 23, 2016 Staff, www.greenpeace.org Resist! Protests, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Staff of Greenpeace - The protesters warned that TTIP – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement – is a threat for democracy, environmental protection, health standards and working conditions. Greenpeace calls for an immediate end to TTIP negotiations. Thirty activists from seven countries [1] chained themselves at the entrances of a conference centre where the meeting was due to take place. Some activists climbed the front of the building to deploy a large banner depicting a ‘dead-end’ road sign that read: “TTIP: dead end trade deal”.

TTIP Will Not Be Finished While Obama Is President

February 20, 2016 John Brinkley, www.forbes.com Educate! Barack Obama, TTIP

By John Brinkley for Forbes - The Obama administration has all but given up on a trade agreement with the European Union. Negotiations on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership continue, but the administration is so invested in saving its other free trade agreement – the Trans-Pacific Partnership – that it has punted the T-TIP to the next administration. “I do not believe that we’re going to reach a T-TIP agreement before the president leaves office,”

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