Obama and the true nature of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Republican front-runner Donald Trump‘s warning against the “false song of globalism” strikes a sharply different note than President Obama did in his recent performance in London. [Curtis Ellis| May 2, 2016 |The Hill] Obama has provided further evidence that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) more closely resembles a scheme for international governance like the European Union rather…

The TTIP and TPP trade deals: enough of the secrecy

It’s amazing how just a little transparency forced onto the free trade deals the Obama administration been negotiating in secret totally turns the public against them. [Trevor Timm| May 4, 2016 |The Guardian] After the contents of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and the European Union was leaked and published by Greenpeace a…

Top Five Reasons Obama is Wrong on TPP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 4, 2016 Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145 ext 2, [email protected] President Barack Obama penned a Washington Post op-ed yesterday outlining a flimsy case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. The TPP is currently on life support due to a voter revolt against trade and global governance deals.  Presidents Clinton and Bush also pushed…

R-CALF TO SUE USDA AGAIN OVER BEEF CHECKOFF

A group of cattle ranchers are going to court again to challenge the Agriculture Department’s oversight of the beef checkoff program, this time arguing that it should be promoting only U.S. beef, our Ian Kullgren reports. In a complaint to be filed in a Montana federal court today, R-CALF USA will argue that its members…

TPP: The Outcast

There was a time not so long ago when trade agreements weren’t considered a “topic of interest” for the general American public. Occasionally, a reporter would cover the subject, only to continue the “free trade is good” rhetoric. If a person was against a “free trade agreement,” that person was considered a protectionist and an…

Greenpeace Leaks U.S.-E.U. Trade Deal Documents

LONDON — The Dutch chapter of the environmental activist group Greenpeace leaked on Monday a trove of documents from the talks over a proposed trade deal between the European Union and the United States. [Sewell Chan| May 2, 2016 |The New York Times] The documents, Greenpeace said, showed that American trade negotiators had pressed their European counterparts to loosen important environmental,…