Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement signed by the United States and 11 other countries, a good deal? Agriculture organizations are encouraging Congress to ratify the agreement that could increase made-in-America exports. [Pat Kopecki| February, 24 2016 |Wilson County News| Groups such as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association say that delaying ratification will cost…
More than 100 state and local governments have introduced or passed resolutions opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In addition, more than 100 resolutions opposing the TPP were passed at recent precinct caucuses in Iowa. [Kenneth Quinnell| February, 18 2016 |AFL-CIO| Leaders like Jon Weissman, secretary-treasurer of the Pioneer Valley AFL-CIO, have condemned TPP while passing the resolutions. On…
President Obama is trying to round up votes in Congress to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership before the end of his term. The White House has made approval of the 12-nation free-trade deal, which took seven years to negotiate, a top priority. But many in Congress and around the country have serious concerns about how…
The CEO of R-CALF USA says meat packers wanted to get rid of Country of Origin Labeling, COOL, because it would not fit in with the Trans Pacific Partnership. He tells Brownfield Ag news, “Unfortunately, Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) was defeated because it conflicts with the goals within the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) free…
Here’s a minor item which may sound like a mere technicality, but it’s emblematic of a larger problem. [Ian Fletcher| February, 25 2016 |Huffington Post| Here’s a minor item which may sound like a mere technicality, but it’s emblematic of a larger problem. Jeff Zients, director of the Obama’s National Economic Council, recently said…
United Technologies, Cardone and Dematic announced recently they will move plants to Mexico cutting 3,700 U.S. jobs. In the week before Valentine’s Day, United Technologies expressed its love for its devoted Indiana employees, workers whose labor had kept the corporation profitable, by informing 2,100 of them at two facilities that it was shipping their factories, their jobs,…
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has slammed China for the devaluation of its tightly-controlled currency, describing the Communist trading giant as one of the “great thefts” of all time. [News Desk| February, 18 2016 |The Hindu] “China has been one of the great thefts of all time, what they’ve done to the United States. We…
A week ago Sunday, one of the two eventual winners of the New Hampshire primaries assailed the power of corporate lobbyists over the U.S. government, labelling them “bloodsuckers.” He attacked defense contractors for forcing the government to buy missiles it didn’t need. He blasted oil companies and insurers. And he vowed to use the…
MSNBC cut away from a live Bernie Sanders press conference this afternoon as the Democratic presidential candidate was talking about his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Watch the cutaway: [Zaid Jilani| February, 22 2016 |The Intercept] “You’ve been listening to Bernie Sanders, less of a press conference, more of a speech. I want to…
Updated: BRUSSELS — In a closed-door meeting with European business representatives here Tuesday (Feb. 23), U.S. chief negotiator Dan Mullaney appeared to back off the administration’s publicly stated goal of concluding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in 2016, leaving open the possibility that the talks would not finish in that timeframe, according to…
