FT: The flaws in the geopolitical case for the TPP

As the Trans-Pacific Partnership does or doesn’t approach completion, arguments for and against have had another airing, including the contention that the deal is worth doing for foreign policy reasons to enhance the US’s geopolitical standing in Asia. [Reposted from The Financial Times  |  Alan Beattie  |  March 25, 2015] This is an appealing fall-back…

AG Partners: Challenging Trade Statistics

  WASHINGTON (DTN) — Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a vigorous opponent of granting President Barack Obama trade promotion authority, lashed out Thursday at USDA officials over the administration’s use of export statistics to convince members of Congress to support trade agreements. [Reposted from AG Partners LLC  |   Jerry Hagstrom  |  March 20, 2015] At a House…

Sonoma County Gazette: Do NOT Fast Track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement

Despite his inspirational speeches about helping the middle class, President Obama is poised to outsource more well-paying American jobs and irretrievably subvert our democracy and national sovereignty to corporate interests, by ramming through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement. Even scarier, our Congress is poised to give him the right to do so, if…