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US defense secretary threatens Russia and China

Patrick Martin — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 05:01:59 +0000

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter delivered a pointed warning of future wars Saturday in an address to a forum at the Reagan Library in southern California. The reckless and provocative character of the Pentagon chief’s speech is underscored by the targets of his saber-rattling: Russia, with the world’s second largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and China with the third.

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The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History

Chris Hedges — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:49:46 +0000

These three agreements solidify the creeping corporate coup d’état along with the final evisceration of national sovereignty. Citizens will be forced to give up control of their destiny and will be stripped of the ability to protect themselves from corporate predators, safeguard the ecosystem and find redress and justice in our now anemic and often dysfunctional democratic institutions.

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Vietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassal (1975-2015)

Prof. James Petras — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:13:08 +0000

The main beneficiaries of its vassalage are the Vietnamese collaborators, intermediaries, importers, exporters and labor contractors, who receive legal and illicit commissions for selling out the nation’s wealth.

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The Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared

Jeremy Malcolm — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:40:23 +0000

If you look for provisions in the TPP that actually afford new benefits to users, rather than to large, rights-holding corporations, you will look in vain. The TPP is the archetype of an agreement that exists only for the benefit of the entitled, politically powerfully lobbyists who have pushed it through to completion over the last eight years.

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The US Strategy to Create a New Global Legal and Economic System: TPP, TTIP, TISA

WikiLeaks — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:23:27 +0000

The TPP is the forerunner to the equally secret US-EU pact TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), for which President Obama initiated US-EU negotiations in January 2013. Together, the TPP and TTIP will cover more than 60 per cent of global GDP. Both pacts exclude China.

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic

jimmy — Wed, 27 May 2015 18:21:50 +0000

Under the TPP, could the US government be sued and be held liable if it decided to stop issuing Treasury debt and financed deficit spending in some other way (perhaps by quantitative easing or by issuing trillion dollar coins)? Why not, since some private companies would lose profits as a result?

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Why Public Banks Outperform Private Banks: Unfair Competition or a Better Mousetrap?

jimmy — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:49:13 +0000

Public banks in North Dakota, Germany and Switzerland have been shown to outperform their private counterparts. Under the TPP and TTIP, however, publicly-owned banks on both sides of the oceans might wind up getting sued for unfair competition because they have advantages not available to private banks.

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