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Get Ready to Call ‘Em Out On the TPP!
So, on May 22, the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) (“Fast Track”) Bill passed the Senate 62 – 37, with 14 Democrats defecting to the pro-Fast TracK/Trade-Pacific Partnership (TPP) forces. However, all was not wine and roses for the Administration and … Continue reading
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TPP: Call ‘Em Out In the House, Now!
In a previous post, I discussed the likelihood that the Fast-Track bill, if it passed the House, would need to return to the Senate again to align the different bills produced by the two Houses. I focused on the importance … Continue reading
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TPP: The Fascism Issue
If the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement will, if implemented, and as I’ve argued elsewhere, result in the death of national and state sovereignty, constitutional separation of powers, and democracy, then what system and what principles will replace these things? Eric … Continue reading
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Tagged autarky, command economy, congress, consent of the governed, fascism, Fast Track Authority, ideology, investor state dispute settlement, ISDS, ISDS tribunals, MMT, modern money theory, national sovereignty, separation of powers, state sovereignty, totalitarianism, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast/Track/TPP: The Death of National Sovereignty, State Sovereignty, Separation of Powers, and Democracy
Most of the critical attention given to the Fast Track Trade Agreement legislation and to the associated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Congressional – Executive Agreement on mainstream corporate media and by politicians and establishment interest groups interacting with them in the … Continue reading
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Ridiculing Concerns About TPP Tyranny
People who support the Administration’s efforts on the TPP have been known to reply to my posts on this subject by attempting to ridicule the scenarios I’ve presented as possible under the TPP Agreement as “out there” speculation of the … Continue reading
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Obama & TPP: Every One That Doeth Evil Hateth the Light
By William K. Black Quito: April 25, 2015 President Obama wants the world to know that he takes it personally that the Democratic Party’s base opposes his latest effort to sell out the people of the world to the worst corporations … Continue reading
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The New York Times Covers the TPP: A Commentary
Wikileaks did us all another service yesterday by releasing the “Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP): Investment Chapter Consolidated Text,” and collaborating with the New York Times to get the word out. Jonathan Weisman wrote the story for the New York Times. … Continue reading
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Vanity of Vanities; All is Vanity: Obama’s Vain Search for a TPP “Legacy”
By William K. Black Bloomington, MN: January 8, 2015 The banksters have given Obama an important political opportunity – which he has spurned. The very first thing the new Republican majorities sought to do with their power was to use the … Continue reading
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The TPP: A Dangerous Proposal Whose Time Has Gone
By Joe Firestone A recent, very good post at Naked Capitalism by Clive, suggests: . . . Dear readers, you may think that writing to your elected representative, commenting negatively on articles you read in the mainstream media about the … Continue reading
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Tom Friedman Just Noticed that the UK “Has Gone Mad” (Part 1)
By William K. Black April 11, 2019 Bloomington, MN Part 7a of the MMT Series Tom Friedman’s April 2, 2019 column concluded “The United Kingdom Has Gone Mad.” To which, the only possible response is – ‘you just noticed?’ The … Continue reading