Showing posts with label tpp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tpp. Show all posts
08 January 2018

Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2018

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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...
26 July 2014

Has The Copyright War Been Won -- And If So, Are We About To Lose It Again?

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Reading Techdirt, it's all-too-easy to get the impression that copyright is an utter disaster for the public -- with current laws ab...

Why Exactly Do We Need To 'Protect' US And EU Foreign Investments Through TAFTA/TTIP Anyway?

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Techdirt has already examined the issue of corporate sovereignty many times over the past year, as it has emerged as one of the most pro...
25 July 2014

After 20 Years, It's Clear NAFTA Has Failed To Deliver Promised Benefits; So Why Trust TPP, TTIP Will Be Better?

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Both TPP and TAFTA/TTIP are based on the premise that by boosting trade and investment, general prosperity will increase too. And yet, d...

As Yet Another Free Trade Agreement Fails To Deliver, Why Should People Believe USTR's Claims About TPP's Huge Benefits?

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As the US applies more and more pressure to the other nations taking part in the secret TPP negotiations in an attempt to get them to acc...
24 July 2014

Holy See (The Pope) Criticizes TPP And TAFTA/TTIP In WTO Speech

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There's no shortage of critics of massive trade agreements like TPP and TAFTA/TTIP, but today saw strong condemnation from a very un...

Won't Somebody Think Of The Cows? New Zealand On The Brink Of Sacrificing Its Digital Future In TPP Negotiations

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Even before Wikileaks released the full text of TPP's IP chapter, New Zealand's Creative Freedom Foundation had already been gi...

TPP IP Chapter Leaked, Confirming It's Worse Than ACTA

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We've been waiting a long time for a major leak of the secretive TPP agreement, and thanks to Wikileaks, we now finally have it (pdf...

South Africa Plans To Terminate And Renegotiate Treaties That Include Corporate Sovereignty

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Despite the growing evidence that corporate sovereignty clauses in international treaties pose considerable risks to nations that sign...

Australian Government Announces Rare Public Consultation On TPP -- Then Bans All Journalists From Attending

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As Techdirt has noted many times, the TPP negotiations -- like ACTA before them and now TAFTA/TTIP -- are distinguished by an almost co...

TTIP Update VI

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In my previous TTIP update , I reported on an extremely important leak about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), which is the...

TTIP Update V

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Today's update is a little odd, since it's not actually about TAFTA /TTIP, at least not directly. Although the second round is t...
24 November 2013

US Free Trade Agreements Are Bad Not Just For The Economy, But For The Environment, Too

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A couple of months ago, we reported on some interesting research into the reality of US trade agreements, in contrast to the rosy pictu...
23 November 2013

Desperate To Sew Up TPP Negotiations At Any Cost, Politicians Agree All Future Meetings Will Be Completely Secret

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We've been reporting for several years about the extraordinary levels of secrecy surrounding the TPP negotiations, where little info...
27 October 2013

TPP Negotiations Deprive New Zealanders Of Promised Copyright Consultation -- For Secret Reasons

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One of the myths perpetuated by governments taking part in major international treaty negotiations like ACTA, TPP and TAFTA/TTIP is that ...
26 October 2013

Trade Agreements With Mexico And South Korea Turned Out To Be Disasters For US: So Why Pursue TPP And TAFTA/TTIP?

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Two massive trade agreements currently being negotiated -- TPP and TAFTA/TTIP -- could potentially affect most people on this planet, e...

Discontent With Secrecy And One-Sided Nature Of TPP Spreads Among Participating Nations

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Last week Mike wrote how frustration at the unremitting secrecy surrounding TPP, and the refusal to allow members of the public in whos...
19 September 2013

People Begin To Wake Up To Massive Dangers Of Investor-State Dispute Resolution

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Techdirt has been writing about investor-state dispute resolution (ISDR) mechanisms in international trade treaties like TPP and TAFTA/...
18 September 2013

How Investor-State Dispute Resolution Threatens Access To Medicines, And Much Else

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A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the growing importance of investor-state dispute resolution in so-called free trade agreements (F...
20 July 2013

US Demands Transparency Everywhere -- But Only From Everyone Else

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Techdirt has written about the Special 301 report many times, but that's not the only US government publication putting other countr...