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The TPP is just the latest step in a dangerous march towards a global corporate oligarchy.The post 12 Nations Agree to Deal on Controversial TPP in Atlanta appeared first on The Anti-Media.

I was happy for the U.K. last week when I read that the newly elected leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, had selected two of the world's most brilliant economists as advisers, Thomas Piketty and Joseph Stiglitz.

Coincidentally, a deal was reached early Monday morning.The post Did Obama Bomb Doctors Without Borders for Opposing TPP? appeared first on The Anti-Media.

They have not heeded our calls to be transparent about what the negotiating framework is and what they are prepared to sacrifice.
— Andrew Thompson, NDP candidate, Toronto, September 26, 2015

Despite widespread opposition from the entire political spectrum, TPP negotiators are meeting this week to finalize the deal.The post TPP Negotiators Meeting This Week to Finalize Corporate Trade Deal appeared first on The Anti-Media.

The White House has been pushing for a fight with China ever since Obama announced his so-called ‘pivot to Asia’
Step by step, Washington is inexorably setting up a major provocation against China. Until now, the Obama regime tightened a military encirclement of China, expanding its armed forces agreements with Japan, the Philippines and Australia. In addition, it has promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a regional trade agreement which openly excludes China.

You know who else is coming off to the left of Hillary on economic issues besides Bernie?The imitation "college," later "university," that Jerry Falwell founded in Lynchburg, VA, in 1971 as Lynchburg Baptist College, from 1984 "Liberty University," has long had politicians come by as part of its brainwashing program, with the expected fare being sociopaths like Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, Michele Bachmann, Ted Cruz, Clarence Thomas, Trey Gowdy, Ri

It was amusing to see Peter Baker refer to the Democratic Party legislators’ threat to President Obama’s possible “legacy” of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), often described in the media as a “free trade” agreement, although Baker here makes it only a “trade: deal” (“A Trade Deal And a Legacy,” New York Times, June 15, 2015).

By Bill Blunden | CounterPunch | July 20, 2015 “We are under pressure from the Treasury to justify our budget, and commercial espionage is one way of making a direct contribution to the nation’s balance of payments” – Sir Colin McColl, former MI6 Chief For years public figures have condemned cyber espionage committed against the […]

Some might think it strange for a country founded on a proposition of equality to send so much aid to regimes that are doing everything they can to disfigure it. Of course, slipping on one’s Orwellian eye wear, it makes perfect sense. Freedom is Slavery, not just in Oceania. And that is the proper perspective in which to digest the perversity of market incentives in three specific areas: foreign aid, defense contractor stocks, and—that bête noire of peace—the stock price of oil companies.