TTIP

TTIP and the UK’s Misjudged EU Referendum Debates…

The big, final EU Referendum debate, held at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday night, seemed to do very little but reiterate both camps’ arguments and positions from recent weeks. Aside from giving Boris Johnson his dramatic “Independence Day” moment, both sides of the debate simply continued their same mixture of accusations, evasions and fearmongering. What is remarkable is that, […]

…OH, AND ABOUT THOSE CRACKS IN THE NATO ALLIANCE, LOOK AT WHAT ...

5/5 (8) If you've been a regular reader here, you'll know that one of the things we've been tracking on this website is how American "exceptionalism" and unipolarism have actually been creating a backlash among the…
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The Dangers of Free Trade Agreements: TTIP’s Threat to Europe’s Elderly

By Michael Hudson | CounterPunch | May 11, 2016 The most obvious approach to look at how European care for the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug treatments and other medical science continues to improve. This kind of projection shows a rising […]

Reporters Without Borders – not independent but “strictly linked to US foreign policy”

By Graham Vanbergen | TruePublica | May 4, 2016 Reporters Without Borders has published the latest 2016 report on press freedom where Britain has fallen yet again with the organisation making the following statement about press freedom in Britain: “Terrorist attacks have led to the adoption of draconian security legislation. The government reacted to the London […]