5/5 (11) Last Thursday I blogged about the increasing opposition in Europe to the sanctions regime on Russia, and on the increasing role of France in leading European opposition to the diktats of Washington and the…
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The monstrous Siamese twin of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has been in a growing puddle of dispute after 248 pages of its content were leaked.
Huge leak of TTIP documents could spell end of the disastrous trade deal.
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OBL tweaks, TTIP leaks and propaganda reeks + this day in history w/'The Scream' and our song of the day by The Relatives on your Morning Monarchy for May 2, 2016.
Sputnik | April 15, 2016 A Dutch petition demanding another referendum – this time on the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the European Union and the United State – has gone past the 100,000 mark and is rapidly gaining support. People in the Netherlands delivered a blow to the European Union last week […]
By Guy Taylor | TruePublica | February 26, 2016 The twelfth round of negotiations for TTIP, the biggest trade deal of them all, started this week in Brussels. The impacts of TTIP are disturbing and well documented elsewhere on this site, but we are seeing signs of panic setting in on the pro-TTIP side of […]
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A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.
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This is a new geopolitical war, taking place between the United States and China.
The rise of the so-called BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, along with countless other emerging economies, means that global power relations are gradually tipping away from the Anglo-American Axis, and towards Eurasia.
The longest-running set of polls ever undertaken in the UK, which has been ongoing for over thirty years has been on trust in key professions with Ipsos MORI conducting surveys on the subject since 1983. Their surveys consistently show that public trust in politicians has always been low: at no point since 1983 have more than a quarter of the public ever trusted politicians to tell the truth. The lowest trust score was recorded in 2009 in the wake of the expenses scandal, when only 13% said they trusted politicians. Clearly, there must be a deception going on in our democracy.
By Katja Kipping | CounterPunch | February 12, 2016 TTIP, the EU-US free trade deal, has secrecy written all over it. Those responsible for it live in dread of any public scrutiny. If it was up to me, I would give everyone who’s interested the chance to make up their own minds on the text […]
