A vote to push through the fast-track legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade bills failed yesterday. 45 senators voted against it, 52 in favor. Obama needed 60 out of the 100 votes for it to pass. The Guardian comments that “Failure to secure so-called ‘fast track’ …
A British reader has asked me about the background of the riots in Baltimore. This is my take: From the 1960’s the lot of the average African American appeared to be improving. But once globalisation began, so began the the collapse of most of the good things done for the community. Baltimore used to be …
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A follow-on from the previous post: Congress has used trade negotiations to solidify Israeli control over Palestinian lands. Boycotts are a constitutionally protected form of free speech, and action to prevent them could be unconstitutional. In any event this legislation puts a chilling effect on efforts in the EU to uphold international law by boycotting …
Jewish Voice For Peace is an American liberal, Jewish organisation whose membership is mostly young. I happen to be a member. JVP reports that Congressional leaders are quietly pushing through fast-track legislation for the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) trade agreements currently being negotiated in secrecy and opposed by …
Looming over the current British election is the fact that a significant proportion of the electorate say they would vote to leave the EU. The British view the EU in a totally different way to those on the Continent. The British still view the EU as a group of sovereign nations that have transferred important …
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