By Isabel Marlens Originally published on the Local Futures blog. Since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I’ve found myself talking for the first time with a lot of my 20-something friends about trade agreements. My friends didn’t vote for...
As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment...
It has been confirmed. The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal is designed to give corporations more power over domestic laws, including environment, labour and other safeguards. This and other revelations about the TPP came forth after Wikileaks...
This article originally appeared on Fast Company on 12th March 2015 Poverty isn’t just a fact of nature. We made it happen, and we can fix it. Written By Jason Hickel, Joe Brewer, and Martin Kirk This is a big year for anyone interested in, or caught in the...
A 103-page document with details of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal’s negotiation has been leaked to the BBC. The document is from the talks between the European Union (EU) and the US, which took place in Brussels in early...
