TPP Negotiators Meeting This Week To Finalize Corporate Trade Deal

For those who have been actively resisting the TPP and spreading awareness about the dangers involved in this massive corporate agreement, the coming weeks may represent the final stages of that battle.

Derrick Broze
By Derrick Broze
Members of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) with leaders from other nations. (Photo by Gobierno de Chile via Flikr)

(ANTIMEDIA) On September 26, a meeting between negotiators from all 12 nations involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will commence in Atlanta, Georgia. The meeting will run through September 30, followed by two days of meetings with trade ministers. The Atlanta meetings come on the heels of a joint meeting in San Francisco that included

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‘Monsanto’s Dream Bill’: DARK Act And Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Keep Consumers Ignorant

The controversial TPP trade deal could destroy the efforts of some states to mandate labelling of foods with GMO ingredients, while a bill moving through Congress has a similar goal.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
A woman attends a protest against genetically-modified foods as she holds a banner which reads: "No GMO!

WASHINGTON --- It’s called the Safe and Accurate Food Labelling Act of 2015, or H.R. 1599, but activists and supporters of GMO labelling might know it better as the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, or DARK Act -- a nickname it got because it would destroy state efforts to mandate GMO labelling on foods containing ingredients from genetically

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Congress Shuts Down Obama On Controversial Trade Bill

“Slow down the fast track to get a better deal for the American people.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a news conference at the G-7 summit

WASHINGTON  — The House derailed a high-profile trade bill on Friday in a humiliating defeat for President Barack Obama inflicted by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and dozens of union-backed lawmakers from his own party. The 302-126 vote left the legislation in perilous limbo, and came not long after Obama journeyed to the Capitol with a

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Wikileaks Offers $100K ‘Bounty’ On Complete Text Of Secretive TPP Trade Deal

Obama is fighting both grassroots activism and opposition within his own party as he tries to force through the controversial trade deal.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell

LONDON --- WikiLeaks has announced a new crowdfunded “prize” for leaking chapters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a controversial trade deal, shrouded in secrecy, that Congress is expected to consider soon. Wikileaks released three other parts of the TPP, including the chapter on intellectual property, a chapter on the environment and memos

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Labor Unions, Business Lobby Clash Over Obama’s Bid For TPP “Fast Track” Authority

Rather than building support and momentum for fast track, introduction of the fast-track bill seems to have had the opposite effect of galvanizing opposition and spurring mobilization against it.

Kevin Zeese
Margaret Flowers
By Kevin Zeese
And Margaret Flowers
Major labor unions and business groups clashed Tuesday over President Barack Obama's bid for "fast track" authority to advance trade deals being negotiated with numerous nations. TAFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, right, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue prepare to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2015, before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Obama's bid for "fast track" authority to advance trade deals being negotiated with numerous nations. in shaping trade deals.

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, right, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue prepare to testify in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2015, before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Obama's bid for "fast track" authority to advance trade deals being negotiated with numerous nations. WASHINGTON --- The fast track debate is

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As TPP Opposition Soars, Corporate Media Blackout Deafening

Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership—dubbed ‘NAFTA on steroids’—is receiving unprecedented popular opposition and nearly no news coverage by major outlets.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

Last week, more than 550 groups, representing tens of millions of individual members, signed a letter to members of Congress urging them to vote against a push by President Obama for 'fast track' authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a so-called "free trade" now under negotation between the U.S. and eleven other Pacific rim nations. The

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