The Stop TTIP coalition is warning that under a 'stealth clause' in CETA the trade deal could come into force without a single parliamentary vote - including its ISDS provisions allowing investors to sue governments in secret courts. US corporations would then be able to sue EU nations - even if TTIP fails.
… CETA Canada-EU 'free trade' deal could come into … Oliver Tickell | 15th April 2016 News EU US Canada Trade Russia Corporations Finance … TTIP colation warned today that the CETA, the Canada-EU Trade Agreement, could come into …
The TTIP EU-US trade deal has finally hit the rocks with massive popular opposition on both sides of the Atlantic gaining serious political traction, write Guy Taylor & Nick Dearden. There's now a good chance that TTIP will be defeated - but first we must make sure that CETA, the equally toxic EU-Canada 'Trojan Horse' deal, bites the dust.
… Dearden | 4th May 2016 Comment Trade EU US Canada Politics Corporations … make sure that CETA, the equally toxic EU-Canada 'Trojan Horse' deal, bites the dust. … been moving rapidly last week on CETA, an EU-Canada 'free trade' deal similar to TTIP …
The latest country to be hooked under 'free trade' agreements is Colombia, writes Pete Dolack, sued for tens of billions of dollars by US and Canadian gold mining companies for valuing its national parks and the high-altitude Andean wetlands that provide 70% of the nation's water above the profits of foreign corporations. Free trade or clean water? You can't have both.
… 14th April 2016 News Colombia Mining Trade US Canada Water Conservation Corporations … government because of this under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. The … "energy and other" products imported to Canada to be C$280 million. The World Bank …
The leaked chapters of the EU-US TTIP 'free trade' deal reveal a shredding of health, environmental and other protections for consumers and citizens, writes Pete Dolack. It's a wet dream for corporate monopolists and profiteers, and the elite bureaucrats that serve them. But for civil society it represents an irreversible destruction of democracy itself.
… countries with stronger regulations, such as Canada under the North American Free Trade … in which a tribunal, in ordering that Canada reverse a ban against PCBs, a …
New analysis of the vast body of research shows 97% of climate scientists agree that human activities are fuelling climate change, writes Tim Radford. But thanks to aggressive attempts to convince us otherwise, only 12% of people in the US are aware of this high level of agreement.
… in Australia, and colleagues from the US, Canada and Europe report in Environmental …
One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal, writes Bill McKibben. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
… plans in the Gulf of Mexico, eastern Canada, Indonesia, Australia, the Russian far … future wish list, including the tar sands of Canada, a particularly carbon-filthy, …
There are many good reasons to criticise Donald Trump, writes John McMurtry. But none of these matter to the US media, political and corporate powers determined to keep him out of the White House. With his radical talk of halving military spending, controlling Big Pharma and exiting 'free trade' agreements, Trump is a direct threat to the parasite capitalism that's destroying America.
… McMurtry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada whose work is translated from Latin …