It is hard to understand why any country would choose freely to enter into any treaty or other agreement which involves the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). In the ISDS system, a company can demand Australia pay compensation for law or regulation which they believe hinders their profits. This system of extreme corporate privilege is one of ( Read more... )

TPP means a race to the bottom for food standards and the safety of products.

Deregulation of Food Standards:The TPP has the goal of harmonising domestic policy requirements affecting trade and investment across the countries involved. So how do you harmonize the food or product standards of Vietnam and Australia? Three guesses! The TPP means ( Read more... )

What is the Empire of Chaos?Pepe Escobar has published a book entitled "Empire of Chaos". This is his description of what the world of international politics has become under the current leadership of the USA. He believes that the US has created "a dysfunctional global system now breeding mayhem and blowback across the Greater Middle East into ( Read more... )

In December 2013 Senator Penny Wong wrote an Opinion Piece entitled "TPP Must Not Trade Away Australia's National Interest". Its real purpose is to hide from Labor supporters how the party paved the way for the the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Australia. Her comments about the TPP are just as shameful as the TPP itself. There is no way the ( Read more... )

At the end of this post is a range of current articles on the TPP.

WHAT IS THE TPP?The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is so-called "free trade" agreement being negotiated right now between the US, Australia and several other countries. The US hopes to finalize these negotiations as soon as possible. The most dangerous feature of the agreement ( Read more... )