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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrans-Pacific Trade Talks Resume With Almost No Media Coverage
Shouldnt it be a trade violation to threaten to move someones job to another country? Shouldnt we negotiate trade agreements that increase peoples wages on both sides of a trade border? These are the kinds of agreements we would make if We the People were negotiating trade agreements with representatives of the working people in other countries. Unfortunately that is not the kind of trade agreements that our current trade negotiation process produces.
The secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations resumed this week, this time in Washington. TPP is a massive agreement that sets up new rules for over 40 percent of the global economy. It will have profound effects on our jobs, our standard of living now and in the future and our ability to make a living as a country. Oddly, though, as of Monday morning you have to read about it in Japan Times because few-to-no U.S. media outlets are covering it.
In spite of the lack of American media coverage of this tremendously important agreement, representatives of labor, environmental, family farm, consumer, Internet freedom, public health, faith, human rights and community organizations held a rally Monday outside the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. These organizations represent stakeholders from all countries that are denied a seat at the TPP negotiating table.
Heres what the Japan Times reported, in TPP talks get back underway in Washington:
Chief negotiators from 12 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative resumed negotiations in Washington after their leaders reaffirmed last month they will conclude an agreement as soon as possible.
Media Blackout:
The secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations resumed this week, this time in Washington. TPP is a massive agreement that sets up new rules for over 40 percent of the global economy. It will have profound effects on our jobs, our standard of living now and in the future and our ability to make a living as a country. Oddly, though, as of Monday morning you have to read about it in Japan Times because few-to-no U.S. media outlets are covering it.
In spite of the lack of American media coverage of this tremendously important agreement, representatives of labor, environmental, family farm, consumer, Internet freedom, public health, faith, human rights and community organizations held a rally Monday outside the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. These organizations represent stakeholders from all countries that are denied a seat at the TPP negotiating table.
Heres what the Japan Times reported, in TPP talks get back underway in Washington:
Chief negotiators from 12 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative resumed negotiations in Washington after their leaders reaffirmed last month they will conclude an agreement as soon as possible.
Media Blackout:
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Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Resume With Almost No Media Coverage (Original Post)
Triana
Dec 2014
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TPP not in the unified MSM script? I am SHOCKED...it will be, once they get the spin worked out.
mother earth
Dec 2014
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mother earth
(6,002 posts)1. TPP not in the unified MSM script? I am SHOCKED...it will be, once they get the spin worked out.
Who needs foreign networks for propaganda? We've got it covered, by silence and unified talking points to please the overlords.
When important labor components of a democratic society are denied access to the negotiating table, it speaks volumes.
Yeah, fast tracking for greed & corruption on steriods. The silence of our MSM is deafening and completely telling.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)2. And "The Torture Report"
Focus Distracts from Other Major Issues of Concern for an indefinite period of time.............
WillyT
(72,631 posts)3. K & R !!!
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)4. What? Corporations who control the media & our govt & will benefit from TPP are blacking this out?
It isn't shocking. But it should be.
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)5. ^
Did Colbert bring this up?