I have written a lot about the Investor State Dispute Settlement courts that make up a central tenet of the Trans Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements. These extra-national courts effectively give corporations a new legal system to protect their interests that has no accountability to nations or peoples, no access for those peoples to defend themselves, and no system so that citizens can even know what is going on in them. Corporations can use them to protect their profits so that if a nation passes a law that could affect future profits, the companies can use the ISDS courts to sue for future profits lost. That could mean that minimum wage laws, anti-mining regulations, protections for forests, pollution regulations, etc., could be effectively overturned. And given the power dynamics involved in the world, it’s going to be western companies going after developing world nation laws more often than not. These courts have been around for a long time, but they are growing more powerful today. There are two recent pieces of journalism exploring the many problems with the ISDS courts.
Showing posts with label Trans Pacific Partnership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trans Pacific Partnership. Show all posts
Friday, September 02, 2016
The dangers of the TPP
Erik Loomis of Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Gadgets, Gaza, and Good Grief, Oklahoma!
Masai rebel woman fighting for women's rights.
How bad it actually is in Gaza.
Gadgets that are listening to you, a little too well.
It's snowing on the east coast. That's that white stuff you see in the pictures. And an explanation on why it is so cold.
Women's reproductive rights the worst it has ever been since Roe v Wade.
Robert Reich: This Very Bad Deal Will Make Wall Street Richer and Bust the Rest of America The truth about the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Oklahoma decides it doesn't like history unless it lies.
What religious fanaticism will do to women's rights if carried to the logical end. And Men's Rights activist isn't any better. And what 50 shades of crap does to relationships. Update: and more.
Jeb Bush is using the same people that Georgie did for foreign policy. Remember, Jeb was an original signer of the PNAC. I'd like to see him explain that away.
A star hit and run with our solar system 70,000 years ago.
Our presidents.
How bad it actually is in Gaza.
Gadgets that are listening to you, a little too well.
It's snowing on the east coast. That's that white stuff you see in the pictures. And an explanation on why it is so cold.
Women's reproductive rights the worst it has ever been since Roe v Wade.
Robert Reich: This Very Bad Deal Will Make Wall Street Richer and Bust the Rest of America The truth about the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Oklahoma decides it doesn't like history unless it lies.
What religious fanaticism will do to women's rights if carried to the logical end. And Men's Rights activist isn't any better. And what 50 shades of crap does to relationships. Update: and more.
Jeb Bush is using the same people that Georgie did for foreign policy. Remember, Jeb was an original signer of the PNAC. I'd like to see him explain that away.
A star hit and run with our solar system 70,000 years ago.
Our presidents.
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