Entries tagged with tpp

Entry tags:

politics,
politics/us,
tpp,
trade

This should be bigger news than it will be

The shoe company New Balance accuses the feds of blackmailing them to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership by threatening to ban them from federal contracts if they stated their opposition to it.

Entry tags:

politics,
tpp

Wikileaks claims the TPP is dead. Is it?

Wikileaks has announced:

TPP fails after scandal over US spying on Japan's trade negotiators

This conclusion is not supported by the story they link to, so it is not clear where they are getting this information. Maybe Wikileaks is spying on the Japanese.

Also: David Sirota claims that Hillary Clinton was "deeply involved" in promoting the TPP.

Entry tags:

censorship,
politics,
reddit,
tpp

Meanwhile on Reddit...

Also: "You will now be banned from /r/news (and /r/wtf, for some reason) for even trying to post a TPP story." And the user reporting this was shadowbanned from Reddit.