1. All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   The release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
2. Beyond Banksters
   Resisting the New Feudalism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2016
   Beyond Banksters explores how the powers of the Bank of Canada were appropriated in the 1970s, resulting in billions of dollars in public debt. From Milton Friedman to Justin Trudeau's Canada Infrastructure Bank, from BlackRock to crappy trade deals to Bilderberg, Nelson exposes the major players privatizing the world and creating a new state of feudalism. Icelanders resisted. Nelson says Canada must too.
3. Canada After Harper
   His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2015
   Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 3
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1976
   
5. The Case Against Ratifying the TPP
   The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   
6. Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
7. The Creation of World Poverty
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1983
   Hayter challenges the assumption that the West is 'helping' the rest of the world to develop. Far from rescuing the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their supposed backwardness, the rich countries have accumulated vast wealth at their expense.
8. Earning a Profit from Global Warming
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   As evidence mounts that a warming world is hurtling toward the point of no return, the plan of the world's governments is to make adjustments to the ability of corporations to profit from polluting. Short-term profits continue to be elevated above the long-term health of the environment.
9. GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
   
10. Here's how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Documenting the corruption of the U.S. political system.
11. The Lie Machine
    The Media and the TTIP
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests. Consider, for example, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnership.
12. NAFTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    According to a new study, Canada is the most-sued country under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a majority of the disputes involve investors challenging the country's environmental laws.
13. Netizen Report: Rights at Risk Under Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement may soon become reality after years of high-level trade deliberations that have been held almost entirely behind closed doors.
14. The New Protectionism
    Protecting the Future Against Free Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    This book analyses the powers behind the free trade argument to present an outline of what a viable and more just future could be.
15. OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
16. On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
17. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
    Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
18. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
    Elections
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
19. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2015
    Corporate rights treaties
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Our focus is on the corporate rights treaties that are misleadingly sold as trade agreements. In particular, the spotlight is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The TPP is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy.
20. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
    Conflict of interest
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
21. Private Profits vs Public Policy
    The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    According to Joel Lexchin, "Given the central role that medicines play in keeping us healthy, it is essential that we understand the policy environment that governs drug development, from the initial basic research to the sale of the manufactured produces to the patients that use them."
22. Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public's rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.
23. Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana.
24. Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
25. Scenes From a Wonderful Parade Against the TPP
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A quarter of a million people protested against the "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership", TTIP, and its equally spurned Canadian sister, CETA.
26. Time for a national conversation on TPP's Investment Chapter
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Now that the legal text of the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) has been released it is time for a national discussion to begin. The new Liberal government has announced that there will be a 'full and open public debate in Parliament' regarding its terms. Much of the controversy has turned on questions of supply management and the auto sector. Yet there is much more in this pact that is not about trade and this includes conferring upon foreign investors special rights, many of which are well beyond those available under Canadian law. For investors making their home in TPP signatory countries outside of Canada, they are entitled to sue Canada for damages when their rights are adversely affected.
27. Top 5 Reasons Eaters should be Worried about Obama's New Trade Deal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a wide-ranging deal that would expand corporate rights across member states to the detriment of worker rights, the environment, and public health.
28. TPP a Gift to Plutocrats? Canada's Trade Minister Wrote the Book on Them
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Canada's new trade minister has sitting on her desk the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal some say will accelerate the gap between rich and poor by protecting corporations' interests over those of workers and governments.
29. TPP: Big Pharma's Big Deal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    We still don't know all the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal tentatively agreed to on Oct. 5 by negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries, but already critics are slamming it for many reasons, including its generous concessions to the pharmaceutical industry.
30. TPP is "Worst Trade Agreement" for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries, said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement following the signing of the TPP trade deal.
31. TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week.
32. TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens all users' ability to access information and participate in culture and innovation online, but it's especially severe for those with disabilities or who otherwise depend on content in accessible formats. That's because it doubles down on broken policies that were heavily lobbied for by Hollywood and other major publishers that impede the distribution of accessible works.
33. Trade agreements and the corporate war on democracy
    Introduction to the November 7, 2015 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy. It gives corporations the power to block any environmental protections or health and safety legislation that could be interpreted as interfering with a corporation's 'right' to make a profit by doing whatever it wants.
34. Transpacific Partnership and Monsanto
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history, both in economic size and the ability to quietly add more countries in addition to those originally included.
35. TTIP: the Corporate Empowerment Act
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. "Free trade" is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
36. Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal -- Help Us Tell Washington How You Feel
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Trade negotiators from the U.S. and its 11 Pacific Rim partners announced their agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) today, concluding the final round of closed negotiations in Atlanta and marking the culmination of seven years of secrecy.
37. We're not having it! $15bn KXL lawsuit shows what's wrong with 'trade deals'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    TransCanada has just made a big mistake by bringing its $15 billion lawsuit against the US government for refusing the Keystone XL pipeline, writes Sam Cossar-Gilbert. The move has exposed the real nature of 'trade deals' like TTIP and TPP - and why all democrats must rally to defeat them.
38. What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational agreement that, among other things, threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement.
39. Wikileaks releases 'largest trove of docs exposing secret TiSA trade deal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    WikiLeaks has published 17 secret documents related to a controversial trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors between the US, EU and over 20 WTO members.
40. Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.
41. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
42. The World Trade Organization
    A Citizen's Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Shrybman argues that the WTO not only aggravates envrionmental and social problems, but takes away the tools that governments need to address them.
43. 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On issues ranging from climate change to food safety, from open Internet to access to medicines, the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a disaster.

Experts on International Trade Agreements in the Sources Directory

1. CorpWatch
2. Union of South American Nations