What will TTIP Mean for Food and Climate?

By Vicki Hird, Food Climate Research Network

A trade treaty between the US and EU, which represents around a third of global trade, should be big news. And rightly so.

Fast-tracking TiSA: Stealth Block to Monetary Reform

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt

If money is just an IOU, why are we delivering the exclusive power to create it to an unelected, unaccountable, non-transparent private banking monopoly?

Obama’s Trade Agreements are a Gift to Corporations

By Robert Kuttner, Common Dreams

On Thursday, legislation moved forward that would give President Obama authority to negotiate two contentious trade deals: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Why Public Banks Outperform Private Banks: Unfair Competition or a Better Mousetrap?

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt blog

Public banks in North Dakota, Germany and Switzerland have been shown to outperform their private counterparts.

Local Economies on the Table

By Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

The EU is seeking a massive expansion of local governments compelled to open their procurement contracts to bids from EU firms, perhaps even the unconditional access achieved in the EU-Canada trade deal. No U.S. trade agreement to date has included such broad coverage of public procurement commitments.

Tar sands, trade rules and the gutting of human rights for corporate profit

By Patrick Tsai, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

A new report released today from IATP takes an in-depth look at how tar sands have developed from an unconventional, inefficient energy source to the spotlight of the corporate agenda as conventional oil supplies dwindle.