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US government agency's own numbers predict virtually no gains from TPP
The United States International Trade Commission, "an independent, bipartisan, quasi-judicial, federal agency of the United States that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive...
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Corbyn pledges to kill TTIP if elected
TTIP is the farcically secretive, insanely corrupt trade agreement that the US and EU negotiated behind closed doors in parallel with the faltering Trans-Pacific Partnership. (more…)
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Appeals court: FCC has jurisdiction to impose net neutrality on ISPs
The Federal District Appeals Court has upheld the FCC's jurisdiction to impose net neutrality rules on telcos, leaving intact last year's landmark FCC ruling prohibiting carriers from downgrading the...
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Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine kicks off tour to fight the TPP
Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive, secretive deal that poses a serious threat to human rights, the environment, and your Internet freedom. But...
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Canadian trade policy expert calls TPP a "threat to democracy"
Gus Van Harten is a law professor at York University's Osgoode Hall and a well-respected expert on trade law; he's published a damning report on the Trans Pacific Partnership deal. (more…)
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Brexit: a timeline of the coming slow-motion car-crash
Charlie Stross is in excellent form this morning about the likely outcomes from last night's Brexit vote, hitting all the highlights: collapse of the finance sector when Euro-denominated derivatives...
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Post-Brexit, EU Commission plan to ram through disastrous Canada-EU trade...
CETA -- the "Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement" is a secretly negotiated deal between Canada and the EU, mirroring many of the most controversial provisions in notorious deals like ACTA, TPP,...
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Rock Against the TPP: coming to a town near you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKGRYypHogo&feature=youtu.be Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Hey Internet! How about some good news for a change? A bunch of awesome musicians, actors, and...
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Bernie Sanders' Democratic National Convention speech
A sustained and rousing standing ovation for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, tonight. (more…)
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Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calls Apple's tax strategy a "fraud"
2001 Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz has a long history of being on the right side of history. For example: pricing the Iraq war at $3T; raising the alarm about sovereign wealth funds...
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Brigadier General: TPP is a threat to America's national security
Retired Brigadier General John Adams served for 30 years, including a stint as a military intelligence officer: in an op-ed in The Hill, he says that while he supports trade deals, the secretive Trans...
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Watch: Artists and celebrities expose the TPP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ugC4NG1Zoc Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "What do comedian Hari Kondabolu, Lost star Evangeline Lilly, a Navajo punk band, and one of the dudes from...
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Scorched Star Trek:TOS redshirts
These full-sublimation Star Trek redshirts allow you to LARP an expendable security team-member who's met a horrible end, or a character in an existential John Scalzi comedy: they're $33.88 at Stylin...
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Today is the day to call Congress about the TPP [PLEASE SHARE!]
Even though both parties' presidential candidates say they oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership -- the secretly negotiated "trade" deal that lets corporations sue governments to repeal their...
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Black Lives Matter declares its opposition to TPP
It's been one year since the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership was finally released after years of extreme, tragicomic secrecy. (more…)
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White identity and sexism gave Trump the electoral college
No matter what apologists who would normalize the threat a Trump Administration represents may tell you, no one incidentally voted for the KKK's Presidential candidate because of his attractive...
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Donald Trump's 100 day plan: the good, the bad, and the terrifying
On Naked Capitalism, Gaius Publius parses through Donald Trump's "100-day action plan" (just the public parts, not the parts leaked by the bumbler Trump wants to put in charge of the DHS), and calls...
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Donald Trump didn't kill the TPP - activism did
Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Ding dong! The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead. Most news articles say the cause of death was simple: the election of Donald Trump. But they've only got...
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Boing Boing Gift Guide: Toys and more!
Enjoy the third and final part of this year's gift guide: toys! Also included are everything else that doesn't quite fit into our picks among the books and gadgets to enchant and enwonderize us in...
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Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016
Here's this year's complete Boing Boing Gift Guide: more than a hundred great ideas for prezzies: technology, toys, books and more. Scroll down and buy things, mutants! Many of the items use Amazon...
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