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Canada's colonialism extends through its foreign policy
16-Aug-2021     Rabble.ca
The colonial national affinity between Canada and Israel creates the context for the Canada Israel free trade agreement
Risks for Mexico in the renegotiation of its FTA with the European Union
11-Aug-2021     TNI
To end neoliberalism and defend energy resources, Mexico must step up and avoid at all costs the inclusion of supranational arbitration mechanisms in a renegotiated FTA with the European Union.
South’s concerns over ISDS reform process need to be addressed
10-Aug-2021     Third World Network
The broad mandate given by UNCITRAL focuses on a limited set of procedural issues that fails to address the substantive concerns over the crisis of legitimacy confronting the international investment regime, and ISDS more specifically.
XL pipeline absurd $15 billion NAFTA ISDS claim
7-Aug-2021     Public Citizen
TC Energy expects to get 15 times more money, coming from taxpayers’ pockets, than the asset losses it experienced from the revocation of a permit, that was already denied twice.
Corporate courts vs the environment
3-Aug-2021     Al Jazeera
Corporate courts were invented to protect the West’s control of the world against decolonisation. They are now undermining attempts to halt climate change.
DEPA lacks added value
3-Aug-2021     East Asia Forum
There is minimal value added by DEPA, even as a pathfinder for e-commerce proponents in the WTO and APEC. For critics of the TPP and CPTPP’s one-sided rules, DEPA reflects a wasted opportunity.
How a new trade deal could make it harder to improve life for Australians in aged care
29-Jul-2021     The Conversation
When negotiations for the RCEP began in 2012, the aged care industry in Australia was dominated by local not-for-profits. The sector is now dominated by for-profit providers, with a jointly-owned Singapore company, Opal, one of the largest.
RCEP agreement will legitimise military dictatorship in Myanmar and fails to provide benefit to Australian workers
28-Jul-2021     Mirage News
The ACTU has called on the Morrison Government not to ratify the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, which includes Myanmar’s military junta, at today’s JSCOT inquiry.
One step forward, two steps back in the struggle against anti-democratic corporate trade rules
26-Jul-2021     Inequality.org
Pakistan is the latest country to reject the system that allows private investors to sue governments in international tribunals. But Ecuador is back-tracking and the lawsuits continue to proliferate.
Can we harness the power of trade agreements to achieve our climate ambitions?
20-Jul-2021     IATP
Figuring out how to address a worldwide climate crisis using institutions and instruments developed in the past century isn’t easy.