Tag: Trans Pacific Partnership
Jane Kelsey: Labour and the TPPA – time to come clean...
ANALYSIS: By Professor Jane Kelsey
It is now certain that any decisions on the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the US will...
Barry Coates: The TPPA is dead. What next?
Barry Coates' speech in the New Zealand Parliament marking the end of the TPPA.
OPINION: By Barry Coates
There is a myth going around that President-elect...
Bryan Bruce: Staring into the face of the TPPA ‘shamocracy’
By Bryan Bruce
I spoke at my first parliamentary Select Committee hearing in New Zealand this week.
It was on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and...
TPPA prevents action on climate change, claim critics
Does the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership "free trade" agreement between Pacific Rim nations fail to address “the most important issue of our time”? Dominic Pink...
Josie Butler: TPPA ‘roadshow’ facade – it’s really a ‘rogue show’
By Josie Butler
This week marks the beginning of the New Zealand government’s national roadshow on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), a roadshow that...
Mediawatch: Waitangi coverage – all squeak, no Māori analysis
Protests against the Trans Pacific Partnership at Waitangi were reported around the world last week after nurse Julie Butler threw a squeaky penis-shaped toy...
Anti-TPP ‘death to democracy’ protests in Latin America … and NZ
Thousands of protesters in Chile and Peru - as well as in New Zealand - protested against the signing of the controversial Trans Pacific...
Bill Rosenberg: TPP wrong path – a nuclear-free moment
OPINION: By Bill Rosenberg
Politicians, journalists and commentators who cannot understand why the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement marks the end of bipartisan support for similar...
‘The biggest protest this country has seen in years’ – Germans...
Zero Hedge
By Tyler Durdan, a blog commentary written after the anti-TTIP protests in Berlin last October when more than 250,000 people demonstrated.
FLASHBACK: When it...
TPP signing sparks dozens of protests across US over biggest trade...
Pacific Media Centre
More than 35 protests were organised in US cities to mark opposition to the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a huge international...
Jane Kelsey: All pain, no gain – why not a TPP-free...
Pacific Media Centre
OPINION: By Professor Jane Kelsey
In New Zealand, we dared to declare ourselves nuclear-free in the 1980s - dire warnings that ditching the...
Controversial TPP pact signed amid huge Auckland protest
One of the biggest and most controversial trade deals in history has been signed by ministers from the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas, as...
PM Key needs to answer for his actions, says Harawira
Radio Waatea
Mana leader Hone Harawira says Prime Minister John Key has deliberately set the stage for protest at Waitangi.
The former Te Taitokerau MP, who...
German judges oppose ‘investment courts’ for Europe trade deal
Stop TIPP
In a statement, Germany’s largest association of judges and public prosecutors has firmly rejected the European Commission’s proposal to create an investment court ...
TPPA national interest analysis criticised as flimsy and biased
Report from Evening Report
By Selwyn Manning in Auckland
New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay yesterday released the National Interest Analysis (NIA), a document tasked to...
Rousing, inspirational public challenge to ‘no way’ TPPA deal
Report from Pacific Media Watch
A leading critic of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement last night showed off "Tim the dead rat" to rousing cheers,...