By Common Dreams
Last week's failure to conclude the TPP in Hawaii signals a potentially fatal stall in negotiations;(click here) Australia should now reject this corporate trojan horse that's bad for both people and the planet. Sam Cossar-Gilbert reports (via Common Dreams).
...This is a major opportunity for governments to now walk away entirely from this trojan horse deal that is bad for people and bad for the planet.
The latest round of failed talks, which took place in Hawaii, was anticipated to ''seal the deal'' with government officials stating that "it was 98 per cent complete". Yet the TPP trade agreement has stalled again because of a range of important disagreements over pharmaceutical patents, market access for agricultural products and the corporate rights to sue governments for public policy. (A threat to sovereign countries. This is nuts.)
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has admitted that the TPP would increase the price of medicine. For many countries, this means a choice between life and death for their citizens and negotiators refused to budge on the issue....
Growing public pressure has put the agreement into the spotlight. It is harder for ministers to agree to something disastrous for their country on a beach in Hawaii when they know people back home are watching....
