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Baobab

(4,667 posts)
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 08:07 PM Mar 2016

Canadian NGO Has best library on trade issues out there -excellent writing clear thinking

More than 90% of the subject matter also applies to the US because all these deals are multilateral

here are some URLs

Top level URL for trade pubs: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/projects/trade-and-investment-research-project

Excellent recent publication on the horrible TPP: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2016/02/Major_Complications.pdf

Sample searches -Since trade deals stay in effect forever, and often, as in GATS case, supply pre-written definitions to many others, people need to inform themselves on the old trade deals as much or more than new ones.. Some like GATS are basically the mother of bad trade deals

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apolicyalternatives.ca+%22GATS%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 (search on GATS - this 90s FTA is the real reason US health care is so screwed up. Its also the reason indians recently lost their Constitutional right to education. We should have had a debate on GATS in 1994, but instead, we were treated to an irrelevant fake debate about health care, which was constrained into limits that guaranteed its failure. Sound familiar?)

here is a good one:

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National_Office_Pubs/putting_health_first.pdf

More searches on FTA names

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apolicyalternatives.ca+%22TISA%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apolicyalternatives.ca+%22TTIP%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apolicyalternatives.ca+%22TPP%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apolicyalternatives.ca+%22NAFTA%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apolicyalternatives.ca+%22FTAA%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apolicyalternatives.ca+%22CETA%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

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