Anti-poverty charity War on Want hit out at “dishonest” Trade Minister Lord Livingston yesterday after he labelled criticism of a dodgy trade deal “completely misleading.”
In a swaggering appearance before MPs on Wednesday the Tory belittled opponents of the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) as “well-informed but ill-minded.”
And he attacked the “trade justice movement” for its staunch criticism of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses that will hand US corporations unprecedented powers to sue the government for lost profits.
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
PAUL W FLEMING is unequivocal that Labour’s unpreparedness and resulting ambiguity on copyright in the creative industries has to be reined in with policies that will reverse the growing abuse by Big Tech AI


