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...laws and regulations are “tantamount to expropriation”? Under NAFTA and under the would-be FTAA, when an investor sues a government the case is submitted not to a national court but to an international tribunal that holds private proceedings and is not required to accept any input from the public...
Given such an erosion of democratic accountability, one can either accept the loss as inevitable or take hold of democracy as citizens of the Americas have always done—in public protest. At a rally in opposition to the FTAA on April 21 in Quebec, thousands of citizens from North and South America will take to the streets and demand a public and accountable negotiating process. Boston will be holding a solidarity rally in opposition to the FTAA this Saturday at Harvard. Beyond the protests, citizens will continue to hold conferences to discuss the possibility of fair...
...Blanco was skeptical about the likelihood that the U.S. Congress would give up such powerful weapons as its punitive anti-dumping laws and agricultural subsidies to secure a trade deal. And he was adamant that Mexico and other nations would not accept the inclusion of environmental and labor guarantees in any free-trade pact, and that they should not. These, he said, amounted to protectionism by other means, aimed at countries with lower standards of living. Even though Barshefsky believes labor and environmental agreements are politically necessary for the U.S., she agreed to the extent that these should...
...issues separately: the return of the plane, the question of whether surveillance flights resume, and the protocols that both sides would observe around such flights. Right now the Chinese can't discuss "rules of the road" for both sides in relation to surveillance flights, because that would mean accepting the premise that the U.S. has the right to continue those. It's very tricky; they have to get the Chinese military to go along with whatever agreements they make on returning the plane and resuming flights. The Chinese are unlikely to budge on their demand for an end to surveillance...
...into the details of this conflict, so they're relying on Jordan and Egypt to do more of the work because they'd like to see the situation quiet down. But a major weakness of the plan is that it doesn't involve the Palestinians. Even if Israel did accept, what guarantees can Jordan and Egypt offer that the Palestinians would implement their side of the deal...