[CTC] Press coverage of first 46 hours of Wikileaks on TISA
Deborah James
djames at cepr.net
Fri Jun 5 04:35:09 PDT 2015
Hi all,
Please feel free to use these arguments against the TISA in your anti-Fast
Track campaigns! The revelation of the TISA texts should be another great
tool in our anti-Fast Track toolbox.
For those more interested in the TISA, here is a running list so far of the
coverage of the Wikileaks revelations. Anyone interested in participating in
the global anti-TISA campaign, please let me know at djames at cepr.net.
Thanks! -Deborah, Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) global network
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Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2015/06/04/leaked-tisa-documents-
reveal-privacy-threat/
The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/03/wikileaks-documents-trade-in-se
rvices-agreement
The Independent, UK:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/wikileaks-posts-largest-leak
-of-trade-negotiations-in-history-charting-progress-tisa-10296061.html
International Business Times:
http://www.ibtimes.com/wikileaks-publishes-secret-tisa-trade-documents-19519
67
New Zealand Herald: WikiLeaks reveals NZ's extreme position in trade
discussions
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11459703>
Brisbane Times, Australia:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/wikileaks-reveals-new-trade-secrets
-20150603-ghfycx.html
La Jornada, Mexico:
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2015/06/02/filtracion-de-wikileaks-busca-
el-tisa-acotar-capacidad-regulatoria-de-paises-involucrados-mexico-entre-ell
os-3976.html
Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/wikileaks-reveals-new-trade-secrets-20150603-
ghfycx.html
SBS Australia:
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/06/04/latest-wikileaks-dump-raises-c
oncerns-regulation-australia
Slate:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/06/trade_in_servi
ces_agreement_could_change_the_global_internet.html
Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/03/wikileaks-secret-trade-deals_n_7504
548.html
Huffington Post Canada:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/04/tisa-wikileaks-trade-in-services-agr
eement_n_7512124.html
Major Italian news:
http://espresso.repubblica.it/affari/2015/06/03/news/wikileaks-ecco-gli-acco
rdi-segreti-sul-tisa-che-ridisegnano-le-regole-internazionali-del-mercato-1.
215392
New Zealand the Daily Blog:
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/06/05/how-many-leaks-does-it-take-to-sink-a-d
odgy-ship/
The New Republic:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121967/whats-really-going-trade-services-
agreement
Truthout:
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/31182-wikileaks-releases-largest-trov
e-of-trade-negotiations-documents-in-history-on-proposed-trade-in-services-a
greement
The District Sentinel:
https://www.districtsentinel.com/with-t-p-p-and-fast-track-in-limbo-wikileak
s-reveals-u-s-deregulatory-trade-agenda-in-less-prominent-t-i-s-a/
Firedog lake:
http://firedoglake.com/2015/06/03/wikileaks-strikes-again-leaked-tisa-docs-e
xpose-corporate-plan-for-reshaping-global-economy/
Telesur:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Wikileaks-Releases-Leaked-Documents-on
-Secret-Trade-Deal-20150603-0016.html
Commondreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/03/wikileaks-strikes-again-leaked-t
isa-docs-expose-corporate-plan-reshaping-global
Investing:
http://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/wikileaks-publishes-details-of-se
cret-trade-talks-345041
Techdirt:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150604/06324931218/tisa-agreement-might-
outlaw-governments-mandating-open-source-software-many-situations.shtml
Tradewinds:
http://www.tradewindsnews.com/liner/361439/itf-slams-tisa-proposal
arstechnica:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/wikileaks-releases-secret-tisa-
docs-the-more-evil-sibling-of-ttip-and-tpp/
The Register, UK:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/04/wikileaks_publishes_tisa_trade_agree
ment/
Scoop NZ:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1506/S00030/wikileaks-shows-education-still
-under-threat-in-tisa-deal.htm
Military Technologies: LEAKED TISA DOCUMENTS REVEAL PRIVACY THREAT
<http://www.military-technologies.net/2015/06/04/leaked-tisa-documents-revea
l-privacy-threat/>
Engadget: Leaked trade deal stops countries from saying where your data goes
<http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/03/tisa-limits-data-exports-and-open-source
/>
The Next Web: The US wants to decide where your data is stored
<http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/06/04/the-us-wants-to-decide-where-your-
data-is-stored/>
Spanish press:
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2480487/0/wikileaks-planes-tisa/gobiernos-de
mocracia/intereses-empresas-multinacionales/
More Spanish:
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&idioma=1&
id=3863211&Itemid=1
More Spanish, Entorno Inteligente:
http://www.entornointeligente.com/articulo/6106167/MEXICO-Filtracioacute;n-d
e-Wikileaks-Busca-el-TISA-acotar-capacidad-regulatoria-de-paiacute;ses-invol
ucrados-Meacute;xico-entre-ellos-03062015
More Spanish: Filtración sobre TISA desvela locura del secretismo: ISP
<http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&sa=t&ct2=es_us%2F0_0_s_16_0_t&usg=AFQj
CNHv56TzkP1fHfG8tjoQsH-ecYXwAw&did=cf73257fd5994b00&cid=52779287428900&ei=zX
txVciyEaXbaZe_g4AF&rt=STORY&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.entornointelige
nte.com%2Farticulo%2F6111092%2FMEXICO-Filtracioacute%3Bn-sobre-TISA-desvela-
locura-del-secretismo-ISP-03062015>
More Spanish, English version: Agreement on Services Will Subordinate
Governments to Companies
<http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3863811&
Itemid=1>
More Spanish: Rebanadas de Realidad:
http://www.rebanadasderealidad.com.ar/frenadeso-15-01.htm
More Spanish: Denuncian participación de Panamá en pacto mundial secreto
<http://prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3863191&I
temid=1>
More Spanish, El País: Revelan un acuerdo secreto entre 50 países
<http://www.elpaisonline.com/index.php/2013-01-15-14-16-26/nacional/item/173
710-revelan-un-acuerdo-secreto-entre-50-paises>
More Spanish, in Chile: 17 archivos secretos de TISA el plan para limitar el
derecho de los gobiernos a legislar normas más estrictas en interés público
<http://www.elciudadano.cl/2015/06/03/170429/17-archivos-secretos-de-tisa-el
-plan-para-limitar-el-derecho-de-los-gobiernos-a-legislar-normas-mas-estrict
as-en-interes-publico/>
More Spanish, in Chile: El TiSA atará las manos de los Estados para
impedirles defenderse de las transnacionales
<http://piensachile.com/2015/06/22383/>
Italian press:
http://punto-informatico.it/4250309/PI/News/wikileaks-anticipazioni-tisa.asp
x
More Italian press:
http://www.forexinfo.it/Wikileaks-pubblica-i-dettagli-segreti-sul-TISA-l-acc
ordo-sul-libero-commercio
More Italian press:
http://www.pressenza.com/it/2015/06/50-paesi-preparano-in-segreto-un-trattat
o-ancora-peggiore-del-ttip/
More Italian press: Viviane Reding: "Il Tisa è un'opportunità per modellare
la globalizzazione
<http://espresso.repubblica.it/affari/2015/06/03/news/viviane-reding-il-tisa
-e-un-opportunita-per-modellare-la-globalizzazione-1.215482> ”
More Italian press: WikiLeaks, le trattative segrete per il patto sui
mercati
<http://www.wired.it/attualita/tech/2015/06/04/wikileaks-trattive-tisa-merca
ti/>
German press:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/TTIPs-boeser-Bruder-TiSA-auf-Wikileak
s-2679362.html
More German press:
http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2015-06/tisa-abkommen-wikileaks-open-sou
rce
More German press:
https://netzpolitik.org/2015/wikileaks-veroeffentlicht-tisa-papiere/
More German press:
http://www.computerworld.ch/news/politik-gesellschaft/artikel/tisa-abkommen-
will-open-source-einschraenken-68054/
More German press:
http://www.gizmodo.de/2015/06/03/erneute-warnung-vor-dienstleistungsabkommen
-tisa.html
Greek:
http://www.kathimerini.gr/817761/article/epikairothta/ereynes/nees-apokalyye
is-wikileaks-sthn-k
More Greek:
https://www.kaldata.com/IT-Новини/Wikileaks-публикува-17-секретни-международ
ни-тъ-101454.html
<https://www.kaldata.com/IT-%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8/Wikileaks-%
D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0-17-%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%
D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%
80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D1%82%D1%8A-101454.html>
More Greek: http://www.cross.bg/wikileaks-tisa-briks-1468243.html
More Greek:
http://www.focus-news.net/news/2015/06/04/2074056/wikileaks-sasht-es-i-sto-t
ayno-se-obedinyavat-sreshtu-briks.html
Turkish news:
http://t24.com.tr/haber/uzmanlar-wikileaksin-sizdirdigi-tisa-taslagi-hakkind
a-ne-diyor,298625
More Turkish: http://tr.sputniknews.com/abd/20150604/1015823484.html
More Turkish:
http://www.dunyabulteni.net/haberler/331734/ab-turkiyeden-banka-denetimlerin
i-azaltmasini-istiyor
More Turkish: EU ‘not satisfied’ with Turkey’s int’l services trade offer,
leaked documents show
<http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eu-not-satisfied-with-turkeys-intl-service
s-trade-offer-leaked-documents-show.aspx?pageID=238&nID=83439&NewsCatID=510>
Vietnamese:
http://infonet.vn/wikileaks-phuong-tay-len-ke-hoach-da-trung-quoc-nga-khoi-t
isa-post165940.info
More Vietnamese: http://www.sggp.org.vn/thegioi/2015/6/385810/
From: Deborah James <djames at cepr.net>
Date: Friday, June 5, 2015 at 1:11 PM
To: CTC Field <ctcfield at lists.citizenstrade.org>
Subject: [CTC] HuffPost: Another Leaked Trade Agreement, Another Reason to
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Yesterday, WikiLeaks released 17 documents <https://wikileaks.org/tisa/>
from a little known trade agreement now under negotiation. The Trade in
Services Agreement (TiSA) will cover services ranging from professional work
to e-commerce and financial services among the United States, the European
Union, and 23 other countries. As with other new trade agreements --
notably, the two massive trade deals currently under review with our Asian
and European allies -- the TiSA negotiations remain classified. And as with
those other trade deals, the negotiating texts -- which reveal the positions
that our government advocates for at the deal-making stage -- are to be kept
classified for five years after the agreement has been finalized, whether it
comes into force or fails.
Services are big business in the new global economy, comprising an estimated
75% <https://ustr.gov/TiSA> of the U.S. economy. And unlike cross-border
trade in goods -- largely covered by the WTO -- the governance of the trade
in services is more haphazard and much less long-standing. The WTO's General
Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a complicated agreement with
various opt-in and opt-out clauses, which allow WTO members a degree of
autonomy in deciding which services areas they commit to open to foreign
competition. One rationale for this degree of autonomy -- which is unlike
the more general discipline on the trade in goods -- is that services aren't
simply comparable "goods" to be traded. They are the product of complex
national regulatory regimes and implicate important legislative decisions.
To a first order of approximation at least, a barrel of crude oil is a
barrel of crude oil, but what banking or architecture or e-commerce is
varies widely across national contexts.
The TiSA represents, in essence, a first step in crafting a new global
regime for governing the cross-border flow of services. A great deal of the
work that any services agreement must do is definitional, since services can
be amorphous and are often controlled by national licensing schemes or one
kind or another. Liberalizing the trade in services thus runs up against the
difficulty of defining when a national law constitutes improper
"discrimination" against foreign competitors in a service sector. As might
be imagined, liberalizing agreements often have a deregulatory
<http://www.alliancesud.ch/en/policy/trade/download-trade/140623_TISA-Positi
on_Alliance%20Sud_ENG.pdf> effect, as different national licensing and
oversight regimes are harmonized downwards. And since important services
from broadcasting to utilities to health care are provisioned publicly in a
wide range of countries, these trade agreements can have a privatizing
<http://www.world-psi.org/en/psi-special-report-tisa-versus-public-services>
effect, requiring countries to open sectors to private competition or to
eliminate government support.
In the case of TiSA, academics and activists studying the leaked drafts have
already noted some of this deregulatory and privatizing pressure.
Longstanding systems of public service provision in areas ranging from
transport to broadcasting to utilities look likely to be come under new
scrutiny. Financial regulations and safeguards -- including Dodd-Frank --
may be further eroded under this agreement, under the guise of financial
service liberalization. Equally worrying are the negotiations covering
e-commerce, which reveal U.S. efforts to oppose the "data localization" that
privacy advocates support as a buffer against surveillance. Other points of
concern will surely emerge over the coming days from the leaked drafts.
But as we take in each new revelation, we must not lose sight of the broader
context. The Obama administration's proposed trade agreements -- the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP), and now TiSA -- are not really about "free trade" as
conventionally understood. They represent instead the inauguration of a new
form of global governance, which proceeds under the mantle of trade
liberalization. What these agreements deliver are new forms of cross-border
regulation, often with sweeping and understudied impacts on the domestic
economy. The regulation of our utilities, our roads, our health-care
systems, our banks, our media now comes through a mechanism developed in the
post-war era to address high tariff rates.
And there is one overriding fact to bear in mind over the coming week. The
same "fast track" authorization that will soon be debated in the House of
Representatives doesn't just concern the controversial TPP and TTIP. Later
this year or next, it will be used to provide special, expedited review for
TiSA as well. For fast track -- now called "Trade Promotion Authority"--will
last for six years. Thus, after Obama's term is finished, through the next
Presidential administration, and until 2021, the special treatment decided
on this coming week will be used to push through future "trade" agreements
that may address any activity that crosses a border -- which is to say,
almost anything of importance in today's world.
What the latest WikiLeaks release reminds us is that fast track won't just
be used to pass the TPP. It will also be used to pass the TTIP, the TiSA,
and future agreements not yet leaked -- perhaps not even yet imagined. If
the House authorizes fast track next week, we should expect even more
"government by trade agreement" over the coming years. Behind closed doors,
in the offices of lobbying firms and corporate boardrooms, law firms and
foreign ministries, smart people working for special interests will be
empowered to reshape the world, through secret negotiations, and under the
banner of "free trade."
The author is an Associate Professor at Yale Law School, where he teaches
international trade law.
MORE:
TPP <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/tpp/> Wikileaks
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/wikileaks/> Trans Pacific Partnership
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/trans-pacific-partnership/> Trade
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/trade/> Trade in Services Agreement
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/trade-in-services-agreement/> Tisa
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/tisa/>
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