The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPPA) was signed in 2005 between Chile, New Zealand, Brunei and Singapore, which is considered a “pathfinder” agreement initiated through APEC, and Obama is hoping for it to be signed in Honolulu in Nov. 2011 by the US, Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia…possibly Canada, Peru, Mexico, Japan and other Pacific Rim...
Statehood and Hawaii: Correspondences between Congress, the State Department and the United Nations Pt.4 video presentation Back to Part 3 When the Statehood vote came in 1959, again, Hawaii was seen more as an issue of economic and military national security and although the build-up of the Pacific Fleet creating Pacific Command had...
Statehood and Hawaii: Correspondences between Congress, the State Department and the United Nations Pt.4 video presentation Back to Part 2 Now much of the information and resistance to the British and US funded regimes of Greece and Turkey came from the transport unions with support from the World Federation of Trade Unions of which...
Statehood and Hawaii: Correspondences between Congress, the State Department and the United Nations Pt.2 video presentation Back to Part 1 The UN Charter was signed in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. About three weeks later, Delegate to Alaska E.L. Bartlett wrote Abe Fortas, the Under Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior...
Statehood and Hawaii: Correspondences between Congress, the State Department and the United Nations video presentation As we have seen during the 50th commemoration of Hawaii statehood, the issue of statehood is both complicated and controversial, a topic with many approaches. The Statehood Commission driving the road to Statehood The road to Hawaii’s statehood story,...
Colonialism 4.0 In November 2011, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will be holding their meeting here. On the agenda is the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). To be clear, TPP is not an APEC initiative. However, it is considered a pathfinder for the proposed Free-Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), which...