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All Posts For - free trade

How Trade Deals Boost the Top 1% and Bust the Rest

February 17, 2015 Current News class war Comments are off for this post

'The fact is, trade agreements are no longer really about trade.'

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Before the Zombie Apocalypse – These Four Trade Deals Were Ravaging the World

October 31, 2014 Current News Economic Justice Comments are off for this post

How can something as pleasant-sounding as “free trade” be more threatening than a zombie apocalypse? The devil’s in the details, and the fine print on some of these agreements is enough to curdle a bucket of blood.

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Don’t Let Trade Trump GMO Labeling

October 2, 2014 Current News corporations Comments are off for this post

Agribusiness companies have been candid that they want the new U.S.-EU trade deal, currently being negotiated, to dismantle GMO labeling policies. Such rules would affect labeling in European countries and U.S. states.

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Yankee Blowback: Why the US Has a Moral Obligation to Help the Child Migrants

July 14, 2014 Current News free trade Comments are off for this post

Many of the immigrants are escaping a situation in their homeland made hopeless by American intervention and policy.

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“Free Trade” Champions Betray Us All

July 2, 2014 Current News class war Comments are off for this post

Free trade defines an agreement that has as a first (and sometimes only) priority, the best interests of corporations namely, their profits.

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Children on the Run: The Deepening Immigration Crisis

June 12, 2014 Current News Foreign Policy Comments are off for this post

There are more children coming in every day, and the federal government doesn’t know where to keep them.

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Why Is It So Acceptable to Lie to Promote Trade Deals?

May 30, 2014 Current News Economic Justice Comments are off for this post

This deal is primarily about imposing a set of regulations on both continents, some of which may be improvements, but many of which will be designed to serve the business interests who are in on the negotiations.

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How TPP Would Harm You At the Drug Store and On The Internet

February 25, 2014 Current News corporate power Comments are off for this post

TPP is being negotiated in secret with consumer, environmental, labor, health, human rights and other “stakeholder’ groups excluded from the table. But the interests of the giant corporations are at the table, with the negotiators either already well-compensated by the corporate interests or in a position to be well-compensated later...

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Free Forum: TPP – Another corporate power grab

February 9, 2014 Uncategorized corporate power Comments are off for this post

The Trans-Pacific Partnership would create a super-treaty which would jeopardize the sovereignty of the nations involved by giving that power to large corporations. Learn what you need to know. Free forum in Palo Alto on March 4.

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TPP: Poison for Local Community Resilience

January 15, 2014 Current News Economic Justice Comments are off for this post

The trade deal, negotiated in secret, is now trying to receive fact track authority so that it can be rushed through Congress with little say by elected lawmakers.

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