by TD Daniell | September 8, 2016 | Current News
Deirdre Fulton Common Dreams More than 200 legal and economic scholars—including President Barack Obama’s Harvard Law School mentor Laurence Tribe—have penned a letter to Congress warning that the pro-corporate Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime enshrined...
by TD Daniell | August 25, 2016 | Current News
Jake Johnson Common Dreams The Democratic primary of 2008, much like that of 2016, featured a sharp debate on global trade — about who writes the rules, who benefits, and who, ultimately, is harmed. And like 2016, the 2008 discussion was largely dominated by so-called...
by TD Daniell | August 15, 2016 | Current News
Kate Fried Food & Water Watch Blog Whether we shop for sustenance at a chain grocery store, the corner bodega or even at a farmers market, we all share a basic desire—to not get sick from the food that is supposed to nourish us. In fact, much of the time, most of...
by PPJC Admin2 | April 8, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Dave Johson Campaign for America’s Future Should our own government help oligarchs, billionaires and their corporations, criminals and terrorists hide their loot, launder their funds, and drain countries and their governments of needed revenue? Or should our...
by PPJC Admin2 | March 17, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Robert Reich RobertReich.org I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains. The old-style trade agreements of the 1960s and 1970s increased...
