Tag: Free Trade Agreements
While China picks winners, Trump picks losers
As with so much else, Trump is determined to Take America Backwards Again.
The TPP Gang that Can’t Shoot Straight
The TPP deal is crafted by big business for big business. And the reality is it has nothing to do with trade. Therefore, the people and corporate media outlets pushing for the deal are making themselves look foolish.
Shocking Schumer
Even Chuck Schumer, New York senator who never finds a global trade deal too ugly to hug, fears that the Trans-Pacific Partnership would let corporations roll back laws at every level of government. Yes, the TPP is shameful, Chuck!
Flush the TPP
President Barack Obama and the Republicans are united when it comes to so-called free-trade agreements. While Obama has been negotiating the agreements, which increase corporate power, grass-roots activists are organizing against the TPP.
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Through executive actions targeting lawsuits and law firms, President Donald Trump is attempting to undermine legal challenges to his authority while retaliating against those who stand in his way.
Is this the beginning or the end of a new Cold War?
The United States and our friends in Europe have a new chance to make a clean break from the three-way geopolitical power struggle between the United States, Russia and China that has hamstrung the world since the 1970s.
Courage is contagious
Moving from fear to action in a disturbing world.
Rule Breakers: The compelling true story of Afghan girls who risked all to learn
Rule Breakers highlights the unique transformative power of education and raises awareness about the crucial importance of the right to education for girls in Afghanistan.