Free Trade

Zach Carter

Obama's Trade Position Panned By U.N. For Protecting High Drug Prices

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 06.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Two major United Nations organizations warned world leaders on Thursday to avoid restrictive free trade agreements that may threaten pub...

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Democracy Improves Lives in China -- and Here, Too

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Democracy, China, The One Percent, The 1%, Democracy Unions, US Democracy, US Market, Unions, 1%, American Democracy, US Economy, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Where democracy is weak, so is the economy for regular people. And when regular people are not doing well there isn't much of a "market." Democracy is the only economics that works.

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A New "American System"

Fred Bauer | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: US Economy, Infrastructure, Education, Alexander Hamilton, Trade, Great Recession, Economy, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Free Trade, Education Reform, Politics News
Fred Bauer

The "American System" has the following insight: The American economy cannot flourish over the long term with merely the financial and resource extraction sectors. American prosperity was built upon the nurturing of human capital.

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Top Democrats Push Obama on Capital Controls

Sarah Anderson | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Timothy Geithner, Capital Controls, Barney Frank, Sander Levin, Business News
Sarah Anderson

Despite their proven effectiveness in many cases, these policy tools are prohibited by U.S. trade and investment policies. Particularly in the wake of the worst financial crisis in 80 years, it's an embarrassingly outmoded position.

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Zach Carter

Obama Administration Says 'No' To Global Health Fund For Developing Nations

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...

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'Today We Have The Power': A Spiritually Radical Documentary

Chris Fici | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Social Justice, Activism, David Korten, Free Trade, Seattle, Anarchy, Documentaries, Occupy Faith, Buddhism, Seattle Wto Protests, Battle of Seattle, Religion News
Chris Fici

In his debut documentary feature, filmmaker Christopher Timm deftly presents a vital meditation on the bridge between spirituality and social justice, through the prism of the seminal demonstrations at the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle.

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Zach Carter

Trade Revolt Against Obama Intensifies

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation late Wednesday to protest the Obama administration's refusal to share information about c...

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Changing to WTO's 'Made in the World' Labeling Would Harm Americans

Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: World Trade Organization, Product Dumping, Environmental Abuse, Free Trade, Country-of-Origin, "Made in World" Label, Consumer Protection, Business News
Michele Nash-Hoff

How would you like to go shopping and find that everywhere you went, the label said "Made in the World" instead of "Made in China," "Made in India," "Made in USA" etc.?

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Secrets Revealed: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement

Ilana Solomon | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Environmental Protection, Trans-Pacific Partnership Tpp, Trans Pacific Partnership, Trade Environment, Trade Environment Tpp, Green News
Ilana Solomon

The Sierra Club is deeply concerned about the environmental implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, many parts of which could directly undermine efforts to strengthen environmental protection while also putting the U.S. economy and workers at risk.

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Mercantilism, Manufacturing, and a Political Problem

Ralph Gomory | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Taxes, Politics, Trade, Tariffs, Jobs, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Corporate Social Responsibility, China, Business News
Ralph Gomory

People talk a great deal about free trade. But for better or for worse the real world that we live in is more a mercantilist world than it is a free markets and free trade world.

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Zach Carter

An Idea To Fix Killer Costs Of Lifesaving Drugs

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is promoting a new plan to encourage the development of better, cheaper prescription drugs: an innovation fu...

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Zach Carter

Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Big Pharma, Tpp, Ip, Acta, Economy, Darrell Issa, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Jobs, Buy America, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Buy American, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Intellectual Property, Video, Trade, Trans-Pacific, Patents, Patent Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has taken the unprecedented step of leaking a secret U.S. trade document, in ...

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Why Is the TPP Such a Big Secret?

Tim Robertson | Posted 05.07.2012

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Tim Robertson

The only way the corporate shopping list that is the TPP can get past public scrutiny is if no one ever hears about it. Fortunately, activists are fighting back.

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Labor Action and Inaction in Colombia Free Trade Deal

Michelle Chen | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Labor, Latin America, Nafta, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Mexico, Free Trade, Globalization, Drug War, Diplomacy, North American Free Trade Agreement, Labor Unions, Unions, Barack Obama, World News
Michelle Chen

While officials convened at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena earlier this month, the White House put the finishing touches on another free trade agreement. The deal has faced vocal resistance from labor and human rights groups in both countries.

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Obama Praises Controversial Free Trade Deal

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 04.15.2012

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CARTAGENA, Colombia — Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away...

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Jeb Bush Leads Effort By Romney Campaign To Hit Obama On Trade

The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 04.13.2012

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the biggest voice Mitt Romney's campaign is deploying to prebut President Barack Obama's Friday afternoon speech in Ta...

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Turn on the Global High Beams for American Jobs

Trooper Sanders | Posted 04.12.2012

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Trooper Sanders

While America does not have a royal family to promote its brand, people and products around the world, it does have an untapped resource with its own brand of royal magic: former presidents and first ladies.

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Leaders at the Summit of the Americas: Protect Your Human Rights Defenders

Lisa Haugaard | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Guatemala, Colombia, Summit of the Americas, Mexico, u.s. Foreign Policy, Military, Violence, Obama Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Women's Rights, Foreign Affairs, Free Trade, Democracy, Peace, Unions, Brazil, World News
Lisa Haugaard

Defenders say the most important action the state can take is investigate and prosecute the attacks against them. Yet most murders of defenders, and nearly all death threats, remain in impunity.

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How Can Africa Compete With China?

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Corruption, Nollywood, Intellectual Property, Africa, Trade, International Development, Free Trade, Food, Manufacturing, China, Development, Africa-China-Relations, Africa Trade, World News
Marcelo Giugale

Africans have lots of opportunities to trade that they have not yet exploited -- opportunities that are outside of China's reach. The first of this "low-hanging fruits" is food.

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End the Unilateral Trade Sanctions on Collectors

Wayne Sayles | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Trade Policy, Trade, Coin Collectors, Obama Trade Policy, Maria Kouroupas, Culture News
Wayne Sayles

While government agencies in Washington increase surcharges and restrictions for U.S. consumers of cultural artifacts, their Chinese counterparts take advantage of the unilateral sanctions.

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The Supreme Scream: Obamacare After the Court Ruling

Dean Baker | Posted 06.02.2012

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Dean Baker

Perhaps a defeat in the Supreme Court will lead to a newly energized public that will demand that their representatives in Congress clean up the health care system and give us universal Medicare. That would be great, but it is difficult to see it happening.

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American Jobs and the Never Ending Politics of the Cold War

Edward Goldberg | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Russia, U.S. Economy, Unemployment, Trade Deficit, Trade Deals, Trade, Economy, Economic Crisis, Free Trade, Cold War, Tarriffs, Business News
Edward Goldberg

U.S. trade policy needs to be based on what is good for the U.S. economy and U.S. job growth. And Congress needs to recognize that in an ever more globalized world, using trade as a political instrument to fight yesterday's wars is at best self defeating.

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Free Trade Like Manna From Heaven for Middle East Entrepreneurs

James Doran | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Palestine, Free Trade, Yemen, Entrepreneurship, Olive Oil, Fair Trade, Middle Eastern Free Trade, Iraqi Food, Middle Eastern Food, Yemeni Honey, Free Trade Policy, Al Man Wa Salwa, Iraqi Dessert, Canaan Oil, United Arab Emirates, World News
James Doran

The free-zone model should be given equal consideration by the new governments as they forge important new ties.

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Myanmar: First Steps

Stephen P. Groff | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Developing Countries, Global Poverty, Myanmar, Burma, Free Trade, Asia, Development, Economic Development, Nternational Development, World News
Stephen P. Groff

The road ahead still looks daunting, but the opportunity for Myanmar's people is simply too great to turn back.

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The China Syndrome

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: U.S. China Trade, Free Trade, China Economy, China, Business News
Jerry Jasinowski

President Obama seems determined to make China's trade policies a major theme of his reelection campaign, and if so, I say bring it on. China's predatory trade policies have been a key factor in the weakness of our overall economy.

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