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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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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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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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An Idea To Fix Killer Costs Of Lifesaving Drugs

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.19.2012

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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Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

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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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TPP: What You Don't Know Will Hurt You (Video)

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Tpp, Social Media, Labor, Ron Kirk, Media, Fair Trade, Barack Obama, Sopa, Video, Politics News

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Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban 'Buy American'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A group of 68 House Democrats and one Republican sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday urging him to reconsider an element...

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Trade Deals: Backdoor Financial Deregulation

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Tpp, Wto, Volcker Rule, Financial Reform, Barack Obama, Politics News, Obama Free Trade Agreements, Obama Free Trade, World Trade Organization, Nafta, Banking, Banks, Bankers, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Wall Street, Business News

Wall Street has a new power tool to demolish financial stability policies, and it comes from a source many would not expect.

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Keeping SOPA Measures Out of Trade Agreements ACTA, TPP

Edward J. Black | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Copyright Infringement, Pipa, Piracy, Trade. SOPA, Internet Freedom, Economy, Internet Censorship, Acta, Tpp, Innovation, Technology, Technology News

Internet users realized during the debate over SOPA and its companion bill, PIPA, that because they were not at the table, they were on the menu. Vowing 'never again,' they have thus set their sights on ACTA.

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Insourcing Infrastructure: A Local Transit Director's Plan to Bring Back Jobs

Tim Robertson | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Transparency, Tpp, Insourcing, Free Trade Agreements, Politics News, Politics, Infrastructure, Insourcing American Jobs, Bart, Jobs, Manufacturing, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trans Pacific Partnership, China, Third Industrial Revolution, Politics News

"Many jobs these days require a B.A., a series of unpaid internships, and a graduate degree. Most young people cannot afford to put in that much time and take on that much debt. If we create another path with a shorter timeline, young people will be more likely to stay in school."

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Auction 2012: 'NAFTA With Asia' Is Big Money's Next Goal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.02.2012

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Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement ...

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Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership Disaster

Ian Fletcher | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Mercantilism, Obama, Tpp, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trade Agreements, China, Video, Politics News

After the failed promises of NAFTA, a job-destroying trade deficit that has burgeoned despite a long series of free-trade agreements, and ever-more-aggressive foreign mercantilism, we're plowing ahead with even more of these agreements.

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The Puzzling Persistence of APEC

Walden Bello | Posted 01.17.2012

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The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation has just concluded its annual summit in Honolulu, once President Obama's home turf. It will probably be most rem...

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Obama Gives CEOs Green Light to Invest in Red China

Curtis Ellis | Posted 01.14.2012

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If Obama actually believes China will be buying stuff from America, he didn't hear what Hu Jintao himself told the CEOs of Google, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lily and Co. and Dow Chemical Asia Pacific.

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Big Pharma Wins, AIDS Patients Lose In New Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.05.2011

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This piece is a continuation of The Huffington Post's collaboration on trade issues with The Dylan Ratigan Show, called Trading Our Future. WASHING...

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Bill Daley Brings Big Pharma History To Trade Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Tpp, HIV/AIDS, Thailand, William Daley, United States Trade Representative, Video, Access to Medicine, Ustr, Trade, Stanford McCoy, Revolving Door, Bill Daley, Obama, Kaletra, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Abbott Laboratories, Politics News

This piece is a continuation of The Huffington Post's collaboration on trade issues with The Dylan Ratigan Show, called Trading Our Future. WASHING...

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Shooting Itself In the Foot: The Broken Promises of the U.S. Trade Agenda

Tido von Schoen-Angerer | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: International Trade, HIV/AIDS, U.S. Trade Representative, Free Trade Agreements, Doctors Without Borders, Pharmaceutical Industry, HIV Medications, Developing Countries, Msf, Access-to-Medicines, Tpp, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Access to Medicines, World News

In the Chicago trade talks, the U.S. is trying to club up with countries in a deal that keeps the cost of medicines high.

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Labor Day Showdown: Can Advocates Stop 'NAFTA of the Pacific'?

Michelle Chen | Posted 11.05.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Global Economy, Free Trade, Globalization, Trans-Pacific Partnership, North American Free Trade Agreement, Nafta, Tpp, Politics News

The provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are still under wraps, but the general outline seems to mimic NAFTA and similar pacts that have brought political and economic turmoil to rich and poor countries alike.

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Obama's Trade Opportunity

Rep. Linda Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Trade Policy, Fair Trade, Obama Trade, Nafta, President Barack Obama, Obama Trade Agreement, TRADE Act, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Tpp, Politics News

The President has the opportunity to show the world that the U.S. is leading the charge when it comes to expanding trade fairly while guaranteeing well-being at home and abroad.

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