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Advice to Obama at G-20 Summit: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, President Obama, G20 Summit, Trade and Poverty, Gary Shapiro, Health Care Kiosk, Colombia, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama and Op-Ed, Trade at Hand, Emerging Markets, Progressive, Peru, South Korea, g20, Free Trade, Protectionism, President Kennedy, A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, Cea, Jfk, Telemedicine, Free Trade Agreements, Consumer Electronics Association, Poverty, G-20, Business News
Gary Shapiro

I don't know precisely when progressives in this country gave up on free trade. Because when they did, without perhaps even realizing it, they turned their backs on the developing world.

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Obama's Panama Opportunity

Gary Shapiro | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer-Electronics-Association, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Ron Kirk, Colombia Trade Agreement, Gary Shapiro, Exports, President Obama, Colombia, Protectionism, Barack Obama, International Trade, Summit of the Americas, Panama Trade Agreement, Buy American, Free Trade, Panama Canal, Panama, Stimulus Package, Business News
Gary Shapiro

President Barack Obama will soon be making his first trip to Latin America to attend the Summit of the Americas. This visit is an important opportunit...

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Isolationist Policies On The Rise Threatening A Global Trade War: World Bank

Washington Post | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

Read More: Economy, Exports, World Bank, Free Trade, g20, Buy American, Trade War, Trade Wars, Imports, Trade, Isolationism, Fair Trade, Trade Barriers, Global Financial Crisis, World News

At least 17 of the 20 major nations that vowed at a November summit to avoid protectionist steps that could spark a global trade war have violated tha...

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Recession Economics: Store "Sells" Goods For Free

New York Post | AMBER SUTHERLAND and JEREMY OLSHAN | Posted 03.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Nyp Free Store, Free Trade, Consumerism, New York Post Free Store, Nyc Free Store, Economy, Recession, Free Store, Free Store 99 Nassau Street, The Free Store Nyc, Free Store, 99 Nassau Street, Business News

Free trade is flourishing once more in the Financial District - the hippie commune variety, that is. No money is exchanged at the Free Store, which...

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President Obama Sounds Like a Free Trader, So Why Are His Actions Contradicting His Words?

Gary Shapiro | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Colombia Free Trade, Ron Kirk, Free Trade, Gary Locke, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Protectionism, Buy American, Barack Obama, Gary Shapiro, Politics News
Gary Shapiro

Listening to President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress, I did a double take. "The only way to fully restore Amer...

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Leaving Cards on the Counter-Terror Table: Ways to Better Wage the "War on Terror"

Shahid Buttar | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tariffs, Free Trade, Military, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Foreign Policy, Agriculture, Corporate Welfare, Civil Liberties, Liberty, National Security, Obama Administration, Subsidies, Military Contractors, War on Drugs, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

We need not sacrifice our nation's fundamental constitutional freedoms to address extremist violence. Rather, we need merely stop pursuing corporate subsidies that inadvertently encourage it.

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Hillary Clinton Visits China: What Should Be On The Table

Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

Read More: Free Trade, Hilary Clinton Secretary of State, China, World News
Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg

Clinton will be arriving in China at a moment of rare Chinese weakness and self-doubt. While many in the West believe China is emerging as a prosperous global superpower, its rise is far from inevitable.

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"Buy American" Sounds Patriotic, But The Protectionist Policy Could Start A Trade War

Gary Shapiro | Posted 03.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Free Trade, Obama Buy American, Buy American, Trade Wars, Obama Trade Policy, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Gary Shapiro, Oath of Office, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Perhaps too much time has passed since the fthe 1930s. The "Buy American" provisions are dangerous protectionist policies thinly guised as feel-good patriotism.

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Time to End the Inquisition against Buy America Advocates

Scott Paul | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Fair Trade, Free Trade, U.S. Manufacturing, Buy America, Buy American, Business News
Scott Paul

It's time to end the intolerant theocracy of free trade and usher in a responsible dialogue about what works and what doesn't work. Get out of the gutter and into the debate.

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Ron Kirk Selected to Deliver on Obama's Campaign Pledge to Reform U.S. Trade Policies

Lori Wallach | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ustr, Free Trade, Cabinet, Trade, Ron Kirk, Obama Transition, Obama Ron Kirk, Obama Trade Policy, Politics News
Lori Wallach

Whether Ron Kirk is a good choice for trade representative will be determined by his ability to deliver on creating a new trade and globalization policy that benefits more Americans.

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Will Barack Obama Commit Industrial Policy?

Robert Kuttner | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Team of Rivals, Nafta, Ron Kirk, Economy, Economic Crisis, Free Trade, Green Business, Industrial Policy, Free Market, Business, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

Obama may soon find that he is committing a big sin against one of the major premises of the reigning ideology, and will create a head-on collision with one of the cherished dogmas of market fundamentalism -- "free trade."

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Where is the Economic Team of Rivals?

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Citigroup, Robert Rubin, Clinton, Economy, Deregulation, Regulation, Free Trade, Peter Orszag, Timothy Geithner, Bob Rubin, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, Obama Cabinet, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

It appears there is at least one area of his fledgling administration that is not open to discussion or debate -- the economy.

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Delay Consideration of Colombia Trade Deal

Kenneth Roth | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Colombia Free Trade, Free Trade, U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, International, Free Trade Agreement, Politics News
Kenneth Roth

Congress must work with President-elect Obama to design a policy for Colombia in which "free" trade is not built on dead worker representatives.

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Demand for New Globalization Model Goes Mainstream as Fair-Trade Election Pick-Ups Move Congress' Views Closer to Public's

Lori Wallach | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cafta, Larry Kissell, Kay Hagan, Public Citizen, Trade, Free Trade, Globalization, Jeff Merkley, Wto, Nafta, Global Trade Watch, Barack Obama, Election, Politics News
Lori Wallach

From the presidential race to both chambers of Congress, successful candidates in 2008 election races ran on a platform of fundamental overhaul of U.S. trade and globalization policies.

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The Seventy Percent Solution

Marco Trbovich | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Apollo Alliance, Pimco, Bill Gross, Job Growth, American Workers, Free Trade, Globalization, Consumer Purchasing, Obama, Economic Growth, Democrats, 70 Percent, Unemployment, Wall Street, Federal Reserve, College Education, Republican, US Corporations, Coalition of Labor, Phil Angelides, Business News
Marco Trbovich

70 percent of the US economy has been dependent on consumer purchasing to sustain economic growth. The portion of workers in the US who do not have a college education is also 70 percent.

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Signs of a Political Earthquake in Oregon

David Sirota | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gordon Smith, Senate, Pacific Northwest, Economic Crisis, Free Trade, Jeff Merkley, Election 2008, Oregon, Politics News
David Sirota

A Democratic U.S. Senate that included Jeff Merkley as one of its stars would have a much more difficult time rubber stamping the corporate-written trade policies.

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Obama & Human Rights Watch -- Colombia Must Improve Human Rights

Dan Kovalik | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Civil Rights, Free Trade, Obama, Mccain, Colombia, Barack Obama, Bush, Politics News
Dan Kovalik

Yesterday, Human Rights Watch issued a damning human rights report on Colombia and echoed Obama's view that the U.S. should continue to delay ratification of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

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Hanging Ourselves With a Chinese-Made Rope

David Sirota | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade, Trade, Fair Trade, Politics News
David Sirota

Nobody is against trade. Nobody. Though "free" traders say that anyone opposing their agenda is "anti-trade" that's just not true...at all. Fair traders are for vigorous trade, just with a different set of rules.

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Free Markets, Free Trade & Death

Dan Kovalik | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Undiscovered Tribes, Peru, Wall Street, Bailout, Economy, Free Trade, Crisis, Capitalism, Indigenous, Free Trade Agreement, Politics News
Dan Kovalik

While the effects of free trade in Peru are horrendous, the good news is that people there are fighting back.

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Take a Dose of Battle in Seattle to Relieve Washington Fatigue

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ronal Reagan, Fair Trade, Gop, Trickle Down, Economy, Sir Shridath Ramphal, Free Trade, Congress, Global Corporations, Battle in Seattle, Stuart Townsend, Bailout Bill, Mark Engler, World Trade Organization, Wall Street, Doha Round, Foreign Policy in Focus, Nancy Pelosi, Deregulation, Privatization, Republicans, Wto, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

Under the right set of circumstances -- like impending balloting on their re-election -- Congressmen do respond to public outcry.

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Debate Coming: Freshen Up Your Foreign Policy Expertise

Off The Bus | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Russia, Energy, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Free Trade, Immigration, International Diplomacy, HIV/AIDS, Barack Obama, Environment, Election 2008, Iraq, Europe, John McCain, Home News
Off The Bus

Tonight is the much anticipated, almost canceled, still going forward, first presidential debate of this election. Focused on foreign policy, it will ...

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Time to Take a Second Look at Our "Free Trade" Agreements

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, World Trade Organization, Wto, Nafta, Protest, Free Trade, Globalization, Battle in Seattle, Movie, Progressive Movement, Stuart Townsend, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

We also have nearly 15 years of experience with NAFTA and it clearly did not deliver on most of its promises. It was sold as a job creator, but the United States has actually lost jobs.

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McCain, Obama On Iraq, Afghanistan And Trade

Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, John McCain, Nato, Arugula, Katie Couric, Iraq, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Iraq Withdrawal, Obama Iraq, Free Trade, Auto Workers, Cafta, Education Reform, Election 2008, Home News
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling

Over the course of this week, OffTheBus is running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. The primer can act as a guide to how candidates Barack Obama and John McCain stand on each issue. Check out the links for more information on these issues. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on Iraq, Afghanistan and trade policy.

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The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Transportation, Immigration, Iraq, Race, Democratic Party, Sarah Palin, Stem Cell Research, Iran, Military, Phil Gramm, Carly Fiorina, Technology, Republican Party, African-American Issues, Abortion, Halliburton, Science, Free Trade, Hispanic Issues, Texas, Uzbekistan, Pennsylvania, Capitalism, Barack Obama, College, Oil, Health Care, Scranton, Energy, Gay Marriage, Economy, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.

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A Crash Course in Economics

Larry Beinhart | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Government Tax Policy 2008, Infrastructure, Free Trade, Bear Stearns, Economics, Stock Markets, Lehman Brothers, Economy, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Business News
Larry Beinhart

As I read the economics news, I'm having that exact same sensation, that we're in a slow motion crash.

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