Free Trade Run Amok: The 'TPP'
Bilateral and thoughtfully constructed 'smallish' regional agreements are always preferable to massive multilateral agreements among widely disparate trading partners.
Bilateral and thoughtfully constructed 'smallish' regional agreements are always preferable to massive multilateral agreements among widely disparate trading partners.
Michelle Chen | Posted 04.30.2012
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.
Lori Wallach | Posted 05.20.2012
Wall Street has a new power tool to demolish financial stability policies, and it comes from a source many would not expect.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.18.2012
This is supposed to be a period of bitter bipartisan deadlock, in which Republicans and Democrats can agree on nothing. But when it comes to trade deals that serve corporate but not the national interest, bipartisanship is all too alive and well.
Pearl Korn | Posted 05.13.2012
Who will pick up the mantle of this unabashed progressive voice in the House? Who will stand in Dennis Kucinich's place and demand that our government do the right thing by the People and the other nations of the world?
Michelle Chen | Posted 04.23.2012
The term "banana republic" has become a cliche to describe economic imperialism throughout history, but the legacy of colonialism persists in Latin America today.
James P. Hoffa | Posted 04.22.2012
NAFTA was supposed to eliminate trade barriers among Canada, Mexico and the U.S. But Mexico has clearly failed to do what the deal requires it to. If a violent drug war isn't an impediment to trade, I don't know what is.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.02.2012
Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement ...
Stan Sorscher | Posted 03.12.2012
I work for a labor union in the aerospace industry. We are 100% in favor of trade. We make products the rest of the world wants to buy. With increas...
Sarah Anderson | Posted 03.12.2012
We should urge the Obama administration to take an important stand in support of social and environmental stewardship by rewriting our trade rules to put people and the planet first.
Ronald Ricker | Posted 01.28.2012
Somewhere, sometime, accelerating rapidly recently, we Americans have lost it--the American Dream. We were the land of opportunity, the land of equa...
Ian Fletcher | Posted 01.19.2012
The U.S. continues to lurch down the rubble-strewn path of free-trade fantasy economics, signing yet more trade agreements when the ones we already have haven't delivered as promised.
Laura Carlsen | Posted 12.31.2011
Corporate control of the food system locked in by NAFTA not only starves people in Mexico. It locks in a profoundly unhealthy food system for the entire region. No one expects the situation to get better by itself.
HuffingtonPost.com | Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez | Posted 12.24.2011
DALLAS -- Nearly two decades after the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the first Mexican truck ventured into the U.S. under provis...
Ian Fletcher | Posted 12.21.2011
I have found one candidate whom I believe is genuinely serious about fixing America's trade mess. He's an undeniable long shot, as Herman Cain was until recently. But it's not my aim here to handicap a horse race.
Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 12.21.2011
It is hypocritical to keep blaming immigrants for complex problems while we consume produce harvested by immigrants, occupy buildings and homes erected by them, and drive on roads made possible by their labor.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 12.19.2011
Having attended Occupy Philadelphia for a second visit Tuesday, October 18, this time with my friend, Carolyn, I was honored to hear two gifted orator...
Michelle Chen | Posted 12.20.2011
Free trade deals have always been less about creating jobs than exporting neoliberal ideology to the Global South, thereby accelerating poor nations' cascade toward low labor standards, environmental exploitation and deregulation.
Bill Ong Hing | Posted 12.17.2011
Labor groups argue that the FTAs will result in more U.S. job losses. Obscured by the the debate, however, is the potential for negative economic effects in the partner countries as well.
Lori Wallach | Posted 12.13.2011
With 9 percent unemployment and Americans desperate for job creation, it is unconscionable that President Obama and House Republicans just shoved through a trio of NAFTA-style job-killing trade agreements.
Rep. Ted Deutch | Posted 12.12.2011
In the midst of unprecedented long-term unemployment, I cannot support trade agreements that repeat the mistakes of previous trade deals that shipped millions of American jobs overseas.
Mary Bottari | Posted 12.12.2011
Chicagoans took to the streets this week to hold the big banks accountable for crashing the economy and to demand city, state and federal policies that work for working families.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 12.11.2011
Voting for the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is a vote for violent union-busting, for driving people from their land, and setting the American working man and woman up to compete on an uneven playing field that will cost jobs and livelihoods.
Ian Fletcher | Posted 12.07.2011
Maybe Herman Cain, the latest boomlet in the GOP presidential race, will be elected president. Or maybe his 15 minutes of fame have just arrived. Either way, it behooves us to see what he thinks about America's trade mess.
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.05.2011
This piece is a continuation of The Huffington Post's collaboration on trade issues with The Dylan Ratigan Show, called Trading Our Future. WASHING...
Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.01.2012