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Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance

Jeff Cohen | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Congress, Rahm Emanuel, Nafta, Afghanistan, Republicans, Politics News

From the stimulus to health care, Obama's shown a Clinton-like willingness to roll over progressives on his way to corrupt legislation and frantic efforts to compromise for the votes of corporate Democrats or "moderate" Republicans.

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It's All About The Jobs, Smartie!

Pat Choate | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Bobby Rush, Unemployment, President Obama, Candice Miller, Unemployment Rate., Jobs Now!, Jobs, White House Jobs Conference, Joblessness, Unemployment Rate, Nafta, Marcy Kaptur, Politics News

President Obama does not seem to understand seems that the single most important concern for most Americans is the vast and growing national joblessness.

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Mexico's Union Bust Reveals Flaws in NAFTA

Laura Carlsen | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico, Nafta, Mexican Strikes, Felipe Calderon, Unions, World News

"From one day to the next, they left us with no job," said an out-of-work electrician, as he marched alongside some 200,000 fellow workers and their supporters in downtown Mexico City this month.

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A Panel of Pros

Jonathan Tisch | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York

Read More: J.P. Morgan Chase, Penny Pritzker, Cafta, Marty Lipton, Bill Daley, Regulation, Free Trade, Economic Recovery, Nafta, Alternative Investment Management, Recession, New York News

Where will we end up in a new regulated environment? Jonathan Tisch asks some of those closest to President Obama: Bill Daley, lawyer Marty Lipton and Penny Pritzker.

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Mexico Revs up War on Workers; Obama Shrugs

Jeff Faux | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Workers' Rights, Calderon, Obama, Labor Unions, Nafta, Luz Y Fuerza, Mexico, World News

In Mexico, it was as if the US government had suddenly sent the National Guard to take over the Tennessee Valley Authority and replace its workers with people from Duke Power on the grounds that the TVA had run a deficit.

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Martin Luther King Would Have Loved the Teabaggers, Not Called Them Racists

Mike Elk | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Teabaggers, Martin Luther King, Rush Limbaugh, Bailout, Nafta, Cafta, Glenn Beck, Obama, Democratic Party, Tea Party, Politics News

Very few of us have made any attempt to really reach out to the teabaggers on the issues that we share with them. We could lock arms with them and form a powerful alliance; but instead we attack each other.

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Thanks to Operation Gatekeeper, Death Toll Increases to Over 5,000

Mary Ann West | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Immigration Reform, Nafta, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Border Fence, Border Wall, Minutemen, Politics News

Fifteen years of failed immigration policy has not lessened the number of undocumented aliens entering the country and has cost millions in dollars.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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"I Did Everything But Fart In His Face"

David Sirota | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, William Greider, Nafta, Politics News

Clinton told Taylor Branch about an interview with Rolling Stone's William Greider: "I did everything but fart in his face." The revelation about Clinton's interaction with Greider isn't groundbreaking, but it is telling.

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The Mystique of "Free-Market Guy" Obama

Jeff Cohen | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Market, Obama Business, Obama Free Market, Nafta, Obama Free Trade, Politics News

Liberal activists need to be smart enough to see Obama for the status quo politician he is -- and to act accordingly.

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Should Mexican Trucks Be Allowed Throughout U.S.?

Steve Parker | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Inspector General, Congress, San Ysidro, Nafta, Mexican Trucks, Tariffs, Teamsters Union, Laredo, Cars, James Hoffa, Mexico, Calexico, Department of Transportation, Business News

The recent release of a Transportation Departments inspector general's office government audit has brought to a head, once again, an issue which ignites deep feelings and loyalties in the best people.

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Specter-Sestak Attack Each Other From The Left on Free Trade

Mike Elk | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Sestak, Netroots Nation, Specter, Nafta, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Arlen Specter, Obama and NAFTA, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Specter Sestak, Manufacturing Job Losses, Pennsylvania, Congressman-Joe-Sestak, Cafta, International Trade Commission, Pittsburgh, Arlen Specter Democrat, Politics News

Manufacturing is essential to rebuilding our economy and moving away from the debt-driven boom bust cycles of the past.

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Trucks, Drugs and NAFTA: Time for Congress to do the Right Thing

Gary Shapiro | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Mexico did not take lightly to the U.S. closing our border to their trucks -- that's why they're called "trade wars."

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Dude, Where's My Industrial Policy?

Dave Johnson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Manufacturing, Industrial Policy, President Obama's Stimulus, Green Jobs, Nafta, Ohio, Senator Sherrod Brown, Manufacturing, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, China Currency, China, Manufacturing Jobs, Politics News

Face it, if we do not have an active and engaged industrial policy we are handing the business over to those who do. It is time to start discussing a national plan for manufacturing.

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Illegal People: An Island of Rationality

Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: International Trade, Migration, Mexico Immigration, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Human Rights, David Bacon, Nafta, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Globalization, Guest Workers, Labor Unions, Politics News

The hostility of globalization forces corporate management to compete for the cheapest possible products at the expense of exploited workers.

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A Fashion Foreign Policy

Michael Likosky | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Sporting Goods, Vivienne Westwood, Punk Rock, How Luxury Lost Its Luster, Bailouts, President Obama, Target, Globalization, California, Paris, Bernard Arnault, Luxury, Fashion Foreign Policy, Foreign Commercial Policy, Guilds, Trade Agreements, Rules of Origin, What Not to Wear, Export-Import Bank, Bailing Out Luxury, Carla Behrle, Loomstate, Private Equity, Artisans, America's Next Model, Nafta, Jennie Livingston, Outsourcing, Labor, Paris Is Burning, Worker Rights, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, LVMH Moet Hennessy, Dana Thomas, Culture Industry, Wto, Business News

To protect American workers, in the luxury sector and elsewhere, our government trade negotiators should revisit outsourcing rules.

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NAFTA And The Drug Cartels: "A Deal Made In Narco Heaven" -- Exclusive Excerpt and Live Chat at 3pm EST

Ryan Grim | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Cartels, This Is Your Country on Drugs, Drug War, Nafta, Mexico Drug Cartels, Nafta Mexico, Mexico, Ryan Grim, NAFTA Drug War, NAFTA Drugs, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Wars, Politics News

The NAFTA debate was difficult enough without having to talk about the sprawling Mexican drug trade and its attendant corruption. And how NAFTA would also end up benefiting the cartels. So President Clinton ordered his people not to talk about it.

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Blood and Treasure: Free Trade Human Plasma Across the US Mexican Border?

Aram Roston | Posted 07.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Nafta, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Plasma, Public Health, Health Care Reform, Mexico, Investigative Journalism, Medicine, Health Care, Investigation, Business News

The United States is the world's leading exporter of human plasma - providing about 70 per cent of global supplies, the biggest player in what is now a multibillion dollar business.

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It Stinks to High Heaven

Javier Sierra | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Latinos, Smithfield, Employee Free Choice Act, Swine Flu, Factory Farms, Mexico, Hispanics, Hispanics and the Environment, Sierra Club, Latinos and the Environment, Cafos, Nafta, Environment, Veracruz, H1n1, Industrial Agriculture, Green News

The Mexican meat industry generates 130 million tons of fecal and urine matter each year, which often ends up in rivers and on coasts causing terrible environmental damage.

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Lesson Learned

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Investment Banks, Timothy Geithner, Offshoring, Bank Bailout, Trade, Nafta, Politics News

We're bailing out the economy boat desperately with stimulation, but the financial leadership opposes plugging the hole in the hull from offshoring.

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Shared Responsibilities for Shared Problems

Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus and Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mexico, Immigration Marches, Immigration, Nafta, President Obama, Swine Flu, Labor, Politics News

We cannot allow the swine flu pandemic to cast a shadow on one of the most important civil rights issues of our time -- immigration reform.

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Pass the Employee Free Choice Act

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Employee Free Choice Act, International Monetary Fund, Afl-Cio, Corporate Power, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, World Trade Organization, Wall Street, Nafta, Colombia, Vietnam War, John Sweeney, Iraq, Saul Alinsky, Iraq Timetable, Politics News

Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is easy to justify on the basis of guaranteeing the basic human rights of working Americans.

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Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Deregulation, Bill Clinton, Orwellian, Vietnam War, Jimmy Carter, Congress, Afghanistan, Republicans, Lyndon Johnson, Democratic Party, Democrats, Nafta, Barack Obama, Vietnam, Politics News

When Obama takes a progressive step, it has been made possible by progressive activism. When Obama takes an anti-progressive step, it has been facilitated by progressives muting their criticism.

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Bad Assumptions Guide US Policy on Day of Obama Visit to Mexico

Ted Lewis | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Mexico Immigration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Obama Mexico, President Obama, Mexico, Felipe CalderóN, Immigration, Mexican Army, Nafta, Mexico Drug Wars, World News

we need an approach that decriminalizes undocumented workers and prioritizes stabilizing Mexican communities as part of a broader program of economic recovery.

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It's the Global Economy (Stupid) -- or Is It?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: G20 Summit, Global Economy, Nafta, European Union, Free Trade, Globalization, Global Financial Crisis, g20, Global Economic Crisis, Economy, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, Fiscal Stimulus, Monetary Policy, Keynesian Economics, Economic Stimulus Package, Deregulation, World News

The contemporary idea of the "global economy" is based on a misapplied analogy to the historical development of national economies.

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