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Free Trade Run Amok: The 'TPP'

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: President Obama, South Korea, Nafta, Trade, Cafta, Colombia, Pacific Rim, Panama, China, Japan, Politics News

Bilateral and thoughtfully constructed 'smallish' regional agreements are always preferable to massive multilateral agreements among widely disparate trading partners.

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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

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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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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Our Muddled China Policy

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Congress, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trade Policy, Nafta, China Trade Policy, China Trade, Rare Earth Minerals, China, President Obama, Politics News

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.

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As the Old Guard Liberals Exit Congress, a New Breed Must Take Their Place

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?

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Banana Republic Legacy Thrives in Today's Latin America

Michelle Chen | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Women, Gender Discrimination, Del Monte, Latin America, Central America, Agriculture, Globalization, Free Trade, Bananas, Labor Unions, Civil Rights, Chiquita, Labor, Human Rights, Banana Republic, Nafta, Cafta, Guatemala, Unions, World News

The term "banana republic" has become a cliche to describe economic imperialism throughout history, but the legacy of colonialism persists in Latin America today.

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Carnage and Crime In Mexico Offer More Reasons to Keep Unsafe Trucks Off U.S. Roads

James P. Hoffa | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Mexico, James Hoffa, Labor, Nafta, Transportation, Mexican Truckers, Mexico Trucking, Business News

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.

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Tpp, U.S. Trade Representative, Video, Lori Wallach, Auction 2012, Public Citizen, Trade, Nafta, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturing, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Trade Agreements, Job Creation, Politics News

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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How, Exactly, Does Trade Bring Prosperity?

Stan Sorscher | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, De-Industrialization, Trade Deficit Agreements, Trade, Industrial Policy, Wto, Trade Policy, Civil Society, Nafta, Business News

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...

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Mining Ban: Good for the Grand Canyon, but Not for El Salvador?

Sarah Anderson | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Grand Canyon, Free Trade, Peru, Nafta, Mining, Cafta, Investors, Green News

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.

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The American Spring

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...

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Why Free Trade Isn't Trade

Ian Fletcher | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Free Trade, Panama Free Trade Agreement, Korea Free Trade Agreement, Colombia Free Trade, Trade, Nafta, Video, Politics News

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.

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NAFTA Is Starving Mexico

Laura Carlsen | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Trade, Nafta, Agriculture, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Mexico, Free Trade, Food Security, World News

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.

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NAFTA’s Long, Bumpy Road: Nearly 20 Years Later, First Mexican Truck Reaches U.S. Interior

HuffingtonPost.com | Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Free Trade, North American Free Trade Agreement, Nafta, Mexican Trucks, Video, Latino Voices News

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...

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Gov. Buddy Roemer Calls for Withdrawal From NAFTA, WTO

Ian Fletcher | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Buddy Roemer, Republican Primary, Wto, Nafta, Buddy Roemer 2012, Free Trade, Protectionism, 2012 Gop Candidates, Politics News

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.

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A New Approach to Immigration: It's Time to Stop Blaming Immigrants

Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Free Trade, Labor, Immigration, Lclaa, Cheap Labor, Nafta, Latino Voices News

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.

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Occupy Philadelphia: The Birth of "Peopleism"

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Politicsnation, Greatest Commandment, Michael Moore, Al Sharpton, John Lennon, Occupy Philadelphia, Nafta, Sermon on the Mount, Herman Cain, Politics News

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...

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It's NAFTA x3 as Free Trade Deals Sweep Through Congress

Michelle Chen | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Korea, Fair Trade, Free Trade, Labor, Human Rights, Panama, Nafta, Colombia, World News

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.

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Free Trade Agreements Mean Job Losses in the Other Country as Well

Bill Ong Hing | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Mexico, Free Trade Agreements, Undocumented Immigration, Panama Free Trade Agreement, South Korea, U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Nafta, Corn Subsidies, Free Trade, Politics News

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.

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Job-Killing Trade Deals Pass Congress Amidst Record Democratic Opposition

Lori Wallach | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Trade Deficit, Colombia, Trade, Panama, Korea, Korea Free Trade Agreement, Nafta, Politics News

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.

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Free Trade Deals Will Export American Jobs, Not American Products

Rep. Ted Deutch | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Fair Trade, Politics News, Congress, Trade Deficit, Nafta, South Korea, Trade, Panama, Exports, Globalization, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Jobs, Florida, Democrats, China, Politics News

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.

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Chicago to Wall Street: Pay Us Back!

Mary Bottari | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Occupy Chicago, Wall Street, Nafta, Rahm Emanuel, Occupy Wall Street, Ron Suskind New Book, Finanical Crisis, Big Banks, Ron Suskind Confidence Men, Business News

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.

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Colombia FTA: Blood Won't Easily Be Washed Away

Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Latin America, Trade, Nafta, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Environment, 112th Congress, Free Trade, U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Unions, Politics News

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.

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Is Herman Cain Any Good on Trade? You Try Figuring It Out

Ian Fletcher | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Free Trade, Nafta, Cafta, Herman Cain, Trade Deficit, Trade, Economic Crisis, Chinese Economy, Herman Cain Presidential Campaign, China Currency, Recession, Politics News

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.

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Big Pharma Wins, AIDS Patients Lose In New Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Tpp, Trading Our Future, Pepfar, Economy, Hiv, Bill Daley, Obama, Aids Relief, Dylan Ratigan, Pharma, Video, William Daley, Ustr, Trans-Pacific, Nafta, Trade, Aids, Vietnam, 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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