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Is Ecuador Feeling Chevron's Pressure?

Robert Naiman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Environment, Ecuador, John McCain, Chevron, Trade, Barack Obama, Peter DeFazio, Business News
Robert Naiman

Chevron has been lobbying the U.S. government to pressure Ecuador to intervene the dispute between Chevron and 30,000 Amazon jungle dwellers suing the company for environmental damages.

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Is America Made in China?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.13.2008 | Business

Read More: China Products, Chinese Imports, Trade, Wal-Mart, Economy, China, Business News
John W. Whitehead

If China has anyone to thank for its economic ascendancy, it's American corporations like Wal-Mart and American consumers like you and me.

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Trade Deficit Falls Unexpectedly

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 09.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Trade, Trade Deficit, U.S. Imports, U.S. Exports, Business News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit has gone on a diet, helped by strong exports of farm products and manufactured goods and by Americans spendi...

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Draft Copy of Democratic Party Platform

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Health Care, Social Security, Platform, Democratic National Committee, Trade, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

I've been given a copy of the most recent draft of the Democratic Party's platform. I'm told that this is getting close to the end. There is good stuff and bad stuff. Here are the highlights.

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Celebrate, Don't Mourn, Collapse of WTO Talks

Robert Weissman | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Globalization, Wto, Corporate Globalization, Trade, Economy, Food Crisis, Business News
Robert Weissman

The alleged upside of the deal for developing countries -- increased access to rich country markets -- would have been of tiny benefit, even according to the World Bank.

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Blame the USA's Energy Disaster, Including the Collapsing US Auto Industry, on Congress

Rob Kall | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Congress, Gas Prices, Democratic Congress, US Auto Industry, Trade, Exports, Environment, Cars, US Exports, Auto Industry, Green News
Rob Kall

If we invest in giving consumers rebates for buying new US-made cars that have drastically improved mileage, that will help the auto manufacturers, help consumers and help our balance of trade.

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America's Economic Edge -- and the Olympics

Jeremy Haft | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, US Exports, Exports, Politcal Economy, Trade, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Business News
Jeremy Haft

In enumerating China's many strengths, we tend to downplay, or completely overlook, ours. China can't produce most of the modern goods and services it needs to grow its economy.

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Taiwan Declares Peace on China

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Robert Scheer, Taiwan, Bush, Mccain, Trade, Military Spending, Pornography of Power, Obama, Gorbachev, China, Politics News
Robert Scheer

To the Chinese, irrespective of past allegiances, the prospect of war has come to be viewed as counterproductive, and they now have the confidence to show it.

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US Exports To Iran Skyrocketed During Bush's Presidency

AP | SHARON THEIMER | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Trade, US Iran Trade, US Shipping to Iran, US Exports to Iran, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Nuclear weapons? No way. But there are plenty of items on Iran's shopping list the United States is more than happy to supply: ciga...

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Our Enduring Competitive Edge

Jeremy Haft | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Recalls, Competitiveness, Trade, Supply Chain, Heparin Recall, US Exports, China, Chinese Imports, Chinese Consumers, China Products, China Economy, U.S. China Economy, Business News
Jeremy Haft

The rash of product recalls reveals that China is not the manufacturing juggernaut we fear -- and that America has an edge we tend to overlook.

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Obama to Represent the Uprising on Trade?

David Sirota | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Trade, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Free Trade, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Sirota

Politicians supporting the Colombian trade deal have blood on their hands - there's no other way to put it.

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McCain's Lobbyist Loophole

David Donnelly | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, John McCain, Trade, Colombia, Lobbyists, 2008 Presidential Race, Fire the Lobbyists, Charlie Black, Campaign Money Watch, Politics News
David Donnelly

McCain's policy ignores the problem with having a campaign run by corporate and foreign lobbyists: they are happy to abandon their lobbying work temporarily to get valuable chits with the potential future president.

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McCain Pledges Allegiance to NAFTA

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, John McCain, Obama, Mccain, 2008 Election, Trade, Economy, Free Trade, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

Across the world, the revolt against the corporate trade model is growing. In the US, a majority polled in a January 2008 agreed that globalization has been bad. McCain simply doesn't get it.

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Trade deficit jumps to highest level in 13 months

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Trade Deficit, Trade, Business News

WASHINGTON — The trade deficit soared to the highest level in more than a year as an improvement in exports was swamped by record-high levels of...

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Destroying African Agriculture

Walden Bello | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Biofuels, Trade, Food Crisis, Malawi, World Bank, Agriculture, Africa, Imf, Wto, Structural Adjustment, Politics News
Walden Bello

African agriculture is a case study of how doctrinaire economics serving corporate interests can destroy a whole continent's productive base.

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John Edwards' Closing Argument -- And Why The Media Doesn't Get It

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards Health Care Plan, Unions, 2008 Election, Trade, John Edwards Iowa, Iowa Caucuses, Labor Unions, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

John Edwards is making his closing argument with the voters of Iowa -- and the media elites are having a hard time trying to understand why he is now ...

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Hillary Joins Obama In Backing Peru Trade Deal; Edwards Opposes

The Nation | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Trade, Politics News

Hillary Clinton had a chance to do one of two things on the Peru Free Trade Agreement. She could announce her opposition to the proposal and score th...

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