U.S. TRADE POLICY: POPULIST AN...

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[Translate] Posted April 18, 2016 at 12:30 pm by Jeff Faux   This post originally appeared in The Globalist. The presidential primary...

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TPP WOULD FUEL CLIMATE CHAOS A...

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[Translate] MARK RUFFALO OF ECOWATCH ON BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT (Photo: EcoWatch)Article reprinted with permission from EcoWatch Many...

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THE CHANGING POLITICS OF FREE ...

Apr 1, 2016 by

[Translate] Economy & Work The 2016 presidential race is fraying the Washington consensus, exposing the downside of trade deals...

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SANDERS ACCEPTED CHALLENGE TO ...

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[Translate]     Common Dreams Talking trade policy in Ohio, Sanders also picks up key endorsement from Congresswomen Marcy...

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WHY HILLARY COULD BE A LOT MOR...

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[Translate] Election 2016 Hillary will have enormous difficulty defending herself on three key issues: trade, war and Wall Street. By...

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CANADA AND THE U.S. MAY BE ABO...

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[Translate] by Samantha Page CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Susan Walsh President Barack Obama, right, and Canada’s Prime Minister...

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TRADE RULING ON INDIA SOLAR DI...

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[Translate] AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE February 29, 2016 Dave Johnson “Watch what we do, not what we say.” – Nixon Attorney General...

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PROFIT OVER THE PLANET: WTO...

Feb 27, 2016 by

[Translate] WTO tribunal ruled in a lawsuit initiated by the U.S. that India’s national solar energy program violates trade law...

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KEYSTONE, FOOD LABELING CASES ...

Jan 11, 2016 by

[Translate] Dave Johnson   AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has provisions that allow corporations to...

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How the TPP Fulfills Big Ag...

Dec 6, 2015 by

[Translate] The deeply flawed agreement compromises food safety and public health — and opens the possibility for private...

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WHAT TPP MEANS FOR AGRICULTURA...

Oct 12, 2015 by

[Translate] Canadian dairy farmers campaigned hard to keep milk imports out.    REUTERS/Chris Wattie By Nathanael Johnson GRIST While...

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NEW LEAK OF FINAL TPP TEXT CON...

Oct 11, 2015 by

[Translate]   Common Dreams “The monopolist pharmaceutical industry has won a lot with the TPP, at the expense of...

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WE’VE SOLD OUT THE ENVIR...

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[Translate] “It’s a corporate dream but a nightmare for those of us on Main Street” Ben Norton   We’ve...

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MEMO TO PROGRESSIVES: HILLIARY...

Oct 8, 2015 by

[Translate] All politicians flip-flop. But Clinton’s TPP opposition marks one of the more brazen U-turns in recent history Jack...

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ENVIRONMENTALISTS: THE TRANS-P...

Oct 7, 2015 by

[Translate] by Samantha Page CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Mark Baker Opponents of the TPP say its a sweetheart deal for fossil...

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HERE’S WHY THE TRANS-PAC...

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[Translate] By Robert Reich  TRUTHDIG     A protest against the proposed TPP trade agreement and NAFTA Agreement in Toronto, Canada....

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TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP TRAD...

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[Translate]   By JACKIE CALMES NYTIMES World Leaders React to Trade Agreement The United States trade representative, Michael...

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BI-POLAR DISORDER: OBAMA’...

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[Translate]   by Paul Street  COUNTERPUNCH   We live in strange Orwellian, Islamophobic, and eco-cidal times. A comrade from the...

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LESSONS FROM CONFRONTING THE G...

Aug 27, 2015 by

[Translate] HIGHTOWER LOWDOWN A plucky (and smart!) grassroots coalition has pushed the dastardly Trans-Pacific Partnership to the...

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CONGRESS IS SICK OF THE SECREC...

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[Translate] TPP And Senator Sherrod Brown is blocking a key Obama nominee to show it. By George Zornick THE NATION Sherrod Brown...

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Picking Apart One of the Bigge...

Aug 19, 2015 by

[Translate] Economy It just enriches huge companies at everyone else’s expense. By Thom Hartmann / AlterNet In 1992, Ross Perot...

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OBAMA WON’T LET SOME MAS...

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[Translate] Politics Human trafficking It appears Malaysia will be given a free pass on human trafficking in order to protect the...

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SENTENCE FIRST, VERDICT AFTERW...

Jun 24, 2015 by

[Translate]   By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt  TRUTHDIG JD Hancock / CC BY 2.0 This piece first appeared at Web of Debt. It was...

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FAST-TRACK CLEARS SENATE HURDL...

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[Translate] Thirteen Democrats voted for the controversial legislation. By Michael Arria / AlterNet Protesters gather outside the...

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TPP IS CLOSER TO BECOMING A RE...

Jun 23, 2015 by

[Translate] Fast-track advances, boosting the Obama administration’s push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Sophia Tesfaye ...

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HILLARY CLINTON IS GOING TO LO...

Jun 22, 2015 by

[Translate] She doesn’t even see the frustrated progressive wave that will nominate Bernie Sanders Clinton’s positioning on TPP...

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SENATE FAST-TRACK VOTE TUESDAY...

Jun 19, 2015 by

[Translate] AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE Dave Johnson Now that the House passed a stand-alone fast track trade promotion authority...

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FAST TRACK NOT OVER!

Jun 15, 2015 by

[Translate] White House House GOP eyeing another shot at trade bill Republicans are expected to again try to pass Obama’s trade...

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