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Myths Of Protectionism Are Spread To Exploit Workers and the Environment

By Dave Johnson
September 18, 2009

“Protectionism” is a very powerful word. In fact, simply evoking the word is capable of ending debate on any subject related to trade. Invoking the magic words, “You can’t do that, it would be protectionist,” settles all arguments. more »

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National Association of Manufacturers Blasts … American Manufacturing?

By Dave Johnson
August 19, 2009

Last week Harold Meyerson wrote a great column in the Washington Post, Just One Word: Factories, promoting American manufacturing. Meyerson wrote, more »

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Becerra Turns Down USTR

By David Sirota
December 17, 2008

This story from Bloomberg is too bad - but let's hope Obama selects another fair-trader for the position:

Representative Xavier Becerra, a California Democrat, said he turned down an offer by President- elect Barack Obama to be U.S. Trade Representative and will stay in Congress. more »

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From the Ashes of Neoliberalism

By Michael Leon Guerrero
From communitychange.org
July 24th, 2008

communitychange.org — The neoliberal agenda has had devastating consequences. To change course, we will need to challenge the values of individualism and competition, and reintroduce the values of community and cooperation.

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The Growing Power of the Fair Trade Uprising

By David Sirota
June 25, 2008

LOUISVILLE, KY - I spent yesterday in Ohio's three biggest cities - Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. more »

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Trading Away America: Time For a Trade Policy That Works for Main Street, Not Just Wall Street

This is a golden opportunity for progressives to speak out against the unfair trade policies of President Bush, John McCain and their congressional enablers, and to lay out a progressive trade strategy that works for working people. more »


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Toward A New Washington Consensus

By David Sirota
May 16, 2008

For all the talk from "free trade"-backing politicians about needing to engage the world, most of them understand almost nothing about how the world sees our international economic policies. As I show in my latest newspaper column, our so-called Washington Consensus policies on globalization are stirring a backlash in both the industrialized and developing worlds.

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Manufacturing a Food Crisis

By Walden Bello
From thenation.com
May 15th, 2008

thenation.com — How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture--and who's fighting back.

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NAFTA-Type Deals Sour Public on Free Trade

Submitted by Isaiah J. Poole
May 5, 2008

Forty-eight percent of the people responding to an April 2008 Pew Research Center poll said that free trade agreements are a bad thing for the country, compared with 35 percent who call them a good thing. In that same poll, 61 percent of respondents said that free trade causes job losses, 56 percent said it lowers wages and 50 percent said it slows the economy.

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"Obama's Image Slips ... Public Support for Free Trade Declines," Section 4. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. May 1, 2008.
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From Jack Welch's Screeds to George Bush's Mouth

By David Sirota
April 22, 2008

General Electric's former CEO Jack Welch is one of the great economic royalists of the modern day. He is the guy who said the businessman's dream is to "have every plant you own on a barge" - so that the plant can move away anytime workers demand better wages, working conditions or environmental standards. more »

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