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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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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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REUTERS: Pelosi Offers Hope for Colombia Trade Deal

By David Sirota
April 16, 2008

A lot of people gave me flack for simply pointing out that Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership were saying they delayed the lobbyist-written Colombia Free Trade Agreement not to stop it, but to pass it. more »

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Blood Money

By David Sirota
April 11, 2008

As progressives, we sometimes feel a bit uneasy about making declarative statements about the values people express in their actions. We hesitate, for instance, to call things "evil," not wanting to be like George "Wiith Us, or Against Us" Bush. That's understandable - absolutism can lead to bad places. more »

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I Repeat: They're Not Trying to Kill It - They're Trying to Pass It

By David Sirota
April 10, 2008

As I keep saying, Democrats' move to delay the Colombia Free Trade Deal is not a move to kill the bill and take a stand for human rights abroad and a just economic policy at home - it is a move to make sure the bill can ultimately pass. more »

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What It's Always About: Money

By David Sirota
April 10, 2008

Well, at least Democratic corporate hacks in Washington are being a little more honest with us about why they refuse to kill a trade deal with a murderous right-wing regime. It's not about principle, it's about what it's always about - money: more »

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