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Dave Johnson's picture

A Possible Change In NAFTA Trade Policy?

This is interesting: US, Mexico, Canada to hold talks on NAFTA.

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David Sirota's picture

Rangel: Obama Aides Sending Pro-NAFTA Expansion Signals

In my column last week, I praised the Obama team for suggesting they see the political and policy danger of backing President Bush's proposed NAFTA expansion into Colombia - a country with one of the worst human rights records in the world. But now I see this little tidbit from Inside U.S. Trade: more »

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David Sirota's picture

Wash Post Re-Floats Possibility of Lame-Duck NAFTA Expansion

Glenn Greenwald long ago taught us why we should always look skeptically at the fact-free prognostications of the Washington Post's Steve Pearlstein. more »

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David Sirota's picture

It's a Trick - Get An Axe

"It's a trick - get an axe." - Ash more »

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David Sirota's picture

TRADE REPORT: Your Weekly Fill of What's Really Going On

With this week's reemergence of globalization and trade as major 2008 campaign issues, we thought it as good a time as any to launch our regular report on globalization, helping you sort through what is too often an esoteric and inaccessible discourse on one of the most important set of issue more »

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Tula Connell's picture

McCain's Flea-Market Economy

George W. Bush's solution to our nation's economic mess—that his failed policies helped create—is to applaud people who must work three jobs to make ends meet. more »

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Robert Borosage's picture

McCain Pledges Allegiance to NAFTA

Arizona Sen. John McCain continues his rousing campaign tour of the swing states of NAFTA this week. He will celebrate July 3 in Mexico City after a jaunt through Colombia to pledge support for the pending free trade accord with that center of cocaine trade. He surely will increase his margin over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama among business elites in Mexico and Canada. more »

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Bill Scher's picture

McCain's Long Strange Trip South of the Border

Public anger with trade agreements written by and for multinationals, protecting the interests of corporations but not workers, is on the rise. And McCain decides to campaign ... across the border, where the jobs are being sent.

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David Sirota's picture

The Growing Power of the Fair Trade Uprising

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 »