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Why Move Jobs From Democracies To Thugocracies?

"Free trade" treaties like NAFTA have wiped out entire regions of our country and left entire segments of our population without good-paying jobs -- or in so many cases with no jobs at all. And they have had similar results with our trade "partners." We can see that now. So why are we even talking about doing more of these treaties?

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What "Free Trade" Has Cost The World

If you take a job away from someone who is paid a reasonable wage because they enjoy the protections and prosperity of democratic government, move it across a border, and give it to someone living under a thugocracy, forced to work for pennies with no protections whatsoever, it should be just plain obvious that the worker on our side of the border and the worker on the other side of the border are more »

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Falling Apart, Falling Behind

Not only is America's infrastructure is crumbling, but we are getting lapped by Europe and China when it comes to public investment.

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Safe Toys, Edible Food, Smart Globalization

Why is it that people who question globalization are treated like Neanderthals?

You’re a protectionist, critics charge. Globalization is here to stay; you can’t turn back the clock, you Neanderthal! Besides, look at all the great stuff we get for cheap! more »

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Manufacturing a Food Crisis

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

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Surging oil and food prices fuel global inflation

afp.google.com — Soaring oil and food prices lifted inflation to record levels in Europe on Wednesday and posed a serious threat to governments worldwide amid expert warnings of social upheaval.

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Global poverty to halve by 2015, Africa lags

africa.reuters.com — The world is on course to halve extreme poverty by 2015, but Africa will fall far short of the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.

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Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs There

alternet.org — Seal-the-border hysteria is everywhere. Instead of blaming immigrants for America's problems, let's look at executives on both sides of the border.

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