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ISDS Courts

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On September 2, 2016
I have written a lot about the Investor State Dispute Settlement courts that make up a central tenet of the Trans Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements. These extra-national courts effectively give corporations a new legal system to protect their interests that has no accountability to nations or peoples, no access for those peoples to […]
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Above: People who have clearly won because of free trade Whenever Vox wants to defend free trade like an evangelist defends some dude walking on water, it gets Zack Beauchamp to write about it. There was of course the ridiculous fear-mongering about Bernie Sanders column he wrote a month ago, claiming Sanders’ ideas were basically […]
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Opposition to Free Trade

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On March 24, 2016
The opposition to our global trade policies and the decimation of the working class in the United States is driving a good bit of the election campaign. How strong is that opposition? Opposition to free trade is a unifying concept even in a deeply divided electorate, with almost two-thirds of Americans favoring more restrictions on […]
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I’ve still never seen a free trade agreement that didn’t crush unions on both sides of the agreement:  About 500 fishing cannery workers are in crisis in the Moroccan city of Agadir, according to the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco, and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), which is campaigning on the […]

Economic Populism

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On February 22, 2016

We know how the appeal of Bernie Sanders is based around economic populism, especially since he’s primarily a 1-issue candidate and that’s the issue. And we know why–growing income i

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