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TPP Dead

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On November 15, 2016
This is certainly not the way I wanted it to happen, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead. Personally, I’d take neoliberalism and the TPP over Trumpism and no TPP any day. The killing of the TPP in this fashion really isn’t going to solve any of the problems with it. The Trump administration is still […]
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Our Allies in Global Trade

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On October 4, 2016
Sure the Department of Labor has placed the Vietnamese textile industry on its list of those industries using child and forced labor. But why let that stop us from implementing the Trans Pacific Partnership! Meanwhile, the U.S. will do absolutely nothing to actually stop this from happening. And let’s be clear–it very well could. The […]

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 effectivel

The TPP and Big Ag

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On June 14, 2016

As I have stated many times, I don’t really care about GMOs in terms of thinking of them as any sort of health threat and I think concerns on that end are much closer to chemtrails than a legiti

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If Obama is going to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership, I’d like to see his arguments for it be serious, as opposed to “The current system doesn’t work well. We should do something about it. This is something. Let’s do this!” People afraid of losing jobs and market share to foreign countries should embrace a pending […]
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Outsourced Oreos

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On March 30, 2016
It’s no wonder that growing number of Americans would be attracted to either socialism or fascism when economic stagnation and working-class decline are the reality for millions of people. A key part of this of course is outsourcing industrial production to other nations, which destroys the ability of working-class people without college educations to live […]
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