Gilbert Mercier
Counterpunch
If humans were largely moral and ethical beings, then globalization could be a workable proposition. Unfortunately, the dark behavioral narcissism expressed by compulsive greed and an infinite appetite for power seems to have become the guiding precept of our collective nightmare.
Is TPP "just stunned" too. Not likely.by Gaius PubliusPerhaps you've been reading about the demise of TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership "trade" agreement. I put trade in quotes because that's what it's called, but that's not what it is.
Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire
Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau announced he’s ready to ‘reassess’ the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with US President-elect Donald Trump, as China pivots away from a highly unpopular Obama-sponsored TPP trade deal…
By Rob Urie | CounterPunch | November 4, 2016 The U.S. is entering a dangerous political phase where a distant and cloistered political class threatens the use of state power to legitimize itself in the face of declining popular support and serial military calamities of its own making. In 2001 the George W. Bush administration […]
Senator Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2008 promising to use the threat of presidential unilateral withdrawal to force renegotiation of NAFTA by Gaius PubliusI mentioned something in passing, on the way to make another point in this piece, that deserves to be a point on its own.
The cost of college compared to other consumer costs, 1985–2011 (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius Publius "I feel like a lot of the stuff Hillary does, you can see when she is trying to, like, earn the youth vote, and it just doesn't work," Nick Chanko, 20, who goes to school in Montreal but votes in New York,
By Branko Marcetic | Jacobin | August 16, 2016 Among the right-wingers that have jumped the Republican ship and thrown their support behind Hillary Clinton in the last few months, you’ll find neoconservatives and warmongers who have vocally supported just about every heinous US foreign policy venture under the sun, from the Iraq War to […]
By JP Sottile | Consortium News | August 1, 2016 Did perennial Clinton rainmaker and current Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe let the cat out of the bag? The “cat” is the widely-held suspicion that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton isn’t really opposed to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The “bag” is the campaign narrative that […]
By Manuel Perez-Rocha | IPS | June 29, 2016 U.S. trade negotiators continue to claim that free trade agreements help to support security, but in reality, they exacerbate the root causes of instability in the Mesoamerican region, IPS’s Manuel Perez-Rocha said in a speech at the AFL-CIO conference on U.S. trade policy. “Real security encompasses economic, human, […]
