by Dave Johnson | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/nO4k2lLXiT8[/fve] BuzzFeed is running a very important investigative series called "Secrets of a Global Super Court." It describes what they call "a parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else."...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Corporations are more and more in the habit of telling governments that they are the boss of them. If corporations get their way, "trade" agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will formalize...
by Leo Gerard | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, This Is The GOP
Two Republican judges ceded their principles last week to Ohio Republicans intent on suppressing the African-American vote. The Ohio GOP, like their counterparts nationally, have decided that if they can’t win minority voters, they will cheat. So over the past decade,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 29, 2016 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
News out of Germany that U.S. trade negotiations with Europe similar to the one that produced the Trans-Pacific Partnership have collapsed is another sign that an organized grassroots is successfully putting the multinational corporate trade agenda on its heels....
by Robert Reich | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
I recently got a call from a political analyst in Washington. “Trump is dropping like a stone,” he said, convincingly. “After Election Day, he’s history.” I think Trump will lose the election, but I doubt he’ll be “history.” Defeated presidential candidates typically...
by Nancy Altman | Aug 29, 2016 | Election 2016, Retirement Security
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has released a new ad that reveals that either he doesn’t understand Social Security or he wants to galvanize opposition to Social Security. Either way, his rhetoric undermines our collective security. In his ad, Trump...