by Dave Johnson | Dec 30, 2014 | Blog
Petition: Stop Another Trade Deal 'Disaster' The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a disastrous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 29, 2014 | Blog
If we let Congress pre-approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Fast Track we won't need Congress anymore. Corporations will decide what the rules should be. This is for real. The next round of "NAFTA-style" trade agreements actually let corporate courts --...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 27, 2014 | Blog
Must watch, from Economy in Crisis through the USW Blog: [fve]http://youtu.be/W1WMiGsrhpA[/fve] Also (from 2011; it's worse now): 'Trade Deficit with China Has Cost 2.8 Million U.S. Jobs Over Past Decade." [fve]http://youtu.be/k_aiWswMQLc[/fve] For more recent figures...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
As soon as the new Congress is sworn in next year, the fight over Fast Track will begin. Start preparing now. David Cay Johnston, explains in "Full Speed Ahead On Secretive Trade Deal": (Note the 't' in his last name. I am David C JohnSON.) Early next year, after the...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
The midterm elections were a wake-up call. Voters had given up on the Democratic party as irrelevant – not really on their side, so they didn't bother to show up at the polls. But there are end-of-year holiday season bright spots for progressives as we think about the...
