by Dave Johnson | May 1, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The enormous, humongous trade deficit is doing incredible damage to our economy. Our country's elites used to care about that. In 2003 Warren Buffett wrote a highly-influerntial article, America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling The Nation Out From Under Us. Here's A...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama held a joint press conference on Sunday with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and was somewhat dismissive of critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive "trade" treaty currently being negotiated between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei,...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
There is a huge trade treaty coming that will completely change the relationship between giant corporations and governments around the world. So why is the American corporate media telling the public so little about the Trans-Pacific Partnership? The Trans-Pacific...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, they didn’t come any nuttier than Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, and the right-wing pundits and politicians who rushed to support his “range war" against the federal government. Revolution was almost nigh, until Bundy shot off his mouth. It’s hard to blame...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama is in Asia, partly to "reassure" partner countries that the U.S. is a strong ally and partly to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Both are to counter China's growing influence. While TPP is being sold as a "strategic" countermeasure to China,...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 23, 2014 | Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
Obamacare didn’t come with ”death panels," like conservatives claimed it would. So, Republican governors and state legislatures formed their own. Until the death of Charlene Dill, the victims of those death panels were invisible. Conservatives constantly say that poor...
