by Dave Johnson | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The enormous, humongous US trade deficit continues to drain jobs, wages, and prosperity from our country's economy. We close factories and fire workers here, move factories and jobs there, and because the goods now cross a border our elites brag that they have...
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 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 Dave Johnson | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Many opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) continue to assume Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is only saying she opposes TPP to get their votes, while hoping it passes in the "lame duck" session of Congress after the election and before...
by Jamie Horwitz | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Do you remember the old Elvis hit "Return to Sender," and its lyrics “Return to sender, no such address, no such zone?” That’s the message that 2,000 postal workers from across the nation delivered at a rally against TPP Tuesday at Disney World’s Dolphin Hotel,...