by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 23, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Late last week a largely anonymous group of officials from several major world economies gathered in Washington, most likely in an office a short walk from the White House, to hammer out details of an agreement that is often described as "NAFTA on steroids." In other...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The corporate push to get Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is about to begin. Again and again we have been promised that these trade agreements "create jobs" and grow the economy. So do they? "Free-Trade" Claims Proponents of...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 12, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
This week’s AFL-CIO convention discussed the problem of these "trade" agreements that have undercut America’s middle class by pitting our country’s working people against exploited people (near-slaves in some cases) elsewhere. The convention passed a resolution vowing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 10, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
An analysis released today of the effects of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement concludes that "most workers are likely to lose" as a result of the agreement, and that what the economy will gain as a whole "amounts to a rounding error." The study,...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 5, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
I am sounding the alarm. Right now governments and the giant multinational corporations are engaged in writing a treaty that would overrule national laws that try to rein in what these giant corporations can do to us. This treaty will allow corporations to sue...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 26, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
There is a big strike in Colombia, and you probably don't know about it. Farmers and others are protesting over a variety of grievances including the devastating effect of free-trade agreements, privatization and inequality-driven poverty. Corporate-owned American...
