Tag: NAFTA
The disintegration of North America
Director Michael Moore was trying to satirize the U.S. penchant for invading other countries.
Why relentless enforcement will make or break the new NAFTA
Because if Mexico fails to relentlessly enforce the USMCA, the new trade agreement will be as big a failure as the old.
Where’s the beef in NAFTA 2.0?
“MAGA,” blusters Donald Trump — Make America Great Again!
America’s ranching families, however, would like Trump to come off...
Whether it’s the new NAFTA or the old NAFTA, it serves...
NAFTA displaced 2 million Mexican family farmers as U.S. agricultural products, sometimes subsidized, flowed tariff-free south of the border.
An historic opportunity to transform trade when we stop NAFTA II
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.
What the G20 showed us about the current global order
These right wing leaders, show that much of the world, rather than embracing extended democracy and social liberalism, is backsliding into some kind of authoritarian nationalism.
A turning point for the global economy
The USMCA deal, also known as NAFTA 2.0, is a lot of things. But it is not free trade.
Big oil cheers Trump’s ‘new NAFTA’ but Mexico could complicate things
Mexico’s recently elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has yet to comment on the USMCA's energy-related provisions.
Do bullies always win?
Trump's bullying worked with Canada, has half-worked with Iran and North Korea, but has had nothing but malign impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
NAFTA talks falter, time to increase pressure
This is the time to be strong and persistent in our demand for an end to NAFTA and a new era of positive trade.
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Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’
I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.
Denying coverage with AI: CMS’s new Medicare model
Funneling money to for-profit companies by rewarding them for denying health care coverage through using unproven, manipulable AI models is not the answer.
Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool
Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.
Progressive legacy triumphs as Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona primary
A clash of legacy versus digital insurgency, this Arizona primary uncovers deep intra‑party tensions around candidate experience, social media influence, and the future of democratic progressiveness.
The corporate takeover of housing
Corporate ownership remains a relatively small percentage of American housing. But a growing number of financial firms, tech platforms, and institutional landlords, alongside a national housing shortage, is making homeownership even less affordable.