Tag: TPP
TPP Opposition: Make Them Do It And Hold Them To It
What matters is that we keep the pressure on and don’t let up. We must stop the TPP.
Bernie Broke My Heart; but Dr. Jill Stein Heals the Wound.
“In a season of political hacks claiming they have suddenly ‘found religion’ regarding our civil and human rights; all I can say to Jill is, Amen.”
Betrayed Again, This Time By Unconvincing Arguments For The TPP
The TPP reflects the flawed economics and arrogant politics of Wall Street and the national security establishment that has betrayed working people.
Obama Endorses Clinton, Then Undermines Her On TPP
Democrats can help Clinton in the election by passing a strong plank in the party platform opposing the TPP and similar “free trade’ agreements.
Best-Case Projections For TPP Show Few Benefits, Worse Trade Deficit
These are only the economic projections from TPP. They do not take into account that most of TPP is not about the economic results from “trade”
Clinton Commits: No TPP, Fundamentally Rethink Trade Policies
Clinton’s statement helps. Asking members of Congress to vote against TPP would help more.
Clinton Should Ask Obama To Withdraw The TPP
Candidate Clinton has an opportunity to address her TPP credibility problem by asking Obama to withdraw TPP from consideration by Congress.
Bernie Sanders Vows to Reform Job-Killing Trade Deals
“I will not send any trade deals to Congress that make it easier for corporations to shut down in this country and move abroad.”
TPP: The Devil’s in the Details
The TPP is a massive trade and investment agreement that dwarfs, but does not replace, NAFTA in its scope.
The Thing Sanders, Trump, and Clinton Agree On. It’s That Bad
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is slated for an up-or-down vote in Congress. Proponents say it’s about free trade. But it looks more like corporate colonization.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.