Tag: trade
How Donald Trump abandoned workers after promising to bring manufacturing back...
Although Donald Trump won the White House with a vow to reinvigorate a manufacturing base essential for America’s future, he failed to stanch the torrent of U.S. corporations absconding to countries with abysmal working conditions and lax environmental regulations.
Why rebuilding America’s manufacturing muscle is essential
Decades of industrial decline left America unprepared for the pandemic. COVID-19 simply caught America flat-footed.
How Trump’s trade policies failed workers
Bad trade costs millions of American jobs. Trump’s brand of deal-making won’t bring them back.
Could Trump end a cruel dog meat festival during U.S.-China trade...
Even most of the Chinese public wants the inhumane event to be shut down.
Tariff temper tantrum: Trump ‘created a fake crisis & has announced...
"Trump created a fake crisis and has announced a fake 'solution' that actually is terms that already the U.S. and Mexico had agreed months ago."
Trump’s Mexico tariffs are about white nationalism, not trade
There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations under international law.
The misadventures of ‘tariff man’
For Donald Trump, tariffs are a substitute for diplomacy, just as harassment in his personal life is a substitute for normal human interaction.
Tired of spending money on the things you need? Then try...
After all, for thousands of years, the indigenous people of the land Detroit now sits on engaged in freely giving what was needed to others. The practice is ancient.
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The dangerous calls for ‘herd immunity’
As we’ve seen over decades with climate change, we are sure to begin to see actual experts like epidemiologists debating highly paid public speaking shills about herd immunity on cable news in the months ahead.
Ten uplifting teaching moments from President Fiasco
How to achieve peace in our time, universal happiness, and healthy goodwill towards our neighbor.
Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act introduced in Senate
“This is the bill we have been waiting for. It draws on the latest science to tap the treasure-trove of ocean solutions to accelerate progress on climate change. The outcome? People win, the economy wins, nature wins.”
Why the Founders Would Decry What America has Become
If the Founding Fathers saw what the United States has become, they would be devastated. Poverty, income inequality, suppression of speaking ones mind, crime, war, and oligarch like behaviors all make up this new U.S. It is far from being the democracy it was created as.
To prevent voter intimidation, Michigan has banned open carry guns at polling places
“The presence of firearms at the polling place, clerk’s office(s), or absent voter counting board may cause disruption, fear or intimidation for voters, election workers and others present.”