Tag: trade
No #NAFTA2, yes to trade for people & planet
We need to transform trade so it serves the people and protects the planet.
World unites against Trump on climate
Donald Trump is learning the hard way that he cannot thwart the entire world on climate change and expect to continue with business as usual.
Making NAFTA worse
Trump promised to negotiate the widely loathed trade deal, which would be great – except he's giving corporations even more power to offshore jobs.
Trump and trade
Trump wants to “renegotiate” trade deals like NAFTA. But there's no evidence he wants to fix their corrosive impact on labor protections or environmental standards.
Trade is Trump’s biggest broken promise
Trump, who campaigned promising to “drain the swamp” in Washington, has filled his administration with the very swamp creatures his voters hated.
Trade denialism continues: Trade really did kill manufacturing jobs
This level of dishonesty separates trade out from most other areas of public debate.
The new trade agenda: Deals that promote equality rather than inequality
These are the sort of rules that we should be looking to include in future trade agreements.
Will Trump’s US trade representative be another Pro-NAFTA, Pro-TPP type?
If Trump is considering this guy as USTR for real it would just show us one more betrayal of his campaign promises.
TPP is dead. Time for a progressive trade vision.
Together we can win a more just and sustainable future for us all, across borders.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.