TThe vote today on Trade Adjustment Assistance is set to begin in the House at 11:00 AM. If it fails, Fast Track will not come to a vote and TPP will be dead. TAA is in trouble and your calls could make the difference. Call your Representative this morning, and if you can, enlist friends, family, and colleagues.
Read more...This post presents the latest whip count on the Fast Track vote and how support is weakening among Republicans. Please keep up your calls to Representatives against the bill. You can find phone numbers here.
Read more...How arrogant ignorance has squandered the US position of world leadership.
Read more...Greece’s creditors are not pleased, and perhaps more important, the Greek government has lost one of its few remaining advocates, Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission. The Eurocrats are finally waking up to the degree to which the two sides have talking past each other. The implication is that it is far less likely than they had believed.
Read more...Debunking “free trade” and other spurious defenses of the multinational enrichment, democracy stripmining programs known as the Trade in Services Agreement, the TransPacific Partnership, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Read more...Having the US do the cleanup on FIFA exposes how lax prosecutors were elsewhere, above all in Germany and Switzerland.
Read more...America’s current leadership has failed to grasp the significance of a radical global change underway inside the Eurasian land mass. If China succeeds in linking its rising industries to the vast natural resources of the Eurasian heartland, then quite possibly, as Sir Halford Mackinder predicted on that cold London night in 1904, “the empire of the world would be in sight.”
Read more...By Richard Smith It’s high time for an update on this vast fraud story, which has, near its core, Bryan Cook and Thomas Yi, of bogus international investment bank London Capital. Here’s a synopsis of the story so far at NC, and the global press coverage that has ensued. First, there was “Is Power8, Sponsor of […]
Read more...Fast Track is not just a path to TPP … it’s evil all on its own. There’s now another leaked “trade” deal, called TISA, and Fast Track will “fast-track” that one too. Want your municipal water service privatized? How about your government postal service? Read on
Read more...The West is apparently worried about a propaganda gap with Russia, and the solution is truth-telling, provided by Chatham House for a price.
Read more...Why Nancy Pelosi is the White House’s secret weapon for the pending Fast Track bill.
Read more...We thank readers for their considerable, valuable input on a recent call to action and discuss how we plan to use their ideas.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren just put SEC Chairman Mary Jo White firmly in her crosshairs.
Read more...The opposition has done vastly better than expected on stymieing Obama’s toxic trade deals. Thinking ahead to how to block them in the House, and if it gets that far, when the Fast Track fix goes to the Senate.
Read more...Sanders can win, and that’s one of the reasons the press is going to try to sink him.
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