Gauis Publius: TPP Has Picked Up a Powerful Enemy — Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter takes on Obama’s plan to pass the TPP in the lame duck session.
Read more...Black Lives Matter takes on Obama’s plan to pass the TPP in the lame duck session.
Read more...Economists offer widely different explanations for the decline in trade between nations, in a debate that remains unresolved but is increasingly urgent.
Read more...Why the backlash against the overreach of US trade deals, as embodied by the TPP and TTIP, is well warranted.
Read more...Has the progressive left in western democracies forgotten how to embrace the mainstream? When I compare the approach which anti-neoliberal causes take in the U.S. and Europe with the approach taken by the same causes in Asian countries, especially Japan, I can only say yes, it has. One explanation for how pro-labor movements have been […]
Read more...European leaders last week conceded that the TTIP was in trouble. Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now discusses trade talks and what follows.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The left critique on TPP starts with how it hurts labor, and moves on to how it hurts the environment. The difficulty here is that these critiques don’t appeal to the right, and it will take left and right, ganging up, to defeat the party establishments on TPP. I would […]
Read more...The US relies on industry self-regulation of personal care products, thus exposing consumers to harms, in contrast to Canada, Europe, and Japan.
Read more...Clinton’s hard move to the right is causing some consternation among bona fide progressives. But what will they do about it?
Read more...The (bad) economic policy roots of political polarization.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren takes on a new target and goes against Clinton on the TPP.
Read more...The IMF has become an unlikely reporter of unpleasant realities about the US economy, particularly the costs of inequality and distress. If only its prescriptions were better….
Read more...The TPP threatens to undermine public health just as the world is on the verge of major health crises.
Read more...Seeing states as the vehicle for projecting power is dated, particularly as far as understanding America’s position is concerned.
Read more...The gains and losses from TPP will be asymmetrically distributed but the gains should permit ample support for individuals adversely affected
Read more...There’s a progressive way to approach global trade that can help workers abroad and at home at the same time.
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