Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigMay 21, 2015
For decades we have heard that free trade would result in prosperity for all. But in fact, the rich have gotten richer, the poor poorer, and the planet has been thrown into peril. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
BLANKNov 29, 2013
As a look at NAFTA's track record shows, the only beneficiaries from the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership are global corporations. So why is a former community organizer like Barack Obama so hot for trade deals that destroy communities? Easy: He's living in a new neighborhood now. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 6, 2013
If you read our latest Truthdigger column, you know that certain existing and potential future international trade deals allow private corporations to sue governments for profits they claim to have lost as a result of a nation's laws. Here's an example of such a suit currently filed against Canada. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 30, 2013
Students and labor unions armed with pots and pans marched alongside miners, truckers, coffee growers, milk producers and potato farmers in a general strike in Colombia on Thursday, where hard laborers have to endure such difficulties as high fuel prices and free trade agreements that farmers say have brought them to the edge of bankruptcy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigJun 14, 2013
A look at the day's political happenings, including Sen. Marco Rubio's immigration reform bill threat and the circumstances in which Ann Coulter thinks the Republican Party "deserves to die." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 3, 2013
“For the past 35 years, the world’s largest financial institutions and most Western governments have worked to strip away all obstacles to the free flow of money from country to country,” and the results have been disastrous, the New Economics Foundation reports. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 12, 2012
From the memo detailing the right to assassinate US citizens worldwide to the paper negotiating the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the U government has kept many documents classified for dubious reasons David Wallechinsky of AllGov looks at 11 of them. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
BLANKSep 29, 2011
This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Juan Cole reports from New York on Occupy Wall Street and Palestinians at the UN Also: The politics of immigration; women still earn less than men, and a jury convicts the Irvine 11 Pictured above, Nawaf Salam, Lebanon’s ambassador to the UThis week on Truthdig Radio: Juan Cole reports from New York on Occupy Wall Street and Palestinians at the U. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
David Sirota / TruthdigJul 22, 2011
For decades, trade-related reporting has mostly focused on jobs. Left almost completely unmentioned are other concerns that free-trade critics have raised -- concerns about the environment, human rights and, yes, national security. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 4, 2011
An Economic Policy Institute report released Tuesday confirms that a ballooning US-Mexico trade deficit has cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and predicts more of the same when the U-Korea Free Trade Agreement comes into force. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Steven Borowiec / TruthdigNov 15, 2010
The potentially explosive G-20 meeting in Seoul was smothered before anything spectacular could happen. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 30, 2010
Although the measure has almost no chance of passing the Senate, the House voted 348-79 to give President Obama the power to put tariffs on all Chinese imports. The legislative hissy fit is clearly intended to sate economically vulnerable voters who view China as a jobs threat. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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