Thomas Frank: All Those Donald Trump Supporters? They’re Not Just Racist

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 12, 2016 When Republican front-runner Trump isn’t spewing insults, he's hammering a message about free trade that is intensely appealing to its victims, the Guardian writer says. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist

By Ron Charles Jan 15, 2016 The new year in books explodes with a fantastic debut novel set amid the melee of the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

If Trade Is War, It’s Time We Fought Back

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig May 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 )

As NAFTA Nears 20 and the TPP Nears Birth, the Middle Class Nears Death

BLANK Nov 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 )

Quebec Fracking Ban Lawsuit Shows Perils of Free Trade Deals

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 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 )

Protests Rage Against Colombia’s Economic Policies

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 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 )

Warren Asks White House for Transparency, Christie Slow Jams the News, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jun 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 )

Controlling the International Flow of Money

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 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 )

Do Americans Deserve to See These Secret Documents?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 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 )

Juan Cole on Palestinian Statehood

BLANK Sep 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 )

The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

David Sirota / Truthdig Jul 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 )

U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement Spells Continued Job Loss, Study Predicts

Staff / Truthdig May 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 )