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 )

Truthdigger of the Week: Lori Wallach

BLANK Oct 6, 2013 This critic of globalization is one of the few voices trying to alert the public to a secretive, ongoing effort to create a legal means for corporations to attack and subvert government. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Democracy: The Only Threat to the TPP

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 6, 2013 The Trans-Pacific Partnership is an international trade agreement that would allow corporations operating in any country to appeal to a global tribunal to sue governments for financial "damages" wrought by laws that regulate the firms' activities. Dig deeper ( 1 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 )

U.S. & Latin America

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The Tea Party and Goldman Sachs: A Love Story

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jul 6, 2011 Face it We live in two nations, sharply divided by an enormous economic chasm between the super-rich and everyone else This should be an obvious fact of life for most Americans. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Some Factory Jobs Return, Paying a Whole Lot Less

Staff / Truthdig May 18, 2011 Unemployed American workers are glad to see factory jobs returning, but they're finding that the pay is drastically lower now, the result of a global race to the bottom for cheap labor. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

May Day: A Festival of Solidarity

Scott Tucker / Truthdig May 5, 2011 This year, the May Day march in Los Angeles was notably smaller than in recent years, but still lively and militant The year-by-year count of May Day marchers can never be an exact science, but the history of labor is full of surprises. Dig deeper ( 6 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 )

Clinton Trotted Out to Back Tax Deal

Staff / Truthdig Dec 12, 2010 Former President Bill Clinton, the Democrat who brought you such miracles as welfare reform, NAFTA and “don’t ask, don’t tell,” has jumped into the fray over the tax cut deal, adding his support to the compromise worked out by President Obama with the Republicans. “I don’t believe there is a better deal out there,” Clinton said. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Clinton’s Contrition

David Sirota / Truthdig Apr 23, 2010 Whereas former presidents typically devote their retirements to history-revising legacy preservation, Bill Clinton is laudably doing the opposite -- and the nation will, hopefully, benefit. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )