Senate Fast Track Vote Tuesday - Where Is Clinton?
Fast track essentially pre-approves the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership. With a vote coming as soon as Tuesday Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has not yet spoken out for or against fast track.
View ArticleObama's Anti-Populist Attack On Warren On Trade
As the Senate begins consideration today of the "fast track" trade promotion authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President Obama says that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is expressing concerns because...
View ArticleLet The Public Read The Completed Parts Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership
The president says the pubic can’t see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership because it is still being negotiated. So let us see the parts that are not still being negotiated.
View ArticleStop Calling TPP A Trade Agreement - It Isn't
This is a message to activists trying to fight the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Stop calling the TPP a "trade" agreement. TPP is a corporate/investor rights agreement, not a "trade" agreement....
View ArticleFast Track Hits The House Next Week; Clinton Must Speak Up
The House is expected to vote on fast track trade promotion authority as soon as next week. If it passes, the corporate-negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a done deal — even though it is...
View ArticleAll Hands On Deck: House Fast Track Vote Could Come This Week
ALL HANDS ON DECK. This is not a drill. The vote in the House of Representatives on fast track trade authority, preapproving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) before the public finds out what is in...
View ArticleWill TPP Kill The Post Office?
Corporations are notorious for sneaking things into laws and regulations before the public can find out and rally to stop it. And we know from the conservative Supreme Court arguments against the...
View ArticleMy Post That Krugman Links To Today
Paul Krugman links to a post I wrote last year. With the revote on Fast Track possibly coming up soon I think it is a good post to repeat. So here it is. (Here is the link from my cross-post at Daily...
View ArticleWall Street And Big Corporations Got What They Wanted – This Time
This fast-track trade authority push was different, more aggressive, less concerned with how it looked. Is this how business will be done in the 21st century? Maybe, but maybe not.
View ArticleNow We Build A Fair Trade Movement
Fast track trade authority passed last week. So many of us fought so hard but The Money won again - this time. What do we do now?We take this awareness and energy into the fight against the...
View ArticleNext Big One: Repatriation Tax Holiday Giveaway To Corporations
Now that the corporations have fast-track trade authority in the bag, they are trying to push a huge, huge tax giveaway through Congress. We have to get the word out so this doesn't just sneak through.
View ArticleOak Flat: The Latest Land Grab From Native Americans
A "sneak law" attachment to a "must-pass" bill gives sacred Native American land to a foreign mining company. How did this happen?
View ArticleHere's Bernie The Day Before The Netroots Nation Disruption
Senator Bernie Sanders is getting a bad rap from claims that he had not been speaking out about police violence against people of color.Watch this video from the day before the Netroots Nation disruption.
View ArticleDid Obama Administration Downplay Malaysia Slavery To Grease Trade Deal?
Cheap labor is the whole point of our corporate-rigged, NAFTA-style trade agreements. But tolerating slavery? Really? Unfortunately, it looks like that's what is happening with the Trans-Pacific...
View ArticleWhat Happened To Rex Henry In A Philadelphia, Mississippi Jail Cell?
Rexdale Henry, a Mississippi Choctaw Native American activist, was arrested on July 9 for failing to pay an old traffic fine. He was found dead in his cell on July 14. That is almost all we know.
View ArticleWhere Are The Democratic Debates?
I was wondering when there will be Democratic Party Presidential debates. So I looked up how the debates worked in the 2008 cycle. 2007 corresponds to 2015 in this cycle.
View ArticleBernie Sanders Proposes To Boost Worker-Ownership Of Companies
What happens if a business is owned and run by the people who work there, and not by some distant, already-wealthy investors? Worker co-ops are businesses owned and operated by the people who work at...
View ArticleTrump: Don't Make Corporations Pay Their Taxes
Donald Trump has perfectly articulated the case for low corporate taxes: Corporations don’t want to pay taxes, so let’s not make them pay taxes. There it is in a nutshell.
View ArticleThe Wild Ride Gets Wilder – Only Government Spending Can Fix This
The world is out of balance. Everyone's nervous. There is a glut of money floating around the world and no one offers a "safe place" to put it. The stock market is way up, way down, way up, way down –...
View ArticleWhat Bernie Sanders Has Already Won
Nobody expected to be actually talking about Bernie Sanders being the Democratic presidential nominee. But whether he is or not, the political discussion Sanders wanted has started.
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