Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson is a contributing blogger for the Campaign for America's Future.
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Views Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Stop Calling the 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. “Trade” is a good thing; TPP is not. Every time you use the word “trade” in association with the TPP,... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 22, 2015 Make One More Call To Senators To Stop Fast Track The fast track trade promotion authority vote in the Senate is itself being fast tracked . The last time fast track was in front of the Senate, members spent three weeks discussing it. This time the Senate gets just a few days. The final Senate vote is coming up. Make a few calls and see if we can... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 01, 2015 Writing The New Rules For The 21st Century – In Secret? The great Thomas “Mustache” Friedman is perhaps best known for encouraging the invasion of Iraq (and subsequent resistance insurgency, civil war, thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths, eventually leading to the formation of ISIS – plus the trillions in costs) by saying, “... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 28, 2015 How TPP Increases Corporate Power vs. Government — And Us Power is the ability to control, to tell what to do, to get your way. Corporations have a lot of power over working people in our country now, and they might be about to get a lot more. The proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) tell us that it will have unprecedented “progressive”... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 24, 2015 A ‘Path To Yes’ On Trade, But Paul Ryan Blocks It The “fast track” trade bill introduced last week by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has a number of problems. It sets aside Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution and essentially pre-approves the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) before the public and most of Congress even... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 14, 2015 The Fast Track Fight Begins In The Senate The final fight to stop fast track begins this week. The new trade promotion authority (“fast track”) bill could be released in the Senate at any moment. (It might be out by the time you read this.) Hatch and Wyden Poised to Introduce Bill With literally zero reporting from the national TV networks... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 13, 2015 Will Media Continue Its Blackout Of Progressive Budget? Next week, progressives in Congress will release their annual budget proposal. They do this every year, and every year the national news media largely ignores it. Will the elite media report on it this year? Make some noise, and maybe they will. There are alternative ways to run a government budget... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 03, 2015 Obama Budget Signals End Of Austerity, Return Of Sanity President Obama has submitted a budget proposal that (finally) signals a break from cuts and austerity. It largely pushes in the right direction. Republicans will oppose it — even the parts they agree with. Signals Dividing Line Between Cutbacks And Public Investment President Obama is using his “... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 29, 2015 Let's Take Apart the Corporate Case for Fast Track Trade Authority U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman appeared before Congress Tuesday to make the corporate argument for “fast track” trade promotion authority. The USTR and President Obama are pushing fast-track pre-approval for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other big “trade” agreements they... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 24, 2014 Holiday Bright Spots For Progressives The midterm elections were a wake-up call. Voters had given up on the Democratic party as irrelevant – not really on their side, so they didn’t bother to show up at the polls. But there are end-of-year holiday season bright spots for progressives as we think about the coming year’s fights. People... Read more |