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TPP

'Trump Is a Fraud, Exhibit One Billion': Trade Deficit Soars to 12-Year High Despite President's Promises to Wipe It Out

"Trump pledged to eliminate the trade deficit and end job outsourcing, but the overall 2020 deficit is on track to be larger than when he took office, and his Labor Department has certified more than 300,000 American jobs were lost to outsourcing and imports during his presidency."
Jake Johnson ·
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sign a joint declaration on the new USMCA agreement in the Rose Garden at the White House on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Citing Joe Biden's Troubling Voting Record, Bernie Sanders Warns 'My God... Trump Will Eat His Lunch'

Jake Johnson ·

Part of the pushback against these deals is the continued growth in rural communities of controversial factory farms (operations with thousands, if not tens of thousands, of animals producing large amounts of manure) primarily to feed exporting agribusiness companies. (Photo: KOMUnews/cc/flickr)

Trump’s Japan Deal Another Win for Global Meat Companies

Ben Lilliston ·

When citizens blind themselves to a news organization’s corporate entanglements, and trust the outlet to be truthful anyway, it is, to put it mildly, extraordinarily naïve. (Photo: CBInsights)

The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content

Alison Rose Levy ·

Protester holds a sign reading: Protect workers and the environment

Did Obama's Trade Legacy Just Hammer the Green New Deal?

Ben Lilliston ·

tpp protest

US Progressives Express Solidarity With Anti-TPP Protests as 11 Nations Sign Revised Corporate-Friendly Trade Deal

In Chile, critics took to the streets with signs declaring, "No to modern slavery, no to the TPP-11" and "The TPP and TPP-11 are the same!"

Jessica Corbett ·

"While chanting his mantra of “America First,” Donald Trump has so far followed policies that have only eased the way for the Chinese dragon to roar past Uncle Sam, with the Russian bear not far behind." (Photo: Presidential Administration of Russia)

Donald Trump Offers a Helping Hand to China and Russia

Giving American isolationism new meaning in the twenty-first century.

Dilip Hiro ·

Unfair Trade: US Beef Has a Climate Problem

Growing global demand for beef is hindering efforts to combat climate change, scientists say

Sean Mowbray ·

"Although EFF has been keeping an open mind about the agreement until we have a better idea of what it will contain, the secrecy of its first negotiation round augurs poorly for what is to come," Malcolm writes.

As First NAFTA Round Opens in Secrecy, Digital Rights Groups Fear Another TPP

Jeremy Malcolm ·

Meet the New NAFTA, Same as the Old NAFTA?

Ethan Goffman ·

Trump's NAFTA Plan Looks a Lot Like Corporate-Friendly Deals He Campaigned Against

Trump railed against NAFTA and TPP on the campaign trail, but the objectives released this week beg questions about his promises to help working people

Andrea Germanos ·

What Would It Look Like to Build a Politics That’s Open to People But Closed to Big Money?

For the left to work out where it is headed, and how it can dismantle its true enemy of unfettered finance while defending vulnerable people, it needs to be able to have serious debate.

Christine Berry ·

To Those Who Trusted Him on Trade, Trump Prepares 'Punch in the Face'

Should the Trump administration's NAFTA plans come to fruition, it'll be "globalism by Goldman Sachs," according to one commentator

Deirdre Fulton ·

The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) says no TPP.

Trump is a Catastrophe, But So was the TPP

Why Are My Highly Educated Friends So Ignorant About Trade?

Isabel Marlens ·

Dance on the Grave of the TPP

Jake Johnson ·

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