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Trump Administration Advances Massive Arms Sale to Taiwan Amid Tensions With Beijing
Two F-16 Fighting Falcon launch flares during an annual drill at a Air Base in Taitung City, southeast Taiwan on January 30, 2018.
'Distressing': Report Details How Trade Organizations Plow Billions in Unaccountable Cash to Lobby Lawmakers
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Trade organizations are using nonprofit tax rules to wriggle out of disclosing spending, according to a new report.
"People forget about them because they've just been there [collecting] large sums of money for a very long time."
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Stock Market Tumbles After China Devalues Yuan in Response to Trump Tariffs
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Traders work after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on August 5, 2019 in New York City.
"If this was an all out currency war—the U.S. would hands down lose."
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Amid China Trade Tensions, Pentagon Eyes Toxic Rare Earths Development in US
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
A vast expanse of toxic waste fills the tailings dam on April 21, 2011, frequently whipped up by strong winds dumping mllions of tonnes of radioactive materials toward surounding villages where farmers blame the state-owned giant Baogang Group, China's largest producer of rare earths and a major iron ore miner and steel producer, for poisoning their fields and ruining their livelihoods near Baotou city in Inner Mongolia
Processing of rare earths has unleashed environmental catastrophe in China
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anti-fracking protesters
As Study Shows Methane Emissions 'Vastly Underestimated,' Warnings That US Fracked Gas Export Bonanza Imperils Planetary Stability
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Warren's New $2 Trillion Green Manufacturing Plan Welcomed as 'Win-Win' for Climate and Workers
Cooper, Sanders
Sanders Calls on 2020 Candidates to Pledge Opposition to 'Unfair' Trade Deals That Put Corporate Interests Ahead of US Workers
The North American leaders sign the new trade deal dubbed NAFTA 2.0
NAFTA 2.0 Signed: A Deal for 'The Corporate One Percent'
What Does Trump’s "New NAFTA" Trade Deal Signal for Workers, Corporate Power & the Environment?
key members of Trump's cabinet
Imperiling People and Planet, Warnings Mount That Trump's NAFTA 2.0 Just Another 'Corporate Giveaway'
'I Can't Kill These People': In Off-the-Record Comments, Trump Reportedly Bragged About Not Compromising With Canada in NAFTA Talks
President Donald Trump attempting to get Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on speaker phone on Monday.
Amid Trump's NAFTA Confusion, Demands for Trade Deal That Puts Workers, Environment Over Corporate Profits.
Trump Resorts to 'Pure 1984 Totalitarian Gaslighting,' Telling Supporters to Ignore News Coverage of His Policies
seal on asbestos products
Russian Asbestos Company Puts Trump's Face, Seal of Approval, on Pallets of Its Products
'Hard to Fathom the Recklessness': American Workers, Farmers at Risk as Trump Escalates Trade War With China
Yes. Trump's FART Act Is Now a Thing. Reportedly It Has To Do With Trade Policy.

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National Iranian-American Council
NIAC Statement on Increased U.S. Restrictions on Humanitarian Trade with Iran
Public Citizen
A Year After Deal Announced, NAFTA Deficit Up 10% as Trump Sidelines Reform with Refusal to Cut USMCA Pharma Terms that Lock in High Drug Prices
Small Planet Institute
Big Ag is the Biggest Obstacle to Addressing Climate Change
Global Justice Now
G7: Johnson to Put Britain on Path to Devastating Trade Deal With Trump
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G7: Boris Johnson to Put Britain on Path to Devastating Trade Deal With Trump
Public Citizen
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