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Not Over Yet: Some Tough Votes Ahead on Fast Track
While we all cheered the failure (TAA) to pass Trade Adjustment Assistance in the hope that its defeat would stop Fast Track, the House quickly voted to pass Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)...
View Article“Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards”
“Let the jury consider their verdict,” the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. “No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first–verdict afterwards.” “Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “The...
View Article“King Obama,” His Royal Court, and the TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a global corporate noose around U.S. local, state, and national sovereignty – narrowly passed a major procedural hurdle in the Congress by gaining “fast track”...
View ArticleCrony Capitalists Decide TPP Terms
Paul Samuelson, serving as advisor to Presidents Kennedy and LBJ, was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He said the ultimate goal of economic science is to...
View ArticleThe Perverse Logic of Capital
Some might think it strange for a country founded on a proposition of equality to send so much aid to regimes that are doing everything they can to disfigure it. Of course, slipping on one’s Orwellian...
View ArticleNasty Legacies
It was amusing to see Peter Baker refer to the Democratic Party legislators’ threat to President Obama’s possible “legacy” of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), often described in the media as a...
View ArticleThe TPP and Canada
They have not heeded our calls to be transparent about what the negotiating framework is and what they are prepared to sacrifice. — Andrew Thompson, NDP candidate, Toronto, September 26, 2015 The very...
View ArticleVietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassalage 1975-2015
In 1975 the people of Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history – defeating the US, the world’s biggest imperial power, after 20 years of...
View ArticleSpread the Word: TPP is Toxic Political Poison that Politicians should Avoid
At its root, the TPP is about modern colonialism. It is the way that Western governments and their transnational corporations, including Wall Street banks, can dominate the economies of developing...
View ArticleA Stone’s Throw from Freedom
This week we look at the anti IMF-TPP-WORLD Banks protest in Peru, Kahnawake Mohawks warning to Montreal’s mayor. On the music break, Shadia Mansour and M1 with “Al Kufiyyeh 3arabeyyeh” Our featured...
View ArticleTo Understand the Presidential Primaries, Recognize the Impact of Movements
Confusion reigns in the Democratic and Republican primaries. Huffington Post political reporters write, “It’s Time to Admit: Nobody Knows Anything about the 2016 Campaign,” now that “the old ‘rules’ of...
View ArticleMass Mobilization To Stop The TPP Announced As Text Is Released
A mass mobilization in Washington, DC from November 14 to 18 has been announced to begin the next stage of the campaign to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP was made public 10 days...
View ArticleWhy the TPP Must be Opposed at All Costs
The TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the corporate Mega-deal on “free trade” has been concluded between the partner states, and is now in the final stages of its ratification. This deal involves...
View ArticleThe Re-enserfment of Western Peoples
The re-enserfment of Western peoples is taking place on several levels. One about which I have been writing for more than a decade comes from the offshoring of jobs. Americans, for example, have a...
View ArticleCorporate Sycophants and the TPP
The hypocrisy of “free market” advocates is astounding. While they trumpet increased competition and the elimination of state imposed barriers as a means of spurring economic advancement, they ignore...
View ArticleWars: US Militarist Factions in Command
Over the past 15 years the US has been engaged in a series of wars, which has led many writers to refer to the ‘rise of militarism’ – the growth of an empire, built primarily by and for the projection...
View ArticleAssange’s Battle: A Fight for Democracy
In its nine years of existence, WikiLeaks has become the first global 4th estate. Their 2008 release of the classified US military video documenting the slaying of Iraqi civilians in New Baghdad made...
View ArticleA Message of Hope for the New Year
Kevin Zeese has long amazed me because of the number of things he does to make a better world. Mondays he does a radio program with Margaret Flowers called Clearing the FOG, which is one of the best...
View Article8 Signs You Are Living Under a Fascist Regime
In Part 1 I asserted that there is a new globalised Fascist movement that has gradually, in fits and starts, insinuated itself as a new normal in Western regimes and in many “developing” regimes. A...
View ArticleEagerly Awaiting Corporate Extermination
“Hate” is a word and an emotion which should be used as sparingly as possible, to be saved for only the most despicable forces, conditions, and beings. I dislike liver and onions, driving on black ice,...
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