Approximately $8 billion in debt securities are affecting a popular investor’s service decision about one of biotech’s biggest. Investing credit rating company Moody’s has affirmed…
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
With the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership dominating the headlines, now is a good time to revisit an old scam called "free trade." In 2003, Kevin Flanagan was an…
Tomorrow President Obama will be giving a speech promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Paradoxically, he’s chosen to give it at Nike headquarters in Oregon. Nike isn’t…
Most of the critical attention given to the Fast Track Trade Agreement legislation and to the associated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Congressional – Executive Agreement on…
A United Nations official has called for a moratorium on secret negotiations over a United States-European Union "free trade" deal, citing concerns that the corporate…
Have we learned nothing from thirty years of failed trickle-down economics? By now we should know that when big corporations, Wall Street, and the wealthy…
Great minds seem to be working alike. Our resident Japan expert, Clive, had pointed out that the US Trade Representative, Michael Froman, had nothing to…
President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: You have taken a strong across-the-board position favoring the…
There’s an international awakening afoot about a radical expansion of corporate power — one that sits at the center of two historic global trade deals…
With dissent fermenting on both sides of the political aisle, more than 2,000 civil society groups are urging Congress to reject Fast Track trade authority,…
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…
The Obama administration is doing its full court press, pulling out all the stops to get Congress to approve the fast-track authority that is almost…