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Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership

Barack Obama made headlines this week by taking on Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a dispute over our latest labor-crushing free trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.…
Did you know that 89 percent of all minimum wage workers in the United States are not teens?  At this point, the average age of…
“Fact and Scrutiny” So this is how Barack Obama is moving into the final 20 months of his dismal neoliberal presidency, which he once (proudly)…
If you need further proof of your democracy’s ill health, the Senate provided plenty of it this week as it began debating whether to fast…
There were some decidedly Kafkaesque aspects of the Congressional debate this week on Fast Track legislation, designed to speed through the passage of secret trade…
When the top pharmaceutical lobby in the U.S. sponsored a Twitter chat on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in March of last year, labor unions trolled it…
Liberal groups are insisting that Hillary Clinton take a clear stand against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact that is a crucial part of President Obama’s…
The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in…
The restrictions the Obama administration has placed on members of Congress wishing to peruse the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a managed trade agreement among…
Progressives reacted with dismay as the U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a motion to begin debate on the Fast Track authority President Barack Obama needs…
We are faced here with a terrifying false dilemma because we refuse to recognize the bigger picture that includes the history of capitalism in relation…
As the predictable cycle of presidential election denial settles in, its initial focus appears to be primarily on one Hillary Rodham Clinton. Thus, I thought…