Obama’s Trade Agreements are a Gift to Corporations
By Robert Kuttner, Common Dreams
On Thursday, legislation moved forward that would give President Obama authority to negotiate two contentious trade deals: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Bush’s ruinous economic plans
By Robert Kuttner, The Boston Globe
There's a growing consensus among experts that the most recent wave of oil price hikes is not mainly the result of market manipulation, refining bottlenecks, or the Iraq occupation but the harbinger of the long-predicted depletion of the world's extractable oil reserves.