By Walden Bello, Foreign Policy In Focus
Free trade is in real trouble today. But the promoters of free trade brought this on themselves. However, it is not because they have been tepid in their defense of free trade, as the description of this debate has it. They have been guilty of far greater sins.
By Manuel Perez-Rocha, Inequality.org
The governments of the United States, Mexico, and Central American countries need to confront the root causes of migration and allow migrants the basic rights afforded to them by international laws.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
One of the major currents underlying 2016’s political turmoil in Europe and the United States, in fact, has been a sharp disagreement about the value of free trade.
By Sarah van Gelder, YES! magazine
At a time of widespread corruption of governments by powerful moneyed interests, we don’t need to give mega-corporations yet another tool to override the will of “we the people.”
By Chris Paulus, Occupy.com
The latest expression of our corporate-controlled economic structure revealed itself last week when TransCanada, the Canadian-based energy giant that hoped to build the Keystone XL pipeline, filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the United States government for rejecting the pipeline's construction, under guidelines set forth in NAFTA.
By GRAIN Staff, GRAIN
From deforestation to fertiliser use, and from factory farms to supermarket shelves, producing, transporting, consuming and wasting food account for around half of all greenhouse gas emissions
By Steven Gorelick, Local Futures - International Society for Ecology and Culture
A respected human-rights expert at the United Nations, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, has joined the global movement opposing trade treaties like TPP and TTIP. And he has novel and powerful legal arguments.
By David Morris, On The Commons
Forget tariffs, the point of modern trade agreements is to whack pesky labor, environment and health laws
By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt
Fast-track authority is being sought in the Senate this week for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), along with the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and any other such trade agreements coming down the pike in the next six years.
By Vicki Hird, Food Climate Research Network
A trade treaty between the US and EU, which represents around a third of global trade, should be big news. And rightly so.