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Rangel: Obama Aides Sending Pro-NAFTA Expansion Signals

By David Sirota
November 22nd, 2008

In my column last week, I praised the Obama team for suggesting they see the political and policy danger of backing President Bush's proposed NAFTA expansion into Colombia - a country with one of the worst human rights records in the world. But now I see this little tidbit from Inside U.S. Trade: read more »

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Wash Post Re-Floats Possibility of Lame-Duck NAFTA Expansion

By David Sirota
November 20th, 2008

Glenn Greenwald long ago taught us why we should always look skeptically at the fact-free prognostications of the Washington Post's Steve Pearlstein. read more »

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It's a Trick - Get An Axe

By David Sirota
November 14th, 2008

"It's a trick - get an axe." - Ash read more »

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State Legislators Say No to Colombia Free Trade Deal

By David Sirota
April 25th, 2008

From Public Citizen:

National Conference of State Legislatures Slams Pro-Colombia FTA Resolution as Colombia Presidential Advisor Linked to Paramilitaries Is Arrested

State and Local Legislators Continue to Lead the Fight Against Failed NAFTA Status Quo Trade Policies That Undermine Their Authority to Enact Policy read more »

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From Jack Welch's Screeds to George Bush's Mouth

By David Sirota
April 22nd, 2008

General Electric's former CEO Jack Welch is one of the great economic royalists of the modern day. He is the guy who said the businessman's dream is to "have every plant you own on a barge" - so that the plant can move away anytime workers demand better wages, working conditions or environmental standards. read more »

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REUTERS: Pelosi Offers Hope for Colombia Trade Deal

By David Sirota
April 16th, 2008

A lot of people gave me flack for simply pointing out that Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership were saying they delayed the lobbyist-written Colombia Free Trade Agreement not to stop it, but to pass it. read more »

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Blood Money

By David Sirota
April 11th, 2008

As progressives, we sometimes feel a bit uneasy about making declarative statements about the values people express in their actions. We hesitate, for instance, to call things "evil," not wanting to be like George "Wiith Us, or Against Us" Bush. That's understandable - absolutism can lead to bad places. read more »

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I Repeat: They're Not Trying to Kill It - They're Trying to Pass It

By David Sirota
April 10th, 2008

As I keep saying, Democrats' move to delay the Colombia Free Trade Deal is not a move to kill the bill and take a stand for human rights abroad and a just economic policy at home - it is a move to make sure the bill can ultimately pass. read more »

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More Proof It's the Ugly

By David Sirota
April 10th, 2008

Yesterday, I wrote a post saying there was a good, bad and potentially ugly side of Nancy Pelosi's move to delay a vote on the lobbyist-written Colombia Free Trade Agreement. read more »

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What It's Always About: Money

By David Sirota
April 10th, 2008

Well, at least Democratic corporate hacks in Washington are being a little more honest with us about why they refuse to kill a trade deal with a murderous right-wing regime. It's not about principle, it's about what it's always about - money: read more »

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