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Rangel: Obama Aides Sending Pro-NAFTA Expansion Signals

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

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

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

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TRADE REPORT: Your Weekly Fill of What's Really Going On

With this week's reemergence of globalization and trade as major 2008 campaign issues, we thought it as good a time as any to launch our regular report on globalization, helping you sort through what is too often an esoteric and inaccessible discourse on one of the most important set of issue read more »

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The Growing Power of the Fair Trade Uprising

LOUISVILLE, KY - I spent yesterday in Ohio's three biggest cities - Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. read more »

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Why NAFTA Is An Anger Point Fueling The Uprising

There is a palpable anger at our current trade and globalization policies. And yet, we continue to get nonsense from Serious Thinkers in major newspapers. If only insulated journalists would stop preaching fact-free rhetoric, perhaps we could actually have a discussion about the real impact of our current trade policies. read more »

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Will There Really Be A Change on Trade?

The Chicago Tribune publishes an overview of the debate over trade, evaluating whether the Democratic presidential candidates are serious about their fair trade rhetoric. read more »

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Hope In the Time of NAFTA

Note: Neither CAF or David Sirota have endorsed any of the candidates running for office. This is part of our ongoing coverage of the issue of trade and globalization. read more »

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Fareed Zakaria's "Expertise" and Elite Propaganda's Insulting Dishonesty

Fareed Zakaria, as his Newsweek biography is happy to tell you, is a Very Important Person looked to as an "expert" on international issues. read more »

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Ohio Debate: The Good, The Bad & The Silly


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