Tag: free trade

14 North’s Peculiar Events

Today’s Full Moon @2Sag55 and a Fussy Post
by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy
The history of NAFTA and its replacement, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by the Trump administration (in effect July 1, 2020) tells the story of US attempts at establishing a North American "free trade zone" beginning with Ronald Reagan in 1979. Sounds like clearing a path for globalism to me! And perhaps

14 North’s Peculiar Events

Today’s Full Moon @2Sag55 and a Fussy Post
by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy
The history of NAFTA and its replacement, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by the Trump administration (in effect July 1, 2020) tells the story of US attempts at establishing a North American "free trade zone" beginning with Ronald Reagan in 1979. Sounds like clearing a path for globalism to me! And perhaps

“Battle in Seattle” vs the WTO November 30, 1999

Seattle Washington; Rattlhed at English Wikipedia [Public domain]November 29, 2019: In remembrance of tomorrow’s 20th Anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" protest against the World Trade Organization, the following is a re-publish of a SO’W post I wrote a few years ago, sans edits but for a typo or two and a few minor updates for clarification:The "Battle in Seattle," as the protests were

“Battle in Seattle” vs the WTO November 30, 1999

Seattle Washington; Rattlhed at English Wikipedia [Public domain]November 29, 2019: In remembrance of tomorrow’s 20th Anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" protest against the World Trade Organization, the following is a re-publish of a SO’W post I wrote a few years ago, sans edits but for a typo or two and a few minor updates for clarification:The "Battle in Seattle," as the protests were

The Origins of Neo-liberalism and How to Stop It (Saturn-Pluto 1947)

May 2017: Here in a recent segment, Thom Hartmann answers a caller on the topic of Neoliberalism. For me Thom’s is the best explanation of Neoliberalism I’ve heard or read. He notes that the term and theory were invented (if that’s the word) in September 1947 but was ridiculed for years until Ronald Reagan (‘Reaganomics’!) picked it up in the 1980s. We recognize its damaging effects in society

Who are the Democrats Supporting TPP? – The Thom Hartmann Program

The US Congress is scheduled to vote this Friday June 12, 2015, and the secretive, anti-sovereign, anti-environment, anti-workers-rights, anti-democratic, anti-American #TPP "free trade" deal is on the verge of gathering 60 nations into a vicious glop of new world orderism. This "deal" may be the final sell-out of the American people and as a checkmate on China, it won’t work because, thanks to