Despite the media providing manipulative cover (narrative engineering) for the sheer hypocrisy of this effort, Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is going to attempt to kick-off an “America First” economic plan in Michigan tomorrow…
It’s Who Was Not at The White House During TPP E.O. Signing That Also Tells a Story…
Yesterday President Trump held a day of meetings with corporate business titans, CEO’s, and also skilled labor union officials. However, two men were transparently absent from both group meetings: U.S. CoC President Tom Donohue, and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka…
Trump Wins The Unions: Teamsters Praise TPP Withdrawal…
Trump Signs Executive Actions on TPP, Abortion, Federal Hiring Freeze…
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday announcing his plan to withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The order fulfills Trump’s campaign promise to abandon the Pacific Rim trade pact early in his administration. “We’ve been talking about this for a long time,” Trump said after signing the order in […]
U.S. Dollar Is Losing Ground in Southeast Asian Countries…
It’s Alive–U.S. Trade Rep: Congress Has the Votes to Pass TPP…
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman says Congress has the votes to pass the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement if it is brought up for a vote. “If they [House and Senate leaders] bring it forward, I think we can get the votes there”…
More Than 200 Scholars Decry the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s ‘Frontal Attack’ on Law and Democracy…
More than 200 legal and economic scholars—including President Barack Obama’s Harvard Law School mentor Laurence Tribe—have penned a letter to Congress warning that the pro-corporate Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime…
Fooled Again by Chris Hedges…
The naive hopes of Bernie Sanders’ supporters—to build a grass-roots political movement, change the Democratic Party from within and push Hillary Clinton to the left—have failed…