US, Japan, Canada, Australia and 8 Other Countries Sign Trans Pacific...
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be horrible for Americans and the people of the world. But most politicians are thoroughly corrupt. Neither the Democratic or Republican parties represent the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Scored with Republican Donors
Eric Zuesse An analysis of Federal Election Commission records, by TIME, which was published on 23 October 2012, just before Obama’s re-election against Republican Mitt Romney, showed that the 2012...
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Bankers, Preachers, and Fear of President Sanders
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new war in Libya, more war in Syria, permanent war in Afghanistan, climate change crashing over the cliff — these and other immediate disasters are pursued with one...
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Don’t Give a Damn About the TPP? You’re Going to Wish It Gave a Damn About You.
By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune Try this at home. Dress up corporate. Stand on a corner with a clipboard. Hover a drone with a video camera nearby. Ask passersby: 1. Who’s in the Super Bowl?...
View ArticlePresident Obama Fights for Global Warming Even While Talking Against It
Eric Zuesse In some small ways, U.S. President Barack Obama has tried to act against climate-change, such as his Administration’s regulatory action — snubbed recently by the five Republicans on the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Is Backed by Major Republican Donors
Eric Zuesse An analysis of Federal Election Commission records, by TIME, which was published on 23 October 2015, showed that the 2012 donors to Romney’s campaign were already donating more to Hillary...
View ArticleIt’s Not Just TPP. Can a President Kill NAFTA? Al Gore Thought So. Hillary...
By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow him on Twitter...
View ArticleA Coherent Explanation of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Eric Zuesse Foreign policy is both economic and military. An interpretation of U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy will be presented here that explains both his economic and his military...
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Andrea Mitchell Pulls the Mask Off Harry Reid
By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow him on Twitter...
View ArticleNobel-Prize Economist Condemns Obama’s ‘Trade’ Deals
Eric Zuesse The Nobel-Prize-winning former chief economist of the World Bank, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the U.S. President, Joseph Stiglitz, went to England to warn the...
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The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline
By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow him on Twitter...
View ArticleWhen Trump Talks Trade, Voters Listen
By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow him on Twitter...
View ArticleEven Mainstream Economists Starting to Admit that “Free Trade Agreements”...
Trump and Sanders have whipped up a lot of popular support by opposing “free trade” agreements. But it’s not just politics and populist sentiment … mainstream economists are starting to reconsider...
View ArticleHow Obama and Congressional Republicans Intend to Pass TPP Into Law —
After the November Elections Eric Zuesse Back on 10 December 2015, the head of the U.S. Senate, the pro-Obama-trade-deals Republican Mitch McConnell, said that Obama shouldn’t try to pass his TPP or...
View ArticleClinton: “Coal will be part of the energy mix for years to come, both in the...
Eric Zuesse The “Down with Tyranny” blog quotes Hillary Clinton’s statement in a recent letter to Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin, assuring him that as President she won’t be...
View ArticleNAFTA and Obama’s Proposed ‘Trade’ Deals Are UnConstitutional
Eric Zuesse NAFTA and other mega-‘trade’ deals are actually about lots more than merely ‘trade’; they’re about sovereignty — the ability of each of the participating nations to establish laws and...
View ArticleObama’s Fakery, ‘News’ Media’s Suckery
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org How can it be that the same news-medium that reported, on 22 April 2015, that the Obama Administration allows countries it signs trade-pacts with...
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The Rebellion Will Not Go Away
By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow him on Twitter...
View ArticleBritish Conservative Breaks Ranks, Opposes TTIP
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org It’s as if, say, during the Republican Administration of U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush, the person who had negotiated international...
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A Great Awakening – Public Support for Fake “Free Trade” Deals Plunges in the...
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Public opposition to the sovereignty killing corporate giveaway marketed as a free trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has...
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