My Cautionary Tale about Free Trade Agreements, Healthcare, Presidents,...
Body: [Stickying this because it's important! --lambert]I'm going to try to write a short piece about a really horrible disconnection that has occurred between the politicians who run the country and...
View ArticleCIO report on privatization disasters shows that one of its main goals is...
Body: In my blog post a few days ago about the unseen hand of the various 'free trade agreement' mandates to 'privatize everything' quietly strangling any "hope" of real "health care reform" in the...
View ArticleTISA's Global War on Public Services: The Trade in Services Agreement and the...
Body: A report just came out yesterday that should be read by anybody who doubts that the US and the EU are waging a global war on all that is good about governments, and public services - overturning...
View ArticleCan we be finally be honest about the main reason why unskilled and medium...
Body: We're been struggling with technology for tens of thousands of years. Learning all the time. And guess what, the more we learn, the faster we're learning new stuff, better! Now, our labor saving...
View ArticleWill Obama's Irreversible Secret Fracking Deal raise US prices for NATURAL...
Body: Trade deals are pushing to permanently, irreversibly eliminate longstanding US restrictions on natural gas exporting which could mean heating, cooking gas, hot water, etc. costs (all natural gas...
View ArticleSlovakia's legal battle to implement single payer VS. special corporate...
Body: Recap: Slovaks were fed up with the ever rising cost of health insurance, so in 2006, they elected a government that ran on a platform promising to limit the profits of the insurers and...
View ArticleUK anti-TTIP protests reflect urgent need in both US and UK for explicit...
Body: From euractiv comes an article about the uproar over NHS privatization.. which is being blotted out of the UK media...UK anti-TTIP protests to focus on NHS privatisation. I'm quoting it...
View ArticleThe Number Two Reason Canadian Healthcare is Free And Equal to All Canadians
Body: Over the last few weeks we've been seeing a drama slowly unfold in the UK. We in the US should be watching this very closely, because our own fate is closely tied to the fate of the Brits....
View ArticleA huge find from Maine: Do Obama and the 3 "free trade agreements" have a...
Body: You know how sometimes you're looking around for something and can't find it and then it suddenly turns up and it was right in front of you, but just somewhere you forgot to look? Well, this 2006...
View ArticleIf 4.6 million in Federal exchanges lose premium subsidies due to Halbig, we...
Body: The unseen hand of secretive trade policies and secretive free trade agreements strikes again, although of course, as always, for a reason that mentions them not.
View ArticleA Credibility Problem?
Body: President Obama's remarks to the Business Roundtable on Trade raise alarm bells for us all, and suggest that he is still pushing his pro- 1% agenda for all it is worth. Perhaps it would be better...
View ArticleThoughts About the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Body: During a recent Amy Goodman interview of Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, on her Democracy Now show, Wallach neatly summarized the problems of progressives with the...
View ArticleThe New York Times Covers the TPP: A Commentary
Body: Wikileaks did us all another service yesterday by releasing the “Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP): Investment Chapter Consolidated Text,” and collaborating with the New York Times to get...
View ArticleDeclarations of Dependence: A New e-Book on the Neoliberal Nation-Subjugating...
Body: The trade agreements currently being negotiated by the Obama Administration are potentially enormously important in their possible impact on the United States. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
View ArticleWho Needs Balanced Trade? Who Needs Balance Budgets: A New Book on Trade and...
Body: The intensity of the conflict over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has died down since last June, after the Administration won its victory in getting Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) through...
View ArticleThe upcoming US Presidential election - where affordable health care and...
Body: In India, on the other side of the world, a debate has been raging for a year over India's entry to the WTO and the implications of Indias signing the WTO GATS, an act which, the Indian media is...
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