This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Fueled By Protests, Trade Justice Movement Seeks To Overturn Trans-Pacific Partnership
At its root, the TPP is about modern colonialism. And it’s not too late to stop it.
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Why Global Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Keeps Growing, and Growing
Over the past month, trade officials have been frantically working to resolve outstanding disagreements over provisions in the TPP in the midst of speculation that the deal is in deep trouble.
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Corporate Lobbying Costs Hit $380 Million In 9 Months Pushing Pacific Trade Deal
Washington lobbying by companies and groups involved in global trade boomed in the past nine months.
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A Coup for Corporate America As U.S. Senate Passes Fast Track
In a win for multinational corporations and the 1 percent, the Senate advanced Fast Track.
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Why Fast Track Would Hand Total Control of the Money Supply to Private Banks — Permanently
The Trade in Services Agreement now being debated for Fast Track would open the doors even wider for private banks and commercial service industries – and slam the door on governments seeking to open private banking sectors to public ownership.
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People's Anti-Mining Struggle in El Salvador Highlights The Perils of Global Trade Deals
Here is the story of how free trade agreements like the TPP pave the way for transnational corporate plunder – by establishing legal protections for companies to pollute with impunity, then get a big pay-out afterwards.
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Bernie Sanders's "Political Revolution" Can Only Come About if He Abandons the Democrats
Bernie's message of taking on the billionaire class, making four-year college free and breaking up the big banks is resonating with everyday folks – and if he breaks with the Democrats to run as an Independent, his support will surge.
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Senate Democrats Knock Down Obama's Trade Agenda, Saying No to Fast Track
Members of the party banded together to prevent the Senate from considering legislation that would give the president the authority to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership unamended.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic
A blatantly unconstitutional trade deal, the TPP would destroy our republican form of government under the rule of law by elevating the rights of investors – also called the rights of “capital” – above the rights of citizens.
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Why Bernie Sanders Is the Only Populist Candidate for President
Whether or not this opponent of the billionaire class, corporate greed, Wall Street and environmental degradation – and this champion of working people, the unemployed, retirees, and student debtors – is our next president will be entirely up to us.
