June 2019

Let’s decode Trump’s Afta-Nafta trade deal

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Why are corporate bosses smiling?

Two coalitions that helped pass USMCA are made up of some 200 multinational corporate powers that are together responsible for more than half a million trade-related US job losses under the old Nafta. Read more...
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Let’s decode Trump’s Afta-Nafta trade deal

Global trade deals are and always have been large-scale hustles, filled with hypocrisy, deceit, and greed. Promoted as fair and good for all, they're invariably rigged with profiteering schemes that lock into law advantages for corporations over the common good of consumers, the environment, labor, independent businesses, governments, and all other democratic forces. The USMCA is no different-- and is, in fact, worse. Read more...

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