Trade agreement between United States, Mexico, and Canada.
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Look what our friend @RoKhanna is doing! He’s in Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, “by the rivers gently flowing,” near the City of the Big Shoulders, in America’s industrial heartland, bashing NAFTA and trade with China. All good stuff, of course. Red...
by Robert Naiman
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on Sat Apr 09, 2022 at 12:39 PM PDT
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American Presidents, until now, have known and mostly honored their contract with the American people. The basics are: 1. Maintain faith in American Institutions and the electoral process. ...
by KKwriter
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on Sat Oct 31, 2020 at 09:54 AM PDT
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US media reports often focus on claims of migrants being forced from Central America by gang violence and corrupt politicians. This is only the final piece of a much bigger puzzle that has been designed and built to support US agriculture. Almost...
by JohnRay
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on Tue Sep 15, 2020 at 12:33 PM PDT
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Canadian Primer Minister Justin Trudeau has quite wisely declined to risk sickness and death just so Trump can have a photo-op “celebrating” the new agreement between Canada, the US, and Mexico — which is pretty much the same as the old agreement, the...
by Dan K
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on Tue Jul 07, 2020 at 09:03 AM PDT
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Just in case you didn’t get the memo, Donald J. Trump is running for reelection this year, and he needs money to do it. There are people who are saying mean things about him, people who want to do bad things, and only he can stop them — but he needs...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jun 12, 2020 at 04:26 AM PDT
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President Trump’s tough talk is deepening domestic and international debate on how to transform world trade rules. Yet Democrats still struggle to articulate a compelling alternative agenda as its corporate-minded members remain convinced that the...
by Victor Menotti
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on Wed Jun 10, 2020 at 02:27 AM PDT
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With the coronavirus literally bringing America to its knees, we have seen the altruistic like manner that health care workers, corporate companies, security personnel, and the American people work diligently to risk their lives in the fight against...
by melshim
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on Tue Apr 14, 2020 at 03:25 AM PDT
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In light of all of the political discourse that occurs on any given day, agriculture as a topic typically doesn’t make it to the top of the list. Nevertheless, it has been, and it always will be the primarily focus of a good government which is to keep...
by prophetofpan
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on Tue Dec 17, 2019 at 07:57 AM PST
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The Corporate Common Wisdom is that Donald Trump will be acquitted in the Senate. As Chuck Todd opined on Meet the Press, today Sunday 15 December 2019: Everything that’s happened…the House Judiciary Committee voting to send the two impeachment...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sun Dec 15, 2019 at 10:35 PM PST
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On the heels of announcing articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that Democrats had come to an agreement with Trump on the new North American trade pact, inexplicably giving Trump what pundits keep calling a...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Dec 10, 2019 at 07:52 AM PST
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I haven’t seen too many (or any) posts about the impending USMCA “hand shake” between the White House and Dems on the Hill. Is it inevitable? Is our party really going to just hand Trump an unnecessary win in the midst of his impeachment? Why the...
by Bassmastor
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on Mon Dec 09, 2019 at 03:45 PM PST
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Oscar Hernández Romero’s friends searched for him in garbage dumps, ravines and all the other places that could hide what they feared to find—the bullet-riddled body of a Mexican labor activist. But they’ve turned up no trace of Oscar, who disappeared...
by Tom Conway
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on Mon Oct 21, 2019 at 04:38 AM PDT
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An American flag made in China is not an American flag. It’s a knockoff. New York Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara wants a guarantee that flags flown at New York events and on New York poles are made in America. He introduced legislation last week to...
by Tom Conway
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on Fri Sep 20, 2019 at 07:36 AM PDT
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Mickey Ray Williams keeps a Goodyear tire in his Gadsden, Ala., conference room. Made in Mexico and imported to Gadsden, that tire induces fear. It’s an Assurance All-Season tire. Those were developed at Goodyear’s Gadsden factory in 2014. Now some, or...
by Tom Conway
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on Wed Aug 14, 2019 at 07:54 AM PDT
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I was raised in a company house in a company town where the miners had to buy their own oilers – that is, rubber coveralls – drill bits and other tools at the company store.
That company, Inco Limited, the world’s leading producer of nickel for...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Thu Jul 11, 2019 at 12:14 PM PDT
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I once saw an interview with director Michael Moore of Roger & Me fame where he juxtaposed two images. One image depicted a destroyed building which had been hit by a U.S. smart bomb somewhere on the other side of the planet. In the other image...
by Doctor RJ
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on Thu Jul 11, 2019 at 07:30 PM PDT
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Mick Mulvaney, a millionaire who is President Trump’s acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget, awarded himself another job last week: spokesman for labor.
Referring to the proposed new NAFTA, he told the Wall...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Mon Jun 17, 2019 at 11:04 AM PDT
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Has anybody noticed that Donald Trump's MO seems to be to declare or invent a crisis where none exists; to make or obtain some minor, cosmetic changes; and then to declare the problem solved (through toughness) and congratulate himself on "another"...
by mdorfman
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on Sun Jun 09, 2019 at 09:38 PM PDT
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When the bill containing Donald Trump’s revisions to NAFTA—a large part of which involved changing the name from NAFTA—reached Congress, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi requested time to review the bill and to work with the White House on resolving...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu May 30, 2019 at 01:23 PM PDT
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In 1993, Congressman Bernie Sanders delivered a forceful speech against the adoption of NAFTA and voted against it:
Senator Joe Biden, however, supported NAFTA and voted for it.
Following is the 61-to-38 roll-call by which the Senate voted...
by TomP
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on Mon May 13, 2019 at 11:34 AM PDT
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