World Trade Organization
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America’s position as the sole great power within the international system has come to an end. The future of the liberal world order has become precarious. Brief History & Theoretical Concepts in International Relations The balance of power within the...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM PST
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Is Joe Biden breaking a promise on vaccine protection for the world over pharmaceutical profits? No! There are a small handful of YouTube political commentators to whom I will listen to throughout the week on a number of liberal political issues. Occasionally a story comes across my feed where either they have a different take on something, or present...
by Noodles
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on Wed May 05, 2021 at 12:20 PM PDT
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Mount Everest base camp in Nepal is located at an elevation of 17,598 feet. It’s the perfect place to pause, build up some red blood cells, and contemplate whether you really want to climb a corpse-littered mountain with an upper third that’s located...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed May 05, 2021 at 12:30 PM PDT
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Today, November 19th, is World Toilet Day. Why would anyone celebrate toilets? Because they save lives. Many people are concerned with access to clean water, but are squeamish about why water is ...
by A Citizen
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on Thu Nov 19, 2020 at 06:00 AM PST
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From CNN:
A record one person in every 1,500 in Japan is aged at least 100 -- and they're probably a woman
By Sara Spary and Yoko Wakatsuki, CNN
(CNN)Nearly 1 in 1,500 people in Japan ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Sep 18, 2020 at 08:46 PM 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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Isolationism is a path well-travelled, but the results never have been efficacious. Based on fear and ignorance, invariably such tendencies of appeasement and willful ignorance of political realities too often have led to war. Geographically, the...
by JohnBAlexander
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on Thu Jun 04, 2020 at 04:00 PM PDT
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An eyewitness accounting by a participant and a councilmember who reviewed its impact for the City of Seattle The freedom to dissent was tested as the US closed out the twentieth century with a demonstration that grabbed the world’s attention. Forty...
by Nickjlicata
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on Fri Nov 22, 2019 at 12:52 PM PST
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It took grit to get this far. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer explained that to Congress yesterday.
So, he said, no one in the administration is backing down now.
They’ve managed to confront Beijing, a trade renegade, and do it with...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Thu Feb 28, 2019 at 08:19 AM PST
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Why Did China Precede Trump’s Rose Garden Emergency Declaration?
When Trump traipsed into the Rose Garden last Friday, to announce his imaginary national emergency supposedly requiring construction of a Southern border wall, he delayed a few...
by LeftOfYou
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on Wed Feb 20, 2019 at 04:21 PM PST
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In this week when love relationships are celebrated and commemorated, the trade relationship between China and America should be denounced as destructive and exploitive.
China’s deliberate trade violations are draining America’s strength. Beijing...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Fri Feb 15, 2019 at 06:48 AM PST
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Everything is great, right? Unemployment is the lowest in half a century . The economy is churning out a high ...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Fri Oct 26, 2018 at 08:00 AM PDT
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A report that Donald Trump is looking to walk away from the World Trade Organisation and instead adopt a United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act, or Fart Act, has been greeted with loud amusement on Twitter.
Axios reported that it had received...
by MTmofo
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on Sun Jul 01, 2018 at 11:43 PM PDT
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That U.S. trade negotiators returned from China last week without trumpeting some big breakthrough is, in fact, a sign of real progress. That’s because there’s no point in touting more cheap promises that won’t be kept.
The U.S. and China discussed...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Tue May 08, 2018 at 11:45 AM PDT
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Donald Trump does not like multi-party international trade deals. It doesn’t matter if that’s TPP, or NAFTA, or CAFTA, or T-TIP: Trump has been insistent that America’s past negotiators have been uniformly awful, and that he can deliver a better deal...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Jul 19, 2017 at 12:13 PM PDT
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This month is the one-year anniversary of Alcoa closing the largest aluminum smelter in the United States – the Warrick in Indiana.
More than 325 workers lost their family-supporting jobs, including Brandon Marshall, who, like most aluminum...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Tue Mar 07, 2017 at 10:42 AM PST
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The USA laid the foundations for many international frameworks that made for international cooperation and increased dialogue between nations at all levels. Anti American Trump is on the pathway to destroy all them.
money.cnn.com/...
by Kenneth DeBacker
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on Thu Mar 02, 2017 at 05:02 PM PST
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During this very month last year, aluminum smelters across the United States were closing, one after another. It was as if they produced something useless, not a commodity crucial to everything from beverage cans to fighter jets.
In January of 2016,...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Tue Jan 17, 2017 at 09:57 AM PST
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Christian Felber, founder of the The Economy For The Common Good and author of 15 books, including “Change Everything: Creating an Economy For The Common Good”, writes in the Huffington Post about “free trade” and the need for a new, ethics-based...
by Gus Hagelberg
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on Tue Jan 03, 2017 at 01:09 AM PST
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People have been engaged in extensive trade with different countries and cultures across broad geographic spaces for millennia.
Neoliberals who want to obfuscate the issue like to point this out and try to conflate trade with globalization as it is...
by Th0rn
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on Fri Dec 09, 2016 at 03:59 PM PST
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