Thursday Potpourri: Obama’s lament, Trump’s pardon, racist candidates, and Virginia Medicaid expansion

By Robert A. Vella In a new book coming out by former Obama advisor Ben Rhodes titled The World as Continue reading →

TPP is Not Dead: It’s Now Called the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA)

Think the ideas behind the Trans-Pacific Partnership or the so-called “free trade” regime are buried? Sadly, no. Definitely, no. Some Continue reading →

Japan PM says TPP meaningless without US as Trump nixes pact

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Japan’s prime minister said Monday the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal would be “meaningless” without U.S. participation, Continue reading →

Part III of BuzzFeed’s investigative Free Trade series, plus critique of President Obama’s TPP push

By Robert A. Vella Here’s an excerpt from the third installment of BuzzFeed‘s investigative series on free trade, titled “LET’S Continue reading →

BuzzFeed begins Investigative Series on the global corruption of Free Trade

By Robert A. Vella Yesterday, BuzzFeed published the first installment of its comprehensive investigative series on how neoliberal free trade Continue reading →

President Obama’s last-ditch effort to pass TPP puts Hillary Clinton under the microscope

By Robert A. Vella It’s crunch-time for President Obama’s neoliberal Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.  He has two legislative windows remaining Continue reading →

Hillary wants to put TPP in her ‘rear-view mirror,’ but free trade proponents won’t let her

By Robert A. Vella Like an escaped prisoner struggling for freedom, Hillary Clinton is being slowed-down by a heavy ball-and-chain.  Continue reading →

Trade deal’s supporters counterattack

Democrats ripped President Barack Obama’s Asia Pacific trade deal in Philadelphia this week, much as Republicans had the week before Continue reading →