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Donald Trump’s Tariff War

By Dr Binoy Kampmark “To protect our Country, we must protect American Steel!” Donald J. Trump, Twitter, Mar 5, 2018 As an agent of chaos, US President Donald Trump is keeping busy.  Last week’s announcement that tariffs will be imposed…

The transatlantic trade deal TTIP may be dead, but something even worse is coming

Governments and corporate lobbyists keep inventing new ways to embed privatisation and circumvent democracy – in this case, the Canada-EU deal By George Monbiot for The Guardian Is it over? Can it be true? If so, it’s a victory for…

Joseph Stiglitz Stands Against Trade Agreements

New York Feb 25 2015 – The United States is trying to impose a strong investment pact within two big, so-called “partnership” agreements that are now being negotiated, one bridging the Atlantic, the other the Pacific. But there is growing…

ALBA 10 Years Commemorated in Argentina

Buenos Aires, Nov 12 (Prensa Latina) “The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) fosters today cooperation ties based on solidarity, humanism and complementation”, five ambassadors from the 10 country members highlighted here. Ambassadors from Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba,…