Free Trade or Just Green Trade?
Corporations are using trade and investment treaties to handcuff global and national efforts to save the planet.
Latin American Leaders Should Stand Up for People, Not Corporate Profits
As leaders gather in Los Angeles, a reflection on the past two decades of battles against neoliberalism and for a more just and equitable alternative in the Americas.
Latin America Should Withdraw From the World Bank’s Harsh Trade Court
A secretive World Bank tribunal lets multinational corporations sue governments over basic regulations. Mexico should lead a Latin American exodus.
Missing from the Climate Talks: Corporate Powers to Sue Governments Over Extractives Policies
Allowing oil, mining, and gas companies to continue to file expensive lawsuits over environmental regulations could undermine whatever agreements might be reached in the COP26 in Glasgow.
We Need a Progressive Alternative on Trade — and NAFTA 2.0 Isn’t It
Twenty years after Seattle, we are still working towards a progressive trade agenda that protects people and planet.
North American Organizations Call on the Canadian Government to Stand Up to Washington’s Bullying on NAFTA, and to Strike a Fair Trade Deal
Organizations denounce Trump’s ‘divide and conquer’ strategy.
Building a New Populism in the Era of Trump
With a little good faith, liberals and conservatives can work together to tackle the real issues putting the American Dream out of reach.
Our Society is Unequal By Design
A new book from veteran researcher Dean Baker looks at the rigged rules that drive wealth to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands.
After Seven Years and Millions of Dollars, Decision Announced in Pac Rim Mining Company vs. El Salvador
Coalition of Groups State “There Are No Winners,” Investor-State Arbitration Subverts Democracy
Free Trade’s Regulatory Chilling Effects
Under deals like the TPP, countries that might otherwise have curtailed corporate activities won’t do so, simply out of fear of being sued by multinational corporations.
‘Free Trade’ Deals Like Obama’s TPP Only Widen the Economic Divide
A Mexican fair trade activist offers lessons from NAFTA.
What a Sanders Foreign Policy Doctrine Could Look Like
A foreign policy framework based on ‘No wars for the billionaire class’
The Moral Case Against the TPP
The TPP doesn’t just put jobs at risk. It rewrites the rules of business for big corporations—just ask Pope Francis.
Infographic: Lessons from NAFTA for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Two decades of high costs for Mexico’s agriculture, economy, families, and environment
Why JFK Wouldn’t Recognize Today’s Free Trade Deals
As President Obama tries to save the Trans-Pacific Partnership this week, debates over the goals of free trade intensifies.