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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with free trade

Cheney Continues Attempt to Destroy the Environment, Give Business Free Rein
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: F. Chase Hutto, Cheney, environment, US government, Energy Department, free trade, development )

RC
- 491 days ago - washingtonpost.com
A notably anti-environmental regulation & protection aide to Big Dick has been proposed for a top Energy Department slot. The disrespect & destruction for the well-being of the earth & its creatures, including us, continues. Get to know F. Chase Hutto III
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US Role in Haiti Hunger Riots
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: usa, IMF, free trade, starving the hungry, fascist genocide )


- 610 days ago - opednews.com
Haiti used to be able to feed itself, until the US and the IMF forced them to change their laws. The US and IMF changes helped destroy Haiti rice farmers. Now Haiti imports heavily subsidized US rice - which has soared in price and is now scarce.
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Colombia Union Members Still Targeted
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Bush, Plan Colombia, free trade, war on drugs, death squads )


- 623 days ago - news.yahoo.com
"It tries to stigmatize us, it tries to paint us as rebels, and that's when the right-wing death squads try to kill us," said...Colombia's largest trade union federation. "These death squads still work with parts of the military and police to kill trade u
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Seeds of Worry
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Monsanto, GMOs, free trade, usa, mexico, corn )


- 631 days ago - mcgilldaily.com
for over a year now, farmers, scientists, and activists all over Mexico have been mobilizing under the banner Sin mai­z, no hay pai­s - without corn, there is no country. The campaign has been organizing protests against the import of GM corn and in suppo
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South Carolina Primary Colors: Black and White? - Greg Palast
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: free trade, globalization, unions, jobs, racism )


- 696 days ago - gregpalast.com
South Carolina 2000: Six hundred police in riot gear facing a few dozen angry-as-hell workers on the docks of Charleston. In the darkness, rocks, clubs and blood fly. The cops beat the crap out of the protesters.
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Coca-Cola Asked to Shut Plant in India
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Privatization, free trade, water, corporations )


- 701 days ago - indiaresource.org
The report VALIDATES the concerns of the communities in India - that the Coca-Cola company is guilty of creating water shortages and polluting the water and land around its bottling plants.
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Chavez to Farmers: Sell Within Venezuela or It's 'Treason' - CNN.Com
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: free trade, predatory capitalism, United Fruit )


- 701 days ago - cnn.com
President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to take over farms or milk plants if owners refuse to sell their milk for domestic consumption and instead seek higher profits abroad or from cheese-makers. (Why allow food exports when there is hunger at home?)
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Africa Says No
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: free trade )


- 721 days ago - truthout.org
So then, to the great displeasure of arrogant Europe, the unimaginable has occurred: in a burst of pride and revolt, Africa, which some believed submissive because it is impoverished, said "no."
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Indian 'Slave' Children Found Making Low-Cost Clothes Destined for Gap | World | The Observer
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: free trade, child labor, globalization )


- 787 days ago - observer.guardian.co.uk
Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
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Narco News: Colombian Senator Petro Tells U.S. Congress: Free Trade Agreement Would Benefit Narco-Traffickers
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: corruption, free trade, Colombia, drugs )


- 789 days ago - narconews.com
While he was in Washington...Petro spent most of his time going from one U.S. legislator's office to another, explaining to his North American counterparts his major thesis on the Free Trade Agreement: that it will benefit Colombia's big narco-traffickers
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More BushShite: He Says "Protectionism" Will Cause Cost the US Jobs
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Bush, free trade, outsourcing, trade expansion )

RC
- 802 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Well, Bushy-Boy, I see that all this fre trade has already cost us Americans jobs, safe products and pride in our country. Why don't we try a little MAKE IT, DON'T TAKE IT here in the US for a change? This man is so full of crap his eyes are brown.
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