free trade – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png free trade – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 Despite Scrapping TPP, Donald Trump Is a Dedicated Free Trader https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/despite-scrapping-tpp-donald-trump-dedicated-free-trader/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 15:04:55 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/despite-scrapping-tpp-donald-trump-dedicated-free-trader/ by Jack Rasmus

Whether multi or bilateral, free trade is free trade, and workers, consumers and the environment pay for the profits of corporations. Less than a week after assuming office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order abandoning the 12 nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement negotiated by former President Barack Obama, but not yet ratified by the U.S. Congress. He then quickly attacked Mexico — abruptly cut short a phone conversation with Mexico’s President Peña Nieto, canceled a meeting with Peña Nieto after demanding Mexico pay for a wall on the U.S. border and threatened to impose a 20 percent border tax on goods […]]]> by Jack Rasmus

Less than a week after assuming office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order abandoning the 12 nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement negotiated by former President Barack Obama, but not yet ratified by the U.S. Congress. He then quickly attacked Mexico — abruptly cut short a phone conversation with Mexico’s President Peña Nieto, canceled a meeting with Peña Nieto after demanding Mexico pay for a wall on the U.S. border and threatened to impose a 20 percent border tax on goods exported to the United States based on the North American Free Trade Agreement.

]]> Congress Must Kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/congress-must-kill-trans-pacific-partnership/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:13:17 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/congress-must-kill-trans-pacific-partnership/ by Jim Goodman

(The TPP from the point of view of a Wisconsin organic dairy/beef farmer. Short and to-the-point.)   Trade is good, but “Free Trade” doesn’t work for farmersor workers or most everyone else. Free trade does, however,work spectacularly well for corporations…  ]]> by Jim Goodman

(The TPP from the point of view of a Wisconsin organic dairy/beef farmer. Short and to-the-point.)

 

Trade is good, but “Free Trade” doesn’t work for farmers
or workers or most everyone else.

Free trade does, however,work spectacularly well for corporations…

 

]]> Is Water Pollution Trading Coming to the Midwest? https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/water-pollution-trading-coming-midwest/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:08:33 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/water-pollution-trading-coming-midwest/ by John E. Peck

Pollution is a bad thing, right? Isn’t the ultimate goal of the 1972 Clean Water Act to make all water in the U.S. swimmable, fishable, and drinkable – as it once was? Well, think again… If you are a capitalist entrepreneur who believes, to paraphrase Reagan, in the “magic of the market place” then a lucrative opportunity awaits you in the emerging water pollution trading business!]]> by John E. Peck

Pollution is a bad thing, right? Isn’t the ultimate goal of the 1972 Clean Water Act to make all water in the U.S. swimmable, fishable, and drinkable – as it once was? Well, think again… If you are a capitalist entrepreneur who believes, to paraphrase Reagan, in the “magic of the market place” then a lucrative opportunity awaits you in the emerging water pollution trading business!

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