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Wash Post Re-Floats Possibility of Lame-Duck NAFTA Expansion
Open Left - Front Page — ... My last newspaper column explored how the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is about nothing other than serving corporate interests; how poll after poll after poll has shown Americans intensely oppose such NAFTA expansions; how in 2006 and 2008, a total of ...

Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone On Health Care
Open Left - Front Page — ... with him; both Republicans and the media are trying to bait Democrats into a divisive fight over a corporate written trade deal; and there's some pretty serious talk of universal health care in the air. As I say in ...

David Sirota: Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... with him; and both Republicans and the media are trying to bait Democrats into a divisive fight over a corporate written trade deal. But out of all that news - some good, some bad - the best is that there's some pretty serious talk of universal health care in the air. As I say in ...

Rangel: Obama Confidantes Sending Pro-NAFTA Expansion Signals
Open Left - Front Page — In my column last week, I praised the Obama team for suggesting they see the political and policy danger of backing President Bush's proposed NAFTA expansion into Colombia - a country with one of the worst human rights records in the world. But now I see this little tidbit from Inside U.S. Trade: ...

Colombia Trade Deal Back On the Table?
Open Left - Front Page — ... I'm still hopeful Obama doesn't move forward because if he can't see the policy reasons to oppose a reward to a murderous right-wing regime, then at least he must be able to see the political reasons beyond merely avoiding a flip-flop on a campaign pledge. As I wrote in an earlier newspaper column, Republicans would like nothing more than Obama pushing the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, because they know it would recreate the Democratic Party-weakening schism that Bill Clinton forged when he joined with Republicans early in his term to pass NAFTA over progressive congressional ...

"Why Should We Have a fight Over Continuing the Bush Trade Policy?"
Open Left - Front Page — ... Politically, this is just downright dumb. As I wrote in a past column, we saw what happened when a Democratic president split apart the Democratic Party on an issue like trade at the beginning of his term. It was called NAFTA, and the move severely damaged the Democratic Party at the polls. I'm not saying this will be another 1994, but I am saying the Republicans would like nothing more than a Democratic president once again ...