online.wsj.com - 11/11/2008
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Washington In the bid for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's support for the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Gustavo Palacio was no match for John Sweeney. Mr. Sweeney, the protectionist president of the AFL-CIO, opposes the FTA. Mr. Palacio, a Colombian labor leader in a region that was a killing ...
huffingtonpost.com - 11/18/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
In its recent report entitled, "Breaking the Grip?
Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia," Human...
Rights Watch (HRW) had specific recommendations for the U.S. Department of Justice. Specifically, HRW recommended that, in order to ...
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Dan Kovalik: Lawyer for Chiquita in Colombia Death Squad ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 11/11/2008
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com —
Maybe it's the addition of beltway leaker extraordinaire,
Rahm Emmanuel, to the team, but it appears that...
the Obama team may have adopted a new policy on leaks, departing from their eerily disciplined no-leak approach during the campaign. Note ...
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A New Obama-Rahm Leak Policy?
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Free Trade And Bailing Out The Auto Industry
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
... today at the White House, President-elect Obama and President Bush discussed bailing out the auto industry. The President-elect was for it. The President wasn't but indicated that he might agree if Congress helped pass free trade agreements between the United States and countries like Colombia. The President-elect countered that this linkage was unacceptable because "human rights abuses against unionists." This excuse for rejecting the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade deal is nonsensical : The anti-FTA case in the U.S. has been built on two pillars of propaganda. The first is that ...
Free Trade And Bailing Out The Auto Industry
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... today at the White House, President-elect Obama
and President Bush discussed bailing out the auto industry. The
President-elect was for it. The President wasn't but indicated that
he might agree if Congress helped pass free trade agreements
between the United States and countries like Colombia. The
President-elect countered that this linkage was unacceptable
because "human rights abuses against unionists."
This excuse for rejecting the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade deal is
nonsensical:
The anti-FTA case in the U.S. has been built on two pillars of ...
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