US seeks lead in crafting Asia trade vision
© AFP/Getty Images Joe Raedle AFP BIG SKY, Montana (AFP) – The United States is looking to forge a new vision on free trade that…
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The Push for a Single Unified North American Regulatory Regime
Dana Gabriel Be Your Own Leader It was surprising that bilateral relations with the U.S. did not play a more prominent role during the recent…
WikiLeaks Exposes North American Integration Plot
Wiki Commons Alex Newman The New American As early as January of 2005, high-ranking officials were discussing the best way to sell the idea of…
North American Perimeter Security and the Militarization of the Northern Border
Dana Gabriel Be Your Own Leader With the release of a U.S. Congressional report that found only a small fraction of the border with Canada…
Bad U.S.-Latin American Policy Fuels Unauthorized Immigration
© AFP/File Hector Mata By Catherine A. Traywick Media Consortium Too often, the immigration debate in this country ignores the role U.S. foreign policy plays…
Answering Objections to a Tariff
Ian Fletcher Activist Post It’s only fair to answer some of the objections to the idea of an import tariff that I and others, like…
Why Donald Trump is Right on Trade
Ian Fletcher Activist Post The usual suspects are racing to debunk Donald Trump’s foray into the most serious protectionism—a 25% tariff on China—proposed by a…
A Tariff Would, Too, Fix Our Trade Mess
Ian Fletcher Activist Post I and my employer, the Coalition for a Prosperous America, are unabashed protectionists. I have written previously about how, for example,…
Global Warming: An anti-scientific political movement
Marti Oakley, Contributing Writer Activist Post After decades of allowing industries to pollute at will all in the name of those handy dandy “free markets”…
No Need for Villains on the Trade Issue
Ian Fletcher Activist Post Judging by, among other things, the comments posted on articles about America’s trade mess, a lot of people are getting very…
Economists Shocked, Shocked: We Really Are Losing Jobs to China!
Ian Fletcher Activist Post There’s a nice new academic paper just out by an MIT economist and his friends that gives some hard data to…
The Theory That’s Killing America’s Economy—and Why It’s Wrong
Ian Fletcher Activist Post I wrote in a previous article how America’s disastrous embrace of free trade is ultimately based on a false theory of…
US House votes to curb climate regulation
© AFP/Getty Images/File AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill aimed at preventing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
Obama, Santos to clear way for free trade deal
Juan Manuel Santos © AFP Stan Honda AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama and his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos are set to approve…