Stories by Todd Tucker
Todd Tucker is research director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch.
"We migrate because we don't think there are options."
Posted on May 15, 2008
End of an era?
Posted on Apr 15, 2008
Mexico stands to lose an amount equal to 3 percent of their GDP due to the over-reliance on the U.S. export market.
Posted on Apr 4, 2008
A trade deal with Colombia won't be beaten by moral outrage alone.
Posted on Mar 17, 2008
Corporate lobbyists, politicians, and ‘free market’ think tanks work hand-in-hand to lock in corporate privileges.
Posted on Mar 11, 2008
It's one of the great unspoken ironies of campaign 2008.
Posted on Mar 4, 2008
They have nothing to do with the rising living standards with which "free-traders" justify corporate trade deals.
Posted on Feb 29, 2008
Will the Democrats' signature "green jobs" plans be undermined by their fealty to lobbyist-written trade deals?
Posted on Feb 27, 2008
Corporate interests are savvy at bringing about incremental policy changes with far-reaching consequences.
Posted on Feb 18, 2008
Many of the "green economy" plans are illegal according to the WTO.
Posted on Jan 31, 2008
Neoliberal "trade" deals depress wages for 70 percent of workers.
Posted on Oct 30, 2007
A new investors' protection agreement based on the despised NAFTA model is passing through Congress.
Posted on Oct 1, 2007
"Victims" of the perverse system we created?
Posted on Aug 29, 2007
Mattel says its supply chain just has a few bad apples. Where have we heard that before?
Posted on Aug 21, 2007
Trade orthodoxy is increasingly being challenged.
Posted on Aug 7, 2007
The push to cover the planet in trade deals is intended to give foreign investors new "rights." Now these deals are being used to keep failed private retirement systems in corporate hands.
Posted on Jul 31, 2007
Democrats talked tough on trade to win a majority. Now they're poised to enter into a deal with Bush and his cronies that not one labor, environmental, small business, public health or consumer group supports.
Posted on May 23, 2007
In November, American voters sent a strong message that said they're fed up with the status quo on U.S. trade policy. But will the newly emergent Dems listen?
Posted on Feb 7, 2007
