{"id":222947,"date":"2016-02-09T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=222947"},"modified":"2016-02-09T13:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T13:41:04","slug":"corporate-managed-trade-deals-screw-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/corporate-managed-trade-deals-screw-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate-Managed Trade Deals Screw the US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Photo: US dollars<\/a>; Edited: LW \/ TO)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The New Hampshire primary is now just one day away, and differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton couldn’t be clearer, especially when it comes to so-called free trade.<\/p>\n

While Secretary Clinton’s views on corporate-managed trade have changed a lot over the years, Senator Sanders’ haven’t.<\/p>\n

He opposes and has opposed<\/a> every single one of the so-called free trade deals we’ve entered into since the 1980s.<\/p>\n

See more news and opinion from Thom Hartmann at Truthout here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

He also now says that he would reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, if elected president.<\/p>\n

This is a big deal, and yet another sign that a Sanders presidency would do wonders for working Americans.<\/p>\n

Even so, the corporate media will probably still paint it as a dangerously radical move; an example of how Sanders is just too far out of the mainstream to be a viable candidate.<\/p>\n

But here’s the thing: The idea that we can undo or reject bad so-called free trade agreements isn’t that radical.<\/p>\n

It’s actually pretty mainstream, or at least used to be.<\/p>\n

In fact, back in 2008 even Clinton said she would consider opting out<\/a> of NAFTA if, as president, she couldn’t renegotiate better terms for US workers and the environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(Photo: US dollars; Edited: LW \/ TO) The New Hampshire primary is now just one day away, and differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton couldn’t be clearer, especially when it comes to so-called free trade. While Secretary Clinton’s views on corporate-managed trade have changed a lot over the years, Senator Sanders’ haven’t. He opposes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}