{"id":257466,"date":"2016-07-22T14:37:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lori-wallach-peter-maybarduk-and-karen-hansen-kuhn-on-corporate-globalization\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T22:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:51:58","slug":"lori-wallach-peter-maybarduk-and-karen-hansen-kuhn-on-corporate-globalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lori-wallach-peter-maybarduk-and-karen-hansen-kuhn-on-corporate-globalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Wallach, Peter Maybarduk and Karen Hansen-Kuhn on Corporate Globalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong>: Few ideas are as hard-wired into current corporate media as the notion that so-called \u201cfree trade\u201d agreements of the sort we have are, despite concerns, best for everyone. Given that the deals are not primarily about trade, and that what freedom they entail accrues to corporations and not people, you could say the very use of the term \u201cfree trade\u201d implies a bias, against clarity if nothing else. This week, <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong> will revisit three interviews we\u2019ve done on this issue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wrapperMI_0\" class=\"wrap-mjp \" style=\"padding: 5px 0px 40px 0px; margin: 0px; width: 100%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/audio\/counterspin\/CounterSpin160722.mp3\"><strong>MP3 Link<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5582108\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 211px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/NAFTA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5582106\" src=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/NAFTA.png\" alt=\"NAFTA Kills Jobs Across Borders (cc photo: Billie Greenwood)\" width=\"201\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>cc photo: Billie Greenwood<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We\u2019ll hear from Lori Wallach of Public Citizen\u2019s Global Trade Watch, whose 2008 discussion of NAFTA is as vital as ever.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wrapperMI_1\" class=\"wrap-mjp \" style=\"padding: 5px 0px 40px 0px; margin: 0px; width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"Eabove-mjp_1\" class=\"Eabove-mjp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"subwrap-MI\">\n<div class=\"jp-innerwrap\">\n<div class=\"innerx\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"innerleft\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"innerright\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"innertab\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/home\/lori-wallach-peter-maybarduk-and-karen-hansen-kuhn-on-corporate-globalization\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on CounterSpin: Few ideas are as hard-wired into current corporate media as the notion that so-called \u201cfree trade\u201d agreements of the sort we have are, despite concerns, best for everyone. Given that the deals are not primarily about trade, and that what freedom they entail accrues to corporations and not people, you could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257466","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=257466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}