“Free Trade” Pacts Were Always About Weakening Nation-States to Promote Rule by Multinationals
Matt Stoller's article, penned in 2014, during the height of Obamas push for NAFTA on financialized steroids, the TPP(Trans Pacific Partnership) helped alert me to the political reality residing inside the already then - a decade before the neoliberal Trilateralist Jimmy Carter helped turn the party against workers and another 15 years before Bill Clinton sealed the working/middle class eviscerating, global corporatist New Democrat Party's neoliberal mindset-ensconcing deal. By Matt Stoller, who writes for Salon and has contributed to Politico, Alternet, Salon, The Nation and Reuters. You can reach him at stoller (at) gmail.com or follow him on Twitter at @matthewstoller . Originally published at Observations on Credit and Surveillance Here’s part one of this series on the origins of NAFTA and our current trading regime. It’s amazing what you find in the Congressional Record. For example, you find American political officials (liberal ones, actually) engage...