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One month after NAFTA-gate, it's time to look back and see what exactly Barack Obama said about trade, in "The Audacity of Hope"
  • Depressing

    I'm still waiting for a few countries to sign fair trade agreements.

    Let's see what we do get: special economic zones, loans and aid with strings (chains) attached, corruption, environmental degradation, slave labour/human trafficking, bans on labour unions, no bid contracts, imposition of crippling intellectual property laws, privatization of public resources, ill-thought farm subsidies, a host of abuses and neglect of workers, and so on.