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This program is a repeat of two previous programs which were aired on April 15 and April 22, 2025.The guest is Lori Wallach.We talk about tariffs. What are they? How do they work? What effect do they have on the economy of a country?WNHNGM.ORG production
Part 1:We talk with Professor Barnet Sherman, Multinational Finance and Trade,Boston UniversityDuring his 30+ year career on Wall Street, Barnet Sherman grew and managed multibillion dollar portfolios for Morgan Stanley ($3B) and TIAA ($10B) as well as founded a hedge fund. Now a Professor at Boston University, he draws on these experiences in both his Multinational Finance & Trade and Corporate Finance classes to give graduate students professional insights on these complex topics. A Senior Contributor to Forbes.com, he continues to write extensively on the capital markets.We discuss the effect of discouraging students from around the world from coming the the US for education. Education is our 10th largest export, and it contributes billions of dollars in both direct payments (tuition, rents, etc.) and also as multiplied by creating and supporting jobs in the US.The administration is targeting foreign students, by taking actions against them, by either cancelling visas, and deporting many students. This discourages potential students from coming. Additionally, the 'brain drain' thus caused will stifle much development and invention activity. Faculty will likely also choose to go to 'friendlier' countries to work. Colleges and universities, who are subsidized by international students who pay 'full freight' will lose revenues, and will likely have to close. Nationally, $2.3 Billion is the estimated annual revenue contribution.Part 2:We talk with Lori Wallach, Director, Rethink Trade Program at the American Economic Liberties Project.RethinkTrade.orgWe discuss how tariffs should work to aid a real economic plan. We discuss the role of targeted tariffs, and paired with investments in-country in economic development in the country, along with the economic advantages to workers as a result. Inbalances in trade can be resolved, but they must be more than a "beggar thy neighbor" policies, which do not work. Instead, we discuss how the US should approach trade with other countries, and develop resilience in its supply chains. Music: David Rovics WNHN.ORG production
Lori Wallach breaks down the confusion, the consequences, and what's coming next on the Trump administration's actions on China, the 90-day pause, and more.
Part 1:We talk with John P. Jackson, Jr., Professor of History and Philosophy of Science,Michigan State UniversityProfessor Jackson writes in the area ofhistory and philosophy of science, especially the scientific study of race in the United States. He has authored, co-authored, or edited six books.We discuss the social construct of 'race' in the US.We examine how 'race' is human invention, a way to distinguish between people who may represent something different from our near acquaintances, and who may somehow represent a threat. We can thus justify enslaving and mistreating others by whatever physical characteristic that we chose to focus on. We look the history of 'othering' people in the US, and how this has become entrenched.Part 2:We talk with Lori Wallach, J.D., who is the director of the Rethink Trade program at the American Economic Liberties Project.She is also Senior Advisor to the Citizens Trade Campaign, the U.S. national trade justice coalition of unions and environmental, consumer, faith, family farm and other groups.We discuss the history and uses of tariffs, specifically in the US. They should not be directly related to the trade deficit, because their imposition may not reduce this type of deficit. We look at the WTO rules, and how this has led to the US trade deficit, de-industrialization, and income inequality. Tariffs, if coupled with resilience reform, could address problems. However, specific behaviors must be targeted. We discuss which behaviors should be targeted in trading partners. Music: From David Rovics, “The Richest Man in the World Says So”, 2025WNHN.ORG production
Trump is weaker after caving on tariffs - Harold Meyerson analyzes the new political landscape - and assesses the economic damage.Also: Trump's tariffs are not really about trade, they're a form of blackmail – but the alternative is not a return to the free trade policies introduced by Clinton and Obama. Lori Wallach of the Rethink Trade program at the American Economic Liberties Project explains what kind of tariffs we need, combined with government support for reindustrialization.Plus: A major lawsuit challenging Trump over his efforts to deport pro-Gaza campus activists has been brought by faculty members at their universities. Jameel Jaffer reports on the AAUP case; he's executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and a former deputy legal director of the ACLU.
Trump's tariffs are not really about trade, they're a form of blackmail – but the alternative is not a return to the free trade policies introduced by Clinton and Obama. Lori Wallach of the Rethink Trade program at the American Economic Liberties Project explains what kind of tariffs we need, combined with government support for reindustrialization.Also on this episode: A major lawsuit challenging Trump over his efforts to deport pro-Gaza campus activists has been brought by faculty members at their universities. Jameel Jaffer reports on the AAUP case; he's executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and a former deputy legal director of the ACLU.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Trump's tariffs are not really about trade, they're a form of blackmail – but the alternative is not a return to the free trade policies introduced by Clinton and Obama. Lori Wallach of the Rethink Trade program at the American Economic Liberties Project explains what kind of tariffs we need, combined with government support for reindustrialization.Also on this episode: A major lawsuit challenging Trump over his efforts to deport pro-Gaza campus activists has been brought by faculty members at their universities. Jameel Jaffer reports on the AAUP case; he's executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and a former deputy legal director of the ACLU.
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Director of Rethink Trade at the American Economic Liberties Project and senior advisor to the Citizens Trade Campaign Lori Wallach joins Bad Faith to explain Trump's tariff policy from a labor populist perspective. Deeply informative, clear, and principled analysis. A must-listen. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
00:008 — Katie Rodger is a Lecturer at UC Davis and President of UC-AFT. 00:20 — Max Flynt, a San Francisco State University student and member of the General Union of Palestine Students at SF State. 00:33 — Lori Wallach is the director of the Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project. The post US EEOC Investigation of Alleged Antisemitism on UC Campuses; Plus, Thirteen University Student Groups Condemn Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Activists; And, What's Next After Trump's Global Tariffs? appeared first on KPFA.
Ralph welcomes Peter Beinart, to discuss his book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. An observant Jew, Beinart argues “We are not history's permanent virtuous victims. We are not hardwired to forever endure evil but never commit it.” Plus, premier global trade expert, Lori Wallach, joins to help sort out the on again, off again tariffs Donald Trump is assessing U.S. trade partners. What kind of a tool is a tariff? When should it be used? Who should it be used against? And are the current tariff threats on Canada really about stopping fentanyl?Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He is also Editor-at-Large of Jewish Currents, an MSNBC political commentator, a frequent contributor to The New York Times, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. His latest book is entitled “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza” and his recent op-ed in the New York Times is “States Don't Have a Right To Exist. People Do.”We are not history's permanent virtuous victims. We are not hardwired to forever endure evil but never commit it. That false innocence, which pervades contemporary Jewish life, camouflages domination as self-defense. It exempts Jews from external judgment. It offers infinite license to fallible human beings.Excerpt from Being Jewish After The Destruction of Gaza by Peter BeinartIsrael can't destroy Hamas. Israel has totally laid waste to Gaza, and yet Hamas is still there. And Hamas will have new recruits from all of these people whose family members were killed by Israel. And Hamas will reconstitute its weapons, because I think actually a lot of the Hamas weapons now are coming from assembling Israeli weapons that were dropped on Gaza, just like the Viet Cong did in Vietnam. They reassemble to make their own weapons. So Hamas will still be there as a force for Israel to continue to fight. And I think Netanyahu will continue this war for as long as he can.Peter BeinartSo what I think Israel is trying to do, to various degrees of self-consciousness, is to try to reduce the population in Gaza and the West Bank. And that's why the Trump plan was so popular in Israel, not just among Netanyahu, but even among his centrist opponents, like Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, who embraced the idea. Because for them, it solves the problem. Israel doesn't have a way of solving the Palestinian problem. So if you have fewer Palestinians, then they're less of a problem. This is, after all, how the United States solved its problem with Native Americans in the 19th century.Peter BeinartLori Wallach is a 30-year veteran of international and U.S. congressional trade battles starting with the 1990s fights over NAFTA and WTO where she founded the Global Trade Watch group at Public Citizen. She is now the director of the Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project and is also Senior Advisor to the Citizens Trade Campaign, the U.S. national trade justice coalition of unions and environmental, consumer, faith, family farm and other groups.He (Trump) also closed a thing called the de minimis loophole. That is this lunatic trade loophole that allows in uninspected (under $800 value) imports to every American every day… And then four days later, Trump met with the Federal Express CEO, who apparently was not happy because they deliver a bunch of those de minimis packages… This has become a superhighway for fentanyl… He (Trump) basically reversed the ability to stop fentanyl coming from China and to enforce his own China tariffs at the behest of the CEO of Federal Express.Lori WallachSo the difference between whether tariffs raise the consumer price has a lot to do with the same corporate price gouging that we've been seeing over the last couple of years. And we can see right now, for instance, on eggs. The actual supply of egg laying chickens and the actual supply of eggs is not a greatly reduced sector. That sector is now so concentrated at every level that the handful of companies can basically control the markup between what the farmers paid and what the consumer pays.Lori Wallach Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
This is the full 2-23-2025 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the latest episode of Labor Express Radio, teacher's unions prepare for a national day of action to defend public education on March 4th. Also Natascha Uhlmann from LaborNotes on protecting immigrant workers and Lori Wallach of Rethink Trade on tariffs.Labor Express Radio is Chicago's oldest labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday at 8:00 PM on WLPN in Chicago, 105.5 FM. For more information, see our Facebook page... laborexpress.organd our homepage on Archive.org at:http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadioLabor Express is a member of the Labor Radio / Podcast Network, Working People's Voices – Broadcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. laborradionetwork.org #laborradionetwork #LaborRadioPod #1u #UnionStrong
Have Trump's tariffs got you confused? How will they affect jobs and prices? We'll talk to trade expert Lori Wallach, of Rethink Trade. She's a 30-year veteran of international and […] The post Explaining Tariffs and How They Affect the Working Class and Hidden in Plain Sight: the $8.5 trillion in Untaxed Income of the Rich appeared first on KKFI.
Trade expert and Director of Rethink Trade, Lori Wallach, gives her prediction about the impact of Trump's tariffs on our relationship with America's biggest importers and on our pockets.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support.
The imitable Zephyr Teachout wrote a fantastic piece that everyone seems to be reading about why tariffs and the trade issue play such an outsized role in elections and how Trump has set a tariff trap to try to ensnare the Democrats. In our latest episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast, Lori Wallach sits down with the renowned Fordham law professor. The discussion is especially interesting because Zephyr ran for Congress in a swing district in 2016 and saw her lead — along with Hillary Clinton's — disappear as Trump realized the power of the trade attack. Even if you don't have time to read the piece (and you should, and we have it on our website) this short, but powerful conversation is fascinating.
In this episode of Rethinking Trade, Lori Wallach breaks down the facts about tariffs—how they work, who pays them, and their impact on consumer prices. With tariffs back in the news, Lori explains the difference between targeted tariffs and across the board tariffs. Tune in NOW to get the full picture.
Rapacious European corporations were top users of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) tribunals. For decades, they extracted billions from taxpayers worldwide, attacking local laws and suing governments before ISDS tribunals of three corporate attorneys. So, it was big news when the European Union recently exited one of the world's largest ISDS agreements -- the Energy Charter Treaty. In the latest episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast, Lori Wallach is joined by two people who know the inside story: Cecilia Olivet, advisor to the Left Group in the European Parliament, and Fabian Flues, of the German-based organization Powershift. Here's a hint: When European domestic climate policies got ISDS attacked, the Dutch, German and other ISDS-booster governments had to shell out billions. And climate activists turned up the, um, heat. Nothing like being on the receiving end of ISDS – and domestic grassroots campaigns - to change opinions…
In this special breaking news episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast, Lori Wallach explains today's White House actions on the #deminimis loophole. Remember: please visit our previous episodes on the de minimis loophole to understand just how e-commerce platforms like #Shein and #Temu are exploiting the loophole, and what it means for you.
Hello, friends! We've got a new podcast episode and it's a bit different!A veritable OG trade crew got together for a kick-ass discussion on "A New Trade Policy to Break Up Corporate Power” at our recent Anti-Monopoly Summit. How OG? The discussion is led by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) the House Trade Working Groups chair (and House Approps Ranking Member!) and features Thea Lee (Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs, Department of Labor) and Scott Paul (President, Alliance for American Manufacturing) and our own Lori Wallach, Director, AELP's Rethink Trade. These folks first met battling against NAFTA in 1992! They have unique insights into how decades of neoliberal hyperglobalization concentrated power among a few dominant corporations and undermined workers, small businesses, and our national resilience and security.But perhaps the best part is that they discuss how trade policy tools—tariffs, conditioning market access on labor and other standards, supply management instruments, and more— can create industrial policy that curbs corporate power and empowers workers and smaller businesses. After hearing the discussion, it will be crystal clear why replacing pro-monopoly trade rules is critical to enhancing economic justice, our economic resilience and security and battle climate chaos. Listen now!
In this special breaking news episode of Rethinking Trade, Lori Wallach breaks down President Biden's new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and solar panels. Tune in to understand the implications of these tariffs, and the rationale behind them. Spoiler: these measures are crucial for combating unfair trade practices and ensuring supply chain resilience.
Our latest Rethinking Trade podcast episode is out now, and it's a special one. Lori Wallach sits down with Arthur Stamoulis, the Executive Director of Citizens Trade Campaign and Trade Justice Education Fund, to talk the past, present, and future of the trade justice movement in the United States. Lori and Arthur take us on a speedy tour through the last 30 years of the U.S. fight for fair trade policies and the evolution of the Biden administration's push for worker-centered trade agreements. Whether trade and climate sanity, unsafe and fake de minimis imports, forced labor goods, or geopolitics has newly brought you to the debate, or you're a NAFTA veteran, this episode offers new information, including on where go from here. Spoiler alert: Arthur and the diverse Citizens Trade coalition has accomplished a ton and is ready for more!
In our latest breaking news segment for Rethinking Trade, Lori Wallach discusses the latest developments on Capitol Hill. De minimis is a trade loophole that we've discussed often on the podcast, and why it's important to close it. But what happened in the House Ways and Means markup, and to Rep. Blumenauer's bipartisan de minimis bill? Lori gives the blow-by-blow.
As Wisconsin voters head to the polls for primaries, two students discuss who they support and why. Then, trade expert Lori Wallach tells us why she's sounding the alarm over the quiet push by Big Tech companies to influence global trade agreements. And, Dr. Mohammad Subeh shares some of the creative ways he served patients with little resources in a Gaza field hospital.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Tariffs are in the news again! Why does that term generate such vitriol from some quarters and joy from others?! This week, we explore that question with Scott Paul, the President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Scott and host Lori Wallach discuss how increasingly Democrats and Republicans alike now view tariffs as just another policy tool. For most of U.S. history, this was the American perspective. Tariffs - charges collected at the border on imported goods - were the main source of government revenue when the country was founded. It seemed useful to unpack what tariffs are and who is generating the negative hype about them given the recent wave of news stories attacking the very concept. Spoiler alert: Tariffs are not a scary, dangerous thing lurking in your economy in the middle of the night!
Lori Wallach – is the Director of Rethink Trade at American Economic Liberties. On the 30th anniversary of NAFTA, Lori joins Tavis to discuss the human cost of hyper-globalization – massive job loss which has relegated middle-class people to working-class status, and working-class people to the working poor in America.
Welcome back to the Rethinking Trade podcast. Today we bring you the second half of our conversation with Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Suresh co-authored the Biden administration's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, and is a leading national expert on AI oversight. With the imminent Biden Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence setting binding U.S. AI policy, there's never been a better time to get smart on this technology that impacts our lives. Today in part two, we dive deeper into the AI landscape and uncover a potential landmine: Big Tech's plans to rig trade agreements with "digital trade" rules that could derail AI accountability and oversight. (If you missed Part One of our special two-part series on AI, you can hear it here.)Lori Wallach and Daniel Rangel chat with Suresh Venkatasubramanian, who is now with Brown University after serving as Assistant Director for Science and Justice in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Daniel joins Lori in this discussion because he just authored an interesting that unpacks the specific ways AI accountability could be undermined if Big Tech interests get their way in trade negotiations. Daniel's report is super accessible, which is good because Big Tech's digital trade ploy is very sneaky. Please give Daniel's report a read after you listen to this two-part series!
Greetings from DC! OK, hope all you 2001: A Space Odyssey fans got a chuckle and no HAL9000 is not joining this edition of the podcast! We have a much better guest, Suresh Venkatasubramanian who co-authored the Biden administration's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. We've all seen Artificial Intelligence or "AI" making headlines recently, and it's raising critical questions: * How will AI impact our daily lives? * And just how do we regulate it to limit what seems like serious risks? * How do we make sure Big Tech interests do not use “digital trade” agreements to pre-empt AI accountability? Join us for Part One of a special two-part Rethinking Trade series on AI, where we delve into these pressing issues. In this episode, Rethink Trade's Lori Wallach and Daniel Rangel engage in a discussion with Professor Suresh Venkatasubramanian who is now with Brown University after serving as Assistant Director for Science and Justice in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Together, we explore what AI actually is, its real-world applications, how it is affecting us right NOW, and how governments can help limit its threats and maximize its benefits. In Part 1 of this fascinating conversation with Suresh, you'll gain a deeper understanding of what AI is and how it could shape our future.
Giant tech firms are meeting secretly to deregulate Artificial Intelligence technologies in the most undemocratic ways possible. Can profit really take over and corrupt progress? Thom is joined by Lori Wallach, Director-Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
If you thought the air travel fiasco could not get worse, consider the scary news that airlines are offshoring the maintenance work needed to keep planes safe. It's the same greedy cost-cutting behind the outdated computer systems and gutted airline staffing that is causing the epic air travel meltdowns upending millions of peoples' lives. In the race-to-the-bottom offshore aircraft maintenance facilities in El Salvador, Singapore, China, and Brazil mechanics' special aircraft certifications, security and background checks, and drug testing is waived. And of course there are no FAA inspectors doing spot checks. Just like with the flight schedule Hell, the Department of Transportation is letting the airlines get away with it. Experts say it's just a matter of time before there is a horrific incident. In this episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach, we are joined by the two people in the country who know the most about this threat. William McGee, Senior Fellow for Aviation and Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project, is America's leading aviation consumer safety and rights expert with 22 years at Consumer Reports. He's a former FAA licensed aircraft dispatcher. Gary Peterson is the Vice of the Transport Workers Union and a certified Airframe and Powerplant aviation mechanic by trade. He is Executive Director to the International President and former Air Division Director at the union. Gary worked for decades for American Airlines leading the teams who safety inspect and rebuild planes. He also served as crew chief doing maintenance on aircraft in the Air Force. Gary, Bill and Lori talk about the lunacy of offshoring aircraft safety inspection and maintanace lunatic practice has been allowed and how to fix the problem now.
Shock waves were sent through Washington, D.C.'s many trade wonks when the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission gave a unanimous bipartisan recommendation that Congress consider ending China's Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR). Opponents of China PNTR were trashed as idiots, protectionists and doom mongers during a brutal 2000 U.S. national debate about China's trade status and entry into the World Trade Organization. Now 22 years later, those opponents' concerns proved not only to be right, but understated. But its a rarity in Washington to have high-level commissioners half appointed by the GOP while Democratic leadership AGREE to call for the reversal of a major policy mistake. “Hallelujah!” was the response from a labor leader receiving the news, while a small business CEO emailed us back an “Amen!” Whether or not Congress will follow the recommendation remains to be seen. But the fact that the U.S.-China trade debate has come to this juncture is both shocking, and based on the outcomes of the last 22 years, is not shocking at all. On this episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach, we are joined by Michael Wessel, an original member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, who is one of the nation's leading experts on China trade and security. Lori and Michael unpack how we got to this juncture, the damage that was done along the way, the supply chain issues we are now dealing with, and our options going forward for U.S.-China trade relations. This episode provides the color commentary to bring context to the endless parade of China trade headlines in the news.
The U.S. finally is getting its act together on climate with big new tax credits for people who buy electric vehicles (EVS) and go solar and incentives for companies to do invest in green production. So why are European and Asian governments steaming mad at us and screaming “trade barrier!!” in numerous languages, instead of cheering our better-late-than-never climate action? Especially given we only have less than 10 years to take drastic measures or face dire climate catastrophe! Will the Biden administration cave in and roll back these excellent new policies that were explicitly designed to simultaneously counter the interrelated crises of climate chaos, supply chain meltdowns causing shortages and inflation, and economic inequality and anxiety? On this episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach we unpack what was in the Inflation Reduction Act and how it can help more people get an EV, go solar, have reliable supplies of such products and good jobs making them. Ben Beachy, the Vice President of Manufacturing and Industrial Policy at the BlueGreen Alliance explains it all. Plus, Ben and Lori make sense of the short-sighted sniping from other countries. (Hint: Think circular firing squad!)
Every election is THE most important in our lifetimes, except the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential actually are. How have we come to this crisis of democracy? A team of data scientists, opinion researchers, and strategists spent a year studying the two-time Obama voters who then elected Trump in 2020 and their shattered communities. The resulting “Factory Towns Project” demolishes the conventional wisdom about the path forward for democracy and Democrats. And yes, decades of corporate-rigged trade deals and economic policies that killed millions of manufacturing jobs in thousands of “factory towns” are part of this story. On this episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach we get a guided tour from the two “Factory Towns Project” leaders: Celinda Lake, President of Lake Research Partners, who is one of the Democratic Party's leading political strategists and one of two lead pollsters for the Biden campaign in 2020. And Mike Lux, co-founder of Democracy Partners and President of Progressive Strategies LLC. Spoiler: going moderate and mushy to target suburban voters is not the way forward for Democrats. More importantly, making America meet its promise by delivering for the factory town communities is critical to the health of our democracy. Here is the link to the report: https://www.americanfamilyvoices.org/post/winning-back-the-factory-towns-that-made-trumpism-possible
Your doctor's not at fault if you don't know about IPEF. It's not a new virus. But it could harm billions of people. Or not. IPEF = Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. Setting rules for 40% of the world's economy is the goal of this recently-launched “trade” negotiation. With the public and Congress locked out so far, few people even know about these talks involving 14 nations. Big Tech interests are using their money and lobbyists and the IPEF's secretive process to try to rig it. They want to lock in their power and monopolies to rake in the profits by trading in our personal data, tracking us, flooding our kids with garbage, and crushing competitors. Some in the Biden administration hope to harness IPEF to develop a new “worker-centered” trade policy. Others seem to be in cahoots with Big Tech. In this episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach, Lori breaks down what the IPEF is, how these talks could affect each of our lives and why we all need to start paying attention to IPEF before it's too late.
After two years of pandemic and 15 million dead, how did the first big global WTO summit end with WTO intellectual property barriers still blocking global access to COVID meds? This episode exposes how a sham text gavelled through in the middle of the night and produced a worse-than-nothing outcome only Big Pharma can love. How could this happen given more than 100 WTO countries wanted a real fix? On this episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach we bring back two activist lawyers we heard from earlier in the fight: Fatima Hassan at Cape Town's Health Justice Initiative, South Africa and Sangeeta Shashikant with the global Third World Network. Together, they'll walk through what happened, how we've been collectively gaslighted, and the current state of affairs. The fight for global access to COVID meds continues!
There are people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving Covid vaccines. The post Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid appeared first on FAIR.
On this episode of Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach we'll expose Amazon's big little secret — a loophole which allows Amazon and other online giants to import billions of dollars in uninspected, unsafe, tax-dodging goods from China into the United States every year. Only Uzbekistan has a bigger “de minimis” loophole, which is the technical name for this scam. Today, more than two million such uninspected packages slip through every day from China alone. Lori is joined by one of our country's great champions for working people and manufacturing, the President and CEO of the National Council of Textile Organizations, Kim Glas. She will break down how this loophole works, who it is hurting and what's being done to fix it.
In March, the Commerce Department announced that it would be investigating Chinese solar firms suspected of illegally dumping low-cost panels onto the international market. Some of the same companies are also suspected of employing Uyghur forced labor in making their products. That announcement has gotten pushback from even President Joe Biden's close allies, who worry that new tariffs on Chinese solar imports will harm the U.S. solar industry. Ryan gets Senator Elizabeth Warren's thoughts on the trade war, then talks with Lori Wallach, director of Rethink Trade at the American Economic Liberties Project.https://join.theintercept.com/donate/now See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We're starting the week off running with two great guests, so don't be late today. We'll begin the week with an old friend of the show, John Fugelsang! He used to come on with me weekly, but then got too busy... We hadn't spoken in a while when I reached out this morning, and he said Yes. So, we have about 7 years to catch up on. Of course, I think I want to talk to him about the perversion of religion that's exploded during that time... In today's news, I noted that President Biden this morning in Japan announced a new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEFP) trade deal! Was I asleep at the wheel? Why didn't I know this was coming? We closely scrutinized past trade deals like the TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, USMCA etc... why am I just now hearing about IPEFP and what should we know about it? There's only one person to ask. Lori Wallach is now Director of Rethink Trade, and will tell us all we need to know...
Director of Rethink Trade, American Economic Liberties Project, Lori Wallach reveals the biggest trade vote you've never heard about. Holey Moley! More inflation & shortages are coming from the Shanghai shutdowns. Labor organizer Daisy Pitkin reports that Starbucks workers are fighting one of the most intense union-busting campaigns in decades.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Let the Trumpies and Maskholes argue it out on social media and in their chat rooms, but keep them the hell out of our stores, bars, restaurants and theaters. Enough is enough! Lori Wallach - Global Protesters Demand TRIPS Waiver. Is the Santa Shortage Part of the "War On Christmas?"See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Epidemiologist & Health Economist Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding explores what the next 5 covid years may look like? Hey Ron Death-Santis - How Many Covid Deaths Are Enough For You? Executive Director-Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Lori Wallach joins Thom on why vaccinating the world will save Americans too.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, and Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at UMass Amherst, discuss how first world countries are protecting pharma companies' exorbitant profits, at the expense of vaccinating people living in the Global South and thereby also endangering everyone in the world.
Editorial Director of Reactionary Times, Julio Rivera joins Thom to debate vaccination passports, as French President Emmanuel Macron announces strong measures to combat a new wave of COVID-19 infections. Executive Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, Lori Wallach decries Angela Merkel's efforts to paralyze the WTO TRIPS Waiver for covid vaccinations.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Eric Feigl-Ding of the Federation Of American Scientists joins Thom- will the emerging Delta variant of Covid-19 from India spike hospitalizations in unvaccinated red states?Plus- Public Citizen's Lori Wallach on why Angela Merkel and others don't want to let poor countries make copyrighted vaccines.
Prescott Valley Public Library will be hosting ‘Checkin' Out the Neighborhood PVPL's Podcast – Meet a Yoga Instructor: Lori Wallach. Join us for our next episode that will air on July 13th, 2021. Find ‘Checkin' Out the Neighborhood' on the library website pvlib.net or wherever you listen to podcasts. Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 More Info? 928.759.3040
Hasan Piker is here to break down the week's news. Lori Wallach of Public Citizen joins for a helpful, fascinating look at the patent waiver issue and what drug companies have to do to get the world vaccinated. And we played an incredible Mother's Day game with Danielle Perez and her mom you won't want to miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
At the beginning of the pandemic, many promises of global public good and international solidarity were made. Yet, one year on, there is a vast disparity in access to COVID-19 medical products between high-income countries and low-middle-income countries. If not now - when will this change? Executive Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, Lori Wallach joins Thom to discuss whether it is possible to vaccinate everyone in the world.Jennifer Epps-Addison explains the urgency to renew the moratorium on evictions. Ben Jealous joins the program to report on how Republican voter suppression has metastasized.
Episode 215: Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1 You aren’t going to be surprised by this news: Big Pharma is killing people. All over the world. And the real kicker here is: after you, the taxpayer, gave billions of dollars to Big Pharma companies to come up with a vaccine for COVID-19, Big Pharma is keeping that vaccine from getting into the hands of millions of people in poorer countries—which will come back to hurt every American as well. Under the World Trade Organization rules, Big PHARMA gets *lengthy* monopoly protections for medicines, tests and the technologies used to produce them. Trump wouldn’t join virtually every other country to grant a waiver for poorer countries to get access to the vaccines so lives could be saved. Next week, Joe Biden has a chance to do the right thing. I discuss this urgent effort with two warriors for progressives: Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who has represented the 9th Congressional district in Illinois for two decades, and Lori Wallach, the director of Global Trade Watch. Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1 A couple of weeks ago, I did a segment on the military coup in Myanmar and the specific threat faced by union leaders. Opposition to the coup is being led by union leaders who are facing arrest and violence, forcing many to go into hiding. I have new insights on what is happening in Myanmar from Khaing Zar, Treasurer of the Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar (CTUM) and the President of the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar, the manufacturing and garment worker affiliate of the CTUM and the largest garment worker union in Myanmar. -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Subscribe to the YouTube show, Working Life at: https://www.youtube.com/WorkingLifewithJonathanTasini Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
Executive Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, Lori Wallach joins Thom on why "Buy America" is a good first step. Enacting EO’s Goals Requires President Biden to End 60 Nations’ Trade Pact Buy American Waivers.
Col. Morris Davis, former Guantanamo chief prosecutor and expert on military justice system, comments on verdicts in Bradley Manning trial; … Continue reading From the Archive: Moe Davis on Manning and WikiLeaks, Lori Wallach on TPP
Lori "sat down" recently with The Friendly Troll host Dr. Melissa Omino and Dr. Isaac Rutenberg from Kenya's Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law to discuss the US-Kenya free trade agreement currently under negotiation. Listen to the full episode here.
In this third episode of the US Kenya FTA Series hosted by Dr Melissa Omino, we are joined by Dr. Isaac Rutenberg the Director of CIPIT, and Lori Wallach, Head Director and Founder of Global Trade Watch, a division of Public Citizen. (link to: https://www.citizen.org/article/lori-wallach-director-public-citizens-global-trade-watch/) It is a great privilege to have Lori as a guest on this episode as she is a recognised expert in the field of International Trade with experience in this area for over 25 years, including testifying at Congress on NAFTA, WTO and other international trade agreements and their effects on global citizens.This is a first part of the conversation, where Lori takes us through what her thoughts are on the proposed agreement between the US and Kenya, what questions Kenya should consider with comparison to other FTAs that the US has finalised in the last decade, and what these ongoing negotiations should consider.Lori definitely leaves us with a lot to think about with regard to why we are going forward with the FTA as Kenya.
Episode 192: By the time you are tuning into the show, Jeff Bezos, one of the great scars on the economic landscape, will have finished his song-and-dance testimony before Congress, during a hearing that mostly focuses on the massive anti-competitive power of the big tech firms like Amazon and Google. But, long before today, Jeff Bezos has always been the poster child for the CEO who doesn’t give a shit about workers and only cares about a single thing: how to become even richer than he is. The man is a scar on humanity. My observations about Bezos leads off the show. Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast and at ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1 Then, Congress passed NAFTA 2.0 earlier this year. I’ll just say right away—the first NAFTA was an abomination, the newer one was just horrendous—and we also have to be clear that, with or without these so-called free trade deals, capitalism marches on and abuses people, as we saw in last week’s episode when I talked about the enslavement of the Uyghurs in China on behalf of the global supply chain of big brands and big companies. A big piece of NAFTA 2.0 was all about improving the lot of workers in Mexico, especially their right to join independent unions. And that ain’t happening. I dig into this with Lori Wallach, the director of Global Trade Watch. Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast and at ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1 Florida. When it comes to politics, you need not say much more than “Florida” to get peoples’ temperature up—no pun intended here since it’s also now the center of the COVID pandemic thanks to the state’s completely moronic governor. But, Florida also points up a longer term challenge to be quite conscious of—it has one of the worst state Democratic parties in the country. I talk about the state’s politics with Bob Lynch, a first-time candidate, who is running for the state house partly to be a catalyst for reform of the party’s electoral strategy. Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast and at ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1 Subscribe to the show! -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
Episode 176: When we come out of the immediate pandemic crisis, then, maybe we can have some accounting of who and what is responsible for the needless deaths of thousands of people—and among the “who” would be, say, politicians who are making themselves look like heroes today—I’ll just say, randomly, New York politicians—even though they sat on their hands in January when the World Health Organization issued a worldwide pandemic warning, which you think might have made those same aggrandizing politicians—say, in New York—think, “gee, maybe I should make sure we are stocked up with the right equipment.” Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast But, the bigger inquiry should be about how a part of the crisis comes right from the way we’ve allowed global corporations and elites to set up an economic system using trade deals that profits them a whole lot but leaves everyone else vulnerable to a pandemic, not to mention other quaint class warfare damage. Which is what I talk about today with Lori Wallach, the director of Global Trade Watch. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast And Secretary of State may not be a position that gets a lot of people excited but it’s an important job—most people serving as a state-level Secretary of State have a huge role in redistricting and, certainly, they work to make sure elections run properly. If you match that to someone who really cares about the position, knows a ton about what can be done in the role and also is running to be a secretary of state not just as a stepping stone but because they really want to do the job, then, you’ve got a great combination—or perhaps you’ve gotten to know Jamie McLeod-Skinner who is running for secretary of state in Oregon, and joins me to discuss her campaign. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
Trade expert Lori Wallach breaks down how corporate-led globalization has fueled shortages in our medical supply-chains and limited our ability to fight against coronavirus. Learn more. Episode Transcript Here. Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The Trump administration renegotiated NAFTA and the 116th Congress passed those changes in order to make the USMCA into law. In this episode, international trade expert Lori Wallach, the Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, joins Jen to explain the differences between NAFTA and the USMCA. What you hear may surprise you. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Click here to contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank’s online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536 Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD96: Fast Tracking Fast Track (Trade Promotion Authority CD102: The World Trade Organization: COOL? CD052: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Bills Bill: H.R.5430 - United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act Congress.gov, January 16, 2020 About Lori Wallach Lori Wallach, Linked In Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, Public Citizen About Us, Public Citizen About Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch (GTW), Public Citizen Public Citizen, Influence Watch Global Trade Watch, Facebook Global Trade Watch, Twitter Lori Wallach, Twitter Global Trade Watch, Instagram Articles/Documents Article: Labelling debate returns to U.S. By Barbara Duckworth, The Western Producer, February 13, 2020 Article: The US Drops ISDS By Lori Wallach, The Globalist, January 24, 2020 Article: Lawmakers try to resurrect country-of-origin labeling for beef and pork By Cathy Siegner, FoodDive, November 5, 2019 Article: Background on the Epic WTO Tuna Dolphin Fight Public Citizen Article: COOL for beef, pork on US Senate’s plate By Erica Shaffer, Meat + Poultry, November 4, 2019 Article: When Pharma Needs a Friend: Conservative House Democrats Move to Protect Drug Company Profits by David Dayen, The American Prospect, October 31, 2019 Article: While USMCA stalls, lobbying kicks into high gear by Raymond Arke, OpenSecrets.org, May 8, 2019 Article: Mexico loses 10-year WTO battle over U.S. tuna labeling by Tom Miles, Reuters, December 14, 2018 Article: The Little-Known Trade Adviser Who Wields Enormous Power in Washington by Ana Swanson, The New York Times, March 9, 2018 Document: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) By M. Angeles Villarreal and Ian F. Fergusson, Congressional Research Service, May 24, 2017 Article: Trump's trade pick sails through hearing but faces procedural hangup By Victoria Guida, POLITICO, March 14, 2017 Article: India, US lock horns over intellectual property at WTO By Amiti Sen, New Scientist, November 11, 2016 Document: Country-of-Origin Labeling for Foods and the WTO Trade Dispute on Meat Labeling By Joel L. Greene, Congressional Research Service, December 8, 2015 Article: India surveys aftermath of new patent law By Padma Tata, New Scientist, March 29, 2005 Additional Resources Vote Results: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 5430 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act) United States Senate, January 16, 2020 Vote Results: United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act, FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 701 House of Representatives Clerk, December 19, 2019 Trade Agreement: Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada 12/13/19 Text Office of the United States Trade Representative, December 13, 2019 Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)
Air Date 2/15/2020 Today we take a look at the ways Trump is working to rewrite the rules of trade with NAFTA 2.0 (The USMCA), a post-Brexit agreement with the United Kingdom and what's emerging from the ongoing trade war with China. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 EPISODE SPONSORS: BOMBAS.com/LEFT | Listen to Politics: Meet Me In The Middle | Clean Choice Energy SHOP AMAZON: Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK MEMBERSHIP ON PATREON (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Manuel Perez-Rocha on NAFTA 2.0 - CounterSpin - Air Date 1-24-20 Manuel Perez-Rocha breaks down the USMCA trade deal and the media's misinformation about it. Ch. 2: The New NAFTA with Lori Wallach - Ralph Nader Radio Hour - Air Date 1-25-20 Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach discuss the USMCA, the old NAFTA and the revised NAFTA. Ch. 3: Bipartisan NAFTA 2.0 Is Still Fatally Flawed with Nicole Aschoff - The Real News with Greg Wilpert - Air Date 1-21-19 Nicole Aschoff discusses the incremental change of the new NAFTA agreement. Ch. 4: Secret Trade Documents Between US and UK - Novara Media - Air Date 11-29-19 The Trump admin is pushing a trade deal with the UK that will privatize the NHS. Ch. 5: Trade deal between the US and the UK as seen from the UK - Remainiacs - Air Date 1-24-20 What use is the Government’s greenwashed Agriculture Bill when it won’t protect us from low-standard food imports? Ch. 6: Phase One of US-China Trade Deal Is Symbolic with Nicole Aschoff - The Real News with Greg Wilpert - Air Date 1-21-20 Nicole Aschoff discusses the USMCA and China Trade negotiations. Ch. 7: Trump Declares Victory on Trade with Ana Swanson - Diane Rehm On My Mind - Air Date 1-21-20 Diane and Ana Swanson discuss Trump's supposed victory in the Trade war. Ch. 8: The US-China Trade War with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 2-3-20 Tobita Chow and Jake Werner discuss the Trump administration's trade war with China. VOICEMAILS Ch. 9: What did Bernie actually say at those Clinton rallies? - Barbara from San Jose, CA FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 10: Final comments explaining Bernie’s support of Clinton during the 2016 election Bonus: Every Event Bernie Sanders Did For Hillary Clinton in 2016 - Matt Binder - Air Date 1-21-20 MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr Cloud Line - K4 PolyCoat - The Cabinetmaker Minutes - Pacha Faro Swapping Tubes - Studio J Take a Tiny Train - Ray Catcher Tiny Putty - The Cabinetmaker Gondola Blue - Towboat Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent SHOW IMAGE Flickr: "A word cloud featuring "Trade War" | License Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher | Spotify | Alexa Devices | +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!
Ralph talks to historian, Christopher Shaw, about his book "Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic." And global trade expert, Lori Wallach, tells us about the pros and cons of the new NAFTA, the USMCA. Plus, former Fed Governor, Sarah Bloom Raskin, stops by again to talk about what the Fed can do to fight the climate crisis.
Ralph talks to historian, Christopher Shaw, about his book "Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic." And global trade expert, Lori Wallach, tells us about the pros and cons of the new NAFTA, the USMCA. Plus, former Fed Governor, Sarah Bloom Raskin, stops by again to talk about what the Fed can do to fight the climate crisis.
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, troublemaking and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, troublemaking and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
The news stops for no one! Today, I'll do my best to bring you up to date on all that's going on. Plus we'll check in with Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch to find out about the USMCA or NAFTA 2.0 agreement, and with American ex-pat Denis Campbell who lives in the UK, where voters go to the polls tomorrow. Plus today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the DOJ's IG report into the Russia probe.
Even if Impeachment Doesn't Result in Removal, Process will Educate Voters on Trump's Lawbreaking* Marjorie Cohn, prof. emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Past Pres. National Lawyers Guild* Producer: Scott Harris *** White House-Congressional Talks Move NAFTA 2.0 Trade Deal Toward Ratification Vote; Lori Wallach director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch; Producer: Scott Harris *** Climate Activist Groups Demand Politicians Take Action;, Sena Wazer Sunrise Connecticut organizer of the December 6 Climate Strike in Hartford, CT; Producer: Melinda Tuhus *****
Episode 159: Twenty years ago, thousands of environmentalists, union leaders and members, and lots of other progressive forces swept through the streets of Seattle to confront the global corporate beast known as the World Trade Organization, the WTO. They were met by the Seattle police force, buttressed by all sorts of other police and security operations, who tear gassed, pepper sprayed, assaulted and arrested people who were simply trying to exercise their free speech rights. Today, I am going to revisit that mass uprising with Lori Wallach, the director of Global Trade Watch. I also talk to a young progressive Democrat who is running against an entrenched Democrat in Illinois -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
Episode 159:Twenty years ago, thousands of environmentalists, union leaders and members, and lots of other progressive forces swept through the streets of Seattle to confront the global corporate beast known as the World Trade Organization, the WTO. They were met by the Seattle police force, buttressed by all sorts of other police and security operations, who tear gassed, pepper sprayed, assaulted and arrested people who were simply trying to exercise their free speech rights. Today, I am going to revisit that mass uprising with Lori Wallach, the director of Global Trade Watch. I also talk to a young progressive Democrat who is running against an entrenched Democrat in Illinois-- Jonathan TasiniFollow me on Twitter @jonathantasiniSign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.orgFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
Episode 159: Twenty years ago, thousands of environmentalists, union leaders and members, and lots of other progressive forces swept through the streets of Seattle to confront the global corporate beast known as the World Trade Organization, the WTO. They were met by the Seattle police force, buttressed by all sorts of other police and security operations, who tear gassed, pepper sprayed, assaulted and arrested people who were simply trying to exercise their free speech rights. Today, I am going to revisit that mass uprising with Lori Wallach, the director of Global Trade Watch. I also talk to a young progressive Democrat who is running against an entrenched Democrat in Illinois Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
Lori Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch did not mince her words on our trade policy. Zerlina Maxwell hit the race button. Tamara Shealey talks Epstein.
Elizabeth Warren is electable, so says Adam Greene, cofounder of Progressive Change Committee, who have endorsed Warren for president. - Thom reads from page 126 of the Mueller Report. - Thom gets to know political activist and social justice advocate Ghazala Salam. - New NAFTA watcher Laurie Wallach joins Thom with facts on how congressional Democrats split on free trade with Mexico and giveaways to the pharmaceuticals. - Mueller Report - Thom reads from page 129 on Paul Manafort's false statements to investigation. - Listeners call in to the program. - Talk Media News correspondent Bob Ney reports on the flat flurry of the weekend immigration raids. New refugee rules imposed by Trump. - Thom responds to callers Pastor John and Tom from Pennsylvania on the "Southern Strategy" and pushes back on Republicans ignoring Trump's racist policies in favor of "voting my taxes."
It’s an action-packed, let’s-catch-the-thieves-in-the-act episode. The Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee just wrapped up its two-day secret June meeting without triggering a new cut in interests rates—and what does that mean? I unravel the state of play at the Fed—and ask the question why shouldn’t we change the basic structure of the Fed—with Dean Baker, Fed-watcher extraordinaire and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Intrigue is also swirling around the renegotiation of NAFTA 2.0 so Lori Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch who knows the entire inside story and state-of-play, is back with all the insight you can’t get from anyone else. I close by noting a sad moment in time—it’s been a whole decade since workers saw a rise in the federal minimum wage, which is stuck at a poverty-level, immoral $7.25. Leo Gertner, a staff attorney with the National Employment Law Center, joins me for a chat about a new report excoriating Congress for failing to raise the minimum wage which would give workers a bit more money in their pockets. -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
As Donald Trump fights tariff wars around the world, he's upended the usual politics of trade and put politicians from both parties in an awkward spot. Many 2020 Democrats are trying to out-tough the president on the trade fight with China, while Republicans who believe in lower tariffs are struggling to rein in the president's professed love of them. Interviews include: · Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO· Lori Wallach, director of ‘Global Trade Watch’ at Public Citizen· Sen Chuck Grassley (R-IA) · Sen. Sherrod Brown (R-OH) · Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)
It's Thursday, which means that Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny and the Blue America PAC joins in the discussion. Today, how Trump could win re-election (God, please no)... We'll start things with a quick call to Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch to get an update on the new NAFTA debacle.
Donald Trump's NAFTA renegotiation is creating a backlash among the President's base. After learning of the large carve-outs given to Big Pharma, the white working class is inflamed. Can Democrats use this anger at the president and high drug prescription drug prices to carve out a victory in 2020? Lori Wallach, the executive director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch joins Thom to discuss.Congressman Mark Pocan, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus answers listener phone calls with Thom on questions including whether and how POTUS accepts the bipartisan border deal and avoids a second government shutdown.Luke Vargas gives the Talk Media News report. Debt realities behind positive jobs report. John Bolton's disregard of accurate intelligence reporting on Iran. New studies on hearing damage from tech gadgets.
What was so bad about NAFTA? If you ask the President, it was one of the worst deals ever made. A common 2016 campaign riff was him promising to bring jobs back, get companies to return production to the U.S., and scrap NAFTA. This anti-trade campaigning caught the attention of many voters struggling to find work. Interestingly, it also got the attention of progressive trade critics on the left who had also been calling to renegotiate NAFTA for decades. Lori Wallach, Director at Public Citizen’s Global Trade, explains how their critique of corporate-rigged trade policies managed to align in some surprising ways with the President’s nationalist trade agenda. And while NAFTA 2.0 shows some progress, there are still a lot of improvements they want to see made. But that was only the beginning, ‘phase 1’ as Wallach puts it. Now, it has to be chewed over by a newly Democratic House and phase 2 begins.Email us at WITHpod@gmail.comTweet using #WITHpodRead more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening
Episode 110: Join me in choking on the following three words: Trump was right. When he criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a bad deal during the 2016 campaign, he was telling a truth that resonated for many working people—even though, of course, Trump, who defrauded thousands of people who worked for him and would pile lie after lie about workers and unions, was certainly not going to blow up NAFTA on behalf of working people. But, there is now a draft of NAFTA 2.0. In this episode, I dig deep into what it says and means. Most of the episode is a great conversation between two trade experts who are peoples’ advocates: Lori Wallach, the director of Global Trade Watch, and Celeste Drake, the trade and globalization policy specialist at the AFL-CIO. -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
In Episode 007 of the Origin Stories: A Podcast About Politics and People, longtime talk radio producer Brent Jabbour speaks with Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch about the life experiences that brought her to the forefront of the trade debate. Lori and Brent discuss growing up in Wisconsin, how Ralph Nader influenced her, and just what exactly Public Citizen does. As always, if you enjoy the show hit the links below. Twitter: https://goo.gl/roRQMU Itunes: https://apple.co/2Q8SUIQ Google Play: https://goo.gl/MoJ2Fq More info: http://www.originstoriespodcast.com Show Notes: We discuss what Public Citizen does and how Ralph Nader created the organization. We also go into the specifics of what Global Trade Watch does under the Public Citizen umbrella. We take a deep dive into Trade policy under the Trump Administration including his work against NAFTA and the TPP. We also talk about why Democrats are so split on the issue. We touch on the trade deficit with China. We talk about how the WTO works and how Lori got her start working on trade policy. (Hang in there folks, it’s about to get really fun.) Lori talks about how she grew up fighting for what was right and how being one of the only Jewish families in her area. Lori talks about how she and Nader were on the same page when it came to the shadow war over fast-track trade authority.
Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch and a 25-year veteran of congressional trade battles, discusses NAFTA 2.0, the Trump Administration's newly negotiated trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States that, improbable as it may seem, could actually give Mexican workers a living wage and end corporate control of trade courts.
Jared Bernstein is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and previously served as chief economist and economic advisor to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama Administration. Jared also writes regularly for the Washington Post. David and Jared discuss a wide range of topics including fiscal stimulus, the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy, subsidized employment programs, Trump’s trade agenda, and the direction of economic policy after the 2018 midterm elections. Jared’s Twitter: @econjared Jared’s Washington Post profile: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jared-bernstein/?utm_term=.23a83717b1c3 Related Links: *Populism and the Economics of Globalization* by Dani Rodrik https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/files/dani-rodrik/files/populism_and_the_economics_of_globalization.pdf *Going to Extremes: Politics after Financial Crises, 1870-2014* by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, & Christoph Trebesch https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/1115_eer_slides_sep2016_short.pdf *The New Rules of the Road: A Progressive Approach to Globalization* by Jared Bernstein and Lori Wallach http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-New-Rules-of-the-Road.pdf *Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World* by Adam Tooze https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301357/crashed-by-adam-tooze/9780670024933/ David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth
Sentinel Radio summer vacation has begun. We’ll be back on Aug. 27. Until then, enjoy some old interviews. Today, we take you back to an interview from earlier this month, with Public Citizen’s Lori Wallach. She’s the global trade watch director at the organization, and she had some interesting insights about Trump’s trade wars. Take a listen: Broadcasted from Washington, DC Music courtesy of Adam Fligsten (adamfligsten.com/) Contribute to our Patreon, and you’ll get to see the show recorded live: www.patreon.com/DistrictSentinel/ www.districtsentinel.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/DistrictSentinel/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/TheDCSentinel
On today's show- Thom's take on Laura Ingram's reaction to immigration and a changing America. Then, Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch catches up with the quietly ongoing negotiations for a new NAFTA. Callers discuss immigration, NAFTA, and how we're treating our soil. Congressman Bob Ney with Talk Media News looks at the nuts and bolts of the outcome of the special election in Ohio, plus other stories. Thom reads from 'Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and The Storming of the Presidency' by Joshua Green. Then finally, author Nancy Altman of Social Security Works refutes pervasive conservative propaganda meant to destroy support for the social safety net.
Congressman Mark Pocan takes your calls. Also Prof. Richard Wolff drops by to discuss America's Debt Economy for Workers & CEOs are getting record pay. Finally, Lori Wallach to discuss Trumps tarriffs.
Net neutrality died today... Also, Congressman Ro Khanna takes your calls. Thom asks "Even in the time of Trump - could the democrats keep lose big if they don't take on the billionaire class?" Stephanie Miller also drops by with a big announcement you won’t want to miss. And finally, Lori Wallach asks "for G7 - Trump's racism and misogyny are ok - but trade is intolerable? Why?"
Public Citizen's global trade expert, Lori Wallach, tells us what's really going on in the White House and Congress with these “free trade” deals. And citizen activist, Barry Klein, gives us a step-by-step formula for how you can make meaningful change in your local community. Hint: It's easier than you think.
Episode 84: The economic system has been built on racism for generations. The recent tax cuts just made things a lot worse—and I talk about that with Michael Linden, co-author of a path-breaking paper about the hidden racism in the system. I, then, ring up Lori Wallach, the peoples’ trade warrior extraordinaire, for an insider look at the recent earth-shaking developments and fights over the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Then, I review the political predictions for 2018 from the global business magazine, The Economist, which predicts a Democratic win…at least in the House. Our Robber Baron of the week is the CEO of BT, a global telecom company.
Is America creating internment camps for Brown children? Is it because Trump & GOP thinks they are animals & not human? Also, Lori Wallach on Working People Vs Global Profits. And finally, Congressman Keith Ellison exposing extreme inequality Between CEO and worker pay
Episode 52: We've got great stuff on tap for our one-year anniversary episode. Jonathan starts off by asking members of the Democratic National Committee "What are you thinking?" with a bizarre loyalty resolution aimed at Bernie Sanders. Then, he focuses our attention on the right answer to economic growth—raising wages, not cutting taxes. From there, Jonathan checks in with trade warrior Lori Wallach for a look at the inside fight—the wild lies and the truth—over a possible new framework for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Newly elected progressive New York Assemblyperson Christine Pellegrino talks about her amazing win in a Republican Trump-supporting district and what it's like to be in public office—and she gives tips for progressives looking to run. And we close, as usual, with our Robber Baron of the week: Chinese billionaire Cao Dewang.
Because we need to celebrate in these dark political days, give a listen to how YOU, and thousands of people like you, helped kill (hopefully, forever), the dastardly Trans Pacific Partnership. After a short primer on so-called "free trade", Jonathan speaks with two key people who organized the opposition, Lori Wallach, the director of Global Trade Watch, and Larry Cohen, the new board chair of Our Revolution, the organization carrying forward the Bernie Sanders movement. To wrap up the podcast, this week's Robber Baron segment focuses on Apple.
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Ralph tears apart the looming Trans Pacific Partnership with America's #1 populist, Jim Hightower, and the director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, Lori Wallach. Plus, listener questions.
Public Citizen's Lori Wallach explains in clear and engaging detail why so-called "Free Trade" is really an international corporate coup. In addition, Ralph talks about the lack of anti-war voices on major media, and the good news about solar power.
This excerpt from the 2/21/14 edition of Counterspin features Lori Wallach of Public Citizen. Wallach provides a sort of citizen's guide to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, and urges listeners to join in a "public Dracula strategy." Length 8.5 minutes.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secret international treaty designed to give corporations power over governments; it is labeled as a "free trade agreement". The TPP will likely allow corporate control of the Internet, endanger food safety, increase medicine costs, remove environmental laws, prohibit financial regulations, and almost certainly would force the United States to give tax money to private corporations if our democracy creates laws that interfere with corporate profits. The Obama administration aims to have it signed into law by the end of 2013. *Full text of draft Intellectual Property Chapter (text as of August 30, 2013), released by Wikileaks on November 13, 2013. Sources of Clips Presented in This Episode YouTube Video: "The Top Secret Deal Between 11 Countries That Will Affect Your Lives" by Lee Camp, episode #186 of the Moment of Clarity series, November 14, 2012. Lee Camp is an angry comedian who has blessed the world with his 5 minute Moment of Clarity videos, which tackle all the horrible problems of the world with justified anger, passion, and lots of laughs. Check him out. The link above his to his episode on the Trans Pacific Partnership. YouTube Video: "Conversations with Great Minds: Lori Wallach on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, part 1" by Thom Hartmann, RT: The Big Picture, July 16, 2012. Provides the history of Global Trade Watch and Lori Wallach's interest in trade agreements. Examples of American laws being circumvented with trade agreements, including the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). YouTube Video: "Conversations with Great Minds: Lori Wallach on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, part 2" by Thom Hartmann, RT: The Big Picture, July 16, 2012. Details from the leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. What is the difference between a treaty and an agreement? A treaty must be agreed to by 2/3 of the Senate; an agreement only needs a simple majority. The Trans-Pacific Partnership will create tribunals that will allow corporations to sue governments if the governments enact laws that interfere with corporate profits. Video with transcript: "A Corporate Trojan Horse: Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws" by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales, Democracy Now!, October 4, 2013. Interview with Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. Details from the leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. What is "fast track"? Basically, fast tracking the TPP would involve Congress handing their power to approve treaties to the Executive Branch and would essentially eliminate any public role in trade negotiations. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="175"] Michael Froman, U.S. Trade Representative, sounds like Dick Cheney, dead inside[/caption] Video with transcript: "Obama-Backed Trans Pacific Partnership Expands Corporate Lawsuits Against Nations for Lost Profits" by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales, Democracy Now!, June 6, 2013. Details on the tribunal system that will allow corporations to sue governments for lost profits. Sound clip of Michael Froman, the United States Trade Representative who is negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership on behalf of the United States. Video with transcript: "Breaking '08 Pledge, Leaked Trade Doc Shows Obama Wants to Help Corporations Avoid Regulations" by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales, Democracy Now!, June 14, 2012. Interview with Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. An agreement was made to publish the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership four years after completion. Sound clip of a corporate tool giving former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk a fake award for pushing the TPP, which the corporate tool says will provide companies with expanded profits despite what the citizens think. Video with transcript: "Trans Pacific Partnership Could Damage Australia" by Kerry Brewster, Lateline, October 10, 2013. Australian news segment highlighting the Trans-Pacific Partnerships dangers to Australian citizens. Canada is being sued for their fracking moratorium. TPP would extend the length of pharmaceutical patents, thereby delaying cheaper generics. Music In this Episode Intro and Exit Music: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) YouTube Video: "TPP = Corporate Power Tool of the 1%" by Public Citizen, May 7, 2012. YouTube Video: "Stop the TPP (English Version)" by Jeremy Malcolm, September 30, 2013. Links to Additional Information About the Trans Pacific Partnership PDF: The leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Public Citizen's Trans Pacific Partnership Information Website Simply the best resource available for finding information on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Upcoming TPP Meetings, Office of the United States Trade Representative website. A Pacific Trade Deal by The Editorial Board of the New York Times, November 5, 2013. An endorsement of the Trans-Pacific Partnership YouTube video: "Secretary Clinton on Delivering on the Promise of Economic Statecraft" by the US State Department, November 17, 2012. Hillary Clinton gives a speech to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Financial Industry Paid Millions to Obama Aide by Jeff Zeleny, New York Times, April 3, 2009 Michael Froman, now the United States Trade Representative, used to work at Citigroup and was paid at least $7.4 million. 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Nicole speaks with Public Citizen's Lori Wallach about the horrible leaked TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) "trade" pact, with Salon.com's Gleen Greenwald about the latest on the lawsuit over the NDAA indefinite detention provision and the US drone program, and Congressman Alan Grayson about all of it.
An update on three troubling U.S. trade deals with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia. Dylan talks to Lori M. Wallach -- she has been director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch since 1995. Wallach is an expert on the operations and outcomes of trade policies such as NAFTA, WTO, CAFTA and more. She is steeped in the domestic and international politics of current trade negotiations and disputes.
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With U.S. mortgages entering foreclosure at a record pace, the crisis has far reaching implications, from the financial markets to the financial health of ordinary Americans. For the latest, Bill Moyers interviews assistant business and financial editor at The New York Times Gretchen Morgenson, who has been covering the story. Also on the program: lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, on the secret trade deal negotiated by leaders of the Democratic Party and its implications for labor unions, consumer groups and the environment; life-long GOP insider Victor Gold on the current state of the Republican Party; and Bill Moyers on Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal.
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