Corporations are using trade and investment treaties to handcuff global and national efforts to save the planet.
Free Trade or Just Green Trade?
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Labor, Trade, & Finance
Garment Workers Take on Wage Theft and Wall Street
A new campaign is targeting fashion brands like Nike that are spending vast sums on stock buybacks instead of compensating workers for lost pandemic wages.
A World Fragmented by Inequality
The best way of tackling global inequality is to tax the rich.
Is Mining Money Behind the Arrest of Salvadoran Water Defenders?
The five detainees include leaders of the campaign that won the world’s first metals mining ban in 2017 — a ban the cash-strapped government may be moving to overturn.
Beyond the ‘Border Crisis’
Reducing a humanitarian crisis to an issue of “border security” puts real solutions out of reach.
From the Unsustainable Here to the Sustainable There
Economic growth is killing the planet. How do we engineer an alternative?
The U.S. Economic War on Venezuela Has Fueled the Migrant Crisis
People from poor countries that can no longer rely on energy assistance from Venezuela are arriving at the border in record numbers.
Three Amigos or Fair-Weather Friends?
This week’s North American Leaders’ summit is soured by dubious challenges to Mexican food and energy sovereignty
Brazil’s Fascist Right Attacks Lula’s Pro-Worker, Pro-Democracy Agenda
Lula knows better than most how to fight for the interconnected goals of democracy and economic justice. Little did Lula know how soon that fight would come.
The Crypto-Populist Pyramid Scam
Here’s how to connect Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele to Sam Bankman-Fried and Bored Ape Yacht Club.