This week’s North American Leaders’ summit is soured by dubious challenges to Mexican food and energy sovereignty
Three Amigos or Fair-Weather Friends?
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Canada
Suicide Truckers
The “Freedom Convoy” in Canada wants to spread its anti-government, antisocial, and ultimately self-defeating messages far and wide.
Beating Back the Far Right Globally
It’s time to resurrect a global anti-fascist consensus to name, shame, and throw these guys out of the game.
Wait, You’re Sanctioning Us?!
It’s time for the world to blacklist Trump, his associates, and his businesses.
Trump and Trade: The Perils for Agriculture
Donald Trump has taken aim at free trade agreements. What could renegotiation look like?
The Globalization of Trump
Looking for a place to escape from President Trump? You’re running out of options.
Empire’s Ally: What Happened to Canada?
Can international capital explain why Canada has become so subservient to the U.S. in Afghanistan and beyond?
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Farmer
In the United States and throughout North America, NAFTA has accelerated the industrial consolidation of agriculture and pushed out smaller, more sustainable food producers.
Preventing a Blowout in the Arctic
In September 2011, Vladimir Putin announced a program to begin offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Russian Arctic. Putin is also interested in creating new sea terminals, which he said would rival the Suez and Panama Canals. In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil and 30 percent of the world’s undiscovered gas lay beneath the Arctic Seas. The United States, Canada, Norway, Greenland, and Russia, which make up the Arctic 5, are each interested in tapping these Arctic energy reserves.
A New Perimeter to Expand NAFTA?
The continentalists are out of the cupboard: The United States and Canada are taking another crack at North American integration, this time without Mexico. Civil servants are dusting off their policy playbooks, business lobbyists are flexing their muscles, and politicians are sexing up their communications strategies. Their opponents, activists fighting for a new economic model, are preparing a counteroffensive that we hope will succeed — again.