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Archives: Trade

Exxon’s Rex Tillerson and the rise of Big Oil in American politics

Brian C. Black | (The Conversation) | - - “How Big Oil Bought the White House and Tried to Steal the Country” is the subtitle of a book that tells the story…

If he wins: The Coming Trump Market Crash & Great Recession

If he wins: The Coming Trump Market Crash and Great Recession

By Simon Johnson | (Project Syndicate) | - - WASHINGTON, DC – With the United States’ presidential election on November 8, and a series of elections and other political decisions fast approaching…

Why did UK leaving European Union hit your Retirement Account so Hard?

By Andre Spicer | (The Conversation) | - - Despite reassurances that we shouldn’t listen to the experts, the financial markets have gone and behaved almost exactly as the experts predicted. Following…

Can Europe compete with China in post-Sanction Iran? Will the US Let it?

By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | - - The cake is quite big, but everyone wants a slice. Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, visited Iran last month accompanied by business leaders…

Curtains for Trans Pacific Trade Deal? Greenpeace Leak Exposes Corporate Takeover

Curtains for Trans Atlantic Trade Deal? Greenpeace Leak Exposes Corporate Takeover

By Deirdre Fulton | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - The secret documents represent roughly two-thirds of the latest negotiating text, and in several cases expose for the first time the position…

Reinventing Saudi Arabia after Oil: The Prince’s $2 Trillion Gamble

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, 30, the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia laid out his vision for Saudi Arabia on Monday in a…

The Chinese are Coming: First ‘New Silk Road’ Train reaches Iran’s Capital

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In a sign of China's increasingly powerful role in Central Asia and the Middle East, on Tuesday a Chinese train arrived in Tehran…

The Surprising Reasons Oil Prices Keep Falling

By Marcelle Arak and Sheila Tschinkel | (The Conversation) | - - Global stock markets have been in a tailspin this week. And the sinking price of oil received at least some…

Arabs Caught between Trump and ISIL: Casino Capitalism driving backward Identity Politics Worldwide

Maged Mandour | ( OpenDemocracy) | - - Backwards looking politics is a malaise affecting both the west and east. It breeds violence as global elites clamber to maintain their grip on…

Investing in Iran after Deal? Be careful of doing business with the Revolutionary Guards

By Mohammad M. Hedayati-Kakhki | (The Conversation) | - - The merest hint of a successful deal over Iran’s nuclear programme is enough to get people excited. And as the country emerges…

Trans-Pacific partnership raise the barriers for the access to affordable medicines

Trans-Pacific partnership raises the barriers for the access to affordable medicines

By Carlos M. Correa | (Inter Press Service) | - - GENEVA (IPS) - The pharmaceutical industry from the US and Europe scored a major victory with the adoption, in 1994, of…

As Oil Prices Crater, Algeria needs an Actual Economy or big Trouble Looms

By Allan Christelow | (Informed Comment) | - - Like other oil producers, Algeria faces difficulties with the sharp decline in prices since 2014. But unlike oil producers in the Gulf region,…

As GOP fumes re: Iran, Russia & China are outflanking West with New Eurasia Silk Road

By Pepe Escobar | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Let’s start with the geopolitical Big Bang you know nothing about, the one that occurred just two weeks ago. Here are its results:…

Are Arab Oil Monarchies divided over Iran Deal?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) comprises Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. In recent years it has faced…

The Real Reason Critics Hate The Iran Nuclear Deal

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "There's something wrong with people's reaction to the Iran nuclear deal. If what they're saying is true then the deal makes no…

European Companies poised for Iran Gold Rush but will Hill Keep US Out?

By Charles Recknagel | ( RFE/ RL) Many of the punishing UN, U.S., and EU financial and energy sanctions imposed on Iran in recent years to pressure Tehran to curb its nuclear…

It’s the Economy, Stupid!: Tunisia’s fight against Terrorism requires a jobs program for its Youth

By Alexander Martin | (The Conversation) | - - To anyone who has followed Tunisia’s journey since it became a democracy, the horrific events in Sousse were shocking, but not surprising. This…

Is Congress Using Trade Rules to Blacklist Critics of Israel?

By Rachel Ida Buff | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Legislation to fast track new trade pacts specifically targets supporters of the BDS movement against the Israeli occupation. In 1952,…

5 Radical Takeaways from the Pope’s Letter on Climate

By Janet Redman | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Francis recognizes that there's no way to stop climate change without confronting the way the world does business. That's huge. Pope…

Why Pelosi, Hillary and House Democrats turned on Obama over Asian free trade

By Harley Shaiken | (The Conversation) | - - Over the last several days, President Barack Obama pulled out all the stops to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) – aka fast track…