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It’s Not Only Conservative Politicians Backing Giant Multinational Corporations Over National Sovereignty

Preface: Liberals might assume that it is Republicans who are cheerleaders for global corporations at the expense of government.  But, as shown below, liberal politicians have been just as bad … or worse.

Matt Stoller – who writes for Salon and has contributed to Politico, Alternet, Salon, The Nation and Reuters – knows his way around Washington.

Stoller – a prominent liberal – has scoured the Congressional Record to unearth hidden historical facts.  For example, Stoller has previously shown that the U.S. government push for a "New World Order” is no wacky conspiracy theory, but extensively documented in the Congressional Record.

Now, Stoller uses the Congressional Record to show that "free trade” pacts were always about weakening nation-states to pr ... Read more »

Category: Politics | Views: 583 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2014/02/21 | Comments (0)

Editor's note: Every Sunday Fortune publishes a favorite story from its magazine archives.  In light of the polar vortex causing freezing temperature across the county this week, we turn to a 2004 article predicting the Pentagon's worst enemy: Mother Nature. 

The climate could change radically, and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues.

By David Stipp

Category: Health, Enviroment, Nature | Views: 566 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2014/02/21 | Comments (0)

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