Trans-Pacific Partnership: Another Trade Liberalization Scam: "The gathering pressure for Congress to "fast track" the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) demonstrates yet again that trade liberalization is one of the few aspects of economic policy about which there is agreement across the mainstream of the political spectrum, in both the United States and Europe. Almost all conservative commentators endorse it with gusto, for centrists it is an article of faith, and even many progressives accept it implicitly by their criticism of industrial country protection. "
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out there."
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"But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances
we’ve been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my
presidency that...
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