| Aug 14, 2019 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming“MAGA,” blusters Donald Trump — Make America Great Again! America’s ranching families, however, would like Trump to come off his high horse and get serious about a more modest goal, namely: Make America COOL Again. COOL stands for Country-of-Origin-Labeling, a...
| Jan 6, 2016 | Food / FarmingThey say that if you get up in the morning and swallow a live toad, nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. Well, we Americans have just been fed a live toad by the World Trade Organization. Last May, the WTO — an oligarchic, autocratic governing...
| Dec 22, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyLast spring, President Barack Obama got downright crabby about people criticizing the mammoth Trans-Pacific Partnership he’s trying to sell to Congress and the public. More and more Americans are learning that the TPP would undermine America’s very...
| Jan 23, 2013 | Economy / BusinessTidy rip-offs From free trade; For which we So dearly paid. The Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement, being negotiated in secret even as we speak, has a lot to say about worker rights and environmental protections. This pact, which is shaping up between the...
