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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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October 8, 2007 10:21 AM
Costa Rica Vote Shows Failure of NAFTA Model
Public Citizen has a very good press release and review of the Costa Rica vote here. Bottom line: The fact that roughly half of the citizens in this Latin American country said "no" to CAFTA after the massive, corporate-funded campaign of fear and intimidation shows just how little support these unfair trade pacts really have among the public. The "yes" campaign had to not only grossly outspend the "no" campaign, but had to resort to potentially illegal shenanigans just to get barely half of the vote. This is not a strong endorsement of lobbyist-written trade policy, but rather a referendum on how little support these policies really have.
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If only Americans had those kind of balls..!
Sadly we a sheep fattened for the slaughter by the fascist corporate swine who run this country..
Simple as that..!
Moral victories don't count. You either stop the oligarches or you don't.
At this point it's all irrelevant. They may have won barely half the vote but these scumbags know how to MAGNIFY even a slim victory. At 45% they would call it a near victory. At 51%, they call it a "landslide victory". At this point, now that CAFTA keeps getting a victory, get ready for the BIG BOMB of all "free" trade deals, FTAA !
If Hillary Clinton supports this kind of Crap does that not demonstrate how corrupt she is?
The democrats in congress better stop this!
Ozy
Hillary(of "lobbyists are people too" fame) does indeed support this extension of CAFTA.
Hell one of her top campaign men is Penn(who is head of Burson Marseller) who does union busting work and now represents Blackwater.
Scary, yes?
The problem is most of this info is kept from the non-net public. You won't find it on CNN or even on Keith Olberman's show. The news is heavily censored on things like this.
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