#1336 Throwing Our Weight Around (The Future of Trade)
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🗓️ 15 February 2020
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Air Date 2/15/2020
Today we take a look at the ways Trump is working to rewrite the rules of trade with NAFTA 2.0 (The USMCA), a post-Brexit agreement with the United Kingdom and what's emerging from the ongoing trade war with China.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Manuel Perez-Rocha on NAFTA 2.0 - CounterSpin - Air Date 1-24-20
Manuel Perez-Rocha breaks down the USMCA trade deal and the media's misinformation about it.
Ch. 2: The New NAFTA with Lori Wallach - Ralph Nader Radio Hour - Air Date 1-25-20
Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach discuss the USMCA, the old NAFTA and the revised NAFTA.
Nicole Aschoff discusses the incremental change of the new NAFTA agreement.
Ch. 4: Secret Trade Documents Between US and UK - Novara Media - Air Date 11-29-19
The Trump admin is pushing a trade deal with the UK that will privatize the NHS.
Ch. 5: Trade deal between the US and the UK as seen from the UK - Remainiacs - Air Date 1-24-20
What use is the Government’s greenwashed Agriculture Bill when it won’t protect us from low-standard food imports?
Nicole Aschoff discusses the USMCA and China Trade negotiations.
Ch. 7: Trump Declares Victory on Trade with Ana Swanson - Diane Rehm On My Mind - Air Date 1-21-20
Diane and Ana Swanson discuss Trump's supposed victory in the Trade war.
Ch. 8: The US-China Trade War with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 2-3-20
Tobita Chow and Jake Werner discuss the Trump administration's trade war with China.
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Ch. 9: What did Bernie actually say at those Clinton rallies? - Barbara from San Jose, CA
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Ch. 10: Final comments explaining Bernie’s support of Clinton during the 2016 election
Bonus: Every Event Bernie Sanders Did For Hillary Clinton in 2016 - Matt Binder - Air Date 1-21-20
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of a left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | learn about the way Trump is working to rewrite the rules of trade with NAFTA 2.0, a post-Brexit |
| 0:14.4 | agreement with the United Kingdom and what's emerging from the ongoing trade war with China. |
| 0:20.0 | Clips today come from Counter-Spin, the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, The Real News, Navarra |
| 0:25.6 | Media, the Remaniacs, On My Mind with Diane Reame and Behind the News from Jacob and Radio. |
| 0:32.1 | In keeping with their time-tested support for things by partisan, corporate media |
| 0:44.1 | saluted the passage through Congress of the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal. The New York Times called |
| 0:50.6 | it a big economic win for Donald Trump, who NPR says can say he has fulfilled his |
| 0:57.5 | pledge to get tough on trade and eliminate bad deals made by his predecessors. NPR ends |
| 1:04.9 | by noting that the agreement, some called NAFTA 2.0, includes provisions on things like |
| 1:10.8 | the ozone layer and fisheries. Quote, but that hasn't been enough to satisfy environmental |
| 1:16.7 | groups, who say it encourages pollution and doesn't address the climate crisis. Those |
| 1:23.0 | critical of original recipe NAFTA were likewise consigned to the last but some people, |
| 1:29.5 | paragraphs of news stories, and described as opposing trade, rather than promoting a |
| 1:35.6 | vision of it that places people and the environment above corporate profits. |
| 1:40.8 | USMCA, as it's known, is on Trump's virtual desk as we speak on January 23rd. Here to |
| 1:48.2 | suggest some questions we could be asking about it, is Manuel Peres Rocha. He's an associate |
| 1:53.6 | fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and an Associate of the Transnational Institute. |
| 1:58.9 | He joins us now by phone from Maryland. Welcome to Counter-Spin, Manuel Peres Rocha. |
| 2:03.2 | Thank you so much for having me, Jenny. |
| 2:06.0 | While in your recent article for inequality.org also on IPS's site and Truth Out, you say |
| 2:13.7 | that USMCA, which was supported by the AFLCIO and lots of Democrats, is better in some ways |
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