by Stephen Zunes
I had really wanted to celebrate Barack Obama’s remarkable victory for
a day or so before becoming cynical again. I really did.
And yet, less than 24 hours after the first polls closed, the
president-elect chose …

from The Citizens Trade Campaign
The Nov. 4 elections will lead to changes on both the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees as four members lost their reelection bids, and the increased number …

Impact of the Trade Issue on the Election
Mood Shift Against Free Trade Puts Republicans on Defensive
Wall Street Journal 
Dems’ Ads In Tight Races Tap Into Anti-Trade SentimentNational Journal Congress Daily
Free Trade Agreements Could Ship Wisconsin Jobs …

by Jayne Lyn Stahl
While in the midst of basking in the afterglow of Tuesday’s election results, the longest high I’ve had without inhaling, I got an e-mail from a friend this morning alerting me to …

The consensus bottom line: This is just the beginning.
From The Peace Arena
Gloria A. Totten | Progressive Majority
The message couldn’t be clearer: voters wanted progressive change. They elected an outstanding progressive as the next president. They …

by Bill Holland, Deputy Director Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
Tuesday’s election delivered a major shift in the U.S. political landscape away from the disastrous trade and globalization policies of the past. Across the country Americans …

At 11:00 p.m. EST, MSNBC projected that Obama will become the next President of the United States. In shots from Chicago, Times Square, college campuses, and cities across the country, cheers arose simultaneously from …

Peter Rothberg | The Nation
After two years, $2.5 billion, hundreds of speeches and dozens of debates, the most historic election campaign in modern American history is finally drawing to a close.
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