The sympathy he expressed in an unguarded interview for Seattle's anti-trade demonstrators had the ring of authenticity.
Bill Clinton became president at 46 and by his youthful enthusiasm pulled his anti-trade party toward commercial engagement with the world.
Contrary to the assertions of some anti-trade, anti-globalization interests, low wages or lax labor and environmental standards rarely draw U.S. investment.
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It will also make it easier for you to remember the argument and use it to disarm your friends and relatives anti-trade and anti-outsourcing attitudes.
Is anti-trade protectionism a threat to the U.S. and global economies?
The argument was either you were pro-trade or you were anti-trade.
" He said they were "clinging to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
There are reassuring signs that the SOPA battle has some resonance for Internet users, who now understand the breadth of threats to the Internet and are willing to fight them whether they come in the form of international regulation of the Internet through the UN or trade pacts like the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
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Now it's Europe's turn, with demonstrations over the weekend against another piece of anti-piracy legislation Acta, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. (By the way, there is a good explanation of all of the various anti-piracy measures here.) Now, for all the online anger, this is not an issue that has really caught the public imagination in the UK. The crowd at London's anti-Acta demo numbered no more than a few hundred.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Tokyo on Thursday.
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Over at Techdirt, Mike Masnick has some big news for the ongoing Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) debate.
Some liberals are anti-free trade and want to slap tariffs on all exports.
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Earlier versions of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, for example, would have made Internet companies legally responsible for the content their users posted online.
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But both anti-arms trade campaigners and defence manufacturers said the move would have little impact as the countries affected were relatively small-scale purchasers of military equipment.
After the publication of a draft agreement following the 8th round of negotiations held in April 2010, in New Zealand, negotiating States of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA) met in Lucerne from 28 June to 1 July 2010 for a 9th round of negotiations.
The internet may have been very quick to rest on its laurels after the successful opposition to SOPA. First there was the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, a highly restrictive, multi-national law that looked a lot like SOPA and covered everything from music downloads to crops.
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News that the anti-drugs-trade agreement was being scrapped appeared in a decree on the Russian government's website.
Anti-free-trade sentiment is being fueled by our record trade deficits.
The anti-free-trade bloc, known as ALBA, and the new oil consortiums with Russia and Iran are symptomatic of a rising alternative economic system where there are no checks on tyranny.
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His stock-in-trade was that debilitating mix of anti-Zionism and anti-Americanism.
They both ran on Chavista ideology which among other things included criticism of existing representative institutions, hostility to neo-liberal and free trade policies, a harsh anti-Americanism, and, a bitter opposition to US drug polices in the Andes region.
The world's biggest democracy, for four decades it pursued policies of socialist anti-globalisation, shutting out trade and foreign investment as best it could.
All of this gives Google and anyone else who wants to jump into the discussion time to build its case without the pressure of inserting anti-censorship language into impending trade deals.
China is the largest solar panel exporting country, and its dominance has riled rivals who have successfully won anti-dumping and illegal subsidy trade complaints against Chinese manufactures in the U.S. Similar complaints are underway in Europe.
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