April 24, 2026
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Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy and currently the frontrunner for the Constitution Party’s 2020 presidential nomination, released the following statement yesterday on his campaign website:
Our government and “extreme free trader” TV economists have told us for 5 decades that free trade with China would provide Americans prosperity, and so we gave China our jobs and our way of life.…
Press Release via the Libertarian Party:
Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bill lets foreign governments and foreign special interests control American medical care, banking, the Internet, and even civil liberties
Republicans howled when Nancy Pelosi famously said, “We have to pass [Obamacare] so that you can find out what is in it.”…
Maggie Haberman at Politico (excerpts):
The real-estate mogul with a genius for self-promotion gave the most-acclaimed — and most colorful — speech at the conservative gathering this afternoon, from the moment he took the stage to the song “Money, Money, Money.”
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Open letter from Ralph Nader and several other people (see end of article for list) to Barack Obama posted at Nader.org:
Dear President Obama,
The U.S.…
Former independent and Green Party candidate for President, Ralph Nader released the following commentary on international trade. It is also posted at www.nader.org.
Back in the USA
On July 30th, an American manufacturer in China and Korea will officially announce the move of its tool manufacturing facilities to Houston, Texas.…
From a Green Party press release, which also quotes Seize the Time, an essay by Cynthia McKinney:
• Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente
— oppose ‘free trade’ agreements and unelected international trade authorities (NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, GATT, ‘Fast Track’, etc.)
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via BlueCarp
At a fund raising event Sunday night in Littleton, Colorado, Libertarian nominee for president Bob Barr told a group of supporters, “I am against the Cuban embargo.”
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In a recent Utah Herald News article, Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin likened himself to America’s sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, and the Constitution Party to the nascent Republicans of the 1850s.…
In an interview earlier today, Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin made his case to Libertarians unhappy with Bob Barr as their nominee.
“I understand that some libertarians do not share my conviction that life begins at conception and that we need to protect it,” said Baldwin.…
