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Jeff Faux

How What We Do There Drives Central Americans Here

Jeff Faux

This debate on immigration misses the role of the United States in Central America in creating the conditions that have driven so many to risk the long, arduous, and often fatal trek to get here.

12/09/2018
Trump’s (Premature) Attack on Syria

Jeff Faux

Who is left to defend the rule of law? The missile attack was clearly a violation of international law.

17/04/2018
Why Are U.S. Troops Still in South Korea, Anyway?

Jeff Faux

A majority of Americans, according to the polls, oppose the proliferation of US military interventions abroad.

15/03/2018
A Short History of American Empire

Jeff Faux

"The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire" by Stephen Kinzer (Henry Holt and Co., 2017, 304 pp.)

17/01/2018
How US Foreign Policy Helped Create the Immigration Crisis

Jeff Faux

Neoliberal strictures, support for oligarchs, and the War on Drugs have impoverished millions and destabilized Latin America.

21/11/2017
NAFTA, Trumped

Jeff Faux

Simply because Trump said NAFTA was bad for American workers, doesn’t mean it wasn’t. Just don’t look to him for a fix.

25/08/2017
El Impacto del TLCAN en Los Trabajadores de los Estados Unidos

Jeff Faux

17/04/2017
El Impacto del TLCAN en Los Trabajadores de los Estados Unidos

Jeff Faux

14/04/2017
Trump’s Nafta Trap

Jeff Faux

The radical new rules for trade imposed by NAFTA—and copied in the myriad trade deals signed by the US ever since—shifted the benefits of expanding trade to investors and the costs to workers..

24/02/2017