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‘Free trade’ and the death of democracy

Jason Hickel by Jason Hickel 19 December 201319 December 2013

“Free trade”. The term itself is a trap — a brilliant framing device that neatly neutralises opposition. If you take a stand against free trade you appear to be taking a stand against freedom itself, which is clearly not a tenable position. In fact, in recent decades the term “free trade” has become very closely […]

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It’s time for a global minimum wage

Jason Hickel by Jason Hickel 11 June 201318 June 2013

Last April, 1 127 workers were killed when Rana Plaza, a garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, collapsed. To put this in perspective, that’s more than twice the number of Americans that have been killed in mass shootings since 1983. This unfathomable tragedy reached us around the world in the form of images troubling enough to make […]

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