[...] Mexico's weak unions and competition from Asia and Central America kept wages down; the tightening of security along the U.S. border closed off Mexico's immigration "escape valve," and environmental provisions in the agreement proved less powerful than those protecting investors.
... the way political decision-making around security issues ricochets around the world, from Western capital to Western capital, is making a mockery of commonly held conceptions of national sovereignty..
"Free trade" agreements have accomplished much - most notably profit for transnational corporations at the expense of American jobs and technology. Our manufacturing base, and increasingly our knowledge base, hardly exist in recognizable form.
