NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States on January 1, 1989, by President Clinton, is ostensibly a trilateral trade bloc in North America. I say ostensibly because, like many, if not most, of the treaties, trade agreements, accords, and pacts promoted and agreed to in the world in the past century, NAFTA is not what the powers-that-be want you to think it is. NAFTA is not primarily about business, balance of trade, or jobs. Free trade was, and is, the mantra used to get the public to quit holding their collective nose and swallow the swill and pretend they were eating caviar. With our modern day NewSpeak, free trade is really managed trade; there isn’t a speck of free trade in the agreement. But then it isn’t, and wasn’t ever supposed to be, about free trade. NAFTA is just another ...
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