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Sen #JeanneShaheen, the top #Democrat on the #Senate #ForeignRelations Cmte, said she was asking the #Trump admin to explain why funding that #Congress provided to combat violent gangs & drug traffickers was used to deport migrants with no criminal record.

“The administration must comply at once with statutory #law by providing to the Senate Foreign Relations Cmte any written agreements made with the Salvadoran government on this issue,” she said in a statement.

Here’s the issue: “Or what?”

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For many companies, though, moving a major chunk of production to the #US is unrealistic, said Agathe Demarais, a snr policy fellow at the European Council for #ForeignRelations.

#Costs are too high. American #workers are not willing to accept the low #wages that initially drove companies to move to countries like #Mexico.

Mazda & Toyota have already struggled to ramp up production at their joint US factory because of a lack of workers.

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"This article presents how global governance […] targets moved from sovereign to corporate entities and its source from multilateral financial institutions to domestic U.S. institutions. […] The article describes the recursive process that led the U.S. government to assume global regulatory powers and to initiate deglobalization in its trade war against the European Union and China."
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/ @economics

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"This article presents how global governance […] targets moved from sovereign to corporate entities and its source from multilateral financial institutions to domestic U.S. institutions. […] The article describes the recursive process that led the U.S. government to assume global regulatory powers and to initiate deglobalization in its trade war against the European Union and China."

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/ @economics

Read "War by Other Means" by Mathias Fuelling, an excellent review of "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of #Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War", by Nicholas Mulder, Yale University Press, 448 pages, 2022 oxonianreview.com/articles/war

The Oxonian ReviewWar by Other MeansSanctions form a key part of the modern toolkit of international governance. How did they become so important in global politics?
#history#war#boycott