US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms - eviltoast
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    Just watched a part of Clinton’s speech in post-war Slovenia (after separated from Yugoslavia) where he says that democracy and freedom must prevail around the world. Oh Billy…

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      8 hours ago

      He passed NAFTA which was the stake in the heart of the US union movement guaranteeing corporate fascism would ascend unchallenged. Citizens United only a few years later and it was over.

      • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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        Reagan signed the original NAFTA agreement in 1988 (between Canada and America), then Bush worked on it a bit, then Clinton ratified the final agreement between America, Mexico and Canada 1994.