The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over their European and Japanese competitors.

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages considerably lower than in 1979, when the neoliberal assault was taking off. That perfectly naturally causes resentment and fear, and combines with a tendency to blame the most vulnerable.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of the business-dominated consensus, it is possible for populate action to have a significant impact on policy, though indirectly. That was an important lesson for the Indochina Wars.