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Sometimes it seems like free trade advocates will use just about any crisis to argue for the further deregulation of trade rules. Over the last decade, it has been argued that trade expansion would enhance democracy, fight terrorism, mitigate climate change, and stabilize global financial markets.

IATP Senior Fellow Mark Muller is working in a volunteer program in Honduras through July. He will blog periodically on his experiences there. “A liberal is just a conservative that hasn’t been mugged yet.”

EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson on Friday kicked off a three-day mission in China amid simmering tensions with the growing Asian economic giant. During the trip Mandelson, who has made relations with China a top priority in the EU's trade policy, is to meet for the first time with his new Chinese counterpart, Commerce Minister Chen Deming, his office said in a statement.

The U.S. Forest Service's plan for targeted logging in the Medicine Bow National Forest is a knee-jerk reaction which will do nothing to stop the spread of pine beetles, a Laramie-based conservation group says. But a timber industry spokesman said logging should be part of a long-term strategy to improve forest health.

Wes Rutt looks around Larimer County and sees a long-term solution to the country's energy woes growing out of the ground. But he's not looking at corn or switchgrass or even sugar beets, which are all being investigated as alternative fuel sources. What Rutt sees are trees.

Aquatic invasive species are impacting our lives. In case you hadn't noticed, Phil Moy, fisheries and non-indigenous species specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant, has a way of making the point.