Conor J. Lynch

Conor J. Lynch is a writer living in New York City. He has written previously for openDemocracy, The Richard Dawkins Foundation, and regularly blogs on Daily Kos about politics, economics, and science. Follow him @dilgentbureauct

TPP and intellectual honesty

Basically, big corporations discovered how valuable the ISDS could be when dealing with foreign governments who were a bit too ambitious in the regulatory domain.

By Conor J. Lynch

/ 11 Jun 2015

The Free Trade movement's hypocrisy

Free trade advocates preach free market values, but pro-corporate tools like the ISDS reveal a fundamental truth about global free trade today; it is less about ideology than it is profit.

By Conor J. Lynch

/ 23 Feb 2015

The Free Trade movement's hypocrisy

Free trade advocates preach free market values, but pro-corporate tools like the ISDS reveal a fundamental truth about global free trade today; it is less about ideology than it is profit.

By Conor J. Lynch

/ 23 Feb 2015

Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Big Pharma giveaway

Out of all big industries making billions in profit, the pharmaceutical is probably the most ethically questionable.

By Conor J. Lynch

/ 14 Feb 2015

Living in denial: big oil and the religious right unite against our environment

Anti-intellectualism and corporate power are undermining our capacity to fight climate change.

By Conor J. Lynch

/ 19 Jan 2015