Progressive Commentary Hour – 07/09/12

An in-depth look at the World Trade Organization – what goes on behind its lack of transparency in free market trade treaties to push forward corporate globalization.  And a discussion into the Obama Administrations agenda in secretly negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement – which is being perceived as possibly worse that NAFTA.

Guests – one of the nation’s foremost experts about the history and strategy of the WTO and international free trade agreements — Lori Wallach, the Director of Washington DC advocacy organization and public think tank Public Citizen and a Harvard trained attorney who is has been described as a Ralph Nader with a sense of humor. And Arthur Stamoulis, director for the Citizens Trade Campaign, a national coalition of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious, and other civil society groups founded in 1992 to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

 

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  • Vic

    Corporate Governance…[ ]
    Who? What?
    There grabbing it all, & we still don’t get it.
    Oh, well…take care
    It’s 1984 all over again,
    I think…

  • Vic

    Within this “trade” agreement, are there any know provisions for military~police action to resolve any possible issues of conflict, external or internal ? Example – authorization for the use of micro~wave, & or electro-magnetic non-lethal weaponry against violent or non-violent protestor “enemies” of the Partnership?
    Will the NDAA in effect become the Trans Pacific Defense Authorization Act?