Progressive Commentary Hour - 07/09/12




Progressive Commentary Hour show

Summary: 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)