Special “Trading Our Future?” Presentation In Collaboration With The Huffington Post
July 20, 2011Radio Free Dylan: An update on three troubling U.S. trade deals with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia with Public Citizen’s Lori Wallach.
Special “Trading Our Future?” presentation in collaboration with The Huffington Post
In 1992, the hottest issue in the Presidential election was the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. This agreement reorganized American trade policy for a generation. Now, outsourcing of jobs and of production is routine, and investors can sue to break the ability of states and localities to enact laws protecting the environment, workers, or consumers.
Currently, Washington is debating to pass three more NAFTA-style agreements, this time the agreements are with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. In our series in collaboration with the Huffington Post, we’re looking at what these deals mean.
Video: Lori Wallach of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch and Former CEO of AT&T Broadband Leo Hindrey discuss whether certain free trade deals are dangerous to the U.S.
Video: The Huffington Post’s Dave Jamieson and Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing talk about the pending trade agreement with Colombia and anti-union violence.
President Obama needs to repeal NAFTA and Congress. Least they both get repealed at the polls!
We enjoy hearing Dylan's perspective on the issues. He is quite a marvel how he can respond to his panel guests, with no real knowledge what they will throw at him. I'll bet he can spout "off the cuff" anytime ,anywhere. Love him !!! Keep it it coming Dylan. Friends from WV.
NAFTA should be renegotiated between Canada and the US only. Canada has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs to Mexico as well.
All the pitfalls of NAFTA and GATT were predicted by Sir James Goldsmith of the U.K. a self-made billionaire and he petitioned Congress not to pass them — and this was in the early 1990's. His book "TRAP" recalls his teachings at Oxford during that time. Get the book (it's pretty inexpensive on Amazon.com) and you will see how everything he said came or is coming true in our country and those targeted by this agreements for trade.
Really appreciate your show, Dylan–especially with Cenk gone.
This rush to these "free" trade agreements show once again Obama's endless quest for campaign dollars. A few months ago when he announced, he allowed Monsanto 3 controversial products all within one month. Even Bush 43 hadn't been able to push through these disastrous products. Would love some light shed on Monsanto next.
I Haven't watched your show for a while. I was pleasantly suprised and encouraged to view these segments (particularly the latter). I thought you treated this issue with the appropriate bluntness. As always I wish you could have spent the entire two episodes (or a whole week) on this issue alone.
Thank you so much for the effort. Have you ever considered trying to get your employers to agree to a whole episode or two interviewing Noam Chomsky (exclusively). I hope he lives forever, but who knows how much longer he might be around. I think you of all the people on MSNBC (and in general) are particularly well qualified to conduct such an interview, but adequate length is be a must for it to be worthwhile.
David B Reno. These stupid Nafta, type trade agreements should be should be fully discussed,by independent experts, then let we the people decide yes or no. These trade agreements are not good for our country, we will lose thousands of more jobs. Can't we learn from the past? I am 74 years old, and I have never seen such stupidity in our congress. Vote out all those that vote for these trade agreements. Get rid of the lobbyists, and all corporate special interest groups,and make our Representatives and Senators work of us the people not Corporate America. Dylan love your show, I watch it daily.
my thoughts exactly, stop all these stupid give-aways. watch dylan everyday too and love the man.
I am dissapointed that you didn't post my previous comment. I thought it was good.
Please disregard the above comment. I am officially un-dissappointed.
I really do appreciate the ideas that Dylan shares, but I want to offer some input intended to be viewed as constructive criticism. Dylan, is starting to sound and act much too much like Chris Matthews–not in content or substance but rather in his inability to filter any thought that comes to his mind. He is increasing dominating his guests and interruputing their every thought and completing their sentences. Some may see this as enthusiasm for his beliefs, but from my perspective he is increasingly coming across as out of control and manic.
You are the only commentator I listen to on cable anymore. Keep up the good work!
Loved your program today, Tues. 8/16 calling for a constitutional amendment banning private or corporate contributions to politicians. Something I've been talking about and hoping for, for years. The only possible chance this idea has for even getting discussed is to get enough of the media to raise the question. The problem is that almost all of the media, except for CNBC, is under the control of the same corporate interests who stand to lose if such an amendment is enacted. Can it be done only through twitter and Facebook, etc.? I doubt it very much. Every meaningful means of communicating in our society is completely controlled by the the same interests. It feeds like being in a room with no windows or doors.
Buddie Roemer, a GOP would-be candidate, made a speech in front of the Chinese embassy last week. He did a history of how we have given away our manufacturing base and described China as the bear in the room eating our wealth. I am not a supporter of Buddie Roemer, but I wish his speech would get more attention.