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Apr 26, 2013 · Trading Democracy for ‘National Security’. The violent Boston rampage triggered a local and federal response that, according to journalist Glenn Greenwald, adds a new dimension to troubling ...
Feb 5, 2002 · Bill Moyers investigates how corporate interests are using an obscure provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement known as "Chapter 11" to secretly challenge environmental regulations, the laws of local communities, and even the decision of an American jury.
BILL MOYERS: Today, foreign companies are exploiting Chapter 11 to attack public laws that protect our health - and our environment - even to attack the American judicial system. MARTIN WAGNER: It's sort of a like a sophisticated extortion racket.
Jan 24, 2002 · TRADING DEMOCRACY is the latest collaboration between Bill Moyers and producer Sherry Jones, who produced TRADE SECRETS: A MOYERS REPORT in March 2001. Their previous productions include WASHINGTON'S OTHER SCANDAL, the Peabody-winning investigation of campaign finance scandals in the 1996 Presidential elections, and the Emmy-winning HIGH CRIMES ...
Synopsis. Bill Moyers investigates how corporate interests are using an obscure provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement known as "Chapter 11" to...
Feb 4, 2002 · Speaking with legislators, public policy experts, community leaders, and citizens about the lawsuits filed under NAFTA's Chapter Eleven, BILL MOYERS REPORTS: TRADING DEMOCRACY unravels the hidden repercussions of a treaty that was supposed to promote democracy through free trade, but now appears to have given deep-pocketed corporations the ...
The one-hour documentary, BILL MOYERS REPORTS: TRADING DEMOCRACY, premieres February 5 at 10:00 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). “When the North American Free Trade Agreement became the law of the land almost a decade ago, the debate we heard was about jobs,” notes Bill Moyers.
