A new report has exposed the legal, economic and political cost of America’s ill-advised online gambling trade dispute with Antigua and the prosecution of Bodog brand founder Calvin Ayre.

The report, written by Dr. Patrick Basham, Founding Director of the Washington- and London-based Democracy Institute, is titled How The WTO, Antigua & A Canadian Overcame American Hypocrisy On Free Trade. The report (read it here) bills itself as “a cautionary tale for America’s trading partners, foreign businesses, and fellow members of multilateral economic institutions.”

In the report, Basham lays bare “America’s mistaken campaign to bully, figuratively speaking, a tiny fellow member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and to persecute and prosecute foreign businessmen, in order to ensure the successful application of ill-conceived domestic legislation.”

ANTIGUAN DAVID v. AMERICAN GOLIATH