This Trojan horse deal will embody the most florid dreams of the 1 percent—grandiose new rights and privileges for corporations and permanent constraints on government regulation, including new investor safeguards to ease job offshoring and assert control over natural resources, and severely limit regulation of financial services, land use, food safety, natural resources, energy, tobacco, healthcare and more. The TPP may well be the last “trade” agreement Washington negotiates because once completed it would remain open to any other country to join, like China. It would be NAFTA on steroids.



