Know much about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? If you don’t, it’s not your fault. That’s because this so-called “free trade” agreement is being negotiated in “extreme” secrecy by representatives of twelve different countries—the privately owned Corporations and State owned Enterprise representatives of United States, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam (who also control Laos and Cambodia). The Obama administration has ignored “repeated calls from legislators to make the process more transparent, while pressing to finalize the agreement this year.”
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