TPP is dead

[abaris]

Whatever good TPP had (and I'm sure it had some), it was ruined by a number of terrible provisions, including one which would allow foreign companies to sue the US government if they passed legislation that negatively affected their profits: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/busine...st-us.html

If you care about freedom of speech, especially on the Internet, then the EFF have an infographic explaining how bad it could get: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/whats-wrong-tpp

I'm glad TPP is dead. It should never have been negotiated behind closed doors, and it should never have just bent over backwards to huge corporations.

It works in both directions actually. The major gripe with all these trade deal being negotiated behind closed doors always was the provision for foreign companies being able to sue for profit without having to go through the proper channels. Courts of Arbitration instead of proper courts following national or European laws.

Being against these agreements is actually the one and only overlap I have with European rightwingers, but the green parties are against them too. So I go with green, thank you very much.