Twelve nations are still hard at work negotiating the final details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And they’re still behind closed doors.

The secretive TPP negotiations continue on a near-daily basis as the final issues are resolved. Then it's on to Congress, where a classic Wall Street vs Main Street struggle will take place.

It is only since the Reagan era and subsequently with Bush, Clinton, Bush, and now Obama, that we have forsaken tariffs and have been chanting the “free trade” mantra—to our own detriment and destruction. A protectionist approach, including tariffs, is what the USA needs so it can get back in...

Thousands of protesters are taking to the streets across New Zealand, calling on their country to “walk away” from negotiations of the TPP.

It’s NOT a trade deal. It’s a Bill of Rights for corporations. Obama puts TPP trade deal at top of 2016 agenda 12/18/15 The Hill President Obama expressed optimism at a Friday press conference that Congress can approve a sweeping Pacific Rim trade deal. Obama called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...

Despite scant evidence, the State Department took Malaysia off a list of countries with egregious human trafficking records, clearing the path for the country’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The proposed TPP was the latest in a series of deals that are mostly about the use of "trade" agreements to allow corporations to do end runs around national regulation.

If the American economy continues to create a few big winners and many who feel like losers by comparison, opposition to free trade won’t be the only casualty.

History shows the very opposite of progress when it comes to these democratic sovereignty-shredding and job-exporting corporate-driven trade treaties -- unless progress is referring to fulfilling the deepest wishes of runaway global corporations.

Does the TPP contain provisions that corporations can use to force us to privatize "public" things like our Post Office, public schools, public roads etc., so they can replace them with profit-making enterprises that provide a return only to the wealthy few?