The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an alliance of eleven countries, America, Australia, Malaysia, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Brunei, Canada and Mexico. What do they have in common? Trouble, as they secretly write a trade agreement behind closed doors. Critics believe the group is allowing corporations a venue to override American laws. It’s worse than NAFTA.

Also, some of the organization’s documents have leaked and reveal that Internet freedom is on TPP’s agenda as well, à la SOPA. Put those elements together and you have trouble. Big Trouble!

First, it turns out Obama officials secretly negotiated and adopted ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), which establishes no-restriction, supranational global trade rules, i.e., an American trade law with any of the nations above can be superseded by one of theirs. In short, it walks all over our national sovereignty, our privacy and personal freedoms.

Stephen Lendman points out in TPP: A Trade deal from Hell, “In October 2011, Obama lawlessly circumvented Congress. He signed ACTA. He falsely claimed it’s not a treaty. He usurped diktat authority. He claimed he acted by “executive agreement.” He strong-armed other nations to go along.

“TPP (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) is ACTA 2.0. The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) calls it ‘a secretive, multi-nation agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property laws across the globe.’”

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