T.P.P.’s main function is the establishment of a business-friendly regulatory structure in member states. It extends patent monopolies; it would restrict the freedom of countries to impose environmental regulations; it would even restrict what health services a country could provide to its citizenry. Some fear it would be a backdoor for the wildly unpopular S.O.P.A. and P.I.P.A. bills that failed to make it through the House due to popular unrest. Pretty much everything that a government might do would be subject to the stipulations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In the words of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange: “if you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the T.P.P. has you in its crosshairs.”

Central to the T.P.P. is the creation of so-called “investor-state tribunals,” courts in which corporations can actually sue states over perceived limitations on their ability to make a profit. It’s a loss of sovereignty: it means that if the environmental laws are lax in Vietnam, then corporations have a legal basis to expect the same lax laws in the United States as well; it’s a race to the bottom.

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There's a whole industry dedicated to passing the T.P.P. -- all well within the 1%.

When it comes to covering issues like T.P.P. that are very important to corporate interests, anything goes -- no matter how misleading or outrageous the claim may be (it will lead to 650,000 new jobs, it will grow the economy, etc.)

But, the Third Way types, like Obama, love it.

It just goes to show how corporate the "left" candidates are in the United States.