Chas Freeman is 100% spot on in this article and provides a sound rebuttal to the portions of the TPP that we've been able to see. The reason that he is able t

Chas Freeman is 100% spot on in this article and provides a sound rebuttal to the portions of the TPP that we've been able to see. The reason that he is able to so effectively dismantle the economic arguments is because the real intention of the TPP is not for economic benefit of the United States; it is to set up a supra-national framework for supra-national corporations to override national sovereignty. Compared to the money and power at stake, the cost to buy the political establishment in DC is next to nothing, and so they do it. Ripping the TPP apart as failed policy is good, and I'm all for that... but the problem can really only be solved by hacking at the root, which is the fact that our governments and the rule of law have been hijacked by entities that have no soul to save and no body to incarcerate.