"Most significantly, the TPP does not address a massive cost to U.S. goods and services that has a chokehold on our export levels: foreign Value-Added Tax (VAT) schemes."

With the minimum required 60 votes - including 13 Democratic votes - the US Senate has passed fast-track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other secretive, anti-democratic, pro-corporate, anti-worker, climate-chaos-exacerbating, medicine-price-raising trade agreements...

As I watched the diaries roll on by, with people adamantly calling for primaries against Democrats who supported Fast Track legislation, I kept asking the same question I always ask when votes go down like this: Who?..

There seems to be the beginnings of a rear-guard uprising against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement – the US-led trade pact between 12 Pacific Rim nations (including Australia) – with a number of groups rallying against the deal...

TPP could drive up costs and hit patients in the pocket.