The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a proposed regional free-trade agreement.
As of 2014 twelve countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region have participated in negotiations on the TPP: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam.
Wikileaks has just announced that they will shortly release a 30,000 word secret text pertaining to the TPP.
James Risen on the Freedom, Privacy, and Abuses of Power in Post-9/11 America
ReplyDeleteNew York Times investigative reporter James Risen reveals the alleged hidden costs of the U.S. war on terror. He discusses the squandered and stolen dollars and what he calls outrageous abuses of power in the name of fighting terrorism. He’s the author of a new book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War. In 2006 Rison won a Pulitzer Prize for his stories about warrantless wiretapping by the NSA. Recently, the Justice Department has issued Risen subpoena asking him to reveal his sources for a story he included in his 2006 book State of War.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/james-risen-freedom-privacy-and-abuses-power-post-911-america/