While New Zealand rushes headlong into being the first country to sign the controversial and still secret TPP ‘free trade’ deal with its Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clause empowering corporates to rise above local (national) laws there is mounting and plenty of opposition to the deal in the U.S. Once more, because the media here in New Zealand is so compliant and lacking genuine investigative research skills we rely on snippits from the U.S. to grasp a feel of issues

Despite claims from politicians and their corporate backers, the latest research on the TPP says it’s a job killer.

Source: TPP Trade Deal Will Cost US 448,000 Jobs, Say Researchers