The level of secrecy surrounding the agreements is unparalleled – paramilitary teams scatter outside the premise of each round of discussions while helicopters loom overhead – media outlets impose a near-total blackout of reportage on the subject and US Senator Ron Wyden, the Chair of the Congressional Committee with jurisdiction over TPP, was denied access to the negotiation texts. “The majority of Congress is being kept in the dark as to the substance of the TPP negotiations, while representatives of U.S. corporations — like Halliburton, Chevron, PhaRMA, Comcast and the Motion Picture Association of America — are being consulted and made privy to details of the agreement,” said Wyden, in a floor statement to Congress.The author provides many horrendous details that he has uncovered in the proposed TTP regulations that would be enforced by supra-national bodies under the control of multinational corporations.
It appears to me that what fascism offered as an answer to capitalist elites in the 1930s, these so-called "free trade" agreements are their strategy of choice in the 21st century. Whereas fascism crushed democratic forms of government in the earlier period, these supra-national bodies will simply make democratic forms, as weak as they are, irrelevant.