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Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from Robert

Reich, The Real News Network, The David Pakman Show, The Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Radio

Dispatch, Activism from MoveOn.org and Moyers & Company.

The Republicans in Congress were eager to work with the Obama administration to fast track

the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

If you haven't heard much about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that's part of the problem right

there.

It would be the largest trade deal in history, in loving countries stretching from Chile

to Japan, representing 792 million people and accounting for 40% of the world economy.

Yet it's been devised in secret.

Lobbyists from America's biggest corporations and Wall Street's biggest banks have been

involved but not the American public.

The pharmaceutical industry, for example, they get stronger patents delaying cheaper

generic versions of drugs.

Big corporations and Wall Street get an international tribunal of private attorneys outside any

nation's legal system.

They can order compensation for any lost profits found to result from a nation's regulations.

That means even US-based corporations could challenge any US government regulation.

They claim unfairly diminishes their profits.

Say, laws that protect American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods that

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