WaPo Turns Reality on Its Head: Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Not About Freer Flow of Commerce

The Washington Post just loves anything that is labeled as a free trade agreement. (I'm going to call my old car a "free trade agreement" and sell it to the Post for a fortune.) Today it ran a piece on the Trans-Pacific Partnership that had the sub-head:

"goal of talks with Pacific region is a freer flow of world commerce."

While this is also asserted in the article itself, it is not true as the article makes clear. One of the main purposes of the deal is strengthening patent and copyright p...