Multinational corporations and their enablers

Abstract

The issue that states are competing for corporate investment by catering to corporate wish-lists and, in the process, are terminating hard-won social improvements and relaxing environmental standards is addressed. The new trade agreements have boosted stateless transnational corporations (TNC) into commanding positions from which they determine the policies of most governments in the world. The need to maintain a totally free press, public libraries and a minimum of censorship, effective alternative economies, protection of privacy, and participatory government, to slow the erosion of national sovereignty is addressed. The role of the scientific economy as the enabler which provides unscrupulous corporate military types the weapons, ideas, and technologies they use to their advantage is discussed.