Interesting read at Salon Magazine

One of the more disturbing trends at the end of this century is the movement of power from governments and people to transnational corporations. For instance only 1/3 of international trade does not involve these corporations: 1/3 involves trade between transnationals, and the other 1/3 is trade internal to transnationals (Source Jubilee 2000 conference at Birmingham UK, 25th May 1998) One of the first victims is the freedom of the press. Being used to UK television which has some very hard-hitting accurate investigative journalism, and plays a very important role in keeping the government on its toes (eg: the BSE scandal), I hope that this trend will not spread.