Corporate Globalization

Major Ralph Peters: “There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.” Constant Conflict (1997)

David Korten: “I suggest we be clear that our goal is not to reform global corporate and financial rule—it is to end it. The publicly traded, limited liability corporation is a pathological institutional form and financial speculation is inherently predatory. As a first step both must be regulated. The appropriate longer term goal is to rid our economic affairs of these institutional pathologies—much as our ancestors eliminated the institution of monarchy.” Taking on the Corporate and Financial Rulers: Our Goal is Political and Economic Democracy (1999)