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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy / Claire Provost & Matt Kennard

This Is Hell!

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Transnational Resistance Uniting Is a Problem for the Global System

There have been attempts before. for a single country to extricate themselves from these different mechanisms um and when there have been attempts that had some possibility of succeeding they involved transnational action so i'm thinking about for example you know before the world bank sets up this legal system institutionalizes this legal legal system  and it was blocked at the OECD in the UN because countries got together and blocked it but then the world bank adopted a whole range of crafty anti-democratic methods to prevent that resistance from uniting. They knew that if resistance united that would be a problemSo i think that's a clue for us that resistance the resistance uniting is a problem for this system when it un

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