This chapter explores the hidden systems and practices operating in today's society, discussing the close ties between governments and fossil fuel companies, as well as the influence of corporations over the state and media. It emphasizes the need to remove corporations from the government and media sector to address important issues like climate change.
Honduras is being sued for a third of its GDP by an American company—why?
Because the developing nation changed its mind about Prospera building a charter city on its territory. This case, which could bankrupt Honduras, will be judged in a back room of the World Bank by three people, none of whom are obliged to even have a law degree.
Matt Kennard, investigative journalist and author of Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, explains the origin of this shadowy legal system, and how it has infiltrated politics, skews policies, and traps developing nations into exploitative relationships with some of the world’s biggest corporations, definitively undermining the democratic process.
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