In its third annual "State of Power" report, TNI uses vibrant infographics and penetrating essays to expose and analyze the principal power brokers that have caused financial,. economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.
Susan George's article "State of corporations - The rise of illegitimate power and the threat to democracy" is on pp 9-15.
to read the 99 pp "State of Power 2014" from the Transnational Institute in cooperation with Occupy.com, click on
http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/state_of_power_hyperlinked_0.pdf
Contents
Introduction
Nick Buxton
State of Corporations – The rise of illegitimate power and the threat to democracy (PDF, 902KB)
Susan George
State of Davos – The camel’s nose in the tents of global governance (PDF, 308KB)
David Sogge
State of Surveillance –The NSA files and the global fightback (PDF, 778KB)
Ben Hayes
State of Empire - How failed foreign policy, new emerging economies, and peoples’ movements are undermining US power (PDF, 526KB)
Phyllis Bennis
State of the South – Emerging powers and the potential for progressive change (PDF, 760KB)
Achin Vanaik
State of the State – The state is dead! Long live the state! (pdf, 728KB)
Daniel Chavez
State of the Planet – Fateful triangle of big energy, finance and complicit governments (PDF, 537KB)
Steve Horn and Peter Rugh, Occupy.com
State of Europe - How the European Round Table of Industrialists came to wage class war on Europe (PDF, 332KB)
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy.com
State of Extraction – The new scramble for Africa (PDF, 460KB)
David Fig
State of the Land - Reconfiguration of the power of the state and capital in the global land rush (PDF, 348KB)
Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
State of Counter Power - How understanding neoliberalism’s cultural underpinnings can equip movements to overthrow it (PDF, 377KB)
Hilary Wainwright
Original: State of Power 2014, 99 pp