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