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Corporations like Amazon have lives of their own—and they control ours.

Has neoliberalism placed political power in the hands of consultants with calculators?

Is it power over the means of violence and coercion that distinguishes the ruling class from the rest of us?

Over the centuries, the powers that be have tended to be less than shy about many aspects of their global domination.

Elite economists have been promoting a model of governance resembling nothing so much as a game of Monopoly.

<p>The United Fruit Company secured the overthrow of Guatemala's government after it refused to pay what amounted to a ransom of more than $200 million in today's dollars. </p>

How a sitting, elected national government found itself in the position of having to buy its own country.

In a first attempt to determine who really runs the world, a look at the royal families of old.