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Along with Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) members, they're the dominant forces in America. They decide who's elected to high office, appointed to key government positions, how the country will be run, and for whose benefit.
(23) Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
Organized every three years since 1997, the corporate-controlled World Water Forum (WWF)'s main goal is the global privatization of water in coordination with the World Water Council (WWC), dominated by two of the world's largest water companies, Suez and Veolia, as well as the World Bank and corporate segments of the UN.
WWC "promotes extraordinarily expensive and destructive dam and water diversion projects" as well as an agenda to put water services in private hands through the establishment of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). Operating in countries like Argentina, Bolivia, El Salvador and America, the result has been "huge price hikes, water pollution, depletion and cut-offs (that) deny people the right to water" if they can't pay the exorbitant cost.
Activists like Maude Barlow ask "Is water a commodity (to be sold) to the highest bidder or part of our commons, a public trust and a human right?" The global struggle is committed for the latter.
(24) Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion
Economist/author Michael Hudson first addressed this topic in his 1972 book, "Super Imperialism," updated in a 2003 edition. He then revisited it in his award-winning article explaining the "inter-related dynamics" of:
-- "surplus (US) dollars pouring into the rest of the world for yet further financial speculation and corporate takeovers;"
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