Ebook: Giants: the global power elite

Introduction: Who rules the world? -- Transnational capitalist class power elite: a seventy-year history -- The global financial giants: The central core of global capitalism -- Managers: the global power elite managers of the financial giants -- Facilitators: power elite policy planning center of the transnational capitalist class -- Protectors: power elite and the US military NATO empire, intelligence agencies, and private military companies -- Ideologists: corporate media and public relations propaganda firms -- Facing the juggernaut: democracy movements and resistance -- Postscript: A letter to the global power elite.;Looks at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future. Phillips--in each chapter--identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires, their 17 global financial companies--and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission--and their transnational military protectors, so the reader can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where the wealth is concentrated, how it suppresses social movements, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change. --From publisher description.