Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.