In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."
Herbert SchillerDeregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.
Herbert SchillerThe actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.
Herbert SchillerOne growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.
Herbert SchillerUltimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.
Herbert Schiller