Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.

The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?