No conspiracy theories here, just the sick, sad daily reality of multinational corporations. Do the research if you don't believe it. This is just scratching the surface.

"It is your story too, the story of your world and mine, of the first truly global empire. History tells us that unless we modify this story, it is guaranteed to end tragically. Empires never last. Every one of them has failed terribly. They destroy many cultures as they race toward domination, and then they themselves fall. No country or combination of countries can thrive in the long term by exploiting others."

-John Perkins, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man."

So what can we do about it? Fight it. Either change the system from the inside or challenge it from the outside. Something needs to be done. But first, get informed:

thenation.com guardian.co.uk corpwatch.org indymedia.org alternet.org multinationalmonitor.com commondreams.org