For anyone who hasn't read Dick's Paycheck, it's an important read on the kind of world we're moving to. I don't believe we can throw off international corporations without some sort of massive socialist revolution (fat chance). The future is bleak, but it's going to be more bleak for the people who pretend that the global power structure isn't changing, and for the people who are ignorant of the amount of power international corporations have held as far back as 400 years ago.