"supranational" financial organizations, but at their instigator and manipulator, the enforcer of world capitalism itself, the United States of America.
The U.S. today is the predominant global hegemon, presiding over the largest empire in world history. The current Bush Administration has made it clear it will use any means to expand and control its imperial domains, as the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have demonstrated vividly.
With the increasingly arrogant usurpation of power by transnational capital under the leadership of the U.S., an anti-imperial pro-democracy international protest movement spawned by the global reach of the Internet has grown rapidly to contest the overwhelming influence of the multinational corporations who control most of the world's wealth.
In 1998 50,000 people demonstrated by forming a six-mile human chain around the convention center in Birmingham, England, where the G7/8 nations were meeting, ostensibly to discuss debt relief for poor countries (Ostrey 2002). Since then the economic summits of the advanced First World industria
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