global capital/corporations

[Mike Weaver]

 From this mornings Manchester Guardian:

On February 7. 37 leading US economists signed a joint letter
asking the federal communications commission (FCC) to allow
  broadcasters to lease spectrum they currently license from the
  government in secondary markets. The letter, which went virtually
  unnoticed by the general public, is the opening salvo in a radical
  plan to wrest control of the entire spectrum from governments
  around the world, and make the radio frequencies a private
  preserve of global media giants. If they succeed, the nation
  state will have lost one of its last remaining vestiges of real
  power,  the ability to regulate access to broadcast communications
  within its own geographic borders.
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   There we have it, corporate power on the globalisation trail.

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