"not national but supranational powers that rule"

[Doug Millison]

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0720-01.htm
'[...] If it is not national but supranational powers that rule today's
globalization, however, we must recognize that this new order has no
democratic institutional mechanisms for representation, as nation-states do:
no elections, no public forum for debate. [...] The protesters take to the
streets because this is the form of expression available to them. The lack
of other venues and social mechanisms is not their creation. [...]The
protests themselves have become global movements and one of their clearest
objectives is for the democratization of globalizing processes. It should
not be called an antiglobalization movement. It is pro-globalization, or
rather an alternative globalization movement - one that seeks to eliminate
inequalities between rich and poor and between the powerful and the
powerless, and to expand the possibilities of self-determination.[...]"


....by the authors of that Empire book Dave Monroe mentioned a while back.