Read this very interesting short article by Eric Zuesse. One part jumped out at me:

So, this is about the culmination of this empire, and its imminent decline. All of post-agrarian human history, ever since the creation of the first two international corporations — the British East India Company in 1600, and the Dutch East India Company in 1602 — has been imperialistic (spreading an aristocracy’s exploitation internationally, by means of indebting and enslaving a foreign nation’s public, via invasion and coerced commerce that, after conquest, employs the local aristocracy as its agents there, to extract, and to take for themselves a portion of, the wealth from the now colony’s populace, and so to enrich its stockholders). This was the very creation of capitalism, and now it is finally becoming successfully challenged.

There was a duo of other English vampire corporations from the same time period that I’ve written about recently. However, it appears that the people who need to consider or reconsider the work of those corporations simply cannot be bothered. And I tire of attempting to reach them. Instead, I tip my hat to the great bifurcation and the decent, intelligent people on the other side. Challenge away, gentlemen!