Globalisation and the New Wars INTRODUCTION Today's world has become one of private issues and public issues as described by C Wright Mills. A world where poverty, pollution, hunger and many other ills have been pushed away from the public domain to become private issues to be dealt with by the individual. A world dominated by the stupid and ignorant. Where NIMBY's (not in my backyard) are every where. As Margaret Thatcher famously stated a "…showed first 75 words of 2250 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2250 total…The history of corporations in the US is a very significant one. The American revolution came about as a direct result of the abusive power of such companies and the British Empire that backed them. Corporate libertarians are always citing Adam Smith to defend their ideology, but he attacked these merchant companies practices. In his book the Wealth of Nations he sees corporations as instruments for suppressing the beneficial competitive forces of the market. (Korten)