the capitalist network
<p pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin="margin" rem="rem" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" text-size-adjust="text-size-adjust" none="none" scroll-behavior="scroll-behavior" smooth="smooth" line-height="line-height">AS PROTESTS against financial power <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/15/world/occupy-goes-global/?hpt=wo_t3" >sweep the world</a> this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. <a href="http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf" >An analysis</a> of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/mg21228354.500" >a relatively small group of companies</a>, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.</p><p pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin="margin" rem="rem" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" text-size-adjust="text-size-adjust" none="none" scroll-behavior="scroll-behavior" smooth="smooth" line-height="line-height"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/#ixzz7QJHsINk7" >https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/#ixzz7QJHsINk7</a></p><p pt="PT" serif="serif" georgia="Georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin="margin" rem="rem" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" text-size-adjust="text-size-adjust" none="none" scroll-behavior="scroll-behavior" smooth="smooth" line-height="line-height">
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