{"id":244910,"date":"2023-10-09T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=244910"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:06:00","slug":"silent-coup-how-corporations-rule-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/silent-coup-how-corporations-rule-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Silent Coup&#8217;\u2014How Corporations Rule the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Real-News-Network-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-155200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Real-News-Network-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>22 Sep 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world&#8217;s people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost&#8217;s book, <em>Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy<\/em>, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact development on their own terms. Matt Kennard joins <em>The Chris Hedges Report<\/em> for a look at this intriguing and essential history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Silent Coup&#039;\u2014How corporations rule the world w\/Matt Kennard | The Chris Hedges Report\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1xRrk-cYU-E?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/strong><\/em><strong>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 Sep 2023 &#8211; The book \u2018Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy\u2019 looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact development on their own terms. A closer look at this intriguing and essential history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[232,532,405,1126,1050,2462,2200,95],"class_list":["post-244910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-capitalism","tag-colonialism","tag-colonization","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-us-empire","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246347,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244910\/revisions\/246347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}