#multinational

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#control #corporations #destroying #division #entertainment

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#boasting #companies #consumers #fix #multinational

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#began #being #came #companies #era

United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#authorized #coalition #coalition forces #command #force

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#being #beside #canada #fight #force

You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#because #certainly #china #developing #direction

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational. ↗

— Jon Postel

#any #government #internet #issue #managed

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#allow #democracy #even #longer #multinationals