The American author of The Power Elite (1956), the Californian sociologist investigated who manages the threads of the world's riches, a new global elite that controls world power and manages our future.
Peter Phillips, promoter of Project Censored, expert in the monitoring of major media and fighter from the academy for the democratization of public information, reveals to the ordinary reader who these 389 main members of the global elite of power, cream and cream among the richest of the 2,208 billion dollar millionaires - owners of fortunes over one billion dollars - registered worldwide by Forbes magazine
Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway), Bernard Arnault and family (LVMH), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Amancio Ortega (Inditex), Carlos Slim (and family, América Móvil), Charles Koch (several companies), David Koch (several companies) and Larry Ellison (Oracle) are the 10 super-rich among the 2,208 surveyed by Forbes that gather 9.1 trillion (million million) dollars, 18% more than the previous year .
According to the Oxfam report published on January 22, 2018, 82% of the world's wealth generated during 2017 went to the richest 1% of the world's population, while the poorest 50% -3 700 million people - did not benefit in the least with this growth. Data from Credit Suisse revealed that 42 people currently accumulate the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity. NGO Oxfam recalculated last year's statistics using data from Credit Suisse to conclude that 61 people in 2016 had the same wealth as half of the world's population.
Peter Phillips explains that now less than 200 super-connected asset managers in only 17 companies represent the financial core of the global transnational capitalist class, each handling more than a trillion dollars. The members of the global power elite are the administrators - the facilitators - of world capitalism, the firewall that protects the capital investment, the growth and the collection of debts that prevents the status quo from changing.
Each chapter of Giants identifies by name the members of this international multi-millionaire club, its 17 global financial companies-including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission-and their transnational military protectors. The reader who addresses this issue for the first time anywhere in the world can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where wealth is concentrated, how social movements are repressed and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change.
Chapters of Giants
Power Elite of the Transnational Capitalist Class: A History of Seventy Years.
The Global Financial Giants: The Central Nucleus of Global Capitalism, 17 capital investment companies with more than $ 1 trillion dollars, a cluster of $ 41.1 trillion of centralized capital in cross-investment.
Managers: The Global Power Elite of Financial Giants, 199 directors of Giants investment firms, names, biographies and public net worth.
Facilitators: The Center for Policy Planning of the Power Elite of the Transnational Capitalist Class, the 86 political elites in the G-30 and the Trilateral Commission, names, biographies and known net worth.
Protectors: The Power Elite and the US / NATO Military Empire, Intelligence Agencies and Private Military Companies, the Atlantic Council's executive committee, names, biographies and net public assets.
Ideologues: Corporate media, propaganda and public relations firms, top executives of media and the largest public relations companies, names, biographies and public patrimony.
In the face of the struggle: Democratic Movements and Resistance.
Postscript: A Letter to the 389 members of the Global Power Elite named in the book.