Summary: <div dir="ltr"> <br> <div> <br> <div dir="ltr"> <br> <div><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">On this week's show, we present a recent talk, "Giants - The Global Power Elite," given by Peter Phillips at Sonoma State University this past March. <br></span></div> <br> <div><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Extending the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the 21st century, Peter Phillips contends that a few hundred corporate managers and billionaires now control <br></span></div> <br> <div><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">the majority of the world's wealth, and thus are today's ruling "transnational corporate class" ('TCC'). He identifies these corporations and individuals <br></span></div> <br> <div><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">in a forthcoming; the speech is a summary of the ideas in the book.</span></div> <br> <div dir="ltr"> <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Peter Phillips is Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University, and a former director of Project Censored. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span> </div> <br> <div class="m_4863350149289602594yiv7081187941yqt3646233518"> </div> <br> </div> <br> </div> <br> </div><br> <div class="m_4863350149289602594yiv7081187941yqt3646233518"> </div>
