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1. The Corporation is todays dominant institution creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature evolution impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.

2. How the corporation came to be. Originally corporations were set up to serve the public good. Corporation lawyers gained rights through the US Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment - set up to protect slaves - that gives them the rights of a person. In the last century the corporation is given more and more rights while people are increasingly stripped of theirs.

4. What is an externality. Milton Friedman describes it as the effect of a transaction between two parties on a third party who is not involved in the transaction. A technical sounding term that basically means let somebody else deal with the problems the corporation creates.

The Corporation is todays dominant institution creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature evolution impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.

7. Who bears the moral responsibility for the actions of a psychopathic institution? The employees of the corporation can be the nicest people in their personal lives but still engage in monstrous endeavours at work. Can we separate the individual from the corporation?

21. A coup is no longer necessary for the corporation to dominate governments. Capitalisms protagonists and players are the new high priests of our day. Industry and government have become intertwined to the extent that it is hard to tell when one ends and the other begins. But citizens are resisting and protesting their dissent to the centralization of power in corporate hands. The corporation has responded by enacting programs of corporate social responsibility. Are they just a tactic responding to market pressure?

British government mouthpiece BBC or British Broadcasting Corporation is put under the eye of media analysts over its coverage of the siege on Gaza. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the principal public service broadcaster in the United Kingdom, headquartered in the Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London.[1] It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff.[2][3][4] Its global headquarters are located in London, and its main responsibility is to provide public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. The BBC is an autonomous public service broadcaster[4] that operates under a Royal Charter.[5] Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee,[6] which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts;[7] the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament.[8] The Gaza War was a three-week armed conflict that took place in the Gaza Strip and Southern Israel during the winter of 2008--2009. In an escalation of the ongoing conflict, Israel responded to Hamas "Operation Oil Stain" rocket fire[36] with military force in an action titled "Operation Cast Lead". Israel opened the attack with a surprise air strike against the Gaza Strip on December 27, 2008.[37] Israel's stated aim was to stop rocket fire[38] from and arms import into the territory.[39][40] Israeli forces attacked military targets, police stations, and Hamas government buildings in the opening assault.[41]

6. If we look at the corporation as a legal person it exhibits all the characteristics of a psychopath using a personality diagnostic checklist by the World Health Organization.

8. The profit motive drives the actions of the corporation and creates a mindset of competition and anything goes. Meet corporate spy and self -described predator Marc Barry as he describes his tactics for gathering intelligence from competing corporations. Juxtapose his attitude with Ray Anderson President of Interface - who - in an epiphanic moment - realized he was a plunderer and it was only a matter of time before the law figures it out.

12. Some of our best creative minds are employed to create illusions that divert us from the real issues and manufacture our consent. Beyond their products the corporation sells us the idea of a better way of life and produces propaganda that affirms their power as necessary for human progress.

13. Pfizer attempts to - make the community better - with its own private transit security system. An illustration of how the corporation works behind the scenes to reconfigure public policy to suit its needs - yet the image we are shown is markedly different. Can corporations be trusted to provide public services?

14. Branding is not just advertising... it is production. It is the dissemination of the idea of the corporation such as Disney building a town called Celebration Florida. They are selling the living embodiment of what the Disney brand is supposed to represent.

15. Welcome to the new world of undercover marketing and product placement. With staged encounters such as passer-bys discussing a hot new CD - advertising is infiltrating our lives in ways we are not even aware of.

16. Where do tomorrows opportunities for profit lie? In the US the Supreme Court ruled that anything alive can be patented except a human being. When life itself is ruled commercial fair game gene pirates scour the world for new sources and the human genome project takes on new fervour.

Bayer Corporation put live HIV Virus in their hemopheliac medicine for children

British MP George Galloway says: it has never been more necessary to have the voice of this movement on television because the first target I want to concentrate this evening is the British media. The BBC which we call the Bush and Blair Corporation during the run up to the Iraq war, has become the English language arm of the Israeli defense force during this invasion ….click on the video below for full brief.

9. A trader describes the tragedy of 911 as a blessing in disguise because for some people - it translated into great riches. Brokers celebrated the death and destruction of the Iraq war because - in devastation... there is opportunity -.

10. We used to regard many areas as too essential to the public good to be commercialized - they were protected by tradition and regulation. Now everything is becoming fair game in the private taking of the commons -- land oceans air water education health energy and social assistance. Where do we draw the line.

11. Marketing has transformed itself into a sophisticated pervasive force that extends into every part of our lives. Slick advertising campaigns are designed for the express purpose of manipulating children into buying products and training them to become mindless consumers of goods they dont really want. The Nag factor a marketing study that evaluated the effect of nagging was designed to teach children how to nag more effectively. Consumers are made not born.

19. The rise of fascism has links to corporate power. American corporations played a role in Nazi Germany and the holocaust such as IBMs punchcard machines that tabulated the victims data. Corporate allegiance to profit trumps their allegiance to nationalism.

17. Journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson were fired by the Fox News television station they work for after refusing to change their investigative report on Posilac - a Bovine Growth Hormone BGH made by Monsanto. Their research documents potential health and safety problems of drinking milk treated with the synthetic hormone - but threatened with legal action from Monsanto - Fox wants the negative effects played down. The court eventually throws out Akres whistle blower lawsuit after deciding that the media is allowed to lie.

23. Epilogue. Victories are being won around the world but are they enough to turn the tide of global corporate dominance? Can we exploit the corporations inherent weakness to pursue profit at any cost - even to itself?

22. The public is starting to fight back and demand accountability from its corporations and an end to abuse. The Kathy Lee Gifford and Walmart scandal brought the issue of sweatshops into the national consciousness - yet they still exist. There is a disconnect between what we do for a living and taking responsibility for the effect it has on our planet. Citizens everywhere are exploring strategies to bridge the gap and regain democratic control. - One should never underestimate the power of the people. -

A segment from the documentary - We - where Arundhati Roy - the writer and activist - talks about the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the world. See the entire documentary at www.weroy.org. Roys comments in this segment end at a very insightful point where she says that both socialism and market capitalism are inherently flawed and are bound to fail. Because both are conjured up by the human-mind but they destroy themselves by human nature! I am reminded here of Shaheed Sadrs profound analysis at the beginning of his book - Our Philosophy. Any social system that does not take into account the various dimensions of human nature - including the material and the spiritual - any system that does not have a program for curing the problems in hearts and for developing the good potentials in human souls and only focuses upon the material factors is bound to fail - be they the socialist states or the welfare systems in capitalist economies. The strength and beauty of Islam is in its comprehensive-ness - in its comprehensive and wholistic guiding principles for all dimensions of human nature and for both individual lives and collective issues of society.

Panorama is the BBC's flagship current affairs investigative programme, watched by millions of people. In recent years it has produced several programmes on Iran, usually from a critical point of view. In its latest episode Panorama accused the Islamic Republic of human rights abuses, and Press TV of spreading Iranian propaganda. Over the years, the BBC and Panorama have been the target of much anger over their Iran coverage. This demonstration took place outside the BBC in 2009 to protest the corporation's reporting of the Iranian elections. And critics feel this latest Panorama programme is part of a wider politically motivated attempt to target Iran.

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Walmart employees in the U-S state of California are on strike again. They say the chain stores corporation is retaliating against workers who speak out. The strike is part of a nationwide strategy to call for a change of action at the largest retailer in the world.