Corporate Power & the UN

I mean, so much so much power and so much control and so much authority has actually been transferred from state power to the private sector to the extent that you have essentially global governance that's outside of government. You have, as I referred to, the owners and controllers of global financialized capital is actually the global hegemon. The the global economy has changed considerably since since the inception of the United Nations. Part of that is due to the UN itself because, you know, as I said, you have the affiliated institutions like the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, which spread neoliberalism around the globe, which accelerated the rise of corporate power and the private sector power. Now this this rise of the private sector has decreased the relative importance of The US as a national actor.

Private sector power is not, as I've said many times, is not nationalistic. The only citizens that they care about are shareholders. And, of course, the corporate sector, because it has more or less captured government in The United States and surpassed government in its power in The United States, the corporate sector has infiltrated the United Nations at every level of decision making and policy and programs. You had the what's it called? The The U the the United Nations Global Compact, UNGC.

That melded the UN and corporate power together twenty years ago. And this is more or less, I think, the the natural trajectory of that institution anyway since the United Nations was already, as we have talked about, it was already a colonialist institution by nature and by design. So, of course, the new colonizing power, which is the private sector, would commandeer the institution. So the UN Global Compacts, they have they have something called the business leaders platform, which provides a direct link or a direct line of communication between major companies and the United Nations secretary general, and it allows them to shape the UN's agenda and priorities. And this is explicit.

It's clear. This isn't that's not conspiracy theory. There's some something like 80 UNGC chapters worldwide, which are completely dominated by corporate interests. The UNGC has a a what they call partnerships initiative that encourages corporations to collaborate with UN agencies and NGOs on, you know, a variety of projects that are, you know, officially, ostensibly aimed at what they call sustainable development. But actually, obviously, they prioritize corporate profits over the need of local communities and indigenous people and so on.

The the UNGCs, they have they have an accountability framework, which, again, by design, is is actually intended to hold corporations unaccountable for their actions. That's that's the whole reason that they they put it they they created the framework in the first place, was to make sure that corporations wouldn't be accountable. So this is this is as a direct result of the way The United States has run its economy because The United States is the most powerful member of the United Nations, and the most powerful force in The United States is corporate power and the private sector. So, of course, they have now infiltrated the United Nations and they have considerable power and control within that organization. And this this this relates to why you see these peculiar interpretations of the universal declaration of human rights and why they want these things to be implemented or rather imposed on all of the member states because they want to change the cultures and change the beliefs and change the principles of those nations because that's that's a fundamental way that you can undermine even the possibility of them having sovereignty and independence.