Rulers of the world

Who rules the world? The obvious answer is powerful, economically and militarily equipped nations, supranational corporations and financial institutions.

However, in the last few decades, we have had to add to the mix extreme fundamentalist ideologies, from all faiths and creeds, who were previously of minor importance but are currently gaining more prominence on the world stage.

All the above have several aims in common, namely, power, influence and money, which are all interrelated.

How do we combat this? The instinctive answer is the United Nations and their many sub-divisions, and, to a lesser extent, NGO’s. However, both can also be subverted by the aforementioned powers that be.

Perhaps a responsible, and I stress the word “responsible”, social media could be the only answer to uncovering the nefarious activities of governments, corporations, terrorist organisations and so on.