With the collapse of the Soviet Union the US has moved to consolidate plans that originally were cooked up by the CFR, IMF and other conservative think tanks. The new hatchling entities of NAFTA and other regional trade pacts raised international concerns. The globalization campaign by corporations were have major impacts on a wide spectrum of issues from labor, the environment, to loss of national sovereignty.

In 1998, after years of mounting concern, a huge coalition of organizations came together at Seattle to protest the World Economic Forum (WEF) and their privatization of the world. The street demonstrations and public forums help educate the public about the issues that were now global in scale.

Since then, protests especially those in Europe have continued to grow in scale and intensity with the a recent event drawing several hundred thousand participants.

From the India-Pakistani nuclear crisis, the Argentinean economic collapse, the failed Venezuelan coup, the Israeli-Palestine conflict, the Enron bankruptcy, and other less covered events, we are seeing the dramatic impacts of public opinion and independent media coverage can have.