The US, like many industrialized countries, has undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion, cementing into place a system of control the political philosopher, Sheldon Wolin calls "inverted totalitarianism." Inverted totalitarianism retains the institution symbols, iconography, and language of the old capitalist democracy but internally, corporations have seized all the levers of power to accrue ever-greater profits and political control. Claire Provost and Matt Kennard in their book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, chart the way the corporate coup d'etat was orchestrated. It examines the use of an international legal system to control and plunder the resources in the developing world, including the overthrow of governments that challenge corporate dominance. The authors expose the nefarious a...