By Edwin L. Young, PhD
June 26, 2009

Below are a sample issues that are engendering a burgeoning field of films exposing the devastating effects on the world that have been caused by the multinational and national corporations and elitist dominated governments, agencies, and institutions especially those in the US and Western nations. From a 'structures and systems’ perspective, these constitute a massive and interconnected set of systems that must be addressed as interconnected ‘structures and systems'. If we work on one system or structure in isolation, then the others will work to try to return it to the status quo ante.

1. Globalization grows to Group of Eight and Eastern nations becomes Westernized;
2. Expropriation of aspects of culture and encroachment on pop culture
3. Economy and dependence on and addition to growth
4. Promotion of the cultural ideal of the quest from bigger, faster, more, better, more exclusive; position; membership; fame-status, money, power. A society driven by social comparison.
5. Universities’ accept Defense Contracts and conduct research that enhances the US military’s ability to threaten and control the other nations of the earth and thereby make other nations submit to our will for exploitation of the natural resources and labor.
6. Myths of Competition exploded
7. Mythical enemies and the DOD, Pentagon, and defense industries
8. Confiscate commandeer gain control misappropriation. Patents and copyrights corporate espionage selling security systems and companies.
9. Mercenaries, soldiers of fortune, pseudo-military contract corporations and lawlessness.
10. Publicists of White House, Congresspersons, and corporations use the media as a brainwashing tool in covering up and rationalizing of the elitist, hypocritical, and corrupt politicians, political culture, and corporate schemes;
11. Music, video, TV, radio, press, internet, movies, video games, ads, http://www.bing.com/search?q=violence+and+the+media&form=QBRE
12. Media against humans: media and violence and promoting excessive medicine use;
13. Rigged political campaigns and plutocrats controlling campaign financing and who get elected;
14. Economics and the legalized sociopathy of the big corporations;
15. Savings and Loans and Bank and credit cards and loan sharks;
16. Corporations and their media lackeys have taken Darwin’s Evolution Theory of Natural Selection whereby living organisms evolve to adapt to changes in their natural environments and perverted it into a slogan of survival of the fittest by which they mean survival of the strongest and meanest and most successfully predatory and thereby justifying their ruthless, predatory, exploitative practices that are lethal to people and destroying the natural environment;
17. Big and rich corporations escaping their taxes using offshore bank accounts;
18. Public declarations of reasons for war that are bogus, unjustifiably demonizing other countries to convince our young men to join the military to fight what are falsely called ‘righteous’ wars and hiding very unrelated but reprehensible, greedy, self interest, actual reasons;
19. US government colluding with defense and weapons manufacturing corporations for the promotion of war so that these industries can make huge profits; Pentagon;
20. US military bases in 63 countries, 156 countries have US troops permanently stationed. The Pentagon masterminds US militaristic Empire under the pretext of defending us against danger and promoting democracy.
21. CIA’s role in assassinations of world leaders and in selecting and controlling world leaders;
22. Oil and coal and nuclear and ethanol and their lobbyists opposing alternative-clean energy;
23. Corporations polluting Inland bodies of water, oceans, earth, and atmosphere;
24. Nuclear toxic waste polluting earth, air, and sea;
25. Endangered species vital to the world’s ecology; http://www.bing.com/search?q=endangered+species&form=QBRE
26. Worldwide attempts to privatize villages’ water supply that impoverishes them and turns them into slaves of corporations;
27. Medical institutions and health care providers serve essential for life human health problems, similar to air and water. Privatizing water or air should be criminal. Is health care designed as a for profit industry so that the sick and poor cannot afford it or as a non-profit establishment for the good of all. Should it be controlled by profiteering medical insurance, pharmaceutical, and managed care enterprises that take advantage of the wealthy and shut out those with preexisting expensive to treat illnesses or the catastrophically ill and lethally infirm who are or have become too poor to pay?
28. Food producing farms have become un-naturalized; Genetically Modified Organisms are profitable for giant corporations but may be dangerous to people and the natural environment and unfairly acquiring farms of small farmers
    Food Inc.,
29. Manufactured foods and drugs that are bad for your health are allowed by the faulty approval by the FDA that is in collusion with corporations and they all collude with the FCC that is allowing false advertizing to deceive the people into buying them;
30. Main stream media that has sold out to big corporations and an FCC that has allowed vertical and horizontal monopolies of different forms of media outlets and colluded with them and caused genuine, muckraking, investigative reporters to become an endangered species;
31. Genetics and political ideology
32. An unjust justice system. Our is an obsolete, unjust, ineffective, and elitist dominated justice system that is far more costly to the tax payers than are the crimes themselves; the litigiousness surge; law and sex and dress codes in school; winnowing the good from the bad kids in school;
33. Puritanism and the Protestant ethic and the union of corporatism, fundamentalism, and patriotism; http://www.bing.com/search?q=Fundamentalist+christianity+and+right+wing+politics&FORM=MSNH11
    capitalism and Christianity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
34. Fundamentalism, Hobbs, conservatives and the death penalty. Prisons and labor market control, the military and labor market control
35. Inconsistencies and compartmentalization of Christian denominations’ beliefs versus political ideologies
36. Why are churches so opulent and why is the one leader and the a group of old men governing? And what are these leaders like? They are usually the most affluent. They are the ones who make the financial contributions to sustain the church. The church is a wealth and status oriented organization, quite similar to professional and social organizations and clubs or even political and also like the Chamber of Commerce. Their schools or Madrassas emphasize or even demand loyalty and obedience and they strictly indoctrinate the children in the tenets of their faiths and set them in opposition to those of other faiths. They inculcate the conventions and life styles of their denominations. They are the bastions of conservative values. The children grow up unconsciously bound by these lessons and never question. They are not just the upholders of the faith; they are the upholders of the conventions and power structures of their society, especially the economic conventions and structures. As media grows more ubiquitous its combination with the influence of schools make control over the populace increasingly absolute.
37. History of marriage and marriage and family as a means of maintaining control of the populace; relationships and the ancient pathology of possession; business and profit and romance and sex; http://www.bing.com/search?q=Marriage+evolution+and+history&FORM=MSNH11
38. Corporate commandeering our educational system and state boards of education colluding with them by selecting conservative, corporation promoting, textbooks such as history textbooks that whitewash our grisly history and glorify the US battles against Native Americans when we actually cheated, lied, dishonored Treaties and contracts, slaughtered their Buffalo, and committed genocide on all of the Native American Tribes, and the perversity of our pseudo glorious history goes on and on;
39. Property rights and legalized theft in non-capitalist nations and societies and the roots of communism phobia
40. The virtually decommissioning of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act caused big corporate mergers around the globe to control everything;
41. Maintenance of 5% unemployment; anti-unions and corps and government and media
42. The right wing politicians, hiding behind the 2^nd Amendment, and colluding with the NRA in promoting their domestic agenda to loosen regulation and keep arming more and more citizens, even with military style guns, in spite of their relation to gang violence, their involvement in murder of police, and the US having the highest murder rate in the world;
43. Financiers are the bane of sane society. There is a collusion of rightwing politicians, big banks, and obscenely wealthy financiers with multinational illegal weapons dealers, drug cartels, and contraband illegal imports smuggled goods, creatures, medicines, and universally outlawed merchandise. They conspire to foment civil wars in Africa to decimate the people, enslave those still living, and use them to extract the minerals, ores, and gems for their profit while leaving these nations more impoverished than ever. These are the most ruthless criminals ever to exist on the earth; http://www.bing.com/search?q=Fundamentalist+christianity+and+right+wing+politics&FORM=MSNH11
44. Deregulation of the Stock Market and the financial systems so that they have been allowed to swindle investors; stock and bond brokerage is in principle and of necessity amoral.
45. US government, Executive and Legislative branches subsidizing Banks and other giant corporations like Agri-business;
46. The World Bank and IMF loaning to and then blackmailing underdeveloped countries to favor multi-national corporations;
47. There are documents about government colluding with big corporations to maintain inhumane policies with respect to both documented and undocumented immigrant workers in order to keep wages as low as possible.
48. International exploitation of vulnerable countries and their people and their natural resources;
49. US illegal surveillance and policing of our people; patriot Act
50. Government condoning hate crimes and discrimination against groups that differ in gender and sex and religious orientation and women’s right to choose;
51. Rightwing politicians and the media imposing conservative social values;
52. Fundamentalist religious groups and rightwing politicians trying to control free speech and what can be seen on TV and now even the internet and impose their values and beliefs on the rest of us;
53. Fundamentalists’ infiltration of military bases to brainwash young soldiers into feeling justified to attack demonized, infidel countries and the military’s use of bogus bribes and devious methods in recruitment;

Intelligent, well-educated, caring people can now gather in groups and in communities and neighborhoods, and especially over the internet, to say "Enough already!" We can now share in this great revolutionary internet modality and participate in the surging movement to reverse trends such as those 36 mentioned above. There are likely even more that I have ignorantly neglected to include. You can add your own to the list.

Working in an intelligent, ‘structures and systems’ way, we can now unite to promote a humanitarian, egalitarian, healthy, fair, and safe world. Now we have a powerful, populist way to oppose sociopathic corporations and their unrestrained, unmitigated, dominant influence and put an end to their ravages of nature and all of our kindred human beings.