The study of power was once the study of who gets what, when, how and why. Now WHO is well known. The power of world rule has been appropriated by the men who run multinational corporations and global financial markets that dominate the decisions of both corporations and governments, demanding ever-greater financial and other returns to their executives and shareholders, regardless of the cost to the peoples of the world and their environments. They purchase armies, governments, land, prisons, resources, sex, and importantly the media, including schools, churches, universities, TV, radio, newspapers and publishers. They seek to monocrop the minds of the peoples of the world. We'll start with the socio-physical nature of power - who controls the time rate at which work is done or energy emitted or transferred - and then treat the ideologies and institutions that channel the exercise of power, including capitalism, sexism, racism, militarism, fundamentalism, and technology, all of which are gendered to privilege masculine pursuits of the three interlocking centers of power - the United States and its colonies, the European community, and Japan.

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