So here it is, the Prologue. “As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky. In the second half of the twentieth century corporate power began to grow, most notably in the United States. The rest of the world followed, bowing to the might of the US dollar. Politicians of the…