This well-documented expose' reveals the incorporated rulers of the United States and, indeed, much of the world. It shows them to be private governments which, as effectively as legitimate public governments, decide whether large numbers of us live or die. They levy taxes in the form of price increases, unrestrained by competition. They manipulate legitimate governments, turning nations into welfare states for corporations. And they are generally only responsible to themselves. Thus the citizen is powerless while the conglomerates enforce private socialism and decry public socialism. The authors propose an alternate solution to this seemingly powerless situation.