Corporate State - US President Eisenhower warned against allowing the inter-weaving interactions of corporate, military, and government officials. He called the result a "military industrial complex" that would develop by its own agenda and justification for existence. His perception was accurate, although the issues are more complex than he imagined.

Historically, the corporation met strict guidelines of operation under community charters that could be withdrawn for infractions of the charters' mandates. The "tyranny of the bottom line" coupled with capital's tendency to accumulate then centralize give it State-like powers. With its political influence at local and national levels to justify intervention world-wide, the corporate-state has an imperial agenda.

Corporation wealth and influence also often far exceeds that of surrounding communities and host nations. As a consequence, the corporate-state manipulates major political parties and media World-wide to create and re-create the conditions for its existence, one generation to the next as it grows inwardly and outwardly.