Mansouled Fiery Islands: The power of nations passes to lawless centers of capital

The Guardian published a provocative article by Slavoj Žižek,a director of the Slavoj Žižek, the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, one of the central points being:

In the US, Europe, China and maybe Latin America, too, capitalist systems have developed with specific twists: the US stands for neoliberal capitalism, Europe for what remains of the welfare state, China for authoritarian capitalism, Latin America for populist capitalism.

Žižek argues that the locus of power in the world has shifted from countries with large commitments to military power to areas of the world -- not necessarily synonymous with countries -- with large concentrations of capital.

The centers of capital are lawless, in the sense that they have not yet developed norms of dealings with one another that are commonly agreed on, and until they do mistakes may be made that will cost the citizens of the World dearly. A world-wide depression is just one example of a potential mistke.

This is interesting also because news outlets continue to report news of countries and not news of capital centers of power. That reporting is misleading.

Following are two similar maps of the 500 richest corporations in the World and a list of he richest of them, with the nation of incorporation.

After that is the residence countries of the World's billionaires. There is a similarity, as is natural.

The maps curiously list European countries as separate. If instead they were listed as the European Union, Europe would rival China and the US. If Russia were counted as European, Europe's economic power would be even greater. If Turkey and Azerbaijan and Georgia were included in Europe, as they wish to be, Europe would be greater still.

Thee information following is a resource that you may use to help you judge the accuracy of Žižek's analysis. To read the full article, see

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This is a list of the world's largest public and private businesses by its consolidated revenue. The list is limited to companies with annual revenues exceeding 100 billion USD. The most common industry is oil and gas (21), with over one third being classified as such. It is followed by automotive (9), conglomerate (7), and retail (5). The availability and reliability of up to date information on prior state-owned companies is limited and varies from country to country, thus this list may be incomplete. This list is shown in U.S. dollars, but many of the companies on it prepare their accounts in other currencies. The dollar value of their revenue may change substantially in a short period of time due to exchange rate fluctuations.

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Ranking	Company	Industry	Revenue (USD billions)	FY	Capitalization (USD billions)	Employees	Listing	Headquarters	CEO	Ref(s)
1	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	Retail	$476	January 31, 2014	$257	2,200,000	NYSE: WMT	Bentonville, Arkansas	Doug McMillon	[2]
2	Royal Dutch Shell	Oil and gas	$451	December 31, 2013	$243	90,000	LSE: RDSA	The Hague; London	Ben van Beurden	[3]
3	Exxon Mobil Corporation	Oil and gas	$420	December 31, 2013	$438	76,900	NYSE: XOM	Irving, Texas	Rex W. Tillerson	[4]
4	China National Petroleum Corporation	Oil and gas	$425	December 31, 2012		1,668,072	—	Beijing	Zhou Jiping	[5]
5	Sinopec Group	Oil and gas	$411	December 31, 2012	$81	401,000	NYSE: SNP	Beijing	Wang Tianpu	[6]
6	BP	Oil and gas	$379	December 31, 2013	$89	83,900	LSE: BP	London	Bob Dudley	[7]
7	Saudi Aramco	Oil and gas	$311	2012		54,041	—	Dhahran	Khalid A. Al-Falih	[8]
8	Vitol	Commodities	$303	January 10, 2013		2,800	—	Rotterdam; Geneva	Ian Taylor	[9]
9	State Grid Corporation of China	Electric utility	$290	2012		1,564,000	—	Beijing	Liu Zhenya	[10]
10	Total	Oil and gas	$240	December 31, 2013	$120	111,000	Euronext: FP	Courbevoie	Christophe de Margerie	[11]
11	Volkswagen Group	Automotive	$254	December 31, 2012	$77	502,000	ISIN: DE0007664005	Wolfsburg	Martin Winterkorn	[12]
12	Samsung	Conglomerate	$327	31january, 2014		427,000	KRX: 005930; KRX: 005935	Samsung Town	Lee Kun-hee	[13]
13	Toyota	Automotive	$222	March 31, 2013	$149	326,000	TYO: 7203; NYSE: TM	Toyota, Aichi	Akio Toyoda	[14]
14	Chevron	Oil and gas	$220	December 31, 2013	$211	61,000	NYSE: CVX	San Ramon, California	John Watson	[15]
15	Glencore Xstrata	Commodities	$214	December 31, 2012	$41.66	58,000	LSE: GLEN; SEHK: 0805	Baar	Ivan Glasenberg	[16]
16	E.ON	Electric utility	$174	December 31, 2012	$47	79,000	FWB: EOAN	Düsseldorf	Johannes Teyssen	[17]
17	Phillips 66	Oil and gas	$171	December 31, 2013	$39	13,500	NYSE: PSX	Houston, Texas	Greg Garland	[18]
18	Apple	Electronics	$170	September 28, 2013	$510	80,300	NASDAQ: AAPL	Cupertino, California	Tim Cook	[19]
19	Japan Post Holdings	Conglomerate	$168	March 31, 2013		229,000	—	Tokyo	Jiro Saito	[20]
20	Eni	Oil and gas	$167	December 31, 2012	$94	78,000	BIT: ENI	Rome	Paolo Scaroni	[21]
21	Gazprom	Oil and gas	$164	December 31, 2012	$145	432,000	MCX: GAZP	Moscow	Alexei Miller	[22]
22	Berkshire Hathaway	Conglomerate	$162	December 31, 2012	$201	217,000	NYSE: BRKA; NYSE: BRKB	Omaha, Nebraska	Warren Buffett	[23]
23	General Motors	Automotive	$156	April 31, 2014	$40	284,000	NYSE: GM	Detroit, Michigan	Mary Barra	[24]
24	Daimler	Automotive	$150	December 31, 2012	$64	275,087	FWB: DAI	Stuttgart	Dieter Zetsche	[25]
25	LG Corp	Conglomerate	$148	December 31, 2013		226,400	KRX: 003550	Seoul	Koo Bon-Moo	[26]
26	General Electric	Conglomerate	$145	April 31, 2014	$212	287,000	NYSE: GE	Fairfield, Connecticut	Jeffrey Immelt	[27]
27	Kuwait Petroleum Corporation	Oil and gas	$145	March 31, 2012		17,927		Kuwait City	Saad Al Shuwaib	[28]
28	Petrobras	Oil and gas	$144	December 31, 2012	$171	81,000	Bovespa: PETR3; Bovespa: 4	Rio de Janeiro	Maria das Graças Foster	[29]
29	Allianz	Financial services	$140	December 31, 2012	$54	142,000	ISIN: DE0008404005	Munich	Michael Diekmann	[30]
30	Lukoil	Oil and gas	$139	December 31, 2012	$51	120,000	MCX: LKOH	Moscow	Vagit Alekperov	[31]
31	Valero Energy	Oil and gas	$138	April 31, 2014	$16	10,000	NYSE: VLO	San Antonio, Texas	William R. Klesse	[32]
32	Cargill	Food processing	$136	May 31, 2013		158,000	—	Wayzata, Minnesota	Gregory R. Page	[33]
33	Hon Hai Precision Industry	Electronics	$134	December 31, 2012	$41	1,290,000	TWSE: 2317	Tucheng	Terry Gou	[34]
33	Ford Motor Company	Automotive	$134	December 31, 2012	$47	164,000	NYSE: F	Dearborn, Michigan	Alan Mulally	[35]
35	Trafigura	Commodities	$133	September 30, 2013		8,773	—	Lucerne	Claude Dauphin	[36]
36	Statoil	Oil and gas	$130	December 31, 2012	$86	23,000	OSE: STL	Stavanger	Helge Lund	[37]
37	GDF Suez	Electricity and gas utility	$128	December 31, 2012	$58	161,000	Euronext: SZE	Paris	Gérard Mestrallet	[38]
38	AT&T	Telecommunications	$127	December 31, 2012	$185	256,000	NYSE: T	Dallas, Texas	Randall L. Stephenson	[39]
38	Pemex	Oil and gas	$127	December 31, 2012		138,000	—	Mexico City	Emilio Lozoya Austin	[40]
40	PDVSA	Oil and gas	$124	December 31, 2012		121,000	—	Caracas	Rafael Ramírez	[41]
41	CVS Caremark	Retail	$123	December 31, 2012	$59	202,000	NYSE: CVS	Woonsocket, Rhode Island	Larry J. Merlo	[42]
42	McKesson	Pharmaceuticals	$122	March 31, 2013	$22	32,000	NYSE: MCK	San Francisco, California	John Hammergren	[43]
42	Verizon	Telecommunications	$122	April 31, 2014	$53	176,000	NYSE: VZ	New York City, New York	Ivan Seidenberg	[44]
43	JX Holdings	Oil and gas	$119	March 31, 2013	$16	24,000	TYO: 5020	Tokyo	—	[45]
44	AXA	Financial services	$118	December 31, 2012	$39	240,000	Euronext: CS	Paris	Henri de Castries	[46]
45	Assicurazioni Generali	Financial services	$116	December 31, 2012	$24	85,000	BIT: G	Trieste	Sergio Balbinot; Giovanni Perissinotto	[47]
46	Koch Industries	Conglomerate	$115	December 31, 2012		60,000	—	Wichita, Kansas	Charles Koch	[48]
47	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone	Telecommunications	$113	March 31, 2013	$73	205,000	TYO: 9432	Tokyo	Norio Wada	[49]
48	SK Group	Conglomerate	$112	December 31, 2012		52,377	KRX: 003600	Seoul	Choi Tae-Won	[50]
49	Hewlett-Packard	Information Technology	$112	October 31, 2013	$47	267,000	NYSE: HPQ	Palo Alto, California	Meg Whitman	[51]
51	Enel	Electric utility	$111	December 31, 2012	$34	59,000	BIT: ENEL	Rome	Fulvio Conti	[52]
52	Fiat	Automotive	$110	December 31, 2012	$7	214,836	BIT: F	Turin	Sergio Marchionne	[53]
52	UnitedHealth Group	Health care	$110	December 31, 2012	$62	99,000	NYSE: UNH	Minnetonka, Minnesota	Stephen Hemsley	[54]
54	Tesco	Retail	$110	February 23, 2013	$42	493,000	LSE: TSCO	Cheshunt, Hertfordshire	Philip Clarke	[55]
54	National Iranian Oil Company	Oil and gas	$110	2011		36,000	—	Tehran	Bijan Namdar Zangeneh	[8]
56	Tata Group	Conglomerate	$96.7[56]	March 31, 2014	$109	455,000	FWB: BMW	Mumbai	Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
57	Honda	Automotive	$104	March 31, 2013	$69	181,876	TYO: 7267	Tokyo	Takanobu Ito	[57]
57	IBM	Information Technology	$104	December 31, 2012	$242	433,000	NYSE: IBM	Armonk, New York	Ginni Rometty	[58]
59	BASF	Chemicals	$103	December 31, 2012	$80	113,262	FWB: BAS	Ludwigshafen	Kurt Bock	[59]
60	Costco	Retail	$102	September 1, 2013	$39	132,000	NASDAQ: COST	Issaquah, Washington	W. Craig Jelinek	[60]
60	Siemens	Conglomerate	$102	September 30, 2013	$92	405,000	FWB: SIE	Munich	Josef Käser	[61]
62	Carrefour	Retail	$101	December 31, 2012	$17	476,000	Euronext: CA	Levallois-Perret	Georges Plassat	[62]
62	Rosneft	Oil and gas	$101	December 31, 2012	$75	166,100	MCX: ROSN	Moscow	Igor Sechin	[63]
62	Cardinal Health	Pharmaceuticals	$101	June 30, 2013	$14	40,000	NYSE: CAH	Dublin, Ohio	George Barrett	[64]
65	Amazon	Online Retail	$100	April 31, 2014	$132	117,000	NYSE: AMZN	Seattle	Jeff Bezos	[65]
65	Nestlé	Food processing	$100	December 31, 2012	$207	339,000	SIX: NESN	Vevey	Paul Bulcke