Good points, Donuel. It is a worldwide Corporatocracy, no doubt. It has loyalty to no nation, but only to winning "the game", as it were, the game being to control the most resources and markets and secure the highest financial rewards for the few at the top.

People tend to forget all else when they are absorbed in any game, and business, war, and high finance are all huge games...with huge inducements to play as ruthlessly as possible and secure that all-important "win". That's why it's so hard for people who get caught up in these sort of things professionally to step back and look clearly at what they are doing...and even harder to stop doing it altogether or change their approach.

However, I would suggest that Perkins is right that it IS a USA-dominated Empire...at the present time. It is the USA, after all, that has military supremacy in the world and can go anywhere it wants to and smash up a country. And that is the number one unmistakeable thing that indentifies the presence of an empire.

A smaller empire along that line...considerably smaller...is Israel. It's a regional empire, and essentially an appendage of the far bigger USA empire.