"McWorld does manage to look pretty seductive in a world obsessed with Jihad.  It delivers peace, prosperity, and relative unity—if at the cost of independence, community, and identity (which is generally based on difference).  The primary political values required by the global market are order and tranquility, and freedom—as in the phrases "free trade," "free press," and "free love."  Human rights are needed to a degree, but not citizenship or participation—and no more social justice and equality than are necessary to promote efficient economic production and consumption.  Multinational corporations sometimes seem to prefer doing business with local oligarchs, inasmuch as they can take confidence from dealing with the boss on all crucial matters.  Despots who slaughter their own populations are no problem, so long as they leave markets in place and refrain from making war on their neighbors (Saddam Hussein's fatal mistake).  In trading partners, predictability is of more value than justice."  
                                                                                            -Benjamin R. Barber (The Atlantic, 1992)