I'm John Schwartz, a writer at The Intercept, filling in for Ryan Grimm on this week's episode

of Deconstructed.

Imagine if you and millions of Americans successfully fought to stop a multinational corporation

from mining copper in your state and destroying the rivers and environment for everyone.

And you want.

You get a law pass forbidding the company from opening the mine.

But then the Supreme Court steps in and says, nope.

This law is unconstitutional, we're striking it down, the mine can open, and they can pollute

your state.

Now that might be easy to imagine, given our own corporate owned and operated Supreme

Court, is busy making decisions like this all the time.

But the point is, that's not just here.

It's essentially how life is in most countries on earth, except it's even worse.

Over decades, corporations have quietly created Supreme Corporate Courts that operate on

an international level that can and do overrule mere people.

Claire Provost and Matt Kennerd have written an amazing new book about why and how this happened.

Because it didn't just happen, it was all planned.

The book is called Silent Coo, how corporations overthrew democracy.

And let me tell you, if you are angry at how the world seems unfair, if you haven't read

this, you are not angry enough.

First is co-founder and co-director of the new nonprofit Institute for Journalism and

Social Change.

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