“There was a time not long ago when the corporate giants were merely the size of nations. Now, after a frenzied period of pharmaceutical mega-mergers, they are behemoths which outweigh entire continents.
“The combined worth of the world’s top five drug companies is twice the combined GDP of all sub-Saharan Africa and their influence on the rules of world trade is many times stronger because they can bring their wealth to bear directly on the levers of western power.”
— Julian Borger, Industry that stalks the US corridors of power, the Guardian.
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