Ok, this is the scariest thing I've seen in a long time. Perhaps not really news to any of us, but seeing the spiderweb itself is scary!
www.theyrule.net
It lets you see the human connections between corporations. Members of one company's board of directors who are members of another company's board as well.
Poke around in it. Pick any two companies, say Halliburton and General Electric, or Boeing and Disney . . . then explore the connections between those board members and other companys. You can drag anything around on the screen to rearrange it, you can click on anything and get more options.
I hope, for the sake of humanity, what you find scares you as much as it does me! Looks like a pretty big overhaul of our entire system is going to be needed if we are to have a chance. Painful and hard, but necessary for us and our children's sake!