It describes why governments and power-holders monopolize radio, satellite, internet and other media through censorship using regulations, technology and other controls.

When government monopolizes trade, farmers may find that they are free to grow cash crops for export, but under penalty of law only able to sell their crops to government buyers at prices far below the world market price.

He recognized that opium addiction was a grim social problem, not helped by the fact that the colonial government monopolized the sale of the drug as means to regulate its use.

For example, a government may own or even monopolize oil production or transport infrastructure to ensure availability in the case of war.

The central government or politically uncontrolled quasi-governmental agencies monopolize social investment functions of critical significance for capital.

The central government also monopolizes social expenses functions of key significance for social stability, but these are administered in a rigidly bureaucratic way, without any attempt to co-opt external interests.

For many years, governments monopolized seed research, production and distribution.

Since commandery-issued coins were often of inferior quality and lighter weight, the central government closed commandery mints and monopolized the issue of coinage in 113 BC.

After World War II, when federal and state governments monopolized the education, health and welfare services that had been dominated by the churches, fierce turf battles arose about whose religious message would predominate in the newly expanding public sphere.

As long as we allow the government to monopolize the world's natural resources, rationalize pre-emptive military aggression, persist in an unevenhanded diplomacy in the Middle East and cherry-pick who gets nuclear technology, aren't we fooling ourselves by expecting any kind of homeland security?