The US still has complete control of the bit of the internet that’s actually in america. In practice, it has effective control over most of the rest no matter what happens through the implementation of standards via companies like Cisco.
Recent changes just reflect the reality that the value of the global network is the fact that it’s, you know, global. Getting upset over who gets to decide who assigns the root domains is ridiculous – that was farmed out years ago anyway. The root name servers aren’t (in practice) all in america now either. That bucket of milk was spilled a long time ago. You just didn’t notice 
I don’t see what your problem is. If you’re going to get uppity about the TCP stack – then you can flamin’ well give the web back to CERN and go back to using MSN.
