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“Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.”

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 18, Albania's IMF Sponsored Financial Disaster, p. 293

“Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 10, India: The IMF'S "Indirect Rule", p. 155

“Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Introduction, p. 7
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003)

“The collapse of the standard of living, engineered as result of macro-economic policy, is without precedent in Russian history: " We had more to eat during the Second World War."”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 16, The "Thirdworldization" of the Russian Federation, p. 241

“The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 7, Economic Genocide in Rwanda, p. 120

“Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Introduction, p. 1
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003)

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“The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 19, Structural Adjustment in the Developed Countries, p. 303

“Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Preface to the Second Edition, p. xxii
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003)

“According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 4, The World Bank and Woman's Rights, p. 67

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“The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 6, Somalia The Real Causes of Famine, p. 99

“America had come to the rescue of Korea's "troubled banks". The auction of commercial bank assets was an obvious fraud.”

Michel Chossudovsky

The Recolonization of Korea, Chapter 22, p. 340
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003)

“Macro-economic policy had accelerated the "expulsion" of landless peasants from the countryside leading to the formation of a nomadic migrant labor force moving from one metropolitan area to another.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 13, Debt and "Democracy" in Brazil, p. 200

“The WTO was put in place following the signing of a "technical agreement" negotiated behind closed doors by bureaucrats. Even the heads of country-level delegations to Marrakech in 1994 were not informed regarding the statutes of the WTO, which were drafted in separate clossed sessions by technocrats.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 1, The Globalization of Poverty, p. 25

“For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 16, The "Thirdworldization" of the Russian Federation, p. 240

“Moreover, the entire international trading system is prone (from the lower echelons to top state officials) to corruption and bribery by foreign contractors.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 12, The Post War Economic Destruction of Vietnam, p. 177

“Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory”

Michel Chossudovsky

"applied economics"
Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 2, Global Falsehoods, p. 27

“A new global financial environment has unfolded in several stages since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1971.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 20, Global Financial Meltdown, p. 309

“In return, US surpluses of genetically engineered maize (banned in the European Union) were being dumped on the horn of Africa, in the form of emergency aid.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 9, Wreaking Ethiopia's Peasant Economy, p. 141

“Macro-economic reform undermined the legal economy, reinforced illicit trade and contributed to the recycling of "dirty money" towards Peru's official and commercial creditors.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 14, IMF Shock Treatment in Peru, p. 225

“Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 5, The Global Cheap-Labor Economy, p. 69 (See also: Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Marx)

“While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 17, Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, p. 273

“Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 17, Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, p. 257

“In a cruel irony, speculators - rather then elected politicians - are the shots on crisis management. In an absurd logic, those who foster financial turbulence have been invited by the G7 Finance ministers to identify policies which attenuate financial turbulence.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Economic Warfare, Chapter 21, p. 327
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003)

“The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.”

Michel Chossudovsky

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 3, Policing Countries Through Loan "Conditionalities", p. 53