“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)

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