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

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?

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

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

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.

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

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory (applied economics).

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.

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.

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