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Do Not Reach for the Sky Just to Surrender
Greta Acosta Reyes (Cuba), Neoliberalism, 2020.
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Beirut, mon amour.
IMF Talks Collapse in Lebanon. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing as the Last Thing Lebanon Needs Right Now Is Money
Talks between IMF officials and politicians broke down recently when it transpired that the latter wanted a ‘brown envelope’ in any aid deal. Don’t blame the politicians though. It’s all they know and it was, after all, the UN who showed them the way. But can the UN in Lebanon actually feed the Lebanese?
WE Charity Scandal and NGOs’ Role in Imperialism
Once again the media focuses on salacious details rather than the big picture.
While TV and newspapers have focused on the whiff of corruption surrounding the government’s $900 million contract with the WE Charity, some broader points have been ignored. Whatever the Trudeau and Morneau families have pocketed from WE, the deleterious impact that NGO has had on social services and young Canadians’ understanding of global inequities is much more significant.
Mexico State Oil Company Files $22 Billion Debt Swap amid IMF Threats and White House Visit
Mexico’s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known colloquially as AMLO, arrived back in his nation’s capital yesterday aboard an American Airlines flight after his first state visit to the United States since taking office in a historic, landslide victory in 2018.
The Global Reset: Unplugged
Imagine, you are living in a world that you are told is a democracy – and you may even believe it – but, in fact, your life and fate is in the hands of a few ultra-rich, ultra-powerful and ultra-inhuman oligarchs. They may be called Deep State, Illuminati, or simply the Beast, or anything else obscure or untraceable, it doesn’t matter. They are less than the 0.0001%.
IMF gives $2.1 billion to Ukraine. Oligarch grift continues despite pandemic recession (Video)
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss more international loans being dished out to Ukraine as a first $2.1 billion tranche was received from the IMF, paid directly by IMF member states to help Ukraine “overcome the coronavirus and ensure macro-financial stability.”
The funds from IMF member states come at a time when the global economy is severely suffering from a pandemic lockdown.
Jamaica: No Free Market, No Miracle (1987)
This old article popped up in a Google search so I figured I would send it for another lap around the track.
The Freeman, December 1987 (Foundation for Economic Education)