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Michel Chossudovsky is a renowned economist born in 1946. He is known for his extensive research and influence in the fields of international economics, finance, and strategic studies. Professor Chossudovsky is the founder of the Institute for Research on International Relations (IRI), which focuses on the teaching and research of globalization and international political economy.

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“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.”

World War Humanity Social Economic Cold Crisis Population Scales Eras Posts Cold War Rapids Unprecedented World Population

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“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.”

War Economic Policy Objectives Civil War Foreign Policy Precise Strategic Massacres Rwanda Us Foreign Policy

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“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?”

Humans Enemy Technology Rights Talent Bears Intellectual Capitalism Property West Socialism Acquire Property Rights Intellectual Property Polar Bears

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

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

Self Lost Social Causes Economic Conflict Analysis Serving Self Serving

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“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.”

Office Foundation Investing Profit Branches Reconstruction Kosovo Balkans Financiers Non Profit Investing Money

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.”

Activity Illegal Intertwined Illegal Activities

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“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”

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

Facts Produce Theory Pure Economics Mainstream Scholarship

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

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

Humans Modern Capitalism Resources Incapable

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

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

Effects Institutions Investment Woods Budgets Target Collapse Triggers

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

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

World Wealth Rights Economic Structure Corporate Concentration Womens Rights Economic Power World Bank Concentration Of Wealth

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

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

Sides Poverty Economic Labor Input Economic Systems Global Poverty Cheap Labor

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“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.”

Shows Results Century Late Consequence Contrary Grain 20th Century Famine Shortage Staples Somalia

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

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

Wells Poverty Mass Islamic Fundamentalism Islamic Fundamentalism

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

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

World British Instance Islands Crowns Banking Fifth Colony Caribbean Cayman Islands

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

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Born: 1946
Known for: Economist
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