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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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