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

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?

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

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.

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

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

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.