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

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

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.

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?

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

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

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.