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?

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

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.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

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

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

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