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

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?

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

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

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

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.