Michel Chossudovsky quotes

While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans. (Michel Chossudovsky)
Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
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. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
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. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
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? View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
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. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined. (Michel Chossudovsky)
Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics"). View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
In a cruel irony, speculators - rather then elected politicians - are the shots on crisis management. In an absurd logic, those who foster financial turbulence have been invited by the G7 Finance ministers to identify policies which attenuate financial turbulence. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
America had come to the rescue of Korea's "troubled banks". The auction of commercial bank assets was an obvious fraud. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
Macro-economic policy had accelerated the "expulsion" of landless peasants from the countryside leading to the formation of a nomadic migrant labor force moving from one metropolitan area to another. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
The WTO was put in place following the signing of a "technical agreement" negotiated behind closed doors by bureaucrats. Even the heads of country-level delegations to Marrakech in 1994 were not informed regarding the statutes of the WTO, which were drafted in separate clossed sessions by technocrats. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
The collapse of the standard of living, engineered as result of macro-economic policy, is without precedent in Russian history: " We had more to eat during the Second World War." View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
Moreover, the entire international trading system is prone (from the lower echelons to top state officials) to corruption and bribery by foreign contractors. (Michel Chossudovsky)
A new global financial environment has unfolded in several stages since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1971. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
In return, US surpluses of genetically engineered maize (banned in the European Union) were being dumped on the horn of Africa, in the form of emergency aid. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
Macro-economic reform undermined the legal economy, reinforced illicit trade and contributed to the recycling of "dirty money" towards Peru's official and commercial creditors. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky
September 11, 2001 marks the onslaught of the "Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT), used as a pretext and a justification by the US and its NATO allies to carry out a "war without borders”, a global war of conquest. At eleven o'clock, on the morning of September 11, the Bush administration had already announced that Al Qaeda was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon. This assertion was made prior... an in depth police investigation. CIA Director George Tenet stated that same morning that Osama bin Laden had the capacity to plan "multiple attacks with little or no warning.”... The tragic events of 9/11 provided the required justification to wage war on Afghanistan on "humanitarian grounds”, with the full support of World public opinion and the endorsement of the "international community”. View quote
Michel Chossudovsky