Re: [Fwd: CAGE: Interesting Article by Joseph Stiglitz]

This Stiglitz piece made for fascinating reading.  Most importantly,
Stiglitz raised the question of whether there is in fact a method behind
the madness.  One wonders if the IMF's (cum Treasury
Dept's) liberalization policies of the 90's as deliberately designed to
foster instability in all regions beyond North America as a conscious
geopolitical strategy.  The offshore banks Stiglitz mentions, which became
repositories for capital leaving individual countries, in turn became
mechanisms for ensuring the election of complicitous leaders (e.g. Yeltsin
and Kuchma in Eastern Europe).  It would also be interesting to speculate
about whether the U.S. has a contingency plan in the pursuance of global
dominance in an age when the IMF has been discredited.  Could Kosovo,
which gave birth to the so-called Blair Doctrine, be a sign of things to
come?  

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Boris Stremlin
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