Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Michel Chossudovsky

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

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.

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

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.

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