The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have a well-deserved reputation for being the loan sharks of global capitalism. Both institutions are infamous for forcing poor countries in the global south to ruin their own economies in order to further enrich Western corporations. Nations who decline to borrow money at exorbitant interest rates and then beggar their populations to pay it back (or worse, default on their existing debt), are subjected to trade sanctions that have been described as “the economic equivalent of nuclear war.”
Lavrov warns Israel against ‘sowing a storm’ in Syria
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RT | December 26, 2024 Israel should refrain from solving its geopolitical
problems at the expense of war-torn Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavro...
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