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Read_688 - The Chaffening [Aristophanes]
"So they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are or could be threats. The enemy...
Green Eggs and Ham - Decentralized Finance, the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
"This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization is extremely difficult to...
Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries [Alex Gladstein]
This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL THEIR...
Read_687 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 5 [Alex Gladstein]
"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2%...
Read_686 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 4 [Alex Gladstein]
"The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system was, as Payer writes...
Read_685 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 3 [Alex Gladstein]
"Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more than 4,000 years ago...