Robbing The Global South, Then Scorning Its Poverty: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone- It's like mugging someone and then scorning them for their empty wallet.
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Michael Parenti has said that “Poor countries are not ‘under-developed’, they are over-exploited.” The west tends to look down on the rest of the world for reasons that either directly or indirectly relate to the poverty in those nations, which is silly because that poverty comes largely from western theft and exploitation. It’s like mugging someone and then scorning them for their empty wallet.
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