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

America had come to the rescue of Korea's "troubled banks". The auction of commercial bank assets was an obvious fraud.

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.

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?