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The International Monetary Fund

Also goes by the name "the international mother fucker" It is more beautiful when it is headed by a feminist/a feminist mother.  There is no shortage of people who want to lead a criminal institution with a global reach and they are proud of it. I recommend Eric Toussaint's writings
Just compare how the media has been reporting about suicide bombings in Tunisia where one person was killed and  the 80 migrants killed "by the evil Mediterranean sea"
"The gang treated their fellow countrymen as commodities" Polish against Polish as if what happened took place in Poland. Not a word by the liberal BBC about the kind of economy that allowed such a gang to operate in the UK since the Poles started coming into the country, and how the UK was allowed to opt out of EU labour laws in a bargain with Germany. A UK [modern] slavery network
"From the Nazis and the Taliban to Isis’s more recent destruction of Palmyra , there is plenty on the bad guys, but not much space devoted to the more nuanced topic of the damage wrought by the supposed good guys, like the trail of vandalism left by coalition forces in Iraq." The Imperial War Museum [in London] charts a history of destruction
"Who else would agree to give up a minimum of two hours a week, not counting commuting time, to sit through blood extraction and reinfusion twice, all for a grand total of 50 bucks? The plasma industry that year (2009) made around $10 billion; the same liter of blood I produced for $20 or $30 was worth up to $200, even before it was treated to make medicine.  My first graduate summer was thus the first time I understood the machinations of a capitalist economy, not because I read Marx, but because I experienced its exploitation of my own body, literally." On the Absurdity of Ethical Capitalism