After Latin America, the economic policies of Milton Friedman spread to Western countries themselves. In Britain, Margaret Thatcher defeated the biggest union in the country, the mining union, and pushed through the neoliberal reforms, selling off the steel industry, water, electricity, gas, telephones, airlines, oil, and cutting many social programs. America, with President Ronald Reagan, did much of the same, widening the gap between the rich and the poor. The big prize, of course, was the Soviet Union.
---> R. James Woolsey: “Having won the Cold War, and that led, of course, to the breakup of the Soviet Empire, both in Warsaw pact and Eastern European countries and within the Soviet Union itself, that has helped contribute to a movement toward democracy.”
In fact, democracy was to be quickly trumped by Western financial interests. While Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev propagated a gradual transition to Scandinavian-style socialism, with help from the West, he didn’t understand what kind of help the West was ready to give.
---> Oliver Stone: “The U.S. could’ve prevented the meltdown of the Soviet economy with an infusion of aid, after Gorbachev withdrew the troops from Eastern Europe, but did not do so.”
Few people knew what a radical transformation of the economy meant for the newly established Russian Federation. As a matter of fact, many Russian intellectuals were behind President Boris Yeltsin, whose advisors were also Friedman’s disciples.
---> Michael Parenti: “The Moscow intellectuals, you couldn’t tell them what it was like, they were saying ‘Oh, the poorest people in your country live better than I do.’ Here’s a guy, sitting there, he had a small apartment, OK, a wall of books, educated at Moscow University, speaks fluent English, got an education there that enabled him to speak fluent English, never went hungry one day in his life, and we would say ‘well, we have people who live in doorways, they sleep in doorways, they eat out of garbage cans', I've seen them myself. And they said ‘Oh, you don’t have to lie to us.’ They would not believe it, America, America!”
Yeah, you want America? You’ll get America! A small number of businessmen in Russia became billionaires, better known as oligarchs, while a third of all Russians dropped below the poverty line. State industries were sold off at bargain prices. Boris Yeltsin, with full support of America, dissolved Parliament, as only a dictator could ensure the implementation of Friedman’s economic policies. I think you get the picture here. Neoliberalism was imposed in dictatorships and in states of emergency, while the population was in shock, something author Naomi Klein coined as the Shock Doctrine.
The pioneer of shock therapy was an economist named Jeffrey Sachs, who traveled and administered his economic therapy to patient-countries designated by the West. In 1991, Bozidar Djelic, who would later become Serbia’s Minister of Economy and Finances after Milosevic was deposed, met Jeffrey Sachs who recruited him for three years’ service in Poland and Russia as a top-level advisor to those countries’ neoliberal reforms. In an interview for Harvard Business School, Djelic described the reforms as “being honest with the patient and administering the dose of medicine required for recovery”. Because when a patient needs to recover, shock is definitely the best medicine, eh?
When I look at the chaos that happened in all those countries, from the coups in Latin America, the Falklands War that allowed Thatcher to push through her policies to the burning White House in Moscow after Yeltsin ordered its shelling I can’t help but whether the burning Yugoslav Parliament building and TV station was meant to have the same effect. Maybe instead of looking at the smoke, we should’ve been looking at what had already happened next door.
---> Ivan Pernar: “In 1994, Croatia was at war and because of that, the State had a bigger budget deficit, and at the same time there was no foreign income from tourism, and there was a deficit of the balance
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After Latin America, the economic policies of Milton Friedman spread to Western countries themselves. In Britain, Margaret Thatcher defeated the biggest union in the country, the mining union, and pushed through the neoliberal reforms, selling off the steel industry, water, electricity, gas, telephones, airlines, oil, and cutting many social programs. America, with President Ronald Reagan, did much of the same, widening the gap between the rich and the poor. The big prize, of course, was the Soviet Union.---> R. James Woolsey: “Having won the Cold War, and that led, of course, to the breakup of the Soviet Empire, both in Warsaw pact and Eastern European countries and within the Soviet Union itself, that has helped contribute to a movement toward democracy.”In fact, democracy was to be quickly trumped by Western financial interests. While Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev propagated a gradual transition to Scandinavian-style socialism, with help from the West, he didn’t understand what kind of help the West was ready to give. ---> Oliver Stone: “The U.S. could’ve prevented the meltdown of the Soviet economy with an infusion of aid, after Gorbachev withdrew the troops from Eastern Europe, but did not do so.”Few people knew what a radical transformation of the economy meant for the newly established Russian Federation. As a matter of fact, many Russian intellectuals were behind President Boris Yeltsin, whose advisors were also Friedman’s disciples.---> Michael Parenti: “The Moscow intellectuals, you couldn’t tell them what it was like, they were saying ‘Oh, the poorest people in your country live better than I do.’ Here’s a guy, sitting there, he had a small apartment, OK, a wall of books, educated at Moscow University, speaks fluent English, got an education there that enabled him to speak fluent English, never went hungry one day in his life, and we would say ‘well, we have people who live in doorways, they sleep in doorways, they eat out of garbage cans', I've seen them myself. And they said ‘Oh, you don’t have to lie to us.’ They would not believe it, America, America!”Yeah, you want America? You’ll get America! A small number of businessmen in Russia became billionaires, better known as oligarchs, while a third of all Russians dropped below the poverty line. State industries were sold off at bargain prices. Boris Yeltsin, with full support of America, dissolved Parliament, as only a dictator could ensure the implementation of Friedman’s economic policies. I think you get the picture here. Neoliberalism was imposed in dictatorships and in states of emergency, while the population was in shock, something author Naomi Klein coined as the Shock Doctrine.The pioneer of shock therapy was an economist named Jeffrey Sachs, who traveled and administered his economic therapy to patient-countries designated by the West. In 1991, Bozidar Djelic, who would later become Serbia’s Minister of Economy and Finances after Milosevic was deposed, met Jeffrey Sachs who recruited him for three years’ service in Poland and Russia as a top-level advisor to those countries’ neoliberal reforms. In an interview for Harvard Business School, Djelic described the reforms as “being honest with the patient and administering the dose of medicine required for recovery”. Because when a patient needs to recover, shock is definitely the best medicine, eh?When I look at the chaos that happened in all those countries, from the coups in Latin America, the Falklands War that allowed Thatcher to push through her policies to the burning White House in Moscow after Yeltsin ordered its shelling I can’t help but whether the burning Yugoslav Parliament building and TV station was meant to have the same effect. Maybe instead of looking at the smoke, we should’ve been looking at what had already happened next door.---> Ivan Pernar: “In 1994, Croatia was at war and because of that, the State had a bigger budget deficit, and at the same time there was no foreign income from tourism, and there was a deficit of the balance
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After Latin America, the economic policies of Milton Friedman spread to Western countries themselves. In Britain, Margaret Thatcher defeated the biggest union in the country, the mining union, and pushed through the neoliberal reforms, selling off the steel industry, water, electricity, gas, telephones, airlines, oil, and cutting many social programs. America, with President Ronald Reagan, did much of the same, widening the gap between the rich and the poor. The big prize, of course, was the Soviet Union.
---> R. James Woolsey: “Having won the Cold War, and that led, of course, to the breakup of the Soviet Empire, both in Warsaw pact and Eastern European countries and within the Soviet Union itself, that has helped contribute to a movement toward democracy.”
In fact, democracy was to be quickly trumped by Western financial interests. While Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev propagated a gradual transition to Scandinavian-style socialism, with help from the West, he didn’t understand what kind of help the West was ready to give.
---> Oliver Stone: “The U.S. could’ve prevented the meltdown of the Soviet economy with an infusion of aid, after Gorbachev withdrew the troops from Eastern Europe, but did not do so.”
Few people knew what a radical transformation of the economy meant for the newly established Russian Federation. As a matter of fact, many Russian intellectuals were behind President Boris Yeltsin, whose advisors were also Friedman’s disciples.
---> Michael Parenti: “The Moscow intellectuals, you couldn’t tell them what it was like, they were saying ‘Oh, the poorest people in your country live better than I do.’ Here’s a guy, sitting there, he had a small apartment, OK, a wall of books, educated at Moscow University, speaks fluent English, got an education there that enabled him to speak fluent English, never went hungry one day in his life, and we would say ‘well, we have people who live in doorways, they sleep in doorways, they eat out of garbage cans', I've seen them myself. And they said ‘Oh, you don’t have to lie to us.’ They would not believe it, America, America!”
Yeah, you want America? You’ll get America! A small number of businessmen in Russia became billionaires, better known as oligarchs, while a third of all Russians dropped below the poverty line. State industries were sold off at bargain prices. Boris Yeltsin, with full support of America, dissolved Parliament, as only a dictator could ensure the implementation of Friedman’s economic policies. I think you get the picture here. Neoliberalism was imposed in dictatorships and in states of emergency, while the population was in shock, something author Naomi Klein coined as the Shock Doctrine.
The pioneer of shock therapy was an economist named Jeffrey Sachs, who traveled and administered his economic therapy to patient-countries designated by the West. In 1991, Bozidar Djelic, who would later become Serbia’s Minister of Economy and Finances after Milosevic was deposed, met Jeffrey Sachs who recruited him for three years’ service in Poland and Russia as a top-level advisor to those countries’ neoliberal reforms. In an interview for Harvard Business School, Djelic described the reforms as “being honest with the patient and administering the dose of medicine required for recovery”. Because when a patient needs to recover, shock is definitely the best medicine, eh?
When I look at the chaos that happened in all those countries, from the coups in Latin America, the Falklands War that allowed Thatcher to push through her policies to the burning White House in Moscow after Yeltsin ordered its shelling I can’t help but whether the burning Yugoslav Parliament building and TV station was meant to have the same effect. Maybe instead of looking at the smoke, we should’ve been looking at what had already happened next door.
---> Ivan Pernar: “In 1994, Croatia was at war and because of that, the State had a bigger budget deficit, and at the same time there was no foreign income from tourism, and there was a deficit of the balance
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Efter Gorbatjov tillbaka trupper från östra Europa, men inte gjorde det. "
få människor visste vad en radikal omvandling av ekonomin betydde för den nybildade Ryska federationen. Såsom ett ämne av faktat, många ryska intellektuella var bakom president Boris Jeltsin, vars rådgivare var även Friedmans lärjungar.
---> Michael Parenti: "Moskva intellektuella,Efter Latinamerika, den ekonomiska politiken av Milton Friedman spridas till västra länderna själva. I Storbritannien är Margaret Thatcher besegrade den största i landet, gruvdrift, och drev igenom den nyliberala reformer, försäljning av stålindustrin, vatten, el, gas, telefon, flygbolag, olja och beskära många sociala program. USA, med president Ronald Reagan,Mycket av samma, öka klyftan mellan rika och fattiga. Det stora priset, naturligtvis, var Sovjetunionen.
---> R. James Woolsey: "ha vunnit det kalla kriget, och som ledde naturligtvis till klyvning av det sovjetiska imperiet, både i Warszawapakten och östeuropeiska länder och inom Sovjetunionen själv, som har bidragit till en utveckling mot demokrati. "
i själva verketEfter Gorbatjov tillbaka trupper från östra Europa, men inte gjorde det. "
få människor visste vad en radikal omvandling av ekonomin betydde för den nybildade Ryska federationen. Såsom ett ämne av faktat, många ryska intellektuella var bakom president Boris Jeltsin, vars rådgivare var även Friedmans lärjungar.
---> Michael Parenti: "Moskva intellektuella,
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