http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/03-31-99.html

-- dave (wootendave@hotmail.com), April 01, 1999

Answers

Destroying the social fabric of our planet...

[snip]

...When the Berlin Wall was falling, in November of 1989, I happened to be in Kosovo, covering a riot between Serbs and Albanians. The future was in Kosovo, I told myself that night, not in Berlin. The same day that Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat clasped hands on the White House lawn, my Air Afrique plane was approaching Bamako, Mali, revealing corrugated-zinc shacks at the edge of an expanding desert. The real news wasn't at the White House, I realized. It was right below.

Robert D. Kaplan's "The Coming Anarchy" (February 1994)
http://www.theatlantic.com/election/connection/foreign/anarcf.htm

~C~

-- Critt Jarvis (middleground@critt.com), April 01, 1999.

Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts (1994) is well worth reading too.

Here's the initial URL as a link-- The Ignored Dimensions of Balkan Disintegration.

Michel Chossudovsky, the author, is

Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, author of The Globalisation of Poverty, Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Third World Network, Penang and Zed Books, London, 1997. He is also the author of Dismantling Yugoslavia, Colonizing Bosnia, Covert Action Quarterly (CAQ), Washington, D.C., Number 56, Spring 1996 and The Business of Crimes and the Crimes of Business: Globalization and the Criminalization of Economic Activity, CAQ, Number 58, Fall 1996. The author can be contacted at chosso@travel-net.com.

The following are just a few of the 289 matches Google turned up on "Michel Chossudovsky":

...DESTROYING NATIONAL CURRENCIES

IMF-World Bank policies and the Rwandan holocaust

THE BRAZILIAN FINANCIAL SCAM

FINANCIAL WARFARE

SPECULATING AGAINST THE CANADIAN DOLLAR

THE G7 -SOLUTION- TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

CRISIS

The causes of global famine/50th Anniversary of the FAO

THE IMF KOREA BAILOUT

Chossudovsky has quite a bit to say, it seems. None of which gets much press. Understandably. The man has no respect for authority.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), April 02, 1999.

Tom--thanks for those links; at first glance his stuff looks invaluable.

-- Spidey (in@jam.com), April 02, 1999.