
Downstream: How Corporations Control the Government w/ Matt Kennard
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The Media's View of Overseas Development Aid
I think the trajectory was diverted because of like, say media intervention, I think, hostility from the public. And now it isn't. Now we're in the early 2020s. All the media talks about is cake and speeding fines. It doesn't matter half as much as the stories you're talking about. The major arguments that I've been making that should be made by the left are just non-existent. You can't hear them in the media at all. If people understood where aid money was going, the whole budget would be stopped tomorrow. For example, another example was Myanmar and the Five Star Hotel, which they were funding. We talked to the head of the IFC
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