Sanctions & Dedollarization (+Cornel West chat) w/ Richard Wolff
Guerrilla History
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The Advantages of the United States From the World Using the Dollar
In the 1950s, when Kenya became independent, there was in a sense a vacuum which the United States rushed to fill. It literally moved in wherever the British moved out with their foreign aid and military advice. They were absolutely dominant. And they used that dominance to create an empire. That's how we were born. We will operate this informal empire, which we will never call an empire. We won't, and we'll operate it in a neutral, fair, judicious way"
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