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Downstream: How Corporations Control the Government w/ Matt Kennard

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The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development

The EBRD was set up in 1991 at the end of the Cold War to integrate former Soviet bloc into capitalist system. Now, like with the IFC, it's just become a complete racket and joke,. They've spent a billion dollars giving little money to expand into Eastern Europe. And this is a huge massively rich corporation. It does not need non-commercial loans to expand into different places anywhere. We say we, but again, it'll just be clear, this is taxpayer money coming from the UK or France or Italy. The company itself is not, it is particularly a uniquely bad treatment of its workers.

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