Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

Once you understand the process of corporate globalization, you have to see that what happened in Argentina, the devastation of Argentina by the IMF, is part of the same machine that is destroying Iraq. Both are efforts to break open and to control markets. And so Argentina is destroyed by the chequebook, and Iraq is destroyed by the cruise missile. If the chequebook won't work, the cruise missile will. Hell hath no fury like a market scorned.

Some days he walked along the banks of the river that smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans.