Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

A trade is better then service.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

I am a mass of contradictions.

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

Jewelry is fine on some guys, but it's not for me.

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.