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Monthly Review
05-23-2014, 01:12 PM
Behind BMGF's coordinated interventions in pharmaceuticals, agriculture, population control, and other putatively philanthropic concerns lies a broader agenda. In a recent interview Bill Gates briefly strayed off-message to warn of "huge population growth in places where we don't want it, like Yemen and Pakistan and parts of Africa."77 His use of the majestic plural here is revealing: in spite of much rhetoric about "empowering poor people," the Foundation is fundamentally concerned with reshaping societies in the context of ruling-class imperatives. . . . "Land mobility" not land reform . . . Population control not redistribution . . . Dependency not democracy . . . A facelift for the rulers

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