Chuck Grimes wrote:
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> What's wrong with these letters is that they fail to make it explicit
> that the WB like the IMF and WTO are merely extensions of US foreign
> policy that are managed strictly for the benefit of US elites. These
> are international means to manipulating numerous local domestic
> policies and coordinate them for the interest and benefit of US
> corporate/governance.
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This of course is what the very title of Hardt/Negri's _Empire_ denies. The whole purpose of the book (insofar as it can be said to have any purpose than using up some more paper pulp) is to submerge U.S. imperialism within a gelatineous mass of "empire in the absract."
Carrol