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End of Predatory Empires!!!. Was he serious. IMF, World Bank, the UN, NGOs backed by City of London and Wall St, The French in Africa.

The price of progress is/was colonial enslavement directly or with the Debt Diplomacy of today.

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Nov 16·edited Nov 16Author

This comment is not on the topic of the article, so it violates commenting rules. If you continue to do so, you will be banned.

I will, however, say that with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, we saw the fall of the last great predatory empire. And that led to the greatest expansion of material progress in world history:

https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/progress-since-1991

None of the organizations that you mentioned are "predatory empires."

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I loved the contemporary art you used, tried to order a Kindle edition from Amazon, but looks like Amazon USA only.

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Thanks. I wish that I could say that I created them, but I have near zero art abilities.

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