The blood bankers: Book review by Andy Worthington. Intro: >As an attorney, former chief economist at McKinsey and Co, and now an investigative journalist who has spent 10 years researching corruption and injustice in 50 countries, James S Henry brings an unusual breadth of experience to this devastating critique of global economics. Over 400 pages of densely-packed information (sometimes poorly proof-read, as if propelled by its own indignant momentum), he exposes how, between 1970 and 2003, over three trillion dollars loaned to developing countries by First World banks and governments disappeared, leaving "little to show... except giant white elephant projects, widespread corruption and private elites that had learned to stash much of their liquid wealth back in the First World".< Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
