”We are [so] used to thinking of ”the West” influencing the world, but nowadays the influence often runs the other way.”
-Anne Applebaum
Her new book ”Autocracy inc.” details how the same #neoliberalism that enables the rich to hide their money in shell companies and tax havens, also enables Russia, China, Iran etc to evade sanctions and run huge information operations among us, funding the #farright & others who like them wish to destroy #democracy.
#amreading
https://www.amazon.com/Autocracy-Inc-Dictators-Want-World/dp/0385549938
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2024-08-11 18:50:48
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