How do the dominant media manipulate the debt issue?
15 December 2018 by Eric Toussaint , The Medium
Eric Toussaint talks to The Medium.
The discourse in mainstream media and by governments consists of repeating that there is too much public debt, too much public expenditure, that States must pay their debts and reduce their expenditure. With the CADTM, we are raising the questions of where those debts come from, whether the objectives for which debts were contracted were legitimate, and whether they were contracted in a legal and legitimate manner. This is our approach, and this way of looking at things is not present in mainstream media. They claim it is not related to their reality.
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012 (see here), etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
Other articles in English by Eric Toussaint (530)
- The Mexican debt crisis and the World Bank
4 August, by Eric Toussaint
- We denounce the renegotiation of the debt by Lenín Moreno’s government
3 August, by Eric Toussaint , Maria Lucia Fattorelli , Alejandro Olmos Gaona , Hugo Arias Palacios , Piedad Mancero , Ricardo Patiño , César Sacoto , Ricardo Ulcuango
- The pandemic has exposed the nakedness of European neoliberalism
27 July, by Eric Toussaint , Miguel Urbán Crespo
- The World Bank saw the debt crisis looming
21 July, by Eric Toussaint
- On the World Economic Crisis
20 July, by Eric Toussaint , Dan La Botz
- United States of America: Socialism for Big Capital and wild capitalism for the poor
10 July, by Eric Toussaint
- Reply to the letter by Philippe, King of the Belgians, about Belgium’s responsibility in the exploitation of the Congolese people
8 July, by Eric Toussaint
- The debt trap
1 July, by Eric Toussaint
- Against the bankocracy: how a socialized banking system could function?
30 June, by Eric Toussaint , Philippe Poutou
- Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo. A duty to remember
17 June, by Eric Toussaint
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