Articles by Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy
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Meet the Secretive Committees That Run the Global Economy
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank are the two most important American institutions in global financial governance. Both institutions are headquartered in Washington, D.C., just down the street from the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group, two global financial bodies created in 1944 to manage the world economy on behalf of the rich Western nations that founded them.
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Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
In Part 1 of the Global Power Project exposé on the Institute of International Finance, I examined the origins and evolution of an organization representing the interests of global banks. In Part 2, I looked at the role played by the IIF and its leadership during the European debt crisis. In this third and final part in the series, I examine the relationship between the IIF and global central bankers.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project: Exposing the Institute of International Finance (Part 2) – Connecting Josef Ackermann, the IFF, and the Euro Debt Crisis
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
When the European debt crisis hit headlines in 2010, the IIF was again on the scene and playing a major part. At the center was the CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann, who served as CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2002 to 2012, and over the same period served as Chairman of the IIF.
→ read full articleEmpire under Obama (Part 1): Political Language and the ‘Mafia Principles’ of International Relations
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
In the first part of this essay series on ‘Empire Under Obama,’ I will aim to establish some fundamental premises of modern imperialism, or what is often referred to as ‘international relations,’ ‘geopolitics’, or ‘foreign policy.’ Specifically, I will refer to George Orwell’s writing on ‘political language’ in order to provide a context in which the discourse of imperialism may take place out in the open with very little comprehension on the part of the public which consumes the information; and further, to draw upon Noam Chomsky’s suggestion of understanding international relations as the application of ‘Mafia Principles’ to foreign policy.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project: Exposing the Institute of International Finance (Part 1)
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
This is the first of a series of exposés focusing on the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the very “visible hand” of financial markets. It is a continuation of the Global Power Project produced by Occupy.com. Part 1 examines the origins of the IIF.
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Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
The bank that has committed a raft of fraud, illegal foreclosures, energy price fixings and food market speculations took in more than $107 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds in the bailouts. Too big to fail. Too big to jail. Too cancerous to care.
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Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
For a mega-money laundering, drug war profiteering, prison-industry enlarging global bank like Wells Fargo, the evidence is obvious: it helps to have affiliations with individuals and institutions that make up the U.S. and increasingly the international power elite. Like the other big banks, Wells Fargo is too big to fail, too big to jail, too criminal to control — and too tumorous to tolerate.
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Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Over ensuing decades and mergers it eventually came to be Citibank, and in the late 1990s, Citigroup. At that time, the bank was dealing with accusations that it had aided in the laundering of roughly $100 million in payoffs by Mexican drug cartels. In 2000, the mega-bank was accused of abusing borrowers and clients through predatory lending practices.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 6: Banking on Influence with Bank of America
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
What is clear is that Bank of America, like all big banks in our era, isn’t merely a financial institution but simultaneously acts as an influential institution in the media, military industrial complex, think tanks, chemical companies and government circles. The bank is too big to fail. Too big to jail. And too connected to change.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 5: Banking on Influence with Goldman Sachs
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
One of the largest banks in the United States, Goldman Sachs was central to the process of creating the housing bubble that popped in 2007-8, which led to the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression. As Matt Taibbi famously documented in Rolling Stone, Goldman has been involved in “every major market manipulation since the Great Depression,” profiting along the way as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
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Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
In May [2013], JPMorgan Chase was listed as the largest bank in the world with assets at roughly $4 trillion — some $1.53 trillion of it in derivatives. In the midst of the financial crisis in 2008, JPMorgan Chase became not only a major criminal, but also a prime beneficiary of people’s suffering.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 2: Identifying the Institutions of Control
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In Part 1 I provided an overview examining who and what constitute the global ruling elite – often referred to as the Transnational Capitalist Class. In this second part, I will attempt to identify some of the key, dominant institutions that have facilitated and have in turn been supported by the development of this oligarchic class. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 3: The Influence of Individuals and Family Dynasties
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In this third part, I examine the dynastic influence wielded by prominent corporate and financial families. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full articleGlobal Power Project, Part 1: Exposing the Transnational Capitalist Class
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. By studying the relationships and varying levels of leadership that govern our planet’s most influential institutions — from banks, corporations and financial institutions to think tanks, foundations and universities — this project seeks to expose the complex, highly integrated network of influence wielded by relatively few individuals on a national and transnational basis. This is not a study of wealth, but a study of power.
→ read full articleWhy So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup
Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy Movement – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and “least transparent” trade negotiation in history.
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