"Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation as a sovereign state on a global level. It also protected the interests of foreign investment in countries of the global South even when these were exploitative, and deprived countries of the benefits of resources situated within their territories."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

Richard A. Falk

#Country Quotes #Law Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.”
“Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.”

Source : Rodney Stark (2014). “How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity”, p.103, Open Road Media
“Books are the liberated spirits of men.”
“I think it's a big disservice to our country and to our democracy to continue to raise these doubts.”
“I don't necessarily need Hollywood.”
“The good things take care of themselves. We want to find all the negatives.”
“The families of our friends are always a disappointment.”
“TheÂ common lawÂ is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.”

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