"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies."

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"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies."

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"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."

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"I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech."

Age, Son, Poor

"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."

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"These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt."

Nation, Countries

"Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties."

Power,

"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France."

People, Army, Fight, First

"My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation."

Life, Country, Struggle

"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime."

Nation, Countries, Help, Support

"The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years."

History, Years

"Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there."

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"So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy."

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"Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity."

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"Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization."

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"It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today."

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"It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets."

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