Article 6HMQV What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot

What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot

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George Monbiot
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The Atlas Network's dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world. And you may find its leaders on a resignation honours list near you

There are elements of fascism, elements borrowed from the Chinese state and elements that reflect Argentina's history of dictatorship. But most of the programme for government announced by Javier Milei, the demagogic new Argentinian president, feels eerily familiar, here in the northern hemisphere.

A crash programme of massive cuts; demolishing public services; privatising public assets; centralising political power; sacking civil servants; sweeping away constraints on corporations and oligarchs; destroying regulations that protect workers, vulnerable people and the living world; supporting landlords against tenants; criminalising peaceful protest; restricting the right to strike. Anything ring a bell?

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