by Whitney Webb, from MintPress News
In a leaked military manual on
“unconventional warfare” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, the U.S.
Army states that major global financial institutions — such as the World
Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) — are used as
unconventional, financial “weapons in times of conflict up to and
including large-scale general war,” as well as in leveraging “the
policies and cooperation of state governments.”
The document,
officially titled “Field Manual (FM) 3-05.130, Army Special Operations
Forces Unconventional Warfare” and originally written in September 2008,
was recently highlighted
by WikiLeaks on Twitter in light of recent events in Venezuela as well
as the years-long, U.S.-led economic siege of that country through
sanctions and other means of economic warfare. Though the document has
generated new interest in recent days, it had originally been released by WikiLeaks in December 2008 and has been described as the military’s “regime change handbook.”...
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