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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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but it would still be unaccountable

[...] Today's Establishment, in my view, is bound together by common economic interests and a shared set of mentalities: in particular a mentality that holds that those at the top deserve ever greater power and wealth. Unaccountable power could become more representative, but it would still be unac…

—p.xii The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It Foreword to the Paperback Edition (xi) by Owen Jones
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bulwark

The International Monetary Fund has long been a bulwark of international neo-liberalism

—p.306 Conclusion: A Democratic Revolution (294) by Owen Jones
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Washington Consensus

The US once enjoyed near-hegemony over Latin America, a position initially enshrined by the 1823 Monroe Doctrine and, in modern times, the so-called 'Washington Consensus'.

—p.285 The Illusion of Sovereignty (270) by Owen Jones
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