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the only arena in which “moral and legal” justifications can be adjudicated is a “public sphere” emptied of all effective mechanisms of answerability

Th e second link between war and debt is really just the obverse of the first: alongside debts imposed in order to make war, there are debts imposed in order to keep the peace.

Through its operations the scission between wealth and poverty turns into a self-reinforcing pincer.

What might appear to each of us as vicissitudes of fate and fortune are actually organized by more durable relationships and processes that usually remain opaque.

it seems long ago that anybody trusted the state to serve as a bulwark against the global system