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Elizabeth Lopatto
The weaponized financial system as a means of control.

Keep your eyes on the money. That’s where the power is. Henry Farrell, an expert on economic weaponization, is concerned about the Trump Administration clawing back EPA money. To him, it suggests a very troubling precedent.

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