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Trump Sanctions Will Doom Dollar Supremacy
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
23 Sep 2019
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President Trump’s massive use of sanctions as a weapon of US policy “has put the world’s financial, monetary and trading system into crisis,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro. If the US persists in monetarily bludgeoning its adversaries, the nations of the world will “create a basket of currencies” and invent ways of trading “without using the dollar,” said Monteiro.

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