Run on the Bank

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu
Thu May 25 03:08:30 PDT 2000


On Wed, 24 May 2000, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:


> What damage has the "Whirled Bank" done?
> Please be precise, no general mumbling about
> "globalization" or "world capitalism," please.

Oh, nothing too serious, just little things like spraying 3,000 tons of DDT on the Amazon (http://www.whirledbank.org/environment/waste.html), encouraging the incineration of toxic medical waste (http://www.essentialaction.org/waste/worldbank.html), trashing rainforests (http://www.whirledbank.org/environment/logging.html), building hideously destructive dams which trash local communities and rip apart ecosystems (http://www.whirledbank.org/environment/dams.html), plus the usual neoliberal savaging of education (http://www.whirledbank.org/development/education.html) and other essential social services.

When the Revolution comes, the top honchos of the IMF/WB ought to go to the dock for high economic crimes against humanity, along with the Wall Street financiers whose class interests they have so ably pursued.

-- Dennis



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