``...this neo-liberal "shock treatment" was adapted from programs undertaken by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank all around the globe in the 1990s, including those that immiserated Russia after the USSR collapsed and that helped to bankrupt Argentina. Because the privatizers of the Bush administration were, however, in control of a largely prostrate and conquered country, the Iraqi reforms were enacted more swiftly and in a far more draconian manner than anywhere else on the planet...''
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Since neoliberal `reform' is essentially war on the working class and the welfare state, we can see the destruction of whole US communities all around us---mostly urban poverty and its attendenting symptoms: unemployment of course, higher infant mortality, chronic disease rates, etc.
CG