IMF: Disease or Cure?

It's not only military intervention--economic foreign policies are coming under fire too. As the International Monetary Fund meets in Washington, critics blame their policies of the conditions that led to the unrest in the Middle East. RT's Marina Portnaya has the details.

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[apotcake13]

"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" is a book about this kind of thing. I went to see the author give a talk on my uni campus a few weeks ago, and he was saying that loans are given to countries to finance projects foreign companies perform. Countries that take on these loans then become pawns to the powers that lent them the money. If they don't accept the loans they assassinate the leaders. If assassination fails they invade. This is how the US has been expanding its empire for decades

[opAir01]

definitely a disease. 

[BobbyWarrenMiller]

Stop it. We all know that the IMF & EU care about all of us as if we were their very own children. I mean, just look at the way they've brought us all together to watch the ancient Greeks battle it out. With just a little imagination one could have been watching Hercules, Achilles and Alexander taking on the enemies of Greece.

[apresesco]

"IMF: Disease or Cure? "

Disease...worst than cancer

[breckandy]

@Joka114

and us victims are victims.

[Joka114]

Everytime I go to learn more about the economic situations in the world there is always a comment about Jews. Jews are Jews just like Arabs are Arabs, Serbs are Serbs, Americans are Americans ect., a persons' religious prefrences, nationality and ethnicity have nothing to do with our economic hardships. It has a lot to do with human nature, those in power tend to abuse that power, economically, politically or otherwise.

[akamal1113]

IMF's Managing Director, Dominic Strauss, is a Jew.

[ReFleXFnatic]

@apotcake13 Yes I know of this book, I never got to read it though, but I heard the author in an interview, he pretty much covers how they fucked up South America and still do the exact way that you stated, as well as all the other countries in the world in some form or another.

[ChristopherJManess]

I swear their up to something. I know they're not stupid, but someone may be pulling their strings. My concern is what the grand scheme behind this is. Anyone else see the intelligence behind such an act of what seems like stupidity?

[sonatadude]

IMF is a disease!!

[Tressco]

"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."

- Napoléon Bonaparte

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

- Lord Acton