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Thursday, August 24, 2006
56 - Class Warfare, International-Style: The Right-Wing's Assault Against The World's Poor
The Third World poor suffer a quadruple whammy, a four-pronged attack on their livelihoods and very lives themselves.
One of these prongs we've already touched on in previous podcasts, the sweetheart contracts between corrupt Third World governments and foreign multinationals that allow Third World natural resource wealth to be plundered.
The other three elements of the right-wing attack are unfair conditions of international trade; the making of dubious loans to corrupt Third World governments; and the imposition of misery-and-death-inducing conditions upon Third World nations as a prerequisite to further assistance.
Bottom line: as at home, so abroad.
Some of you may have heard talk of the World Bank, the IMF, structural adjustment programs, world trade conferences and the like, and not had a handle on what these things were, or how they were relevant to progressive activism.
This podcast will give you at least a basic idea.
Jack Clark 2:44 PM
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