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    quinta-feira, julho 14, 2011

    Hari: It's not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF itself should be on trial

    Amplify’d from www.independent.co.uk
    the fact that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International
    Monetary Fund (IMF), is facing trial for allegedly raping a maid in a New
    York hotel room is – rightly – big news. But imagine a prominent figure was
    charged not with raping a maid, but starving her to death, along with her
    children, her parents, and thousands of other people. That is what the IMF
    has done to innocent people in the recent past.


    To understand this story, you have to reel back to the birth of the IMF. In
    1944, the countries that were poised to win the Second World War gathered in
    a hotel in rural New Hampshire to divvy up the spoils. With a few honourable
    exceptions, like the great British economist John Maynard Keynes, the
    negotiators were determined to do one thing. They wanted to build a global
    financial system that ensured they received the lion's share of the planet's
    money and resources. They set up a series of institutions designed for that
    purpose – and so the IMF was delivered into the world.

    “When the IMF arrives in a country, they are interested in
    only one thing. How do we make sure the banks and financial institutions are
    paid?... It is the IMF that keeps the [financial] speculators in business.
    They’re not interested in development, or what helps a country to get out of
    poverty.”


    If Strauss-Kahn is guilty, I suspect I know how it happened. He must have
    mistaken the maid for a poor country in financial trouble. Heads of the IMF
    have, after all, been allowed to rape them with impunity for years.

    Read more at www.independent.co.uk
     

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