Of Water, Human Beings and Other "Worthless" Commodities How Capitalism Unleashes the Beast of Soulless Avarice

Jason Miller

...The United States and its Neocolonial partners guaranteed the economic and political subjugation of developing nations when they forged the Bretton Woods Agreements at the end of World War II. Utilizing organizations like the World Bank and "free trade" agreements like GATT and NAFTA, the Neocolonialists have created a subtle yet powerful economic form of oppression. Providing loans to deeply impoverished developing nations, the World Bank requires that recipients make "structural adjustments", including privatizing, cuts in social spending, elimination of labor protection laws, and the elimination of trade protections for their people. Multinational corporations are then free to rape, pillage and plunder virtually at will...

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