22-05-2011, 06:33 AM
I don't disagree with Palast, but for once I think he has lost sight of the larger picture. Yes, even a reformist in the IMF would still be horror from the viewpoint of developing nations and poor people everywhere. However, Palast seems to have missed the significance of who was chosen to replace him, how much worse the policies will now be, and how it was all done. Personally, I'd like to see the IMF, WB and all other such institutions of control destroyed. Until such a time, reformists are to be preferred over ultra-rightist bankers - and any patterns of reformers being eliminated [by set-up scandals or bullets, et al.] not ignored for their deep political significance and how they point to what forces are really in control and ascendancy. 
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass