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Pilger …

The crisis that has led to the “rescue” of Greece by the European banks and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the product of a grotesque financial system which itself is in crisis … In the developing world, a system of triage imposed by the World Bank and the IMF has long determined whether people live or die. Whenever tariffs and food and fuel subsidies are eliminated by IMF diktat, small farmers know they have been declared expendable. The World Resources Institute estimates that the toll reaches 13 million to 18 million child deaths every year. “This,” wrote the economist Lester C. Thurow, “is neither metaphor nor simile of war, but war itself.”

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