Janet Bush: For all the talk about 'making poverty history', the end
result is still genocide-by-numbers
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/story.jsp?story=3D623936
27 March 2005
This year of "making poverty history" is not going swimmingly well so
far. It is hard not to be cynical when the German Chancellor, Gerhard
Schr=F6der, has the opportunity to assert the influence of "Old Europe"
and do the developing world a good turn at the same time, and then
flunks it. Why did he feel he had to endorse George Bush's choice of
Paul Wolfowitz to lead the World Bank?
The nomination of a right-wing hawk should not have come as a surprise.
For all the dedication of its multicultural staff - many of whom are
brilliant, good people - the World Bank has always been an arm of US
strategic interests. In the 1970s it was led by Robert McNamara, who,
as US Defense Secretary, had been one of the architects of America's
war in South-east Asia and hugely boosted the influence of the
Pentagon. Then, the World Bank made loans conditional on population
control; under Wolfowitz, loans will be contingent on co-operating in
the fight against terror (aka anyone challenging America?).
Janet Bush
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