Thursday, January 23, 2014

Should the World Bank be shut down ???

This report says that the World Bank promotes projects which result in human rights abuses and death:

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/4660-beyond-reform-its-time-to-shut-down-the-world-bank-


The World Bank’s history of investing in projects resulting in murder and human rights abuses suggests that efforts to reform the bank is a fool’s errand. During the early 1980s, in neighboring Guatemala the World Bank lent hundreds of millions of dollars for the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam project during the bloody military dictatorships of Fernando Romeo Lucas García and Efraín Ríos Montt. One of the results of the World Bank’s project was a series of planned massacres that left 440 Mayan Achi men, women, and children murdered.


This led me to recall that Robert Strange McNamara served as head of the World Bank from April 1968 to June 1981. His career progression kinda makes sense: help Curtis LeMay incinerate the Japanese, help Ford Motor Co. put profits over people on a national scale, help massacre beau coup Vietnamese, and then help the World Bank put profits over people on a global scale.


Did you ever watch the Errol Morris film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara? One of the lessons is that "In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil".

No, Robert. No, no, NO !!! In order to do good, you have to ENGAGE in good. Evil can NEVER be part of it.

No good act can produce an evil result. Evil means, even for a good end, produce evil results.

Mahatma Gandhi

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