Robert Naiman (HuffPo): Bernie Sanders Will End the IMF's Economic Violence in Greece and Africa

[Jack Rabbit]

From Huffington Post
Dated Friday, July 3

Bernie Sanders Will End the IMF's Economic Violence in Greece and Africa
By Robert Naiman

Many people want to know more about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' foreign policy agenda. Yes, they say, we like what Sanders is saying about reducing extreme inequality, about reducing the political power of the billionaire class. But what about U.S. foreign policy? Yes, they say, Bernie voted no on the Iraq war; yes, they acknowledge, Sanders supports the Iran deal. But we're spending more than half of our federal income tax dollars on the Pentagon's empire, money we should be spending on rebuilding our nation's domestic infrastructure. "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death," Dr. King said. What's Bernie going to do about that?

I'm all for pushing Bernie to talk more about downsizing the Pentagon to be an institution focused on actually defending the United States, as opposed to running around the world overthrowing other people's governments -- a Pentagon that "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," as President John Quincy Adams put it.

But we should also take advantage of the new opportunity that now presents itself; it's not only with bombs that U.S. foreign policy kills and injures innocent civilians.

We should recognize and publicize the fact that Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who is talking about what the IMF is doing to Greece, the only presidential candidate who has a track record of opposing the IMF, the only presidential candidate who, if elected, is likely to do anything to end the economic violence of the IMF.

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[swilton]

1. Ending economic colonialism

[still_one]

2. Maybe I am wrong, but aren't the Greek issues more to do with the EU?

[Jack Rabbit]

3. The IMF is a member of the troika seeking to gut Greek sovereignty

The other two members are the European Commission and the European Central Bank.

Tomorrow's watch word is ό??.

[jwirr]

4. Finally.

[libdem4life]

5. What power would he have over the IMF?