Palast in fine fettle: Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa

[EFerrari]

Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
Friday, May 20, 2011

by Greg Palast



Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years.

On Wednesday, the New York Times ran five – count'em, FIVE – stories on Strauss-Kahn, Director-General of the International Monetary Fund. According to the Paper of Record, the charges against "DSK," as he's known in France, are in "contradiction" to his "charm" and "accomplishments" at the IMF.

Au contraire, mes chers lecteurs.

Director-General DSK's cruelty, arrogance and impunity toward African and other nations as generalissimo of the IMF is right in line with the story told by the poor, African hotel housekeeper in New York City.

http://www.gregpalast.com/strauss-kahn-screws-africa/

[blondeatlast]

1. I was wondering about his practices at the IMF. Color me not shocked.

Arrogant bullies tend to be arrogant bullies in all aspects of their lives.

[dreamnightwind]

2. Interesting.

My knowledge of this is pretty shallow. I had assumed DSK was, in the IMF culture, a reformer who was to the left of traditional IMF ideology. In fact I had suspected he was targeted by TPTB for this reason. My basis for this suspicion was something I had read where I think DSK was saying that economic inequality was a destabilizing geopolitical force and needed to be reduced. That didn't sound like the IMF to me.

Palast doesn't seem to look at it this way. He sees DSK as part of the same policies that exasperated economic inequality. So perhaps DSK is just a womanizing pig that finally went too far. Dunno, look forward to watching this story spin out.