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(19) Obama Administration Assures World Bank and International Monetary Fund a Free Reign of Abuse
Under the WTO's Financial Services Agreement, over 100 nations must implement "major deregulation, or in effect, mandate policies that caused today's financial crisis harming them most. Yet none of these countries voted for it in their parliaments," and were instead so ordered under WTO rules. Moreover, according to Jesse Griffiths of the London-based Bretton Woods Project:
Throughout their existence, IMF, World Bank, and WTO policies have been destructive. Besides the current economic crisis, their "system has failed to create equity and eradicate poverty. (They) failed to ensure that human rights are protected, and (they) failed to address environmental issues." Instead they ran roughshod over popular interests, serving powerful ones alone.
(20) Obama's Charter School Policies Spread Segregation and Undermine Unions
Like Bush, Obama embraces destructive public education privatizations, his Race to the Top continuing No Child Left Behind policies and more. As a result, quasi-public/private "Charter schools continue to stratify students by race, class, and sometimes language, and (more) racially (isolate students) than traditional public schools" in virtually all large metropolitan areas nationally.
Ultimately, non-union privatized public education is planned, charter schools an interim step to get there by destroying a 375 year tradition, one getting inner city kids like this writer into two top schools, followed by a successful career for four decades.
Bush and ObamaEd want millions of others denied that chance, under marketplace rules, commodifying education, ending government responsibility for it, and making it another business profit center.
(21) Western Lifestyle Continues Environmental Footprint
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