tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post1665849009337886354..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: World Bank's Development Model Not Serving The Interests Of The World's Poor Poetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-26840941716747185052015-04-19T02:04:35.475+00:002015-04-19T02:04:35.475+00:00Thanks for your comments here and elsewhere on the...Thanks for your comments here and elsewhere on the blog, Mike. I recognise there may be a difference in how to emphasise and prioritise the need for socialism and how to analyse capitalism but all the bits and pieces hopefully should add up to the whole. <br /><br />The blog would very much welcome any fuller and longer contribution as a separate post from a long time sympathetic visitor as you have been. ajohnstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-35584236289841738772015-04-18T23:31:35.733+00:002015-04-18T23:31:35.733+00:00The World Bank answers: Because WE promote the cap...The World Bank answers: Because WE promote the capitalist way.Mike Ballardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410520975856239745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-61467523262288514962015-04-17T05:07:40.914+00:002015-04-17T05:07:40.914+00:00For more on this topic see: http://www.commondream...For more on this topic see: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/16/world-bank-funded-projects-fueling-land-grabs-displacement-global-poor<br /><br />"The World Bank regularly broke its own promises to protect Indigenous rights around the globe by funding projects that displaced or threatened the livelihood of millions of the most vulnerable people on the planet, a new investigation has found.<br /><br />Evicted and Abandoned, a joint report published Thursday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and several other outlets, found that a slew of World Bank-funded projects—including dams and power plants—have pushed 3.4 million people out of their homes or off their lands around the world since 2004." - - -Janet Surmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05185354285574590622noreply@blogger.com