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The IMF�s New Cold War Loan to Ukraine [View all] Octafish Sep 2014 OP

This is why Kissinger. Octafish Sep 2014 #1

DURec leftstreet Sep 2014 #2

Guess who's talking at Yalta? Octafish Sep 2014 #5

Ironically, in a piece called "Losing Credibility", the piece loses its own credibility.... Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #3

Michael Hudson Octafish Sep 2014 #4

That's lovely. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #23

Isn't it, though? Octafish Sep 2014 #26

If you define "integrity" as someone who blatantly lies in the face of truth, sure. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #27

No. Integrity means he pegged the banksters from Day 1. Octafish Sep 2014 #28

Calling it right in America in 2008 doesn't make him any less wrong.... Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #30

When so many people are saying the same thing, people who actually sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #31

Who are all the people claiming that there was a coup in Ukraine? Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #32

I'm saying the OPPOSITE. I'm saying that video evidence AND audio evidence of the coup sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #34

You are smart enough to realize that not all regime changes are "coups", correct? Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #35

Yanukovich was driven from his position as elected president of Ukraine by months of sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #37

Regardless of your personal charactarization of the Maidan protests, Yanukovych was not removed.... Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #38

Utter baloney.... Xolodno Sep 2014 #42

Yanukovych had a tendency of saying one thing and doing another. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #43

The fact it took him three days doesn't prove.. Xolodno Sep 2014 #44

You're playing fast and loose with the concept of a "coup" now. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #48

No where near as "fast and loose" as the installation of the Bush/Cheney regime and the blowback bobthedrummer Sep 2014 #50

Okay? Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #51

Seriously, how many more sources, and there are now literally thousands across the globe sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #6

Lot of people don't understand how the World Bank works or Rex Sep 2014 #8

I know, but here on DU, it's hard to believe there is a single person who needs an 'assessment' sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #9

Also that was back on DU2 when it was a less strict forum. We could talk all day Rex Sep 2014 #10

It would be funny if it weren't so sad malaise Sep 2014 #13

I'm more than happy to read an honest, objective analysis of the IMF. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #25

I believe you are speaking for yourself. The author's credentials sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #33

A mere appeal to authority is a fallacious position. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #36

Excellent article, thank you. This was all about the IMF V Ukraine being independent of the sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #7

Larry Summers to address Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference, being held in Kiev this year... Octafish Sep 2014 #18

Great article deserves a Kick. nt elias49 Sep 2014 #11

The article is right on the mark... MattSh Sep 2014 #12

The force behind the creation of the IMF and World Bank - FDR. Who wants out of both - pampango Sep 2014 #14

The IMF and World Bank long ago strayed from anything they were intended for originally. sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #39

Then who loans money to countries that need it? Rich countries, rich corporations, rich pampango Sep 2014 #41

Take Ukraine. The government had a choice, take the IMF loans which have MAJOR strings sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #45

Perhaps Yanukovich made a wise choice but he was reversing a campaign pledge. People cared. pampango Sep 2014 #47

Excellent response. nt Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #52

Vladimir Putin said he could "take Kiev in two weeks� Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #15

Ukraine prefers to face repossession by the west than repossession by russia mathematic Sep 2014 #16

I would rather someone make me a loan than annex part of my property (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #17

Me too, which is why I would avoid any loans from the IMF, where that is their very goal, to sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #40

Only if Ukraine means malaise Sep 2014 #19

BKliban explained... Octafish Sep 2014 #20

ROFL malaise Sep 2014 #21

LOL leftstreet Sep 2014 #29

excellent woo me with science Sep 2014 #49

"You don't understand.....that Ukraine is not even a state." Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2014 #24

kicking.....n/t Hotler Sep 2014 #22

The Kamikaze Economics and Politics of Forcing Austerity on the Ukraine Octafish Sep 2014 #46