Greetings, this is podcast number 56 of Blast the Right.

I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.

Today we're going to zoom out to a worldwide perspective on economic justice.

Let's get right into it.

I recently read a story about how global trade talks collapsed without any agreement to make

things fairer for the poor nations of the world, which was the ostensible reason for

the meeting.

It led me to think I've never really done a podcast about global class warfare, the

international dimension of the right-wing war against the poor.

Some of you may have heard talk of the World Bank, the IMF, structural adjustment programs,

world trade conferences, and the like, and not had a handle on what these things were,

or how they were relevant to progressive activism.

This podcast will give you at least a basic idea.

The Third World Poor suffer a quadruple whammy, a four-pronged attack on their livelihoods

and very lives themselves.

One of these prongs we've already touched on in previous podcasts, the sweetheart contracts

between corrupt Third World governments and foreign multinationals that allow Third World

natural resource wealth to be plundered.

The other three elements of the right-wing attack are unfair conditions of international

trade, the making of dubious loans to corrupt Third World governments, and the imposition

of misery and death-inducing conditions upon Third World nations as a prerequisite to further

assistance.

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