IRAQ: HOW WASHINGTON IMPOSED A NEO-LIBERAL CONSTITUTION-dOUG iRELAND

[laststeamtrain]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism


IRAQ: HOW WASHINGTON IMPOSED A NEO-LIBERAL CONSTITUTION DE-REGULATING THE ECONOMY (and strangled an Iraqi Welfare State)

Washington -- not content with god-fathering an Islamist Constitution for Iraq that establishes Islamic religious principles as the basis for all laws -- also succeeded in scrapping a constitution, drafted by the Iraqis, that was modeled on that of the social-democratic Scandinavian countries, and replacing it with one that fulfilled "the wish-list of international investors,” as The Economist described the objectives of America's proconsuls in Iraq. Yet this is a story that has never been coherently told in the U.S. press.
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/09/irgq_how_washin.html

[Zenlitened]

1. I realize this was written for a non-US audience. But for purposes of...

... discussion in the US, the term "neo-liberal" is very misleading, IMO.

:grr:

[laststeamtrain]

2. You're probably right. I added a link to the Wikipedia article on...

Neo-Liberalism at the top of the excerpt. I forget that most people need to be spoon-fed. Is there a little emoti-thingie for intellectually lazy?
I think Doug Ireland is operating in the US. Not sure though. I find it very curious that the neocons found an Islamic Republic more desirable than a Social Democracy, no?

[JAbuchan08]

3. Hey isn't this the way all private property becomes private property

someone camped an army on it and said "MINE!" Theft is the most basic principle of capitalism. Of course once a few generations have passed since the original theft one can call it "asset leverage" and its all good...