large and we may not be as isolated as we think from our great counterparts independent journalist james marsden has more. so it's not only a more extreme example of what's been going on here but it's a more first world example of what's been going on all over the world you know the i.m.f. and the sort of major international engines of near liberal capitalism have been treating the developing world the global south this way for decades you know haiti in liberia and all these places that they presume to bail out when they reach horrible fiscal conditions but what that entails is huge cuts to. social spending privatization of the commons obliteration of labor a huge very sharp decrease in labor in living standards and in wages and this kind of thing has been going on all over the world for you know in africa and in latin america and in southeast asia and greece is the first place that we really see. hugo a big first world economy ostensibly a democracy a robust middle class white people being treated exactly the same way as as you know the guy m.-f. of the world bank and everybody else have been t