The One Percent Rallies Behind IMF Director Christine Lagarde — Paul Craig Roberts
The One Percent Rallies Behind IMF Director Christine LaGarde
Paul Craig Roberts
Washington removed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the leading contender for the French presidency and as director of the IMF by framing him on phony charges of raping a New York hotel maid. The obviously false charge was proven to be totally fabricated and had to be dropped. In the meantime Strass-Kahn had been forced to resign from the IMF and to drop out of the French election. Washington regarded Strauss-Kahn as insufficiently compliant with Washington’s agendas and moved him aside.