In his 2004 study of US support for democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Thomas Carothers found that: Which is an understatement really, but it's no different than it's policy during the Cold War: 'Democracy is fine IF it conforms to US strategic and economic interests, but never substantive democracy, as British scholar Gordon Connell-Smith observes: With the Clinton administration in particular, I just happen to have this handy: Not even mentioning Clinton's death squads in East Timor, military aid to Suharto, shielding and harboring of Haitian death squads, and enforcing Austerity and Mercantilist free trade agreements on Haiti which destroyed what was left of the economy. Then we have.. Larry Summers: We should dump our toxic waste in low wage countries In December 1991, while chief economist for the World Bank, Lawrence Summers wrote an internal memo saying that the Bank should encourage migration of "the dirty industries" to the less-developed countries. The memo states: Despite this memo receiving wide distribution and condemnation, Summers, in 1999, was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Clinton. This was a promotion from being Undersecretary of the Treasury-for intemational affairs. After Summers' departure from the Obama team, in a handsome tribute, Obama issued a statement saying:
