Geopolitics
The Bangkok Spectacle: World Bank and IMF Return to the Scene of Their Crimes
The World Bank and IMF are holding their 2026 meetings in Thailand, a nation deeply scarred by their policies including the disastrous Pak Mun Dam and the austerity of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. This is a grotesque spectacle of neo-colonial institutions, draped in the language of poverty alleviation, returning to parade their failures and inflict new harms like AI-driven disruption on the very people they have impoverished.
