Bono, the New Poster Boy for Globalization

By Lloyd Hart


NPR State Radio just aired a report stating that Bono of the band U2 agrees with the conditions that the IMF and the World Bank set before an already raped and pillaged nation can get a loan. Well if Bono agrees with those conditions then we the people that actually know in depth the damage the World Bank and the IMF have done to the starving, Aids stricken nations, must now begin to protest this amateur that calls himself an activist. Bono is attempting to co-opt a movement that he won’t even march with. Was he at the protests in Barcelona or Genoa or the WEF protests in New York. No he was not. Bono is no Billy Bragg. If NPR has got it right then Bono is the poster boy for Globalization. We should boycott this man’s celebrity and no longer feed his over inflated ego by any further purchases of U2 recordings.

I am outraged that Bono thinks that travelling around the US with the election stealing Bush prior to the Monterey meeting in Mexico will some how change the plans of the Bush gang and their neo-liberal agenda. These cynical men want Africa to scream in pain of Aids and poverty. It is the only way to keep the cheap resources flowing to Europe and America. As far as Bush is concerned, the problem with Africa is that it is full Africans. Which is evidenced by his cynically low contribution to the UN Aids program. Does Bono actually believe he can make a difference with these Evil Doers in the White House? Bush’s own grant proposal for future IMF and World Bank distributions is lead laden with the neo-liberal gutting of infrastructure and resources of the weaker nations.

If Bono thinks that guilting out Bush and the gang of thieves he represents by reading to them from the scriptures as NPR reports he does, then I say he has totally lost his mind. Bono is talking to Satan when he talks to Bush and Satan has tricked Bono into campaigning for Bush and his vile gang of Global trashing demons. Bono needs to sit down, shut up and pick up some books from the Anti-Globalization Movement reading list and learn something about the monsters he is so eager to hang out with at the G8, the WEF and in Republican mid term election campaign.

I am now challenging Bono to show up at the IMF and World Bank protests on April 19th through to the 22nd. and explain his neo-liberal position directly to the Anti-Globalization protesters and to participate in a debate with the movements leadership which we can film and web cast for all the world to see. If he does not agree with the IMF and World Bank dictates then I challenge him to march with us in the Anti-Globalization Movement in Washington in April.