Human Rights Watch (HRW) during the height of the Kony 2012 hysteria, dusted off one of its old propaganda videos titled, “Joseph Kony – LRA” uploaded on November of 2010, to try and capitalize on the attention Invisible Children raised earlier this month. However, the Kony 2012 campaign imploded just as fast, and perhaps even more spectacularly than…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68GbzIkYdc8&w=560&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ8q1fEqYIM&w=560&h=315] ”From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growing industry in the US is the White Savior Industrial Complex. It is not about justice. It is about having an emotional experience that validates privilege. The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing…
We are frequently advised to seek help from the Gates Foundation. We don’t. Here is why. After it was exposed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic brainchild of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, purchased 500,000 shares in Monsanto back in 2010 valued at more than $23 million, it became abundantly clear that this…
AN Irish Examiner survey of the pay packages earned by the heads of leading charities shows most are on salaries ranging from €100,000 to €150,000. Of 24 charities canvassed for details of remuneration packages awarded to chief executives, the highest salary was paid by Enable Ireland to its chief executive, Fionnuala O’Donovan. Ms O’Donovan earns…
http://farmlandgrab.org/ is a site dedicated to news about the global corporate land grab that is going on. Some articles in english.
Jeffrey Green (Activist Post) The environmental movement is in love with the word ‘sustainable’. Admittedly, it’s a wonderful word in the purest sense, meaning; 1. capable of being sustained, 2. capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment. Who doesn’t want those capabilities? Yet, ‘sustainability’, like everything else good and pure, has…
Ruaidhrí from We Are Change interviews a Concern collector in Dublin. The collectors opinions are “not valid” and he asks them to contact head office or ask his supervisor, who can talk on behalf of Concern. The Supervisor arrives, and the official word is, no I don’t have time to talk, we’re paid to be…
The Gates Foundation is once again pushing a new and experimental vaccine on the children of the poor. This time it’s a malaria vaccine. Bear in mind that the Gates Foundation funds an organization called Planned Parenthood, which was originally called the Eugenics Society, but changed its name after the Nazis made eugenics unpopular. Gates’…
PETA rakes in nearly $30 million each year in income, much of it raised from pet owners who think their donations actually help animals. In 2010 they took in 2,345 pets, and found homes for just 44! 2,200 were killed. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk complained that actually taking care of animals costs more than killing…
WWF’s flagship scheme to promote sustainable timber – the Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN) – is allowing companies to reap the benefits of association with WWF and its iconic panda brand, while they continue to destroy forests and trade in illegally sourced timber, a new briefing by Global Witness reveals. While GFTN is [according…