If you think that all these big NGOs who control practically every ‘development’ project are just inefficient and not very good at what they do, think again. Most individuals working in the development business are probably well-intentioned, but their efforts are being corralled and diverted into things of dubious value. This is true in all…
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…
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…
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…
A gushing, uncritical article about how the banks intend to take over the ppor as well as the rich world. And good ol’ Bill Gates too of course. http://wiseupjournal.com//?p=1882
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’…
A judge in Brazil has ordered that the construction of the Belo Monte mega-dam in the Amazon be suspended. The Indians have not given their consent for the dam to go ahead, and have warned that if it does, the Xingu could become a ‘river of blood’. http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/7747
Neo-colonial land grabs carried out on behalf of World Bank-backed British company Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, September 23, 2011 Armed troops acting on behalf of a British carbon trading company backed by the World Bank burned houses to the ground and killed children to evict Ugandans from their homes in the name of seizing…
Land tenure in Uganda is a subject of much dispute, and last year’s farming evictions have left 20,000 homeless [ok so it’s not strictly in the ‘charity’ category, but related] John Vidal, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 September 2011 07.00 BST These people living close to Kicucula village claim to have been evicted from forest land in Mubende…