USAID’s so-called ‘democracy promotion programmes’ are designed to foment dissent against governments unfriendly to Washington By Linda S.Heard | Special to Gulf NewsPublished: 20:00 April 21, 2014 There is no such thing as a free lunch as states that are recipients of western aid understand only too well. The naive may believe that foreign aid…
Today, the “international community” is running Haiti again, colonial style. One can easily tell by comparing the very slow construction of shelters and basic infrastructure for the Haitian majority with the rapid rise of luxury hotels for foreigners, sometimes with the help of aid funds which, we were told, were going to provide Haitians with…
(NaturalNews) Scores of Americans were saddened by the loss of life and massive damage caused by Superstorm Sandy and as such were motivated to give money to non-profit charities providing relief to victims of the disaster. Only much of that money – tens of millions of dollars, in fact – has never made it to those…
It was recently announced at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa that MasterCard and the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) under the government of Nigeria would form a partnership to distribute a new identity card to every Nigerian citizen. The purpose of the card is to have all Nigerian citizens participate…
Rady Ananda Activist Post At the G8 Summit held two weeks ago at Camp David, President Obama met with private industry and African heads of state to launch the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a euphemism for monocultured, genetically modified crops and toxic agrochemicals aimed at making poor farmers debt slaves to corporations,…
The world is like a ride. You think it’s real – it’s just a ride And we can change it any time we want It’s only a choice – between fear and love. Bill Hicks
[Is it really surprising when we allow our ‘charities’ to be run exactly like mega-corporations, with exactly the same value system and skills needed to run them ‘properly’?] In its continuing frenzy to silence potential critics, Coca-Cola issued a press release recently that announced the following: Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., has been nominated to stand for…
“Tribal peoples have been dependent on and managed their environments for millennia. Despite this, big conservation organizations are partnering with industry and tourism and destroying the b… Source: Survival International Accuses WWF of Involvement in Violence and Abuse | Wrong Kind of Green
A recent Associated Press story shows how UNICEF harms the interests of third world children by using the media to mislead the world. UNICEF, a United Nations organisation (originally called United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) exaggerates the effect on the health of third world children of its activities. UNICEF’s efforts are effectively insignificant compared…