Jan 29
20141
Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Breast Cancer Awareness Cancer Society Feminism Gay Pride Komen Foundation Militarism NGOization Pacifism as Patholgy Pinkwashing
Samantha King, author, "Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy, speaks about pinkwashing of American foreign policy in the Middle East through Breast Cancer Awareness events.
Jan 21
20140
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Occupation of Haiti, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Canada World Youth Canadian Hunger Foundation Partners in Rural Development Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Canadian University Service Overseas Development & Peace Haiti Military contractor philanthropy NATO NED | National Endowment for Democracy Neo-liberalism Oxfam Quebec
"The universe of NGOs is now enormous. They have been sent by the West to salvage nations torn by invasions, overthrows, and exploitation. In the process they co-opt many members of the leadership class, drawing in both government employees and activists from grassroots political and social movements, as they pay high wages by local standards, and offer travel and other benefits. The NGO as an agent of imperialism is not new—remember the missionaries—but the scale is."
Jan 21
20142
350.org / 1Sky, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Dogwood ForestEthics Keystone XL North American Tar Sands Coalition Tar Sands Solutions Network Tides
“If we do not change course soon, we may end up where we are headed.” Saw a variation of that on a climate analysis article recently. It’s apt, but while we need to point out that this is true of science it is also true of our own social organization. We have been also expert at denial when it comes to our own internal practice. Now is the time for sober assessment.
"cores of blue-chip U.S. companies quietly bankrolled politically active nonprofits to the tune of at least $185 million in roughly a single year, according to a new Center for Public Integrity investigation."
Jan 21
20140
Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Otpor | Canvas, The Soros Network | OSI, USAID
Albert Einstein Institution blue bucket CANVAS CIA Eurasia Foundation Ford Foundation Freedom House Gene Sharp George Soros Open Society Institute Harvard National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Otpor Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty RAND Corporation ru-verderko.ru U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
"It was not until September 2012, over two years after USAID was linked to the Blue Buckets, that President Vladimir Putin ordered USAID out of Russia. Some 57 NGOs in Russia were said to receive official financial support from USAID. That number did not count the unofficial support rendered by USAID to other groups, some with close links to terrorist groups in the Russian Caucasus region, particularly Chechnya and Dagestan."
Jan 21
20140
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
911 development aid Ecology effeminization environmentalism Humanitarian Intervention Imperialism militarization of anthropology militarization of entertainment media Military Industrial Complex neoliberalism paternalism
"In becoming akin to private, parastatal organizations, NGOs have been presented with multiple crises on which they build themselves further as prostheses of a state-in-absentia. This has caused some to characterize the formation of a new NGO-Industrial Complex where work by charity and aid organizations sometimes resembles profiteering (see Noel, this volume). Lucrative public funds for disaster relief feed the coffers of seemingly countless NGOs which in turn can exacerbate the human suffering of a crisis by providing the illusion of an effective response while in fact doing little to mitigate the suffering of others."
Jan 08
20140
Foundations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Chile CIA Democracy Now Direct Action Imperialism ITT Lannan Foundation Mother Jones Salvador Allende The Nation Weather Underground
"Between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2011, for example, the producers of "Democracy Now!" accepted $1.4 million in “charitable grant”/blood money from the foundation that former ITT Director and ITT stockholder Lannan established: $375,000 in 2008; $350,000 in 2009; $375,000 in 2010; and $300,000 in 2011."
Jan 08
20140
Foundations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Chile CIA General Rene Schneider Chereau Imperialism International Telephone & Telegraph ITT Corporation Lannan Foundation Salvador Allende Weather Underground
“At 2 a.m., September 28 , the night telephone supervisor at the New York Times received a call. `Take this down because I’m only going to say this once,’ a man told her. `I am the Weatherman Underground. At the ITT-American building, a bomb is going to go off in 15 minutes. This is in retaliation of the ITT crimes they committed against Chile.’
Jan 04
20140
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The Occupation of Haiti, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Afghanistan Africa CIA Haiti Iraq Libya Médecins Sans Frontières MSF NATO Nigeria Pentagon’s Defense Planning Guidance Red Cross Rwanda Sarkozy Syria Typhoon Haiyan
"The most illuminating characterization of the humanitarian aid industry was made by none other than US Secretary of State Colin Powell, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs. According to the authors, in 2001 Powell stated, “Just as surely as our diplomats and military, American NGOs are out there serving and sacrificing on the front lines of freedom… NGOs are such a force multiplier for us, such an important part of our combat team” in Afghanistan."
According to the SETECI, since 2007, USAID had invested a yearly average of US$32mn in initiatives in Ecuador, the majority of which were implemented by local and international NGOs.