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Survival International Accuses WWF of Involvement in Violence and Abuse

"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 best conservationists and guardians of the natural world – tribes. They are the environment’s best allies, and should be at the centre of conservation policy."

Burundi: Nkurunziza Refuses to Bow to Samantha Power’s Demands

"The Burundian government was no doubt encouraged by remarks of the Russian and Chinese ambassadors on the importance of protecting Burundi’s national sovereignty. U.N. Ambassador to the U.S. Samantha Power expressed her disappointment."

Bono: A Complete Fraud

"If, as ONE does, an organisation keeps telling you that it’s a “grassroots campaign”, it’s a fair bet that it is nothing of the kind. This collaboration of multimillionaires and technocrats looks to me more like a projection of US and corporate power."

Rwanda, the Enduring Lies: A Project Censored Interview with Professor Ed Herman

"...the United States and its allies are trying for regime change in Burundi, just as they did in Rwanda. They wanted to get rid of the Habyarimana government, a social democratic government in Rwanda. They don’t like the social democratic government in Burundi and they’re trying to get rid of it."

Gates Foundation’s “Corporate Merry-Go-Round”: Spearheading The Neo-liberal Plunder Of African Agriculture

"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spearheading the ambitions of corporate America and the scramble for Africa by global agribusiness."

WATCH: Toxic Philanthropy: The Gates Foundation, Public Health and Imperialism

A panel presented at Left Forum, June 1, 2014. Sponsored by the Research Unit for Political Economy. Speakers: Jacob Levich, Kwame Fosu; Brenda Biddle.

HEART OF DARKNESS

"Unlike the spontaneous resistance by students and marginalized sectors of urban society to this total bureaucratic domination in the 1960s, consumer reaction to mass murder and dispossession in the 21st Century is itself choreographed by the ruling class."

Blood Money

"The French Treasury is receiving 500 billion dollars per year from African countries based on colonial debt they are forced to pay. Without this support extorted from Africa, France would be a Third World country."

Africa’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power

"... the African Great Lakes Region is so resource rich that the resource interests of the world’s industrial and military power elites are always in play behind the news and Samantha Power’s latest African anxieties."

The Dallaire Fairy Tale

"In addition, this foreign policy myth has been used to justify foreign military intervention as is the case with the current political crisis in Burundi. The myth of Dallaire in Rwanda is also cited to rationalize the R2P doctrine, when in fact the true story illustrates the inevitable duplicitousness of foreign interventions."