Nov 19
20150
Foundations, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Independent geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser explains why the Empire demonizes Eritrea, and what the country means both practically and symbolically for Africa and for the Global South.
Feb 10
20150
Amnesty International, Avaaz, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Afghanistan Africa Aid Amnesty International Avaaz HRW Iraq Libya NATO Nicaragua Noam Chomsky Syria
"Those of good will in the imperial cultures might like to reflect on the need to decolonise the western mind."
Apr 30
20140
Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africa Aid CJFE Eritrea EYSC Freedom House Human Rights Concern Eritrea (HRCE) NED | National Endowment for Democracy Racism UNHCR
"They are the manufacturers of the evidence and the disseminators of the lies about a nation a people they have chosen to betray for a few pieces of silver. Nothing worse than having racist and condescending self-serving western groups denigrating the people of Eritrea and their courageous stance on nation building, but is made worse by the few mentally enslaved Eritreans, who are repeating the insults against their own brethren."
"Before the banning of NGOs and the construction of the town's canals, Qarawi says he was a "beggar". "Every last week of the month we used to go to the NGOs' office to ask for food. Sometime they will tell us there was no food. It was a shameful life." Two years after deciding to return to farming, Qarawi is a happy man. "All my children go to school. I can afford to send them to study and I have surplus cash," he said with a smile."
The reason for walking out on aid, given in a January 26 2011 notification letter to UN from the country’s powerful Finance Minister, is that “aid only postpones the basic solutions to crucial development problems by tentatively ameliorating their manifestations without tackling their root causes. The structural, political, economic, etc. damage that it inflicts upon recipient countries is also enormous.”
Jan 23
20130
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Africa Aid Demonization Destabilization Eritrea Human Rights Watch
"Eritrea is no one's puppet. In the January 21, 2013 press release titled 'Human Rights Watch on a Dogged Mission of Defamation Against Eritrea' from the state of Eritrea, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Eritrea defends itself against human rights violations put forward by an agency which serves to advance foreign policy for the greatest human rights violator in the world - that of the US."
Oct 01
20120
Aid BP Carbon Markets Carbon Offsets CIVICUS Eco-Imperialism Exxon Ford Foundation Mining Mongolia NED | National Endowment for Democracy Open Soros Development Foundation Rio Tinto Shell United Nations USAID World Bank World Wildlife Fund (WWF) WWF
WWF presently has offices in over 90 countries around the world, so to briefly illustrate the imperialistic nature of their “conservation” efforts this article simply focuses on the contentious nature of their presence in mineral rich Mongolia.
Jul 31
20121
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Aid Capitalism CSR Denialism Foundations Gramsci Non-profit Industrial Complex
"I would argue that the answer is ‘no’; corporate profit gained at the expense of humans can never be justified by such philanthropic gestures. No doubt such noblesse oblige is allocated by some elites with noble intentions; but if the price for such charity is for its recipients to ignore economic exploitation, then it is hardly distributed with altruistic intentions. Instead it is given with economic intent to profit more handsomely from a workforce, in a manner that assuages each individual capitalist’s desire to feel (and advertise) their own neglected humanity."
Feb 22
20120
Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Aid Egypt Freedom House India International Republican Institute National Democratic Institute NED | National Endowment for Democracy
"Aid is not designed to bring the wretched of the earth out of poverty but to pacify unrest in the donor country’s domestic sphere"
Nov 26
20110
Humanitarian Agencies, The Occupation of Haiti
Aid Alternatives Canadian Foundation for the Americas Centre for International Studies and Cooperation CIDA Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs Development and Peace Freedom Network Haiti International Legal Resources Centre Québec Association of International Cooperation Organizations Rights and Democracy Roundtable on Haiti USAID
The image above is from the article “Putting the Aid in Aiding...