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Interactive | NGOs: Global Change Agents or Trojan Horses for Western Hegemony?

Just as colonists saw diversity as an impediment to rule, the same governments now push neoliberalism through NGOs.

Suzanne Nossel | PEN America Hypocrisy

"As with far too many NGOs, PEN America has elected to wear blinders when it comes to human rights violations by the United States and its militarism projected through institutions like NATO and militarily dependent states like Israel. While I was disheartened by PEN International's former vice president Nadine Gordimer's bias when it came to Israel, the recent choice by PEN America's trustees to install the former U.S. State Department warmonger Suzanne Nossel as its new executive director is the final straw."

One Big Progressive Clusterfuck [Brought to you by Avaaz Founder – MoveOn.org]

"The tools of imperialism have come home to the core of the empire, as they always do. This time, like the many times before, it’s in the form of “consensual domination” on the part of citizens who partake in “activism” that’s nothing more than freshly installed astroturf for the Democratic Party disguised as “democracy promotion.'"