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The New Humanitarianism: The Imperative to ‘Act’ and to ‘Act Now’

"The NGO/media spectacle helps to unify and stabilize reality, disavowing anything that disturbs the humanitarian dream-fantasy, is discomforting to the public, or threatens the neoliberal global order."

Exposing Charities in Africa: Hypocrisy, Racism, Objectification

"Get Angry: Global Inequality Should Be Changed, and Charity Isn't the Way."

Bob Geldof and the Aid Industry: “Do They Know it’s Imperialism?”

"Celebrity activists cannot be relied upon in searching for such solutions; as embedded within capitalist networks of power, they tend to be amongst those few individuals least likely to engage in such a rational approach to problem solving."

Tony Blair wins Save The Children’s ‘Global Legacy’ Award

"And this isn’t some sick, satirical joke. The man who was to a huge extent responsible for killing, injuring, displacing and immiserating several hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children (among his many other crimes and misdemeanours) has been recognised ‘for his humanitarian work’ by one the ‘Western’ world’s foremost child welfare NGOs."

ERITREA: The Modern Day Carpetbaggers and Scalawags-Final

"The carpetbaggers and scalawags are no match for the conscious and resilient people of Eritrea."

The Deeply Distorted ‘Syria Deeply’

"Sites like Syria Deeply & Storyful need to be exposed for what they are –minions of an imperial mindset that act as the propaganda arm for the military industrial complex and profit on war & suffering. Any aid group that aligns with this is either deeply delusional or capitalising on obscene atrocities."

It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words … | Haitians Want to Know: “Where’s the Money?”

Haitians have a question they would like answered.

FLASHBACK: The Missionary Position – NGOs and Development in Africa

2002: "NGOs face a stark choice. If they stand in favour of the emancipation of humankind (whether at home or abroad), then the focus of their work has inevitably to be in the political domain, supporting those social movements that seek to challenge a social system that benefits a few and impoverishes the many. The closing years of apartheid in Africa were illustrative of the choice that NGOs face today: either they supported the emerging popular movements (in South Africa and internationally) that supported the overthrow of a brutal system of exploitation, or they stayed silent and continued their philanthropic work, and became thereby complicit in the crimes of the system of apartheid."