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Everyone should look around for 'undeniable' signs of war profiteering. We need more diplomacy to move towards peace and prevent the exploitation of conflicts f
by secondary_op 4y ago
Everyone should look around for 'undeniable' signs of war profiteering. We need more diplomacy to move towards peace and prevent the exploitation of conflicts for financial gains. Instead what we see is sites like this where only thing that they do is demonise one side while showcasing horrors of war. While other hand of humble sponsors throw even more military to make more destruction.
Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1581698912447975424 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1581698912447975424
Nova Ukraine is a 501(c)3 registered non-profit organization (EIN 465335435) dedicated to raising awareness about Ukraine in the US and throughout the world and providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Here is the thing about NGO's
In India, for instance, the funded NGO boom began in the late 1980s and 1990s. It coincided with the opening of India's markets to neoliberalism. At the time, the Indian state, in keeping with the requirements of structural adjustment, was withdrawing funding from rural development, agriculture, energy transport, and public health. As the state abdicated its traditional role, NGOs moved in to work in these very areas. The difference, of course, is that the funds available to them are a minuscule fraction of the actual cut in public spending. Most large funded NGOs are financed and patronized by aid and develop agencies, which in turn are funded by Western governments, the World Bank, the UN, and some multinational corporations. Though they may not be the very same agencies, they are certainly part of the same loose political formation that oversees the neoliberal project and demands the slash in government spending in the first place. Why should these agencies fund NGOs? Could it be just old-fashioned missionary zeal, guilt? It's a little more than that. NGOs give the impression that they are filling the vacuum created by a retreating state. And they are, but in a materially inconsequential way. Their real contribution is that they diffuse political anger and dole out as aid or benevolence what people ought to have by right. They alter the public psyche. They turn people into dependent victims and blunt the edges of political resistance. NGOs form a sort of buffer between the government and the public, between empire and its subjects. They have become arbitrators, the interpreters, the facilitators. In the long run, NGOs are accountable to their funders, not to the people they work among. They're what botanists would call an indicator species. It's almost as though the greater the devastation caused by neoliberalism, the greater the outbreak of NGOs. Nothing illustrates this more poignantly than the phenomenon of the US preparing to invade a country and simultaneously readying NGOs to go in and clean up the devastation. In order to make sure their funding is not jeopardized and that the governments of the countries they work in will allow them to function, NGOs have to present their work in a shallow framework, more or less shorn of a political or historical context. – Arundhati Roy, the Indian writer, about the NGO influence in India.
Same thing is happening in Georgia[1], Lybia[2]
[1] Radio War Nerd EP 369 — Georgia Protests & NGO Colonialism, feat. Sopo Japaridze
[2] 12 Years Since NATO Bombed Libya, Gaddafi’s Ex-Spox. Gives Exclusive Update on Saif Al-Islam Going Underground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zFFPMgCeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zFFPMgCeM
- 93po 4y agoWe really only need one sign of war profiteering, and it's the $842 billion American budget for defense.