Weaponizing Humanitarian Aid

Weaponizing Humanitarian Aid

Long ago, US foreign aid programs honored the principle that humanitarian aid should be treated separately from economic and military assistance to governments. Public Law 480 (popularized as “Food for Peace”), which began under President Eisenhower in the 1960s and expanded under President Kennedy, was mainly intended (in Kennedy’s words) to “narrow the gap between…

This Lie Called Democracy

This Lie Called Democracy

Well, another year stumbles out the door and a new one is pushed in. This procedure is emulated by the consistency of this lie we call democracy. Everybody participates in it. The politicians who need the lie to get them into office.. and keep them there; The embedded in empire media, especially the electronic mainstream…