The Aid Game LaunderingThe Profits Of Exploitation

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The Aid Game - Laundering The Profits Of Exploitation:By Sokari Ekine| Somliland Press, Africa, May 24, 2009. Haiti pays $1 million back in debt payments every week which the West refuses to write off but is happy to spend millions on UN peacekeepers and the huge overhead costs of NGO's and humanitarian aid thereby maintaining its control and occupation of the country.

Aid agencies, NGO's are being ousted for their role as agents of Western financial capital at any cost who feed of the misery caused by their masters.

Christian Aid is one such example.

Following the 2004 coup against President Aristide of Haiti, Christian Aid issued a position statement in which it colluded with the lies of the US/France that Aristide resigned when in fact he was kidnapped and dumped in the Central African Republic.

The Haitians became the objects of the NGO industry which is based on the premise that there is a disaster or a conflict which enables them to step in and "save" the situation.

This, in turn, is driven by adverts of helpless hapless people with no agency as victims of something that is disconnected from the financiers of the NGO's themselves and Western financial interests.

Governments view humanitarian aid as a strategic battleground where their military forces can operate alongside doctors, to the great displeasure of the doctors.

Multilateral organizations, such as the European Union, finance large-scale programmes; the UN funds peacekeeping operations.

All these players flood the poorest countries, overlap and fail to coordinate with each other, creating chaos rather than order.

Governments and multilateral organizations cannot allow voluntary organizations to have a monopoly on solidarity and generosity.

So humanitarian work has become a world of populist politicians; tired, concerned professionals; international founders caught in a bureaucratic, financial rationale; and suspicious or blasé donors who prefer local causes.

The circus follows the show - the misfortune of others - a media product in ever greater demand.

The media is busy reporting endless tragedies in Haiti - floods, hurricanes, collapsing schools.

What they do not report is what is behind these disasters.

Why is it when the hurricane hits Haiti, thousands die yet in neighbouring Dominican Republic the numbers are in their tens and twenties?

In Haiti: Racism & Poverty, John Maxwell makes some comparisons between the amounts of money paid out in bonus payments to Wall St bankers $18 billion - double Haiti's GDP (8 million people).

The chairman of Goldman took home more than $70 million and his lieutenants - as Zoellick once was - $40 million or more, each. It should be clear that someone like Robert Zoellick is likely to be totally bemused by Haiti when his entertainment allowance could probably feed the entire population for a day or two. It is not hard to understand that Mr. Zoellick cannot understand why Haiti needs debt relief.

One million dollars a week would feed everybody in Haiti even if only at a very basic level - at least they would not have to eat earth patties.

Instead the Haitians export this money to pay the salaries of such as Zoellick

But debt relief is too simple and at the same time to complicated to process.

There are NGOs to rebuild what Western governments and multinationals destroy and NGOs to prop up the regimes that the US and multinationals wish to keep in place to maintain their financial interests and NGOs to spread the deceit that is charitable capitalism...

The aid industry is central to the current globalization of ideology.

Global capitalism must launder the profits from its exploitation.

The harsh demands of this unregulated world - child labour, increased production, unpaid overtime - must be disguised.

The huge numbers of people who suffer from these forms of social violence are rarely identified as victims.

Governments, businesses and donors are paying a moral tax, trying to claim they are part of a moral humanity, through their pledges of morality, pseudo-transparency and charity.

By Sokari Ekine

Truths On Haiti, May 28 2009, 3:41 PM

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