ordered disorder
mostly nuggets
- ant nuggets
- blessed britains
- conspiracy
- honorary ants
- mad bad world
- ECONOMIC HIT MAN
- ISRAEL / PALESTINE
- miscellaneous mad bad
- POVERTY
- 28,000 children a day
- 9-11 victims
- african children
- facts on poverty in Africa
- GREED
- $3 goes to those who need the money most
- 3 big men
- a debt that can never be paid back
- a tax on being poor
- BAE profits soar on Iraq conflict
- breakfast with Bill
- capital flight
- eradicating wall street's hunger
- high net worth individuals
- inequality
- new york diners and the irrawady delta
- not cleaning up
- not reaching human stomachs
- SUPER-markets
- the difference between Tanzania and Goldman Sachs
- the task of an economic hitman
- the top and the bottom
- trickle-down
- we're getting greedier
- not thinking the human costs
- poor get poorer
- poverty and holocaust deaths
- poverty and reform in the former soviet union
- poverty deaths
- saving 6 million children
- selling off grain reserves
- There is simply indifference
- structural adjustment
- mad world
- remembrance and forgettance
- war crimes
blessed britons
I went to see Kifah Taha, who had been so badly beaten by British troops ... that he had terrible wounds in the groin. He told me how the soldiers would call their Iraqi prisoners by the names of football stars - Beckham was one name they used - before kicking them around the detention headquarters in Basra. There were stories of Iraqi prisoners being forced to kneel on sharp stones, of being kicked and punched in the groin, the kidneys, the back, shoulders, forced to sit with their heads down lavatory holes.
mad world
Our definition of phantom aid includes aid that is:
- not targeted for poverty reduction, estimated to be worth US$4.9 billion
- double counted as debt relief, totalling US$9.4 billion
- overpriced and ineffective Technical Assistance, estimated at US$13.8 billion
- tied to goods and services from the donor country, estimated at US$2.7 billion
- poorly coordinated and with high transaction costs, estimated at US$9 billion
- spent on excess administration costs; totalling US$0.4 billion.
In total, at least 61% of all donor assistance is phantom aid.
...millions die while the rest of the population obediently goes about its business. Howard Zinn