Exploit and Lie

Exploit: to make the most use of people (e.g., to profit)
Lie: to give the wrong perception (e.g., to promote)

By Adel – PeaceMaker

January 07, 2010

Corporations with an interest in producing genetic modification (GM) in crops, such as Cargill, Monsanto and Archers Daniels Midland, sponsor the United Nations World Food Program, while the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is paying for US GM corporations to run research programs in Africa with local research institutes. For these reasons, Sudan’s vast plantation lands and agriculture potential are further hidden motivations driving the "Save Darfur!" campaign and its propaganda machinery.

Famine becomes commodities. From Darfur we get photographs of the dead victims of starvation, but anyone can ride out the relief infrastructure and take pictures of starving, sick and dying Africans. Victims and refugees flock to relief centers, "presenting to visiting reporters a concentration of misery that is indeed shocking".

If food is a resource and the resource is funneled to manipulate the starving populations of internally displaced people, then food—and the "humanitarian" aid and infrastructure which delivers it—is being used as a weapon of war. It happened in Somalia, it is happening in Ethiopia, it is happening in Darfur.