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Political Analyst commented about Mumbai Massacre, On Thursday March 19th, 2009 10:49:00 PM
The biggest myth is that "NGO"s are out to do good for the locals. If you want a good idea of how most "NGOs" actually operate, see Orson Welles' "The Third Man." The movie was made in 1949, so the term NGO was not around then, but the basic idea is the same: a western imperial agency goes out to make money defrauding the locals and exploiting the generosity of good samaritans and donors from abroad while spreading the myth that the empire does good work for the locals. The euphemisms keep changing, from "mission" to "aid agency" to "NGO", but the basic pattern is an agency that pretends to help the locals while really engaging in self-serving profiteering and softening up the target for imperial invasion and exploitation. Some of these are out-and-out GONGOs, Government-Operated Non-Governmental Organizations (front groups) that are set up, funded, and operated by spy agencies like the CIA. So it's hard to have sympathy for 5-star-hotel-dwelling "NGO" executives. Sorry.
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