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Articles  How U.S. Food policies and charities are starving people to death in Africa: Now infamous, The Food-Aid Racket, first appeared in Harper's Magazine, August, 1993. By Michael  Maren. Read this before you start browsing sites maintained by relief and development organizations. Sudan: The Faces of Famine: Over and over, the pornography of African suffering simply rewards the oppressors by Michael Maren. From Newsweek, July 27, 1998. Feeding The War Machine in Ethiopia In the name of humanitarian aid, the path of the war was been set in Ethiopia. Western officials knew that the Ethiopians would use the aid to wage war on Eritrea, but wanted to support Ethiopia as a bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism in the region. Analysis by Sam Barnes The Media's Role in Humanitarian Disaster. David Shukman, who reported on the devastating Mozambique floods of 2000, assessed the media's impact on the crisis for the BBC World Service programme Omnibus.   An Aid worker responds The Journalist vs the Aid Worker from the BBC, 3 May 2001. Are NGO's Essential for Kenya's Development?  Commentary  from The Daily Nation, 20 November, 1999. By Rosemarie Muganda Onyando. Save The World From Naive Do-gooders. by Simon Jenkins How Relief Aid to Sudan perpetuates war and starvation by Raymond Bonner. From the New York Times, October 11, 1998. The Big Business of Famine Relief in Sudan. Through misguided moral outrage, the war in Sudan is being prolonged. by Kevin Toolis, from The Guardian.    See more articles on the disasterous relief campaign in southern Sudan   "U.S. Agricultural Policy: Back to the Future" by Mark Ritchie, Farm & Trade Analyst, Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture. Ritchie explains clearly how U.S. farm policy screws consumers and recipients of food aid. Humanitarianism Unbound by Alex DeWaal. Have NGOs and humanitarian organizations gone too far in advocating massive intervention? Charity on the Rampage: The Business of Foreign Aid by David Rieff. A review of The Road to Hell from Foreign Affairs, January 1997. SAVE US FROM OUR SAVIOURS: Good intentions are not enough. The chaotic mass of unregulated international aid is perpetuating suffering, argues Lindsey Hilsum. War as Peace:How the Army and the aid agencies are reinventing militarism. The humanitarian military teams up with militant humanitarians. The Culture of Aid and the Tragedy of Somaliaby Michael Maren. This article first appeared in The Village Voice in January, 1993 and gives a background to current problems and the US/UN intervention. Somalia: Aid fuels the conflict. by Bernhard Helander   11 January, 2001. Jesse Helms Wants Right Wing Religious Groups to handle U.S. Foreign Aid See stories from The New York Times, The Washington Times and For a real thrill, Read the Full Text of Helms' Remarks     A Different Kind of Child Abuse - an article about Save the Children, excerpted from The Road to Hell.  Or Your can visit Save the Children. The Miracle Merchants. The Chicago Tribune investigated Save the Children and other child sponsorship organizations and found out exactly how inept and dishonest they really are. 15 March, 1998. A report on Save the Children from The Capital Research Center, A group that studies nonprofit organizations. Links   Once again a bunch of know-nothing pop stars have teamed up to make themselves feel important and raise money to feed the international aid bureaucracy. They called it NetAid Save the world by clicking here! Yipee!   A collection of anti-aid articles from the Center for Policy Analysis.   Journal of Humanitarian Assistance   A wide range of development-related databases from Bath University, UK. This link offers telnet connections to the British Library for development Studies and other useful sites. It can be a bit slow.   The Hunger Web allows you to telnet into a vast library of hunger- and development-related resources.   Relief Net. Organizations that want to help: caveat emptor.   Live Aid - A Celebration   RESULTS, a grassroots citizens lobby generating the political will in end hunger.   USAID Visit them while they still exist.