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Part 1: NGO Alliances in Humanitarian Aid

Humanitarian NGOs routinely blur the line between public service and profit-seeking ventures, forming alliances with corporations and for-profit entities to expand their financial and political reach.

Bill Gates: ‘We Will Not Need Humans for Most Things’

According to Gates, allowing humans to grow food and contribute to society by making things is a “problem” that needs to be “solved.”

Sleepwalking into Tyranny: How Power is Silently Being Seized

Under the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the President and the military can detain and imprison American citizens with no access to friends, family or the courts if the government believes them to be a terrorist.

‘Plastics are awesome’: DOE’s partnership with the plastics industry

Critics argue that the agency’s work with a lobbying group is a conflict of interest.

Science’s Turn Towards Darkness

For many decades, the mirror of science has become increasingly blurred by a storm of vested interests, particularly when research and the communication of results are linked to large corporations.

The Western Way of Genocide

Israel’s annihilation of Gaza marks the death of a global order guided by internationally agreed upon laws and rules, one often violated by the U.S. in its imperial wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, but one that was at least acknowledged as a utopian vision.