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Eight years after the publication of In the Shadow of Just Wars,6 it examines the precept that the political exploitation of aid is not a misuse of its vocation, but its principal condition of existence.
Michael Neuman • Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience
“blurred distinctions between the roles of military and humanitarian organisations; political manipulation of humanitarian assistance [and the] perceived lack of independence of humanitarian actors from donors or from host governments”.
Michael Neuman • Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience
It was Peter who returned first, reaching Toulouse in the autumn of 1299. That the purpose of his visit was to see a money changer suggests that securing the mission’s finances were his priority. For all his careful planning, Peter’s cover was blown almost immediately, when he was recognised by Peter, the son of Raymonde de Luzenac, a rich widow
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When outside organizations provide assistance to a materially poor community, it’s common for the organization or their resources to become the object of worship.
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream

cold-blooded need for control.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Many were looted simply because they were rich.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
is that to a large extent the United States had to carry out its foreign interventions through the medium of mercenary states. There’s a whole network of U.S. mercenary states. Israel is the major one, but it also includes Taiwan, South Africa, South Korea, the states that are involved in the World Anti-Communist League and the various military
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