Rage against the Machine

Most people have heard about the crisis in Darfur but probably don't know that the Sudanese governement is actually trading food supplies with Egypt, the U.A.E and Jordan, all of whom are investing heavily in the biggest land grab since the Oregon 'Sooners'.

The profits of this trade are going into controlling and maintaining an army of thugs to terrorise and subdue the people who have no choice but to submit to the worst kind of slavery in order to survive. Aid agencies do little to help them. In fact, most of the charitable donations made by well-meaning people in Britain and the EU probably end up in a Sudanese civil servants bank account.
This sorry state of affairs is repeated all across the African continent; in Uganda, Congo and in Rwanda, for example, where aid agencies do little to bring succour to starving people although. to be fair, there are a few success stories but the majority of people form a sub-class of people, living on a dollar a day in unacceptable squalor.
The best place to see how stark the disparity between rich and poor is, is surely in Luzon, the Phillippines, where splendid tower blocks loom over people who live in conditions that are no better than a fucking toilet.
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/campaigns/darfur/
Human Rights Watch is the kind of independent organisation necessary to keep an eye on greedy, incompetent civil servants and their kind who sponge freely given donations to help the people in blighted countries around the world. For every corrupt official deserving censure there may be anything like one hundred, up to a thousand people, who could rely on hand-outs to survive one more day in an increasingly bitter world, often fought over by armies, militia or gangs of armed thugs for more tightly restricted resources controlled by a growing Corporate hegemony concerned simply with the profit margin at the end of any given financial report.

Corporations use the time-tested tactic of Imperialism: divide and conquer.
The govt. of Sudan is split north and South, and between Christian and Muslim, which makes the takeover relatively painless...for them. Considerable agony for the people of the country who are systematically herded into camps and either starved or executed.

Corporations rule a country's economic stability and often use it to get what the men-in-suits want, regardless of what any mere politician may wish for the good of the people who elected him into office: a corporation is run for the good of the major shareholders, and anyone who doesn't subscribe to this view of a Brave New World is considered beyond the Pale and receives sanctions until they see there is only one way to choose: the All-American way, or the heighway.

There is a better way: http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/