Yemen is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, fuelled by the US-backed, Saudi Arabian war against civilians. Weapons manufacturers also have blood on their hands.
I was interviewed today by journalist Jacob Burns in the Jordanian publication, Al Bawaba:
Antony Loewenstein, an independent journalist and author of Disaster Capitalism:… Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe, said that it was not surprising that countries involved in the war were using aid to further their own agendas. … “There’s often now a really political idea of aid, which is supposed to be neutral, as countries are using it in support of their war aims. The militarization of aid is one of the great problems it faces in the 21st century.”
Loewenstein also said that even apparently philanthropic actions could benefit states providing aid. “It’s almost guaranteed, as has been seen in a range of other countries, that contracts used by countries to deliver aid are feeding profit back to the donors.”
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