AFRO-NETS> Bill Gates Foundation donation to India

[Claudio Schuftan <aviva@netnam.vn>]

Bill Gates Foundation donation to India
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From: "Ted Greiner" <ted_greiner@hotmail.com>

I was at a meeting recently where a senior UNICEF staff member warned 
that they and other UN agencies are now being starved of cash because 
all the big money goes to private initiatives such as the ones you 
mention. We must recognize that this is just one more symptom of the 
process of neoliberal globalization rapidly transforming the world as 
we all sit relatively helpless and watch. Money and power are drain-
ing away from all forms of public activity, even governments, into 
private control. Gates and a few other individuals control more 
wealth than the Rockefellers and their like ever dreamed of. Where is 
it all leading? Is there any way to avoid a science fiction scenario 
in which our children live in a world entirely under the control of a 
few huge corporations and the few males who run them?

PS: Further evidence of the weakening of the UN, both financially and 
in terms of its ability act independently on behalf of the poor is 
the recent acceptance of Nestle into the UN Global Compact and the 
recent announcement of a partnership between UNICEF and McDonalds. 

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Claudio Schuftan
mailto:aviva@netnam.vn>

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