Reddit mentions of The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business

My parents were aid workers.

They made me read this when I was 14.

Hancock is the man. Oh, and he's even been a truther since well before his ancient history research:

The Lords of Poverty: the power, prestige, and corruption of the international aid business [Graham Hancock, 1989]

I am currently reading/read:

• 6am train into work, read The Times cover to cover on ipad.
  
• Toilet book: In Praise of Nepotism - Adam Bellow
  
• Current garbage book for relaxing: The Fear Index - Robert Harris
  
• Current living room book: A rather nice leather bound copy of One of Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  
• Current work book: Poor Numbers by Morten Jerven
  
• Work book two: The Age of Ageing
  
• Work book three: Lords of Poverty
  
• Current PA book for my idea of novel: The Death of Grass
  
• Current book I should be reading but I'm not and has been sitting in my to read pile for months - Symposium
  
  And a million and one others, just the ones I've come into contact with in the past few days.

https://www.amazon.com/Lords-Poverty-Prestige-Corruption-International/dp/0871134691

It's a great read, prompted some.big changes at the time. I'd consider it a must read for anyone interested in how global charities work

> Lol, veto powers Russia and China

You know who else has veto power?

Yep, the US. Which means: the UN can never be used against the US.

Can China and Russia stop the US from using UN resolutions for its own nefarious ends? Yep. That means that on occasion, it is a tool that the US cannot use. But in cases where Russia and China can be made to acquiesce, or bought off, it is an excellent tool with which to fool the damn fool internationalist liberals of the sort that fill the Donkle party.

See e.g. the use the US made of UN resolutions against Iraq.

And that is not even the worst of it. Even UN aid agencies are suspect, western corporate interest-influenced cats paws:

http://www.amazon.com/Lords-Poverty-Prestige-Corruption-International/dp/0871134691

Sorry bub, but the dumb, uninformed, brainwashed fool here is you.