tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412972130372777444.post2116609804722219089..comments2024-03-03T16:03:03.447+01:00Comments on Head Down Eyes Open: A Challenge to Aid WorkersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03672963301330975090noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412972130372777444.post-48999227791985703572009-08-09T06:40:54.884+02:002009-08-09T06:40:54.884+02:00I agree, Joe, but let's face it the whole deve...I agree, Joe, but let's face it the whole development aid business is driven by the commercial business needs fostered by the donor's financial backers. I have less experience of NGOs but I suspect that the same Slarty Brasstacks are pulling strings there too. I personally witnessed the subversion of the EU TACIS programme in Russia from funding devoted to help at grassroots level to large political projects to satisfy Yeltsin's clique. The EU is spineless and an instrument now for promoting the (failed) neoliberal agenda. The only hope that I see is that the Internet has made the world flat again and individuals like ourselves must just tell it as it is and hope to the power of the Great Universal Spirit that we might one day claw our way out of this mire. In the meantime, I would like to know if any other Europeans have advice for Irish voters in the Lisbon Treaty Referendum. I wonder whether a Europeans' Advice to Irish Poll would help?Tony Pratschkehttp://192.168.1.102noreply@blogger.com