NGOs: The Parasitic Altruists

Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the local average wage. They are busybodies, preachers, critics,...

The Morality of Child Labor

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks and...

NGOs: The Self-Appointed Altruists

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the...

The Uselessness of Indices Produced by NGOs

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index Like many other an NGO (non-governmental organization) Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) is mainly preoccupied with perpetuating...

Bosnian Victims Allegedly Manipulated

Report by Balkan think-tank says victims' groups are exploited by local politicians across the country. By Marija Arnautovic - International Justice - ICTY ...

Microsoft to issue blanket license to NGOs

"  Microsoft will issue a blanket software license to nonprofit groups and journalist groups outside the U.S. after the New York Times reported that Russian police have used software copyright raids to seize computers of activist groups. Microsoft will also hire an...

Operation Pathway

Pakistan's stock was never so low in the international community as is now. The country is a favourite target of media, NGO's and the official circles in Europe and the US. The refrain is that Pakistan is a sanctuary of terrorists, an epicentre of terrorism and a direct...

Have NGOs failed in peacebuilding? An interview with Jehan Perera

"Based on his significant experience as a civil society activist, I asked Jehan whether NGOs in particular had fostered any appreciable difference in the quality of governance in Sri Lanka. Jehan stated that after a quarter century of working in civil society, he was acutely...

Ape Lankawe: The Great NGO Pantomime!

"The Government’s scant regard for the plight of Tamil civilians in Vanni is legendary and their stubbornness in pursuing the military objective at the expense of every thing else is a given. But the NGOs could have been more realistic in their estimations and scenario...