{"product_id":"the-road-to-hell-the-ravaging-effects-of-foreign-aid-and-international-charity-9780684828008","title":"The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Maren has spent much of the last twenty years in Africa  first as an aid worker  later as a journalist. He witnessed at close range a harrowing series of wars  famines  and natural disasters. In The Road to Hell he tells how CARE unwittingly assisted a Somali dictator in building a political and economic powerbase. How the UN  Save the Children  and many other nongovernmental organizations provided raw materials for ethnic factions who subsequently threatened genocidal massacres in Rwanda and Burundi. He brings firsthand reports of African farmers  Western aid workers  and corrupt politicians from many countries  joined together in a vicious circle of self-interest. Above all  he heralds an important truth: humanitarian intervention and foreign aid activity is necessarily political. It gets hijacked by powerful charities and agricultural interests. It is cynically manipulated by local strongmen to control rebellious populations. And it is the last refuge of Western colonialism. We all want to end the suffering. But our desire to alleviate suffering often stands in the way of the truth. If you think your charitable giving is making the Third World a better place  think again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646888370229,"sku":"ByrdShop_0684828006","price":21.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780684828008.jpg?v=1781680159","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-road-to-hell-the-ravaging-effects-of-foreign-aid-and-international-charity-9780684828008","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}