Articles by Patrick Henningsen
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Smart Power & the Human Rights Industrial Complex
Patrick Henningsen | UK Column – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
Human rights in the West: does the reality live up to the rhetoric? Billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations, all work for social justice, forging a better, fairer and more accountable world…. Along with military invasions and missionaries, NGOs help crack countries open like ripe nuts, paving the way for exploitation and extraction. If the international community is to go beyond neocolonialist paradigms, it will need to place compassion ahead of policy, and humanity ahead of profits. Only then can the reality live up to the rhetoric.
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Patrick Henningsen - 21st Century Wire,
9 May 2016
Billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations working together in the name of social justice forging a better, fairer and more accountable world. The story reads well on paper. After all, the 20th century saw a string of failures by governments to halt horrific exhibitions of genocide and crimes against humanity. As a result, the door opened for many high-profile charities and human rights organizations to play a bigger role in moderating international affairs.
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Patrick Henningsen - 21st Century Wire,
20 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015 – This month marks the one year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 – an incident that took place against a backdrop of a brutal proxy war – pitting Kiev and its supporters in Washington DC, the EU and NATO – against rebel forces in eastern Ukraine and Russia. As with most 21st century conflicts, truth has been the first casualty of war here.
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Patrick Henningsen – The Guardian,
21 Nov 2011
History shows us it is easy for ‘grassroots’ campaigns to become co-opted by the very interests they are fighting against.
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