Self-sufficient Eritrea: Yes to Indigenous Farming. No to the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.
Channel: WrongKindofGreen
Date: 2013-02-17

Eritrea's Independent Path Towards Sustainable Development, Peace & Cooperation:

Eritrea is a stunningly beautiful and fiercely independent country in Africa, bordering U.S. financed Ethiopia.  Eritrea is a state that seeks absolute self sufficiency, shunning hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. Their model of self-reliance is a very real threat to hegemonic rule.

Eritrea, once deemed remarkable by the international press is now a prime target of demonization and destabilization by the US, Human Rights Watch and corporate media.

Eritrea is no one's puppet. In the January 21, 2013 press release titled  'Human Rights Watch on a Dogged Mission of Defamation Against Eritrea' from the state of Eritrea, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Eritrea defends itself against human rights violations put forward by an agency which serves to advance foreign policy for the greatest human rights violator in the world -- that of the US.

In December 2011, Bahey El Din Hassan, member of the Executive Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (and founder of  the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, a member of the International Federation of Human Rights) participated in a meeting of the Atlantic Council co-organised by the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.  That meeting discussed the arrest of members of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the National Endowment for Democracy who were accused of interference in Egyptian internal affairs. [Source: Human Rights, geopolitics and the Union for the Mediterranean by Julien Teil] 

Read more: 

http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2013/01/23/human-rights-watch-on-a-dogged-mission-of-defamation-against-eritrea/

http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2013/01/23/all-eyes-on-little-eritrea-prime-u-s-target-of-demonization-destabilization/

http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2013/02/15/foundation-funding-tightening-the-bonds-of-our-own-oppression/