Bono Vox, il leader degli U2, è ormai considerato la 'voce' della coscienza mondiale. Ma, a quanto pare, tra impegno in Africa e strigliate ai potenti della terra [*1], anche il nostro implacabile esattore umanitario ha qualche scheletro nell'armadio:
[*nzherald] Billions of dollars raised for African famine relief by celebrities Bono and Bob Geldof have instead funded civil war across the continent, says terrorism expert Dr Loretta Napoleoni. London-based Napoleoni, in Auckland to appear at the Writers & Readers Festival, has written two books, Terror Inc: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism and Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation, on the economics of terrorism. Her latest book, Rogue Economics, studies the destabilising effect of economic globalisation, focusing in part on why more than half a trillion dollars worth of aid sent to Africa since the 1960s failed to reach the intended destination - developing the nations’ economies. That huge amount of aid, wh
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