I'm sitting in a country where the Western peacebuilding and democratic project is transparent. Post war Liberia has been opened up to international capital and resource extraction through a Western style hollow corrupt liberal Democracy. Meanwhile civil society is also funded by the West and no independent robust anti capitalist anti imperial organising exists. We don't have any International solidarity here. Not a peep against any injustice in Africa or anywhere else. No NGO in Liberia has said anything in support of the people of the Sahel who stood up against the French or for Palestinians being slaughtered by the Israelis. What is the point of NGOs and UN who organise workshops on Democracy and Human Rights and Feminism? We are being NGO-ised. We are suffering the insularity of state centric global world order which we have to resist.
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