How do we do to trust? Who should we trust?

By Fiorella Bafundo
A controversy article on January 23rd in the radical newsletter Dissident Voice points out that behind the humanitarian help of the NGOs and the UNHCR Gimme Shelter campaign in Central Africa, there is a whole organization of multinational corporations, like Sturbucks, and even governments, as the United States’, which the only goal is making profits at the expense of the innocent people struggling in Central Africa in the middle of civil wars and poverty. The central point is that these international organizations that “say” to exist to help over there, use the fundraising campaigns as a mean to make money while using only a minimum percentage of it to cover their “business” in the international community.
The accusations also point at the famous Hollywood actor Ben Affleck, as a political actor in Congo and asking the question of his intentions over there, "Is Ben Affleck being paid for his silence? Or is he just another victim being used by, and benefiting from, a hopelessly corrupt system? "
The writer also highlights the role of the propaganda and the distortions of reality that these campaigns create to raise money around the world. He said “In establishment narratives, war is peace, slavery is freedom, and language is used to criminalize the innocent, just as it is in the so-called ‘war on terror’.” Are we living in that world???