[Peace-discussion] Government hacks leading the left by the nose on Darfur?

[Michael Canney]

Look who's pushing the "rescue Darfur" line on the TomPaine.com site, 
billed as "The best progressive insight and action.":

*The U.N.'s Darfur Moment
Mark L. Schneider 
<http://www.tompaine.com/search/index.cgi?search=Mark%20L.%20Schneider&IncludeBlogs=1&SearchFields=keywords&Template=author> 

September 06, 2006
*http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/06/the_uns_darfur_moment.php

Mark L. Schneider is identified by TomPaine.com as "the senior vice 
president of the *International Crisis Group 
<http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm>* and former director of the 
Peace Corps."  What is not mentioned is that prior to his Peace Corps 
position, he was assistant administrator of the Bureau for Latin America 
and the Caribbean at the United States Agency for International 
Development (USAID), *where he directed U.S. foreign assistance programs 
in this hemisphere. *Schneider also served as *senior deputy assistant 
secretary of state* for human rights under Carter from 1977 to 1979. 

Here's a recent piece by Mark Schneider and Morton Abramowitz in the 
Wall Street Journal, backing the US-NATO dismemberment of Serbia:
http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=NC&pubid=1361

 From his stint at USAID:
REMARKS BY MARK L. SCHNEIDER, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR
BUREAU FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
AT THE SECOND ANNUAL JOINT REVIEW OF THE BRIDGETOWN ACCORD
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
22 July 1999
http://www.caricom.org/jsp/pressreleases/pres75_99.htm

Mark Schneider may be a nice guy with noble intentions, who knows? But 
when Zionists and paid government careerists with a history of 
involvement in promotion of interventionist policies are leading the 
"Save Darfur" parade, we need to question where they are taking us, and 
whether we want to follow them..

If indeed Greens have any real chance of impacting on the brutality and 
violence in Darfur, it should be through an initiative that is totally 
independent from the US and NATO, and also from the UN, unless the UN is 
able to escape its captivity to a US policy agenda. The "Save Darfur" 
bandwagon should be viewed with scepticism.

Peace,
Michael