Frome Stop War has invited Vanessa Beeley, noted investigative journalist and peace activist, to present her inquiry into Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) on Tuesday 17th May. She has called her talk ‘NGOs, The Soft Power Complex’.
She will present her talk on 17th May at The Wheatsheaves in Bath Street, commencing at 7.30pm.
Vanessa is the daughter of Sir Harold Beeley KCMG, CBE, Middle Eastern Adviser to Ernest Bevin and Special Envoy to Cairo during both Suez Crises. She grew up in the Middle East and has lived and worked in Gaza.
She has done important work for the UNHCR for Yemen [The Forgotten War], with Sheba Rights Coalition [testified against Saudi coalition illegal use of US supplied cluster munitions against civilian targets] and with ARWA. While working at the UN she described herself as ‘Being in the belly of the beast’.
Sheila Coombes of Frome Stop War said, “In this talk, Vanessa will clarify all this, focusing on Syria to illustrate how the Western axis of interventionism and ‘regime change’ use NGOs to create a two headed coin of destruction.
“On the one side is their own Frankenstein monster with its unique market branding of Al Nusra, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Khorasan, and on the other side, supposedly pitted against all form of brutality and evil authoritarianism is the ubiquitous NGO, in situ despite all risk to themselves to ‘save all Humanity from the evil regime’.
“Vanessa intends to show that when the ‘soft power’ missionary complex is in the same hands as the ‘hard power industrial-military’ complex—they are two sides of the same coin—overtly opposing and covertly combining to achieve imperialist aims in any given target region or nation. The NGO complex is the most insidious tool of empire and arguably the most damaging.”
“Syria is one of the biggest propaganda schemes of our time. When the dust settles, if it does, it will be revealed” Professor AbuKhalil
Frome Stop War invite you to please come to see this extraordinary person presenting her in depth and first hand knowledge on Tuesday 17th May, 7.30pm at The Wheatsheaves (aka the Frome Venue), 23 Bath Street, Frome, (BA11 1DJ). Admission: £4. Enquiries: Please call 01373 839038.
