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Kristin Hough McCarthy

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5 months ago

Last dinner with this group of seniors. I will miss this crew but thankful for the few years of friendship and kitchen talk! Go out and do great things. But remember to “make good choices” 💜#KDkitchenbetachi @unckappadelta @kduncfood

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Posted On: May 7th 2026, 09:38 am

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Last dinner with this group of seniors. I will miss this crew but thankful for the few years of friendship and kitchen talk! Go out and do great things. But remember to “make good choices” 💜#KDkitchenbetachi @unckappadelta @kduncfood

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Reklam för egen bok BETTIE ÄR UTE I BUTIKER OCH ONLINE NU!!!!! 💛💛💛 (ni som har förbeställt bok så signerade jag förra veckan så dom borde vara framme asap 📬) @laurenparksstudio @rabensjogren @makesensemedia

One of the most influential anti-imperialist thinkers in the United States, Parenti spent decades exposing how power actually works beneath the language of democracy, development, and humanitarianism. In this 1986 lecture at the University of Colorado Boulder, he dismantles the myth that foreign aid is about helping people.

Parenti argued that foreign aid functions as a subsidy for empire, transferring wealth from ordinary people in the Global North to elites in the Global South who protect multinational interests. Drawing on economists like Kenneth Boulding and Thorstein Veblen, he highlighted a missing class dimension: those who profit from imperial investments do not pay the costs of maintaining them.

He pointed to the Philippines, Cuba before the revolution, and British-ruled India to show a recurring pattern. They built infrastructure for plantations and exports while leaving entire communities without roads, clinics, or schools. Aid money, he argued, props up private corporations and funds police and military forces whose real role is suppressing impoverished populations.

His message was blunt and remains urgent. Empire benefits a small elite and devastates everyone else. Without class analysis, the conversation is incomplete, but with it, the machinery of empire becomes impossible to deny.

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#blockheads thank you for an amazing @rememberbetty event yesterday.

Kristin Hough McCarthy

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