Two recommended articles (that I read) for Saturday, January 12, 2019

• Philanthropic Capitalist Foundations and Corporate Environmentalism by Nicolas Casaux from Le Partage (in French) and translated into English with a very good machine translator and posted on Wrong Kind of Green. Despite this type of translation one can easily get the point of this article that NGOs in many cases funnel funds from large corporations to fund sources that are less inimical to their profitable interests. A prime example that always comes to my mind is "Democracy Now".

• Russian-Kurdish negotiations in Moscow: Turkey has defined its options and Washington is trying to gain time by Elijah Magnier from his blog. Nobody is perfect, but this independent journalist is among the best covering events in that very troubled part of the world.