The article discusses Linda Polman's book 'War Games: the Story of Aid and War in Modern Times', which argues that "... humanitarianism has become a massive industry that, along with the global media, forms an unholy alliance with warmongers. Since the end of the cold war, the business of humanitarian aid has flourished ... She [the book author] cites a damning catalogue of examples from Biafra to Darfur, and including the Ethiopian famine, in which humanitarian aid has helped prolong wars, or rewarded the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing and genocide rather than the victims." (Quoted from article)