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Criticism of the Peace Corps

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January 23, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Criticism 03/31 06:36pm [41]
February 2, 2000: Headlines: Theatre: Criticism: Thirsty Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth, a former Peace Corps volunteer gone astray, works for a cutthroat company that is eating its way through the world under the misleadingly harmless name of Iris and Rose 08/15 01:14pm [1]
February 2, 2000: Headlines: Theatre: Criticism: Roundabout Theatre Arts: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth Hoyle makes his living selling defective baby formula in third-world markets. A former Peace Corps volunteer and 1960s idealist, Hoyle has succumbed to the bottom line in a corrupt and nefarious business. 09/02 06:43pm [2]
February 2, 2000: Headlines: Theatre: Criticism: Stage Left: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth and Barbara met and married 14 years ago while they were young idealists in the US Peace Corps. They are still associated with developing countries, but Kenneth's idealism has mutated into business rhetoric, shrugging off accusations that his company is out for dirty money by selling defective baby formula to developing world mothers. 06/19 11:54am [1]
February 2, 2000: Headlines: Theatre: Criticism: Thirsty Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth Hoyle, who's repudiated his Peace Corps idealism and the memory of his parents' Holocaust survival, rejecting the righteous for the bottom line 08/28 10:39am [1]
May 26, 2004: Headlines: Criticism: COS - India: East Bay Express: "We were sort of the anti-Peace Corps," Terry Tarnoff says. "The people in the Peace Corps had very positive motivations, but they tended to go over to places like Africa in order to teach the Africans how to better their conditions. But we went over to learn from the Africans." 05/26 06:38pm [1]
January 12, 1998 - Friends of Guinea: Senator Jesse Helms was quoted by the New York Times earlier this week resisting the public expenditure for the Peace Corps as, "more ratfood for the third world" and that "I've been telling people for years that Peace Corps was a refuge for drugged-out losers, leftists and homosexuals" 09/08 01:55pm [3]

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Criticism: Labour lashes at Peace Corps in the Gambia 22 March 2004

Criticism: Steve Shoup says the Peace Corps is putting people needlessly at risk 6 February 2004

Criticism: Peace Corps Volunteer Cayenne Smith frustrated in Turkmenistan 3 February 2004

Criticism: Libertarians oppose National Service programs 20 January 2004

Criticism: Peace Corps in Zambia : Spies Or Friends? 5 November 2003

Criticism: A subdivision of the United States Department of Defense, and therefore, military, the Peace Corps has been in operation for let's say 40 years now 20 August 2003

Criticism: Hellanback noticed Peace Corps workers whose "meager" stipend enabled them to live in comfortable apartments with indoor plumbing and housekeepers. He noticed that the majority of Peace Corps people he met spent most of their time fraternizing with one another, little time with the natives, and had been in North Africa longer, but knew far less Arabic than he. 13 July 2003

Criticism: Meagan's Adventure: Peace Corps in Dominica 4 June 2003

Criticism: I feel that the U.S. Peace Corps should never have been sent to Poland 18 April 2003

Criticism: Peace Corps puts unfocused college graduates on the dole to sing "Kumbaya" 17 April 2003

Criticism: The Western Massachusetts Refvolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) says Peace Corps propaganda doesn't tell you why they left Bolivia in 1971 or Peru in 1974 5 April 2003

Criticism: "Gift of the USA" blows the lid off Peace Corps Kazakhstan 26 February 2003

Criticism: Why I’m glad I joined CCTG/TG/Humana People to People and not the Peace Corps 1 February 2003

Criticism: In Memoriam: Ivan Illich, 1926-2002 1 February 2003

Criticism: By my right of free speech and freedom of the press, do I record my experience applying with the Peace Corps, for the benefit of those who blindly submit to their application process 1 January 2003

Criticism: An Invitation to Peace Corps Critic Ivan Illich 28 December 2002

Criticism: Dorothy Rivers says Volunteers in the front lines of neo-colonialism 18 December 2002

Criticism: Making Them Like Us: A critique of why things go wrong in the Peace Corps, with insight into Peace Corps politics. 23 October 2002

Criticism: What good is the Peace corps? 5 August 2001

Criticism: Peace Corps as a foreign policy tool: Faded idealistic vision by Drew Chebuhar 14 July 2001

Criticism: Rebuttal to Peace Corps as a foreign policy tool: Faded idealistic vision by Drew Chebuhar 14 July 2001

Criticism: What is to be done? Ronald Pope's comments about the Peace Corps program in Vladimir. 7 July 2001

Criticism: A Response to "What is to be done? " 7 July 2001

Criticism: Has the Peace Corps overstayed its welcome in Samoa by Peter Harrer 5 July 2001

Criticism: For two years in the late 1970s, I played doctor, courtesy of the Peace Corps, in a remote corner of Liberia, a West African nation founded by freed American slaves by RPCV Robert Strauss 1 May 2000

Criticism: Making Them Like US 1 April 2000

Criticism: Sterilization of Peruvian/Andean Women Disc/Mar 1998 18 March 1998

Criticism: Senator Jesse Helms was quoted by the New York Times earlier this week resisting the public expenditure for the Peace Corps as, "more ratfood for the third world" and that "I've been telling people for years that Peace Corps was a refuge for drugged-out losers, leftists and homosexuals" 12 January 1998

Criticism: Says Alvarado misunderstands role of Peace Corps in Honduras 1 November 1997

Criticism: Alvarado says organizations, like the Peace Corp, are coordinated by the government and work only for the bourgeoisie 1 November 1997

Criticism: Knowledge, Disillusionment, Imperialism: The Peace Corps In the Philippines 26 May 1996

Criticism: General Accounting Office Report on the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe in Bulgaria, Poland, Russia and Uzbekistan 19 December 1994

Criticism: Peace Corps: New Programs in Former Eastern Bloc Countries Should be Strengthened 19 December 1994

Criticism: General Accounting Office Report on the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe 21 November 1994

Criticism: Brian DeBauche's diatribe against the Peace Corps/Ukraine in his Worldviews opinion piece disturbed a number of former Peace Corps volunteers 18 February 1994

Criticism: Volunteers find Peace Corps/Ukraine harsh By Brian DeBauche 19 January 1994

Criticism: People's Internationalist Rear-Area Organization: 1961 article opposing the Peace Corps 16 December 1961

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Criticism of the Peace Corps: Meagan's Adventure: Peace Corps in Dominica 4 June 2003

Criticism of the Peace Corps: I feel that the U.S. Peace Corps should never have been sent to Poland 18 April 2003

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Peace Corps puts unfocused college graduates on the dole to sing "Kumbaya" 17 April 2003

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Peace Corps propaganda doesn't tell you why they left Bolivia in 1971 or Peru in 1974 5 April 2003

Criticism of the Peace Corps: "Gift of the USA" blows the lid off Peace Corps Kazakhstan 26 February 2003

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Why I’m glad I joined CCTG/TG/Humana People to People and not the Peace Corps 1 February 2003

Criticism of the Peace Corps: In Memoriam: Ivan Illich, 1926-2002 1 February 2003

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Making Them Like Us: A critique of why things go wrong in the Peace Corps, with insight into Peace Corps politics. 23 October 2002

Criticism of the Peace Corps: What good is the Peace corps? 5 August 2001

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Peace Corps as a foreign policy tool: Faded idealistic vision by Drew Chebuhar 14 July 2001

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Rebuttal to Peace Corps as a foreign policy tool: Faded idealistic vision by Drew Chebuhar 14 July 2001

Criticism of the Peace Corps: What is to be done? Ronald Pope's comments about the Peace Corps program in Vladimir. 7 July 2001

Criticism of the Peace Corps: A Response to "What is to be done? " 7 July 2001

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Has the Peace Corps overstayed its welcome in Samoa by Peter Harrer 5 July 2001

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Making Them Like US 1 April 2000

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Sterilization of Peruvian/Andean Women Disc/Mar 1998 18 March 1998

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Knowledge, Disillusionment, Imperialism: The Peace Corps In the Philippines 26 May 1996

Criticism of the Peace Corps: General Accounting Office Report on the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe in Bulgaria, Poland, Russia and Uzbekistan 19 December 1994

Criticism of the Peace Corps: General Accounting Office Report on the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe 21 November 1994

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Brian DeBauche's diatribe against the Peace Corps/Ukraine in his Worldviews opinion piece disturbed a number of former Peace Corps volunteers 18 February 1994

Criticism of the Peace Corps: Volunteers find Peace Corps/Ukraine harsh By Brian DeBauche 19 January 1994

Criticism of the Peace Corps: People's Internationalist Rear-Area Organization: 1961 article opposing the Peace Corps 16 December 1961