On May 12, 2009, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released a report showing that same air cargo companies transporting humanitarian aids to Africa also funneled arms into the same volatile parts of the continent.  The research is performed by two British nationals with former ties to governmental and non-governmental organizations.  The report focuses primarily on the messengers of the destabilizing efforts as supposed to the sources.  What could be the logic given by the researchers to go after the air cargo companies, as supposed to the sources who are paying them to transport their cargo?  The former are easier to track. It is from that perspective a recommendation is also offered to boycott the air cargo companies.  The logic behind such recommendation is that, if reputable governmental and humanitarian organizations cease to utilize the services of these messengers, the problem may be obviated.  This approach clearly assumes that reputable organizations (such as governments and NGOs) are not involved with the ‘bad’ cargo (some weapons and illicit drugs) that the aircraft are carrying.  It is also implicitly assumed that if reputable organizations cut off income to these airliners by denying them business, the problem can be curtailed.  Furthermore, it is assumed that the weapons that go to destabilize a region are those that originate from non-reputable organizations, as the report mentions the ones coming from western government are for logistic defense support only. This report will be viewed very positively by many at either spectrum of the political shade.  It shows a report by a so called independent agency based in the Scandinavia.  It somehow appeals to the informed liberal notion that those who provide the poison are also the ones behind the antidote.  It also appeals to the self-exonerating notion of the conservative that this is not his/her problem, neither is his/her government’s. What is unquestioned and assumed benign will continue to rake havoc in the volatile regions of Africa and similar continents.  A case widely publicized that exemplified, that destabilization is not a practice only adhered to by fringe types, is the Iran-Contra Affair of the 1980s.  The major players in that affair were the Regan administration officials and the Israeli government.  Many of them are still engaged in the military and/or its private counterparts.  The United States, Germany and Russia remain the top weapons dealers around the world.  Any other transactions are almost insignificant compared to the ones that are happening daily around the world by these three countries.  Confirmed and unconfirmed reports of CIA officers landing in unmarked aircraft and handing suitcase full of cash to warlords are rife.  Sometimes you can do more with $100 bills than with bullets, a boastful CIA officer tells. In a world that relishes in facades, facades have become the reality that rule the day.  Often, what makes sense is replaced by what feels good.  The SIPRI offers that facade, along with innumerable other so called independent agencies, with superficial solutions for the problems that are crippling the peoples of Africa.