George Clooney Spends “Nespresso” Paycheck to Fight Sudanese Genocide

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“Lending his celebrity to protest ‘the idea of a government attacking and killing its own innocent men, women and children’ was Clooney’s primary motivation.”[HuffPo]

This is one of those stories that just makes you like George Clooney even more than you already do. The world’s most beloved leading man (yes, he is) recently opened up to The Guardian about how he spends the money he earns from doing Nespresso commercials overseas. He admits:

“Most of the money I make on the [Nespresso] commercials I spend keeping a satellite over the border of North and South Sudan to keep an eye on Omar al-Bashir [the Sudanese dictator charged with war crimes at The Hague]. Then he puts out a statement saying that I’m spying on him and how would I like it if a camera was following me everywhere I went and I go ‘well welcome to my life Mr War Criminal’. I want the war criminal to have the same amount of attention that I get. I think that’s fair.”

Given his well-profiled interest in the ongoing genocide in Darfur, this should come as little surprise to anyone, especially the war criminal dictator of Sudan. Clooney’s spy program, known as the Satellite Sentinel Project, tracks the movements of the Sudanese army to warn civilians of potential attacks and ambushes.

There’s a lot more we could say here, but in deference to brevity, let’s keep it simple: buy Nespresso!