Shameless??! I only wish Nicholas Negroponte would have directed some of his self-righteous anger towards his brother John Negroponte, who dumped so much hard cold cash and political support on right wing dictators and weapons dealers (and depleted uranium shells on Iraqi children), while willfully and knowingly ignoring the human rights abuses he was funding and covering up, and who has brutally harmed so many more children and parents and school teachers with his US taxpayer funded policies than Intel ever has with their cheap laptops, and who has a hell of a lot of blood and powdered DU on his hands for what he did in South America and Iraq.
https://truthout.org/articles/iraqi-children-test-positive-f...
>Iraqi Kids Test Positive for Depleted Uranium Remnants Near Former US Air Base. Two Iraqi boys walk among burnt U.S. ammunition trucks contaminated by U.S. depleted uranium bullets on May 3, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. For the first time, independent researchers have found that the bodies of Iraqi children born with congenital disabilities, such as heart disease and malformed limbs, near a former United States air base in southern Iraq are contaminated with high levels of radioactive heavy metals associated with toxic depleted uranium pollution leftover from the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Nicholas must take solace in the fact that he isn't responsible for as many deaths, cancers, and acts of corruption as his brother John, for what it's worth. Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC boondoggle pales in comparison to John Negroponte's South American and Iraqi boondoggles.
https://fas.org/irp/congress/2001_cr/s091401.html
>Based upon the Committee's review of State Department and CIA documents, it would seem that Ambassador Negroponte knew far more about government perpetrated human rights abuses than he chose to share with the committee in 1989 or in Embassy contributions at the time to annual State Department Human Rights reports.