Aug 30
20130
Amnesty International, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Carbon Markets Ecuador Rafael Correa Yasuní National Park
"Si queremos justicia social y ambiental, el debate tiene que ser entorno a como salimos del capitalismo, ya que al capitalismo no hay como regularlo o humanizarlo. Al capitalismo hay que erradicarlo!"
Aug 30
20138
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Avaaz Color of Change Cuba Ella Baker Green For All Libya No Fly Zone phyc Psyops R2P Ricken Patel Syria The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Van Jones Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Today, "The Axis of Evil" psyops (still drilled into the Euro-American psych) has been coupled, if not superseded, with the manufacturing of fear. Add to this orchestrated fear, the "Humanitarian Intervention" and "Responsibility to Protect" doctrines. The crème de le crème of imperial rhetoric. Such doctrines, created by American "think-tanks", for the elite, by the elite, are of critical use for a declining and morally bankrupt empire. An empire that brilliantly attempts to convince and portray, utilizing the language within these doctrines, that the atrocities they manufacture, call for, and carry out, are somehow honourable and admirable – as opposed to what they actually are – crimes against humanity. Orwell would have called this psychopathic persistence, a stunning feat in doublespeak.
Aug 28
20131
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Afghanistan AFL-CIO Anna Hedgeman Black Panthers Black Workers Congress Combahee River Collective Congress on Racial Equality Democratic Party Dorothy Height Dorothy L. Robinson League of Revolutionary Black Workers March on Washington materialism Militarism NAACP National Action Network National Welfare Rights Organization Negro American Labor Council (NALC) Pakistan Pauli Murray Poor People’s Campaign Racism Somalia Southern Christian Leadership Conference Syria United Auto Workers Urban League Yemen Young Lords
" The moral and political arc of movements for social justice is also very, very long. And this is why it is important to think beyond the march, “the speech,” the spectacle. To understand August 28, 1963 is to understand the entire era. It requires following those movements that fall outside the spotlight, the movements organized and led by the very women who were excluded from the mic on that incredibly hot and humid Washington afternoon. The work of social movements is not always sexy, nor is it necessarily inspiring. But they are the engines for change and the incubators of new dreams."
Aug 27
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Civil Rights Movement Democratic Party March on Washington Martin Luther King NAACP New York City’s United Federation of Teachers Syria The International Socialist Organization (ISO) United Auto Workers
The statement stressed that it was not possible to defend democratic rights without a struggle against capitalism. “The Achilles’ heel of the civil rights movement, and even its most radical and sincere representatives such as King,” Mazelis wrote, “was its failure to break with the Democratic Party and recognize that the aims of social equality and democratic rights were realizable only in a struggle for socialism.”
"In the society of the spectacle protest is a form of leisure and the tragic pathos of the class struggle must recede before hilarity, relaxation and festival, genuine forms of the neo-contestatory spirit which has found in pot and pan-banging, whistles, and costume parades its most suitable means of expression and in software, blogs and cell-phones its best weapons."
Aug 27
20132
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
anti-war Bashar al-Assad chemical weapons Egypt Gulf War humanitarian imperialism Humanitarian Intervention Jean Baudrillard Libya R2P Syria U.S. intervention “Responsibility to Protect”
"Seduction is not rape. It needs the complicity of its victim. It needs the victim to want to be seduced. Indeed, it is the victim that dictates the terms on which the seduction will take place. The Arab Spring appeared on our corporate TV screens as it did, because this was how the Western Left wanted to be seduced."
Aug 26
20131
Foundations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Ella Baker Feminism March on Washington Patriarchy Southern Christian Leadership Council
"In commemorating the love fest for the "angelic" MLK Jr. and the March on Washington, I am going to focus on one of the greatest ladies who in my estimation was BETTER than King and much more IMPORTANT in her message and place in history: Ella Baker"
Aug 26
20130
Foundations, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Amnesty International Bloomberg Citigroup Doctors Without Borders Goldman Sachs. Google Human Rights Watch Libya Médecins Sans Frontières Microsoft Syria Wells Fargo
"To begin with, Doctors Without Borders is fully funded by the very same corporate financier interests behind Wall Street and London’s collective foreign policy, including regime change in Syria and neighboring Iran. Doctors Without Borders’ own annual report (2010 report can be accessed here), includes as financial donors, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, and a myriad of other corporate-financier interests."
Aug 26
20130
Foundations, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Jean Bricmont is the author of Humanitarian Imperialism, and of a recent article on CounterPunch called "The Wishful Thinking Left." Bricmont is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy for Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium.
Aug 25
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Green Capitalism territorial defense trade unions “culture of refusal”
"For real protest, the institutionalized opposition is the problem, the enemy and the main threat."