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June, 2014

Jun 04

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Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Bolivia CIA Civil Rights Movement FBI Libyan Ukraine United States Institute of Peace USAID

Undermining Democracy Abroad

"While critics of deceptively-named agencies like United States Institute of Peace point out that the supposed peace research looks more like the study of new and potential means of aggression through trade embargoes, austerity programs, and electoral interventions, its board when it was established in 1984 looked like a who’s who of right-wing ideologues from academia, the CIA and the Pentagon."

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Jun 04

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

ALBA Bolivia Buen Vivir CONAIE Ecuador extractivism Imperialism Pachamama TIPNIS

How ‘anti-extractivism’ misses the forest for the trees

"Any genuine campaign against South American “extractivism”, particularly by solidarity activists in imperialist countries, must start by pointing the fingers at those truly responsible for extractivism in South America: imperialist governments and their transnational corporations."

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Jun 04

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia

Bolivia CONAMAQ neoliberalism

Does CONAMAQ Represent Bolivia’s Highland Indigenous Peoples?

"Attempts to portray CONAMAQ as such generally hide ulterior agendas, whether aimed at discrediting the indigenous credentials of the Morales government, bolstering chances of receiving international funding for certain projects, or imposing fictional stereotypes on what it means to be truly indigenous."

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Jun 04

2014

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

350.org Climate Foundations Funding Greenpeace Pew Charitable Trusts Queensland Rockefeller Self censorship

Australia’s Climate Movement Has Been Bought for a Pittance

We Suspect Silence May 13, 213 by empathiser “Self censorship is a...

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Jun 04

2014

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David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), The Occupation of Haiti, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Canada CIDA Foundations Funding People's Social Forum

NGOization: Depoliticizing Activism in Canada

"The wide variety of NGOs serves to confuse things. Depending on how one counts, there are hundreds or thousands of grant-dependent mission-oriented organizations in Canada. Many who work in NGOs insist that it is futile to make generalizations. There exist an undeniable plethora of NGOs. All of them, however, depend on a comparatively small pool of funders."

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