"In a stinging rebuke of Black Lives Matter, the organization’s local affiliate here last month announced that it was severing all ties to a movement it characterized as opportunistic, too invested in liberal, electoral politics and the Democratic party, and ultimately ineffective in fighting state-sanctioned violence against African-Americans."
Apr 15
20180
Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Social Engineering, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Bolivia's UN Amb. Sacha Llorenti: "Today is a dark day in the history of this council. Three permanent members have taken the decision to breach the UN Charter and take military action against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another member state."
Apr 14
20180
Avaaz, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Oxfam, Social Engineering, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"The NGO/media spectacle helps to unify and stabilize reality, disavowing anything that disturbs the humanitarian dream-fantasy, is discomforting to the public, or threatens the neoliberal global order."
Apr 10
20183
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Within the academe there is a flourishing body of criticism of the role of celebrity in recreating and reproducing hegemonic capitalist inequality. Kapoor adopts the most radical position, arguing that celebrity is part of the forces which create and produce inequality, and that celebrities might in fact be ‘sadists’ delighting in their position at the top of the pyramid."
"In this analysis, celebrity endorsement of environmental causes serves to support this obfuscation, distracting audiences from such underlying problems and helping to legitimate by association the big environmental nongovernmental organizations (BINGOs) that increasingly function like corporations..."
"The Left’s job is to disentangle our people from the political clutches of the ruling class and to build independent people’s organizations. The Republicans are a white people’s problem, but Black activists cannot confront the police, the oligarchs or the warmongers without fighting the Democrats."
Apr 06
20181
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Uncategorized, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Isn’t it time to stop aiming those guns—and our missiles, fighter jets, and drones—at the rest of the world? My mother was a member of Women Strike for Peace, founded in 1961 with the slogan “Stop the Arms Race, Not the Human Race,” and that has never been more true."
Apr 02
20180
Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering, The International Campaign to Destabilize Venezuela, Uncategorized
"Whether or not we embrace or espouse nonviolent direct action as an occasional tactic or a bedrock and fundamental strategy we owe it to ourselves to understand the origin of this idea, why the national security state promotes it, how and for whom it works and does not work, and why."
Apr 02
20180
Conservation International, Nature Conservancy, Uncategorized, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, Wilderness Society, Wildlife Conservation Society
"In this Samburu woman, I saw the embodiment of a community praised for its traditional conservation ethics that spared for the world vast populations of diverse wildlife, a community, however, shunned by the world, even as acres of paper and decades of airtime are expended by many a conservationist and organization to discuss their welfare. Upon this revelation, I refused to play along, and I made it my career to expose the rot."
