Global Nuclear Renaissance under Guise of “Net Zero”
"Behind the veneer of a global "green" energy transition that places solar and wind at the marketing forefront, a nuclear renaissance is quietly sweeping the globe."
Aug 16
20232
"Net Zero" Bill Gates Breakthrough Energy Coalition Breakthrough Energy Ventures Climate First Nations KOBOLD Metals Nuclear TerraPower Uranium We Don't Have Time
"Behind the veneer of a global "green" energy transition that places solar and wind at the marketing forefront, a nuclear renaissance is quietly sweeping the globe."
"We now, on this loose left, trade in our critical faculties at the theatre of propaganda. In return, the propaganda pounds, batters, and sequesters our emotions so that we end up identifying with the narrative of power."
Beller speaks to how monetary media, by inscribing code on bodies, is a force of ongoing colonization under racial capitalism.
"The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire" lecture was given by Prof. Ellen Meiksins Wood, Professor Emerita of Political Science at York University.
Mar 22
20230
Nature Conservancy, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Barbados Belize Blue Bonds Climate Capitalism Commodification of Nature Credit Suisse Debt-for-climate swaps Debt-for-nature swaps ESG Gabon GEF IMF Imperialism Sri Lanka The Nature Conservancy The Royal Foundation UNDP World Bank “Rhino bond”
"Analysts expect the global debt-for-nature swaps market to eventually exceed $800 billion."
Prix Canal + for best short film, Semaine de la Critique, Cannes...
Mar 22
20231
Africa C.I.A. Global South IMF Imperialism Nature Debt Swaps Nigeria Sanctions World Bank
Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends. He is the author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.
"Fear makes thinking harder, yet there is an urgent need to think and to question every aspect of our current situation. The philosopher, which Agamben truly embodies, is a figure that must be heeded."
"...the class hierarchy is itself continuously reimposed and reiterated, but under capital instead of religion, while pretending to uplift the working class and neutralise the abuse and injustice."
Feb 06
20232
"Net Zero" BECCS Biomass CCS EOR Greta Thunberg Just Stop Oil Naomi Klein Tzeporah Berman XR
"There is no excuse for not identifying the political will. It is right to ask why groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil will not acknowledge that projects being built at their back door."