But another sort of deep-pocketed philanthropist is harder to pin down. The harm she causes seems less direct; her motives more lofty. This type is fond of touting “win-win” solutions to social problems and tossing out terms like “impactful” and “scalable” and “paradigm-shifting” —the kind of lingo fed to business school students in lieu of critical thinking. Members of this group nevertheless refer to themselves as “thought leaders.”
Jul 31
20180
Avaaz, Ford Foundation, Foundations
AccessNow AllOut (Purpose) Avaaz Brett Solomon Ford Google MoveOn Netflix Nick Gaw Open Society Foundations Open Society Institute Purpose Save The Internet SecDev thisisnetneutrality.org
"Internet activism is an industry; “digital prostitutes” who will lend their support to corporate inspired causes are available for hire; and net neutrality activism receives hundreds of millions of dollars of support from corporate and foundation funders intent on protecting their financial portfolios and business models."
Aug 06
20170
350.org / 1Sky, Ford Foundation, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Soros Network | OSI, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Alexander Soros Foundation Ford Foundation Global Witness Human Rights Watch HURIDOCS International Crisis Group International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) NED | National Endowment for Democracy Nicaragua Omidyar Network Open Society Foundation Transparency International
"NGOs like Global Witness, International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch, Transparency International and so many others, self-evidently fabricate psychological warfare inputs serving NATO country government policy, itself shaped by the same corporate elites that fund the class of NGOS of which Global Witness is a part."
Aug 03
20172
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Avaaz Ceres Earth Guardians Ford Foundation Global Witness Greenpeace Here Now Naomi Klein Purpose Skoll Foundation The B Team United Nations We Mean Business
Let this section serve as an introduction to where 21st century environmentalism meets the 21st humanitarian industrial complex. Where white polar bears meet white helmets.
Jun 29
20172
Amnesty International, Avaaz, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Center for American Progress, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Oxfam, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz], Social Engineering, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The International Campaign to Destabilize Venezuela, The Soros Network | OSI, United Nations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Vision
Avaaz Charity Porn Charity/aid Industry Humanitarian Industrial Complex Humanitarian Intervention Non-profit Industrial Complex Purpose R2P
"The White Helmets are a 21st century NGO hybrid. A combination of soft power (the perception of altruism) and hard power (actual actions outside of the mainstream narrative), terrorism, identity theft, manufactured heroism, violence and celebrity. "
Apr 06
20170
Christian Aid Ford Foundation George Soros’ Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa Pambazuka News
"As history has shown, such elites are quite willing to fund and even promote radical critiques of society (within limited circles at least), if only so they are better placed to co-opt their ideological adversaries more effectively."
Mar 03
20170
Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"This book will not be required reading for the often well-intentioned, yet sadly deluded, recipients of funding from the liberal foundations it critiques, but on their, and our, road to Hell, it damn well should be."
"The upper class and the closely related corporate community do not stand alone at the top of the power structure. They are supplemented by a wide range of nonprofit organizations that play an important role in framing debates over public policy and in shaping public opinion. "
Dec 13
20164
350.org / 1Sky, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Avaaz Bush Foundation Capitalism Clinton Global Initiative Elon Musk Empowered By Light Jeff Skoll Josh Fox Leonardo DiCaprio Marco Krapels Mark Ruffalo Mark Z. Jacobson Mosaic Solar Purpose SolarCity Standing Rock The 11th Hour Project The Solutions Project Van Jones
"Celebrity-driven campaigns can also be seen to work to responsibilize consumers and audiences as agents of change, through their targeting of audiences, publics, and private individuals; this often elides or willfully ignores, the offending structures, corporations, and/or other actors involved."
Nov 04
20166
Foundations, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Networked Hegemony NGO-Military Industrial Complex Non-profit Industrial Complex Social Engineering
This is the first episode in a new weekly podcast that focuses exclusively on the non-profit industrial complex as a key instrument of empire in the 21st century.