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Conspiracy Theories and Nonviolence

The Real News January 6, 2014 by Michael Barker   n his...

SYRIA: Avaaz, Purpose & the Art of Selling Hate for Empire

"'You have to investigate the supply of hatred,' Glaeser continues. 'Who has the incentive and the ability to induce group hatred? This pushes us toward the crux of the model: politicians or anyone else will supply hatred when hatred is a complement to their policies.'" — The Behavioural Economics of Hatred

Like a Dull Knife: The People’s Climate “Farce”

"What is the binding agent for this sudden and unprecedented unity? Fifty-one years later, the words of Malcolm X still ring true: 'the white man's money.'"

Malcolm X: Do Not March With Your Oppressors

"“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

This Changes Nothing. Why the People’s Climate March Guarantees Climate Catastrophe

The following  contains excerpts from McKibben’s Divestment Tour – Brought to You...

‘Organization is the Weapon of the Oppressed’

“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.” - Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The NGO-ization of Resistance

"Real political resistance offers no such short cuts. The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary."

Decisive Ecological Warfare

"The information in the DEW strategy is derived from military strategy and tactics manuals, analysis of historic resistances, insurgencies, and national liberation movements. The principles laid out within these pages are accepted around the world as sound principles of asymmetric warfare, where one party is more powerful than the other. If any fight was ever asymmetric, this one is."

False Hope

"What once was crudely accomplished through political repression, censorship, educational indoctrination and misleading propaganda, is now supplemented, if not surpassed, through vertical integration of the non-profit industrial complex. Where Wall Street once had to rely on threats and bribery to intimidate or corrupt social movements, it now has a vast army of neoliberal foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and social media at its disposal."

Climate Charade

"The People's Climate March, a charade orchestrated by Avaaz and 350 -- organizations funded by Soros and the Rockefeller Brothers -- is so dominant in social media, that little is heard about the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, which also takes place in New York during the week of September 20-26."