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Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism

Greta Is Our MLK. That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing.

"As with King, Thunberg acolytes have attributed these critiques to jealousy, bigotry, vested interests, and even proto-fascism. Yet many harsh critics of Dr. King—Ella Baker, Malcolm X, Gloria Richardson, James Forman and others—were just as dedicated to social justice as he was, and took similar risks in their activism."

Connecting the Dots

"The whole thing is so ludicrous and idiotic that one really does wonder if the West is not in some trance state. The inability to read marketing as marketing is at this point inexcusable in someone self identifying as a leftist. The system sails along, like a billionaire’s yacht, increasing profit at the expense of the everyone not of the top 2 or 3%."

The Price of Putting a Price on Nature

"I’ll state it simply. Nature never has been and never will be ours to own and measure, and as long as we continue do so, it is us who will pay a steep price."

Quelo, Greta & the Neoliberal Doctrine of Multiple Truth

"It is difficult for those who are driven by the idea of "changing the world" to believe that the "spontaneity" of such protests is, in reality, the staging of a script written by others, a product ready to be put on the market of ideas."

State of the Empire: Reviewing 2019

"These reviews could be invaluable resources to researchers seeking to trace the multiple trajectories of US imperial practice... here is our Top 10 List of all other articles published online this year..."

Watch: Banking Nature

"In the investigative documentary Banking Nature, Sandrine Feydel and Denis Delestrac delve into the wondrous world of green banking. Investors buy up the habitats of endangered species and then sell them in the form of shares."

The Gift that Keeps on Giving To the Ruling Elite: Cognitive Dissonance

"It's been interesting defending my article "Not This Kind of Green" on social media."

Global Netwar 2019

"Through hostile takeovers of government, media, and the non-profit industrial complex, the financial sector in the last decade has accomplished what official censorship and political repression could not: the mobilization of progressives in support of neoliberal fascism."

Listen: What Do We See When We See Earth? Reading Act II of Cory Morningstar’s Research into the NGO Industrial Complex

"Who is waiting there to channel your energy to heal this place into the weightless unmeaning futility of make-a-buck?"

Listen: Don’t Take Movements at Face Value: Reading Cory Morningstar’s Research into Environmental Activist Greta Thunberg

Morningstar’s work may prove instructive as those of us who are concerned about our survival on this planet try to focus on what activity can genuinely make a positive difference for the climate, the atmosphere and the health of our ecosystems. Listen here: