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Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism

The Call of the Wild

"The forests fall, the ice melts and the extinctions roll on; but we keep writing love letters to ourselves, oblivious"

I’m Still Me. Who Are You?

"If I just kept doing what I was doing, I also could’ve avoided the silent treatment, the innuendo, the hypocrisy, the passive-aggressive comments and messages, the character assassination, the vile slander, the trashing, and the public promises of violence (including death threats) that have now become the norm."

The revolution will not be subsidized or absurd failure of the left (an interview with Cory Morningstar)

"After years of work on climate and ecological issues, I've concluded Western environmentalism is dead, having been replaced by 21st century anthropocentrism. The word "activist" in the west is a term that simply refers to a self-absorbed anthropocentrist - willfully blind to the horrors of imperialism and racism that hums beneath the entire system."

Amnesty International Confirms it No Longer Supports Women’s Human Rights

"Men’s rights activists around the world can rest easy knowing that organizations like Amnesty International have their penises interests first in mind."

The Dangers of Rebranding Prostitution as ‘Sex Work’

"Perhaps the single most effective strategy hit upon so far is to pump out the myth contained in the term “sex work”: the myth that it is possible to commodify consent."

FLASHBACK: If He Can’t Lie, It’s Not His Revolution: Chris Hedges vs. Emma Goldman

"Reading this passage, it’s striking how little has changed. It isn’t difficult to imagine, say, Rebecca Solnit – "philosophic" anarchist and Obama campaigner – being feted at the White House in reward for her work bashing radicals, while at the same time "criminal" anarchists like Marie Mason and Oso Blanco rot in prison."

WATCH: Toxic Philanthropy: The Gates Foundation, Public Health and Imperialism

A panel presented at Left Forum, June 1, 2014. Sponsored by the Research Unit for Political Economy. Speakers: Jacob Levich, Kwame Fosu; Brenda Biddle.

A Madame of Mediocrity

Another vapid luminary on the cover of Vogue.

XSanFrancisco – White Men, Wealth, Neoliberalism and Tech Disruption, Part 1

"... some artists are now using elements of feminist and queer theory, using masks as a way of resisting this gaze and as a tool in the fight against surveillance and technology’s built in method of identifying and tracking consumers, a feature (often surreptitious) of how business has succeeded transferring control of the economy from the public to the private sector."

The “Purpose” of “Consumer Activism” & COP21 – “We Mean Business”

The ideologies espoused by "We Mean Business" are transparent in the following (01:40) interview with Avaaz & Purpose co-founder Jeremy Heimans by We Mean Business.