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“Virus or No Virus, We Can’t Lose Our Voice”: Cheri Honkala on Frontline Communities

"Coronavirus is just an extension of the war that we've been forced to fight under capitalism. It’s not just the virus, but that's made it worse. The media is fear-mongering, and misinformation is spreading. Corporations, politicians, and poverty pimps are rushing to profit from this moment."

The Revolution will not be Corporatised!

The Revolution will not be Corporatised!

"Those seeking social ecological transformation increasingly face the stark choice of either conforming to or opposing the structures reproducing social, ecological and economic crises. The former promises a technological future dependent upon experts and the noblesse oblige of billionaires, corporate interests and their protectors."

New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind

"This is what the thirty percent of the globe taken for the New Deal for Nature will look like – a third of the globe stolen for profit. It’s a new colonialism, the world’s biggest land grab, supposedly “green” and supposedly to save the world – a really big lie."

Campaign Announcement: NO Deal For Nature | Stop the Corporate Capture of the Commons

Campaign Announcement: NO Deal For Nature | Stop the Corporate Capture of the Commons

“The New Deal For Nature” (NDFN) is being drawn up by the world’s most powerful corporations, financial institutions, and conservation NGOs, including WWF. WWF has been complicit in human rights abuses for years. At the helm of the NDFN is the World Economic Forum which entered into partnership with the United Nations on June 13, 2019.

The Apparatus

The Apparatus

"The climate crisis is being commodified and co-opted and nature is being bought. It is the final bastion of ruling class control and it has taken advantage of the latent desires for escape from the apparatus. Hence the cultic thinking and reflexive responses of a new class of true believer."

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

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

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..."