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Nicaragua: Corporate Media Continues its Psychological Warfare Campaign Against the Sandinista Government

"Shocking murders like that of Berta Cáceres in Honduras get exploited to burnish progressive credentials while the broad, underlying reactionary psychological warfare offensive against the achievements of progressive governments continues unchanged."

Propaganda: How Neocolonial Progressives Support Western Imperialism

"Across the region, the legitimate struggles of indigenous peoples are being coopted by Western NGOs and media to serve the psychological warfare offensive of the US government and its allies against progressive governments in Latin America."

The Humanitarian Industrial Complex School of Thought | A Fish Analogy

"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. "

Conservation’s Friends in High Places: Neoliberalism, Networks, and the Transnational Conservation Elite

"The roles of NGOs, corporations, and the state are increasingly indistinguishable. Market mechanisms and logics are becoming seen as the only way to do effective conservation. In describing the elite and its links and connections, the article aims to inform and guide further research into conservation politics and its neoliberalization."

Soft Coups in Latin America: How Left-Liberal Alternative Media & Environmental NGOs Help the US in Bolivia & Ecuador

"For those opposed to all US intervention, particularly those of us living in the US, we are called upon to expose these new methods of soft coup interference. The standard practice involves the role of USAID, NED, IRI, and NDI in helping to finance NGOs to do their dirty work. NGOs have become the humanitarian face of imperialist intervention."

The Green Economy as a Continuation of War by Other Means

"War is complex and the green economy is advancing land acquisition and displacement, claiming to fight environmental degradation, while simultaneously advancing it."

Trilogy Flashback | Through the Looking Glass: Herding Cats for the People’s Climate March – What We Refuse to See

"Aldous Huxley often expressed a deep concern that citizens could become subjugated via refined use of the mass media. His fears were most prophetic. There is little doubt that if he were alive today, even he would be taken aback by the sheer “success” and madness of it."

WATCH: Kent Monkman: Casualties of Modernity

"Through a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation, Kent Monkman explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience — the complexities of historic and contemporary Native American experience."

D. Rockefeller’s Gruesome Legacy

"This is the Rockefeller “philanthropy” method. Every grant donated is calculated to increase family wealth and power."

Bob Geldof and the Aid Industry: “Do They Know it’s Imperialism?”

"Celebrity activists cannot be relied upon in searching for such solutions; as embedded within capitalist networks of power, they tend to be amongst those few individuals least likely to engage in such a rational approach to problem solving."