Nov 08
20161
"In discussing #NoDAPL, too few people have started from a place of naming that we have a right to defend our water and our lives, simply because we have a natural right to defend ourselves and our communities. When 'climate justice', in a very broad sense, becomes the center of conversation, our fronts of struggle are often reduced to a staging ground for the messaging of NGOs."
Nov 04
20166
Foundations, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Networked Hegemony NGO-Military Industrial Complex Non-profit Industrial Complex Social Engineering
This is the first episode in a new weekly podcast that focuses exclusively on the non-profit industrial complex as a key instrument of empire in the 21st century.
Oct 29
20160
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Anthropocentrism Degrowth Denialism environmentalism Growth Natural Capital neoliberalism New Economy Next System Payments for Ecosystems Services PES Physical Limits The Solutions Project
"You can't go back, only forward. Not everybody can have it. That's the point of bio-physicality relationship. That's the lie. You will not have all the people in the world living at the American lifestyle, even the poorest American, at that threshold level. It will not happen. You can not exploit those resources, you can not get them cheap enough, you can not get those fossils (fuel) out of the ground without fucking up everything, the planet and so forth..."
"The critical dialogue surrounding the erection of the statue has focused not only on Gandhi’s racist identity, but also on the implications of the image of Gandhi in this space and what it means for students, professors, and the nation."
Oct 27
20162
Social Engineering, United Nations
doublespeak Framing Neoliberal Language PES. Payments for Ecosystem Services Strategic Ambiguity The Paris Agreement UNFCCC ‘internationally transferred mitigation outcomes’
"Unfortunately, many environmental non-governmental organisations have bought into this illogical reasoning and justify their support as being pragmatic. Neoliberal language is rife across their reports and policy recommendations and their adoption of natural capital, ecosystems services, offsetting and market trading. These new environmental pragmatists believe, without justification, that the financialisation of Nature will help prevent its destruction. "
Oct 26
20160
Social Engineering, United Nations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Agenda for Sustainable Development Capitalism CCS Denialism Economic Growth Natural Capital Paris Agreement PES
"In the end the Paris Agreement changes nothing. The destination is the same old growth economy and that is in total contradiction with addressing human induced climate change."
Oct 24
20160
CIA Glenn Greenwald Guantanamo Bay NSA Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media Rebranding Reform Snowden Spectacle The Intercept TruthDig Ukraine
"The truth alone might not set us free. Powerful entities are working to see it does nothing, or even make us less free in the end."
"Class has always been the fault line running down the middle of the green movement, and with the Brexit vote it has been exposed."
Oct 24
20160
"Hollywood Actor 1" California Community Foundation Donor-advised Fund (DAF) Goldman Sachs. Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Malaysian Sovereign Wealth 1MDB Public Disclosures Red Granite Pictures
"According to the Justice Department, certain donations to the Oscar winner's charity came directly from a multibillion-dollar embezzlement drama in Southeast Asia."
"I can’t think of anyone more qualified to hold forth on the Proper Way to Oppose The Ruling Class than wealthy clerks who work for oligarchs."