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How To Talk About #NoDAPL: A Native Perspective

"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."

PODCAST: Deconstructing the Non-profit Industrial Complex [Introduction Episode]

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.

LISTEN: The Lies They Tell. The Pitiful State of Environmentalism and its Neoliberalization

"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..."

Update: Gandhi’s Statue at the University of Ghana Will Come Down

"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."

This Changes Nothing: The Paris Agreement to Ignore Reality

"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. "

The Political Economy of the Paris Agreement: Preserving the Existing Social & Economic Order

"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."

The Work of Revelations: Snowden, the Torture Report, and the Diminishing Returns of Info-Spectacles

"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."

SMALL IS STILL BEAUTIFUL

"Class has always been the fault line running down the middle of the green movement, and with the Brexit vote it has been exposed."

Leonardo DiCaprio, the Malaysian Money Scandal and His “Unusual” Foundation

"According to the Justice Department, certain donations to the Oscar winner's charity came directly from a multibillion-dollar embezzlement drama in Southeast Asia."

Usefully Dumb and Usefully Dumber: Naomi Klein and Glenn Greenwald

"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."