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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"

NGO’s Are Bad Mkay

"The United Nations likewise cannot be trusted because they also cooperate with multinational mega-corporations that perpetrate systemic violence in the name of predatory capitalism."

Stranger Than Fiction: How to Keep an Antiwar Movement Down

"Indeed, before there can be a peace party, there must be an antiwar critique. And the “trivializing din” that Bacevich speaks of is not simply drowning out antiwar critique, it is merciless in seeking to destroy and discredit ideas such as the fact that the United States enjoys unprecedented military, economic, ideological and strategic domination over the entire world."

WHO ARE SYRIA’S WHITE HELMETS?

"A hideous murder of a rising star in UK politics, Jo Cox MP, has just sent shock waves across the world. Within hours of her death, a special fund was established in her name to raise money for 3 causes. One of those causes is the Syrian White Helmets."

Summer Reading: The Myth of Human Supremacy

"Jensen expresses profound disdain for the human industrial complex and its ecological excesses, contending that it is based on the systematic exploitation of the earth."

Assailants Abduct, Murder Indigenous Environmental Activist in Honduras

"The news comes four months after Berta Caceres, the founder of COPINH, was assassinated in her home. Caceres, an environmental activist, had been leading protests against the building of hydroelectric dams on Indigenous land."

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"After years of work on climate and ecological issues, I've concluded Western environmentalism is dead, having been replaced by 21st century anthropocentrism.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."

‘Activism’: The Lies We Have to Tell Ourselves

"What are they doing?" he pondered aloud. So, I stopped walking, positioned myself about three feet away -- directly in his line of sight -- and replied: “We’re doing what ‘activists’ do, of course. We’re willfully lying to ourselves. What does it look like we’re doing?”

The Clintons Do Haiti: Keep the Natives From Breeding

Counterpunch March 15, 2016 by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn Anthony...