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A Madame of Mediocrity

Another vapid luminary on the cover of Vogue.

AFRICOM’s War on Libya

"In this excerpt from Bob Coen and Eric Nadler's film "Shadow War of the Sahara", broadcast on the Franco-German channel ARTE charts the rise of the U.S.military's AFRICA COMAND (AFRICOM). This excerpt reveals why AFRICOM's chief critic, Libya's Mohammar Gaddafi, had to be removed from power for the project to succeed."

HEART OF DARKNESS

"Unlike the spontaneous resistance by students and marginalized sectors of urban society to this total bureaucratic domination in the 1960s, consumer reaction to mass murder and dispossession in the 21st Century is itself choreographed by the ruling class."

NPIC: The Advocacy of the Neoliberalisation of Nature

"Most recently international support has been given for an experimental accountancy approach which shifts uneasily from physical measurement into monetary valuation, where apparently all the world's assets (whether human, natural or social) are to be conceptualised as capital to be made commensurable and traded-off one for the other as necessary... In the world of the mainstream economists and accountants, everything has a price and nothing is sacrosanct or inviolable."

Annihilating Tribal Society

"If fascism is defined as a rationalization of theft through coercion, then it fits the US/EU model exercised in Central and South America, Africa and Asia, where tribal societies (i.e. Maya, Hutu, and West Papuans) are annihilated or displaced to facilitate access to their resources."

Blood Money

"The French Treasury is receiving 500 billion dollars per year from African countries based on colonial debt they are forced to pay. Without this support extorted from Africa, France would be a Third World country."

The King’s Speech (King Leo, that is)

"Over the past few years, King Leo has positioned himself to be seen as the social conscience of the celebrity elite. But, it is only because of this fact that the message is acceptable. It isn't the words themselves. It is only the conduit from which they are emanating. The relaying of non-anglo pain and anguish must always be filtered through the mouth of a white representative, most preferably male."

THE REIGN OF THE INTERNET

"The ongoing social disintegration of industrial civilization that produces pseudo-citizens signing online petitions created by ruling class entities like Avaaz, Purpose and 350, is indicative of the unbridled power of seamless spectacle, begun in the era of television, and culminated in the reign of the Internet."

WATCH: Recognition Politics | A Lecture on Resurgence by Taiaiake Alfred

"The essence of being part of a resurgence movement comes out of that kind of feeling; it's rooted, it's accountable, and it's transformative. Those are the three things that I think define the difference between resurgence and the other alternatives out there for what decolonization and colonization ; basically recognition politics, and, hate to say it, reconciliation...."

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part VII of an Investigative Report]

"While on the surface, CBE (community-based ecotourism) projects support traditional knowledge and cooperation, in real-life, Indigenous communities are told they must be competitive as international tourism is pushed as imperative to survival along with other free-market prescriptions. Ultimately this amounts to cultural assimilation – or annihilation. As yesterday’s missionaries instilled the fear of God, today’s modern-day missionaries instill the fear of operating losses."