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FLASHBACK to 2009: The Most Important COP Briefing That No One Ever Heard | Truth, Lies, Racism & Omnicide

"Bolivia and the AOSIS called for an agreement to keep the global temperature from exceeding no more than a 1ºC rise and to reduce atmospheric CO2 to 300 ppm. In stark contrast, the corporate nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) “demanded” that temperatures not exceed a +2ºC rise and further “demanded” that world emissions peak within 8 years (meaning that emissions would continue to increase, business as usual, for a further 8 years, at which point we would begin an effort to decrease). "

WATCH: Dr. Kwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael) The Revolutionary | Like It Is, With Gil Noble [1996]

Gil Noble’s (1932-2012) legendary interview with Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) (1941-1998) on 'Like It Is.' (1996)

Faking It: Charity Communications in the Firing Line [Purpose (Avaaz) | SYRIA]

Further Reading: SYRIA: Avaaz, Purpose & the Art of Selling Hate for...

West’s Propaganda War on Syria Exposed Again

"It is important that each of these fabrications, hoaxes, and staged productions are mentioned, again and again, when next the West parades out unverified claims it attempts to resell its narrative and agenda with. It is also critical to understand why exactly many in the general public continue to place their trust in media enterprises that continuously and now quite overtly, deceive the public."

A New Version of an Old Christmas Song Is Going Viral — But You Shouldn’t Listen to It

"Adding insult to injury, images of aid workers in Hazmat suits carrying away an unknown, unconscious and barely clothed African woman from a bed soaked in fluids are sharply contrasted with rich and healthy pop stars emerging from flashy vehicles, pushing past the lights of the paparazzi and moving toward a recording studio — a place where their love can save, and there's only compassion in every tear."

Stranger Danger: The Infiltration of Dissident Communities by Freedom House’s Sarah Kendzior

"The way radical language and ideas are churned up by power, stripped of their revolutionary potential, sanitized and then redeployed by liberals has always interested me, so I pay attention to it. Further, any “anarchist” can tell you what it’s like to spar with “Libertarians” or “Anarcho-Capitalists” who continue to encroach on our identifying words, “Libertarian Socialism” and “Anarchism.” It’s a constant struggle against the churning machine of appropriation."

The Blankest Canvas: On Art, Opportunism, Erasure & Whiteness

"How does Crabapple use her art to stake a claim to the authority vested in whiteness? In her most recent work, Scenes from Daily Life in the de Facto Capital of ISIS published yesterday in Vanity Fair, Crabapple inserts herself as the authority and interlocutor between her audience and a Syrian’s own experience and art."

The White Women of Empire

"But it is clear that the helpless and/or metonymic white woman of imperial fantasy will no longer do. The historical victories of feminism have forced empire to interpolate (mostly white) women as its agents as well as its objects."

Voluntourism as Neoliberal Humanitarianism

"Overview: Tristan Biehn examines the new imperial ideologies present in narratives manufactured by the websites of youth-centred volunteer abroad organizations. These narratives serve to instil neoliberal, capitalist understandings of the issues of global inequality and poverty in prospective volunteers, resulting in the depoliticization and decontextualization of such issues."

Romantic Warrior Cults

A Culture of Imbeciles As Rudolph C. Ryser of the Center for...