New Publication [Free Download]: Capitalism Must Die!
"A short book of very simple, basic, accessible revolutionary theory with text, illustrations & comics: how capitalism works, why it's evil, how to crush it."
Economic Lessons From the Most Unlikely Country – Eritrea
The reason for walking out on aid, given in a January 26 2011 notification letter to UN from the country’s powerful Finance Minister, is that “aid only postpones the basic solutions to crucial development problems by tentatively ameliorating their manifestations without tackling their root causes. The structural, political, economic, etc. damage that it inflicts upon recipient countries is also enormous.”
On Anger, “Love Voices”, and “Divisiveness” In Their Environmental Movement
"Anger is an appropriate reaction to the rampant perpetuation of often invisibilized forms of racism and oppression. Anger is an appropriate reaction to the privileged gatekeepers of funding, resources, and power, when they fail to identify and challenge their understandings of our oppressions. Anger is appropriate when the earth is commodified for the capitalist agenda."
Nov 02
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Reflections On Power Shift 2013: An Impromptu Interview
"This piece originally appeared as part of a series called, “Millenials Take On Climate Change” on the website, Policy Mic. The title I had wanted to go with for this piece was, “How Big Green NGOs Are Harming the Environmental Movement”. Only 800 words were allowed. Policy Mic asked me to become a regular contributor after this piece but I declined once they repeatedly told me that a piece featuring an interview with a frontline indigenous organizer fighting tar sands pipelines wasn’t relevant for their readers."
Thirty Years After the U.S. Invasion of Grenada, the First Neoliberal War
"Therefore it is with considerable nostalgia that I look back on this period, this before the Western left’s spinal cord had been surgically removed and its head compressed into its waist, forming a monstrous human starfish that reaches out in all directions (having little of its own). However, to end on a more productive note, the Latin American left has never been stronger, more dominant, and more unified..."
Historic Speech by Uruguayan President, Jose Mujica, in the UN [Video: Spanish & English]
"In his speech, Mr. Mujica highlighted the power of the financial systems and the economic fallout which has the greatest impact on ordinary people. He urged a return to simplicity, with lives founded on human relationships, love, friendship, adventure, solidarity and family, instead of ones with people shackled to the economy and the markets."
Stroke of a Pen
"Very few environmentalists seem aware of how vulnerable tribal sovereignty is, and place inordinate faith in its effectiveness as a bulwark against environmental devastation by Wall Street and the feds. If anyone doubts this, they should talk with the Choctaw and other Gulf Coast tribes whose lives have been ruined by Obama's executive order waiving environmental rules that led to the BP disaster."
Oct 28
20130
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Emasculation of the African with Awards, Grants and Prizes
"In addition to mercenary individuals and co-opted regional organizations, the west uses its own national agencies as well as international “NGOs” such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and other related organizations, as well as the UN’s tentacle organizations such as the World Food Organization (WFO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), various policy crafting think tanks, foundations etc. to advance foreign policy agendas vis-a-vis Africa, Asia and the Middle East."
Oct 28
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Caravan of Doom
"A Cory Morningstar writes at Wrong Kind of Green, the evil empire Buffett, Gates and Rockefeller built in the private sector is mirrored in the evil networks of NGOs they -- along with Clinton -- have constructed to provide cover for widespread environmental devastation, ethnic cleansing and Indigenous genocide committed by their corporate investments."
Oct 24
20131
Conservation International, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
FLASHBACK | Conservation International: Privatizing Nature, Plundering Biodiversity
"The terms “greenwash” and “corporate front group” seem inadequate to describe Conservation International. Perhaps, as the Papua New Guinean critique puts it, Conservation International is “no more and no less a ‘non government' organisation than is General Electric or Microsoft.” Perhaps it is time to consider a global campaign to expose this ‘green' giant's true colours and put a stop to its operations."