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Reformism, Indigenous Activism, the Global Crisis, and System Change

"The less any of us focus on INM and any other reformist voice and the more we focus on building a real movement of THE PEOPLE the better. Today, like no other time in the history of the human family, is it critical for THE PEOPLE to gather within local areas, form strategies and alliances, disconnect from reformist voices, and ensure that the local voices empower local system change."

FLASHBACK | The American Plan: How to Destroy an Agricultural Economy in Haiti

As it turns out, CARE had become involved in what was a very deliberate undermining of the Haitian peasant economy, the cornerstone of a plan that the World Bank and USAID had designed. This is how it happened.

The Unwitting Agents of the Imperial Order | The Wishful Thinking Left

"People who succumb to the illusions of revolutionary romanticism or who side with the apparent underdog, regardless of the underdog’s agenda, are being taken in by the tactics of present-day imperialism. But those who aspire to a more peaceful and more just world order, and who think that a precondition of this order is the weakening of U.S. imperialism, easily see through this camouflage. These two different world views divide both the Left and the Right: liberal interventionists and neoconservatives on one side, libertarians, paleoconservatives and traditional leftists on the other, and it may call for new and heterodox alliances."

The Konyism of Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the United Nations

"In the Obama administration, Power did nothing to contain the “runaway state,” indeed she helped secure inside the United Nations a “law,” R2P, that gives the United States permission to be unrestrained. That is the Konyism of Samantha Power."

“It’s a White Man’s World” – Your Exclusive Daily Dose of Reality. Raw. Unedited. Uncomfortable.

"Now, the future draw down has run smack dab into the present where we are actually looking into the faces of the ones whose days are being shortened by a given amount of time due to using these resources, be it days, weeks, months or years."

Decolonizing Together | Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Toward a Practice of Decolonization

"Given the devastating cultural, spiritual, economic, linguistic and political impacts of colonialism on Indigenous people in Canada, any serious attempt by non-natives at allying with Indigenous struggles must entail solidarity in the fight against colonization."

Amnesty International, War Propaganda, and Human Rights Terrorism

"Amnesty International is a war propaganda organization for imperialism. In fact, the majority of the most highly publicized human rights organisations in the West function as ideological indoctrination agencies for neo-colonialism and imperialism. In this respect, they have replaced the Christian missionaries of the 19th century who provided the justification for colonial subjugation on the pretext of spreading “Christian civilization”. Christian value-spreading colonialism has been superseded by human rights promotion."

Urgent Appeal from The African Revolutionary Movement on Behalf of Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim

Two days ago, the US-NATO installed regime in Libya sentenced the respected academic and political philosopher, Dr Ahmed Ibrahim to death by firing squad. Dr Ibrahim was once Secretary for Education, and is a Qaddafi loyalist. He has written extensively on the Jamahiriyan ideology or what is known as the Third Universal Theory. Ahmed Ibrahim is a staunch Pan-Africanist and a courageous freedom fighter who, rather than fleeing the Libyan Jamahiriya during the brutal and barbaric assault on his country, stood his ground in the heroic defense of Sirte alongside the revolutionary forces and people, and was later captured by an Al Qaeda linked militia."

Book Excerpt: Fear of a Black Nation

"For Blacks, past experiences with alliances have been largely fraught with the difficulties of White paternalism and unequal power dynamics. We need surely to take a step forward in our understanding of how the prevalence of race and racism limits life possibilities for people of African descent and hinders progressive attempts at overcoming the fundamentalist economics and politics of madness that govern our era."

Question: Environmental Politics: What’s Left? Answer: Bourgeois Primitivism, That’s What

"...environmental politics has become something that valorizes the individual consumer and aggressively ignores questions of class, race, and gender in the production of environmental inequality. Acceptable expressions of environmentalism are only those that adhere to “ethical” consumption patterns: organics, local, fair-trade. It is a disciplinary logic that taps into a kind of eco-entertainment niche in green capitalism that redefines the leitmotif of existing bourgeois environmentalism: environmentalism as self-improvement via an urban lifestyle performed as an alternative expression of class distinction."