"These “movements” seem to do everything in their power to placate, pacify and render ineffective their target consumers: white, liberal Americans with a small sense of the hollowness of everyday life in capitalist America. By proposing simple and false solutions inside a framework of “peaceful resistance,” potential disruptors of the status quo are rendered ineffective while believing they are engaged in meaningful resistance."
Jul 29
20130
Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
The U.S. imperial juggernaut attempts to bamboozle its home audience with the fiction that its war against Syria is a “humanitarian” venture. “The immediate priority for anti-war, anti-imperialist, human rights activists in the U.S. is to strip away the moral pretext of humanitarian intervention and expose its ugly, imperialist reality.”
Jul 24
20130
Foundations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Exxon ExxonMobil Human Capital Iran Opportunities Fund Rex Tillerson Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Not suprisingly, although Tillerson admits there is such a thing as climate change, he believes that the Western world can still go about things in the current fashion due to the 'otherworldly' brilliance of this culture, which is the hallmark of white male supremacy and its demigod like foundations."
Jul 22
20130
Avaaz, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Avaaz CNN Corporate Media Industrial Complex Imperialism Silvia Cattori Stella Calloni Syria
"The statements and testimonies of the facts regarding the crimes committed by mercenaries and their leaders occupy hundreds of pages, and all journalists have access to them. Therefore the silence of the media makes them complicit in these crimes against humanity."
Jul 22
20130
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
indigenous populations Mexico Oaxaca participatory mapping U.S. Army Weaponizing Maps
"As it happens, this concern over betrayal by modern states, corporations and NGOs behind the participatory mapping phenomenon is well-founded. According to renowned cartographer and social scientist Denis Wood, his research in Oaxaca, Mexico reveals that participatory mapping gets turned into a method for making maps that support state and military interventions into Indigenous life."
Jul 22
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Bill McKibben Denial Empire Forrest Palmer neoliberalism Privledge Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"The arc of history doesn't bend towards justice. This is a fallacy to allow those on top to believe they can kick the can down the road and it will one day be taken care of by the next generation who will have learned from our mistakes. Well, the next generation is HERE for climate change. There is no more tomorrow or room for stating of the problem from the leaders with no mention of the solution. The ultimate goal is ZERO CARBON EMISSIONS. Period. This can either be done by CHOICE or by FORCE. Yet, everyday that people like McKibben and the horde of false green prophets continue to lie to the masses, that choice is QUICKLY turning into what will ultimately be done by force. Simple as that."
Jul 22
201316
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Adivasi Agricultural Association AIMA Argentina Biofuels Borneo Branding Der Pakt mit dem Panda (The Pact with the Panda) Documentary Ecotourism Ethanol Exploitation Expropriation GE Global Harvest Initiative GMO Hector Laurance HSBC India Jose Martinez de Hoz Land Evictions Landgrabs monoculture Monsanto Morgan Seeds Palm Oil Papua Paraguay Pioneer Racism Rainforests REDD Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil South America Soy Speciesism WWF
"This film will dispel the green image of the WWF however. Behind the organisation’s eco-façade, the documentary maker uncovered explosive stories from all around the world. This documentary reveals the secrets of the WWF. It is a journey into the heart of the green empire that will hopefully shatter public faith in such so-called conservation groups forever."
Jul 18
20132
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Atmosphere Capitalism Colonialism Exploitation Forests Illusory Green Economy Imperialism Oceans privatization REDD UNGEP United Nations United Nations’ green economy programme
The Indigenous People’s Kari-Oca 2 Declaration describes the UN’s GEP as ‘a continuation of colonialism… a perverse attempt by corporations, extractive industries and governments to cash in on Creation by privatizing, commodifying and selling off the Sacred and all forms of life and the sky’ (2012, p.1-2). The programme of re-visioning of the commons as sets of commodities ripe for exploitation is diametrically contrary to the environmental rhetoric used to sell the project.
Jul 17
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Communications Netwar Psychological Warfare Science of Coercion
"“Effective netwar, as demonstrated by the Zapatista, relies on the strategic use of all available forms of communication, including street art, public gestures, signage, text and audio/visual expressions, all of which relate to an overall theme that is apparent and memorable. Effective mobilization of netwar, on the other hand, is more complex. It relies on time and place, the kinds of resources we have, and the challenges in front of us."
"Neocolonialism is the growing middle class movement that is spreading across the world. It self-identifies wherever it is as a grassroots activist movement yet it is dominated by individuals who are not grassroot activists. The black grassroots activism in the US is experiencing what is currently overtaking indigenous grassroots activism here – both ‘movements’ propagate the idea that the crisis can be ‘fixed’ within the current system and social order. As a result, both maintain the status quo and the current class system."