"The Salvation Army has also built on its corporate ties. Companies with dodgy track records on the treatment of workers and the environment, such as BHP and McDonalds, have flocked to support the charity that has traditionally supported them. Chain stores such as K-Mart have begun helping the Salvation Army in return for the enhancement of corporate image that such “good works” bring."
Mar 17
20130
Amnesty International, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Amnesty International Clinton Global Initiative Eritrea Eritrea and Libya. HRC Human Rights Human Rights Watch ICC Ivory Coast Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG) Sudan Torture UN UNHCR UNSC US-funded NGO ZIMBABWE
"After reading all the latest articles from Awate.com, Asmarino.com, Assenna.com, and their ilk, you come to the heart-crushing conclusion that Eritrea must be the most horrible place on Earth. All your dream organizations, like HRW, AI, RSF, and many others have nothing positive to say about life in Eritrea. You come to see the Eritrean government as an enemy of the Eritrean people that uses the “CIA” argument as a scapegoat for its failures–essentially what the media tells you."
Mar 16
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Imperialism Jared Diamond neoliberalism Social Sciences West Papua
"It is difficult to say whether author Jared Diamond writes from ignorance or malice, but his distorted perception of tribal peoples is certainly getting a lot of attention. As an act of sensationalist self-promotion, perhaps his neoliberal views so eagerly embraced by Wall Street are merely show business, something to guarantee his nonsense will become a best-seller. Such is the nature of market ethics."
Mar 16
20134
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
First Peoples Worldwide Indigenous Peoples Shell Oil Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"While extortion might be too strong a word to use in describing Adamson’s quid pro quo in whitewashing corporate development, her entrepreneurial brokerage is nevertheless a form of poverty-pimping akin to what the Black elite did during the Civil Rights Movement."
Mar 05
20130
Foundations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Anthropology Imperialist Academia indigenous Struggles Jared Diamond Latin Amerikan Struggles Napoleon Chagnon National Academy of Sciences Sociobiology. Yanomami Indians
"The election of Napoleon Chagnon to the US National Academy of Sciences is part of a rightward shift within the US. Increasingly desperate the retain it hegemonic position and to roll back the few gains achieved by the Third World masses during the second half of the 20th century, US imperialism is not simply utilizing advanced technology and scientific applications to wage wars of aggression in Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, et al. US imperialism is also increasingly relying on ‘scientific’ justifications, à la Chagnon, Jared Diamond, and others, for its expanded aggression and exploitation."
Feb 27
20130
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
indigenous Struggles National Liberation Neocolonialism Revolutionary Theory Revolutionary Traditionalism & Spirituality White Leftism
"This essay, written in 1974 by Jimmie Durham, is one of the most influential documents on Onkwehón:we Rising’s perspective. In this piece Durham, critically addresses the colonial attitudes of White “leftists” which have historically caused much friction between our liberation movement and the wider left."
Feb 26
20130
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Hypocrisy International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Iran Korea Nuclear UN
"This rule does not apply to the United States, however. They can invade any country anytime anyhow and do whatever they want whenever they want and wherever they want. If you wonder what moral authority and political legitimacy the United States government has to talk about nuclear armament and proliferation, you would be branded as a dangerous terrorist."
Feb 26
20130
Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The Soros Network | OSI, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Afghanistan Canada Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) Gaddafi Humanitarianism Imperialism Iraq Laurent Loui Libya Mali NATO R2P Syria
"One important theme, bridging counterinsurgency, development, foreign aid, and R2P, is that of humanitarianism and its ever more frequent appearance in military garb. Simply put, what we are dealing with is the justifications for empire, that are meant to buy our peaceful compliance with resources that are redirected toward foreign escapades, and to sell others on the legitimacy of our ruling them."
Feb 20
20130
Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"In Marxist terms it’s building the hegemony, the idea that the ruling class will appropriate the initiatives and ideas of oppositional movements and turn them into something that is harmless and defends the existing order. So it may seem like the rulers are willing to reform when in fact they absorb the oppositional elements, neutralize them and use them to defend the status quo."
Feb 15
20131
Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
"Elections, corporate-funded nonprofits, NGOs and CBOs, personal change, political pressure, culture-jamming, tinkering with the economy, green jobs, withdrawing our support, symbolic protests – all are offered up as options for dissent. None of them are sufficient; on the contrary, they serve to reinforce the system’s authority and the illusion of democracy."