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The Big Conservation Lie Exposes Colonial Dynamic at the Heart of Conservation Policy

"It has also created space for white “saviors” (and the “saviors” are always white), such as George Adamson, Jane Goodall, and Iain Douglas-Hamilton, to step in and be seen to make the decisive difference. There’s no place for Africans in the picture."

AVAAZ: The Globe’s Largest & Most Powerful Behavioural Change Network [Part I]

"Today, drowning within a post-modern spectacle, it is past time to revisit who and what institutions are behind today's manufactured movements. Thus, a fresh look at both Avaaz and Purpose, and their formidable ties to 350.org, is nothing less than imperative."

Bob Geldof and the Aid Industry: “Do They Know it’s Imperialism?”

"Celebrity activists cannot be relied upon in searching for such solutions; as embedded within capitalist networks of power, they tend to be amongst those few individuals least likely to engage in such a rational approach to problem solving."

PODCAST: Washington Post Attacks Burundi

"This week the Washington Post launched its latest salvo in the West's propaganda war on Burundi."

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 3]

"The spread of activist fervor is being harvested as a potential source new "consumer-activsim." The consumer-activism is guided by best selling playbooks for nonviolent revolution and a global network of trainers with a common "indigenous led" pedagogy."

The Left in Denial over Canadian Imperialism

"While far from what’s needed, internationalist minded Americans have helped expose US imperialism. Progressive people in this country have largely failed to do the same with Canadian imperialism. "

Unworthy Victims: Houthis in Yemen and Hutus in Burundi

"Last week the ?U.S.? helped its ??Saudi? pals bomb another hospital and school in? Yemen?, killing 25, including at least 10 children. Don't imagine that its intentions are any more humanitarian in? Burundi? just because they're not selling fighter bomber jets, MK-84 laser guided bombs or GBU-31 satellite-guided bombs to their pal Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president for life. "

“The Non-Profit Industrial Complex”, and the Co-opting of the NGO Environmental Movement

"On the Earth Day edition of the Global Research News Hour, Morningstar talks about fossil fuel divestment as a flawed climate strategy, the failure of climate activists to address imperialism, a critical UN Advisory Group report which environmental groups conspired to keep buried from public view, and other inconvenient truths plaguing the non-profit industrial complex."

Journey to the End of the Night: The Paris ‘Nuit Debout’ Movement

"Until our youth emancipates themselves from the pernicious influence of controlled opposition and pseudo-leftist ideology, which turns them into useful idiots of the monopoly capitalism rather than revolutionaries, their good-natured activism is tragically destined to precipitate civilisation’s journey to the end of the night."

EU To Burundi: Regime Change Trumps

"The next few months will be decisive, and any major national commemoration or foreign presidential trip might be chosen as the date for launching the latest coup attempt bringing Burundi back to its days of civil war and dysfunction."