"This is a kind of partial eco-capitalism, vigorously supported by the green parties, who put their faith in industrial renewables, and even more so by international institutions, whose goal is to reduce the share of fossil fuels in world energy consumption, or at least to control their prices, while maintaining high rates of economic growth."
Aug 21
20140
350.org AFL-CIO Battle in Seattle Capitalism Divestment Geothermal Indigenous peoples struggle McKibben NAFTA Naomi Klein Netwar Rockefeller Foundation
"As pied pipers of climate change, McKibben and Klein have managed to deceive thousands of American youth into believing fossil fuel divestment on college campuses, or XL photo-ops in front of the White House, are revolutionary. Continuing the historical parallel, In September 2014, 350.org is organizing a Peoples Climate Change March in New York City."
Aug 19
20140
350.org AFL-CIO Battle in Seattle Capitalism Divestment Geothermal Indigenous peoples struggle McKibben NAFTA Naomi Klein Netwar Rockefeller Foundation
"As pied pipers of climate change, McKibben and Klein have managed to deceive thousands of American youth into believing fossil fuel divestment on college campuses, or XL photo-ops in front of the White House, are revolutionary. Continuing the historical parallel, In September 2014, 350.org is organizing a Peoples Climate Change March in New York City."
"This is an excellent outline to understand a phenomenon within the US which is the internal component of the Gene Sharp/NGO model of ‘Human Rights’ Imperialism abroad, as discussed in our article Gene Sharp: From Berlin Wall to Arab Spring or The Politics of Counter-Revolution – JV Capone"
Jul 19
20143
Avaaz, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Occupy Wall Street
Adbusters Avaaz Boutique Activist Consultancy CANVAS Capitalism Co-optation Democratic Party GetUp! Google Corporation Micah White Occupy Opportunism Otpor OWS Purpose Slobodon Milosovic
"The situation reeks not only of opportunism, but of Google's long arm now attempting to embed a pro-corporate, pro-capitalist, and positive surveillance state narrative (with a first person point of view) into the Occupy movement - a narrative that suggests that multinational corporations like Google support peoples' struggles against injustice and that we can have real social change alongside the profit motive of the capitalist system."
Jul 19
20140
"Dr. Best was asked to speak on the meaning of animal rights, and he contrasted it to animal welfare, contextualized both in the setting of modern capitalism, and underscored the subversive and revolutionary nature of animal rights."
"Indeed, the unlikely romance between Kimberly-Clark and Greenpeace seems to have deepened with time. “The relationship blossomed to the point where we began sharing our five-year plans with them,” Apte says. “We want to know in advance if there are any showstoppers in there from their perspective.”
"Greenpeace International entered into contracts to buy foreign currency at a fixed exchange rate while the euro was gaining in strength," the press release said. "This resulted in a loss of 3.8 million euros against a range of other currencies."
"All of which raises the question: is Avaaz quietly operating within a world of ulterior political motives and tainted corporate interests? Is it hoping to play on the public's ignorance of what actually goes on in the food and farming sector and thus become a vector of misinformation and weighted political propaganda?"
"According to Avaaz, this project is designed by "farmers who resist by preserving seeds in seed banks and barns around the world." The Farmers Seed Network bringing together in France most organizations of "farmers" working on Farmer seeds never asked Avaaz for anything and have never heard about an organization of small farmers in the world that could conceive such a project."