Essential Summer Reading | Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent

The volume includes examinations of the inherent contradiction between genuine democracy and corporate capitalism, the use of corporate media, the entertainment industry, and celebrity activists as propaganda vehicles, the attempts to co-opt and neutralise NGOs and social movements, the demonisation and repression of unco-opted dissent, and the imperialist agendas behind so-called 'democracy promotion' interventions.

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Jun 09

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

350.org Bill McKibben Capitalism Climate Ecocide Ecology Greenpeace Imperialism Militarism Natural Resources Defense Council neoliberalism Sierra Club

Under Empire, All Life is Imperiled

So we cannot look to the State for meaningful assistance in the struggle to overturn the trends which are delivering humanity and Earth’s systems into ruin—as John Holloway notes rightly, the State is “their organization,” referring to the capitalist class. What of the putative non-governmental organizations which espouse environmental concerns? Clearly, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and company rightly merit the label of “Gang Green,” in light of their toxic incrementalism and their related willingness to accommodate the very structures which are perpetuating environmental destruction.

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Jun 04

2013

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Imperialist Wars/Occupations, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Afghanistan Capitalism Humanitarian Intervention Iraq Libya NATO R2P Syria

Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention”

"...humanitarian intervention, along with the concept of the “right to protect” (R2P) has developed into the most effective ideological weapon the liberal human rights community provided Western imperialism since the fall of the Soviet State. Humanitarian intervention has proven to be an even more valuable propaganda tool than the “war on terror,” because as the situation in Libya and now Syria has demonstrated, it provides a moral justification for imperialist intervention that can also accommodate the presence of the same “terrorist” forces the U.S. pretends to be opposed to."

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Jun 04

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Denialism Militarism neoliberalism Pacifism as Pathology

The Silent Death of the American Left

"Our politics has gone sociopathic and liberals in America have been pliant to every abuse, marinated in the toxic silt of Obama’s mordant rhetoric. They eagerly swallow every placebo policy Obama serves them, dutifully defending every incursion against fundamental rights. And each betrayal only serves to make his adoring retinue crave his smile; his occasional glance and nod all the more urgently. Still others on the dogmatic Left circle endlessly, like characters consigned to their eternal roles by Dante, in the ideological cul-de-sac of identity politics."

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May 17

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

350.org 350.org/1Sky Capitalism Divestment Tour Do the Math Green Economy Wall Street

McKibben’s Divestment Tour – Brought to You by Wall Street [Part I of an Investigative Report]

"The role of the non-profit industrial complex in the unveiling of the illusory green economy to the world has never been so vital. For it is only via these very institutions that it would be possible to manipulate civil society into embracing a suicidal model that locks the world into catastrophic, irreversible ecological collapse once and for all. The non-profit industrial complex, in tandem with the corporate-media complex, allows Euro-Americans to collectively continue their fetishized addictions and unspoken racist ideologies unabated – in exchange for the sacrificing of our own children to appease the corporate gods."

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May 15

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

BP Capitalism ChevronTexaco Corporate Media Denialism Ecology Exxon Mobil Halliburton Methane Drilling NASA Ocean Acidification PETM Phytoplankton Shell Siberia UN UNAGGG UNFCCC US Department of Defense WWF

FLASHBACK | The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction: Methane, Propaganda & the Architects of Genocide | Part I

"The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction are the melting permafrost, the destabilizing methane hydrates and the corporations such as Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil who, hand in hand with the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense, have been planning and waiting to exploit methane hydrates for decades. Methane hydrates are considered the ultimate in climate wealth opportunity because the control of these hydrocarbons could literally shift the balance of global power.""The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction are the melting permafrost, the destabilizing methane hydrates and the corporations such as Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil who, hand in hand with the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense, have been planning and waiting to exploit methane hydrates for decades. Methane hydrates are considered the ultimate in climate wealth opportunity because the control of these hydrocarbons could literally shift the balance of global power.""The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction are the melting permafrost, the destabilizing methane hydrates and the corporations such as Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil who, hand in hand with the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense, have been planning and waiting to exploit methane hydrates for decades. Methane hydrates are considered the ultimate in climate wealth opportunity because the control of these hydrocarbons could literally shift the balance of global power."

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Apr 12

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Greenpeace, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Pembina Institute, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

1Sky 350.org Barack Obama Bill Ackman Bill Gates BNSF Capitalism CN Rail CP Defend Our Coast Discourse Greenpeace Hillary Clinton Keystone KL KXL Sierra Club Tarsands Warren Buffett

Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse | Part I

"Very few in the environmental movement wish to discuss, let alone acknowledge, the very ugly reality that the "Stop the KXL!" campaign has absolutely nothing to do with shutting down tar sands production. The actuality is that behind the protest signs (that conveniently blur lines and bear much semblance to the Obama branding campaign), we have an entire rail transport industry burgeoning to transport the oil formerly designated for the KXL pipeline. The show is over. It matters little whether Keystone is approved or not. If it is approved, we have a flourishing rail economy plus the KXL pipeline. Bread and circuses have never been so skillfully orchestrated." ...

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Apr 10

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Capitalism Discourse La Maison de Bresil Pacifism Petrobras Tunisia UNCHR White Savior Complex World Social Forum WSF

Reaction to the World Social Forum in Tunis

"Rather than being a dialogue between the people of the world, the WSF has appeared as a huge transfer of notion and knowledge from the North to the South, or from the expert to the North to the rest of the population, a process which does not differ from the technique utilized by the big global actors, which respectfully reproduces the subordination and silencing of the damnés, if we were to use the term coined by Franz Fanon."

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Apr 10

2013

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Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Soros Network | OSI

AFL-CIO Albert Einstein Institution Capitalism Carnegie Foundation CIA Council on Foreign Relations DiscoverTheNetworks Ford Foundation Freedom House International Center for Journalists International Center for Nonviolent Conflict International Crisis Group NAACP National Democratic Institute National Endowment for Democracy (NED) National Negro Business League neoliberalism Rockefeller Brothers Fund Urban League US Institute of Peace

Capital-driven Civil Society

"Overemphasis in Leftist literature on aggressive aspects of imperialism (waged through both overt and covert military, economic, and diplomatic domination) has unfortunately meant that little attention has been paid to the equally important ‘friendly face’ of imperialism. Thus, when combined with the near total media blackout of critical analyses of elite funding of progressive groups, it is little wonder that there is minimal discussion of this phenomenon."

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Apr 09

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Campaigns Capitalism Denialism Pacifism as Patholgy Symbolism

New Age Ghost Dance

"It’s interesting that the New Agers who extoll energy conservation and green energy are oblivious to the amount of energy they waste on moral theatrics like social forums, marches and protests. It’s analogous to the desperately romantic efforts of the Plains Indians, expressed through such mediums as the Ghost Dance, when their world was collapsing around them."

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