Apr 06
20130
"The art of propaganda has been nothing less than brilliant. The deceit is so thick – you need a knife to cut through it. The corruption and greed so deep you need wings to stay above it and thigh high boots to wade through it. An alluring tapestry of luminous lies, interwoven with finely textured deception and silk-like corruption – as smooth and seductive as freshly churned butter."
Feb 16
20131
350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Capitalism Green Economy Industrial Wind Projects McKibben
"Environmentalism has been successfully mainstreamed, at the cost of its soul. This co-opted version isn’t about protecting the landbase from the ever-expanding empire of humans. It’s about sustaining the comfort levels we feel entitled to without exhausting the resources required. It is entirely human-centered and hollow, and it serves corporate capitalism well."
"The reality is that there are various factions working under the banner of Idle No More. INM is not simply a grassroots movement, but is instead one that has been manipulated from the start by Indian Act chiefs with their own agenda, and who worked closely with the “official founders” of INM in mobilizing the grassroots in pursuit of that agenda."
Feb 05
20130
Autism Speaks Charity Capitalism Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Media National Institute of Mental Health Pharmacutical Industrial Complex Revolving Doors
"Update: Now listen to Pfizer’s (Geodon, Neurontin, Xanax, Zoloft, Chantix; through Wyeth merger, Effexor, Ativan, Pristiq, Prevnar) Robert Ring, newly partnered with Autism Speaks. echoing the title of the study (HERE ) . Of the partnership, Ring says, “This a real opportunity to really make a difference for a huge unmet need using expertise we’ve acquired over a number of years."
Jan 22
20130
Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Arundhati Roy Capitalism Documentary Imperialism Power as Pathology Terrorism
'We' is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.
Jan 17
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Afghanistan African Internationalists African People’s Socialist Party Africom Black is Back Coalition Bolivia Capitalism Imperiaism Iraq Lenin Marx Omali Yeshitela Palestine Parasitism Patriarchy Venezuela
"Locked in colonies and indirect rule of neocolonialism, restricted to lives characterized by brutality, ignorance and violence in the barrios of the Americas and other internal colonies characterized as Indian reservations and black ghettos, kept under the paranoiac, nuclear-backed, armed-to-the-teeth watch of military forces born of a state power that has its origins in protecting the relationship between capitalism and its imperial pedestal, capitalism has been the absolute factor in restricting production and development by concentrating productive capacity in the hands of the world’s minority European population that sits atop the pedestal of our oppressive reality."
Jan 17
20130
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Colonialism Idle No More Imperialism Omali Yeshitela Onkwehón:we Rising Uhuru Movement
"Whatever criticisms can be made about this movement due to the involvement of neocolonial agents attempting to direct it towards pacifist and reformist ends, this movement has profoundly awoken Onkwehón:we in a way that has not happened since the rebellion of the Kanien’kehá:ka people at Kahnawà:ke in so-called Quebec in 1990."
Jan 13
20132
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Agriculture Capitalism Ford Foundations Gates' Microsoft GMO Indigenous Peoples monoculture philanthropic colonization Philanthropy Rockefeller Social Engineering
"As Barker notes, the philanthropic colonization of civil society is a clear and present danger to democratic governance, and the first step in countering their insidious influence is for progressive activists to dissociate from their foundations. As Barker admits, creating democratic revenue streams won't be easy, but it is necessary in order to free ourselves from the corrosive social engineering of liberal elites."
Jan 13
20130
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, USAID
ALBA Capitalism El Salvador Millennium Challenge Corporation neoliberalism Partnership for Growth Agreement privatization Unions USAID
"In El Salvador, this means subservience to Washington and international investors who seek nothing less than total control of that nation's economic destiny. This attempt at economic monopolization can be summed up with one word: privatization. It is precisely this strategy with all the union-busting, wage gouging, and propaganda disinformation that it entails, that is rearing its ugly head in El Salvador."
Jan 09
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Marin fund Rebecca Adamson Reformism Winona LaDuke
"The fact that system is destroying the environment and indigenous societies worldwide is merely one of those dissonances the Marin elite rationalize over long lunches at the exclusive bistros and wine bars they frequent. While they have the capacity to influence the world at large, they live in a world of their own."