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

"Today's ever-devolving Western society continues to demonstrate its preference for showmanship over science, celebrity over substance, technology over nature, liberal ideology over radical ideology, human life over all other life, white skin over non-white."

The Green Economy as a Continuation of War by Other Means

"War is complex and the green economy is advancing land acquisition and displacement, claiming to fight environmental degradation, while simultaneously advancing it."

An Analysis of Women’s Marches Along Historical & Present Lines

"Over the many, many decades since the Western women's movement begin in the nineteenth century, there has been little betterment in regards to the acknowledgement that white supremacy is a reality and a part of the overall oppression of women. It hasn't happened in regards to their plight then or now."

WATCH: Gail Dines: Putting the Radical Back in Feminism

How did we get from radical feminism (liberation meaning you and me) to empowerment ("if I'm okay fuck you") in a single generation? #SocialEngineering #NonProfitIndustrialComplex #Neoliberalism

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 5]

"Celebrity-driven campaigns can also be seen to work to responsibilize consumers and audiences as agents of change, through their targeting of audiences, publics, and private individuals; this often elides or willfully ignores, the offending structures, corporations, and/or other actors involved."

May the Earth Tremble at Its Core

" In order to defend what we are, our path and learning process have been consolidated by strengthening our collective decision-making spaces, employing national and international juridical law as well as peaceful and civil resistance, and casting aside the political parties that have only brought death, corruption, and the buying off of dignity. "

Commentary: Greenwash! Now in New Improved Formula [Economic Valuation & Payment for Environmental Services]

"What about ecological economist Herman Daly who advocates Natural Capital and tradable permits markets, another financial instrument of exploitation? One answer is that all the aforementioned are from the USA and all apparently support the existing corporate model of market capitalism, including prices as efficient means of resource allocation."

The Political Economy of the Paris Agreement: Preserving the Existing Social & Economic Order

"In the end the Paris Agreement changes nothing. The destination is the same old growth economy and that is in total contradiction with addressing human induced climate change."

The North Dakota Frontlines: Between A Standing Rock And A Hard Place

"As the pipeline is a mere conduit of the resource that flows through its vessels, the uproarious response by the First Nations community is the conduit of the centuries long anger which as has been internalized on these outposts of human despair. We can only hope that the rupture of First Nation emotions will make all of the previous pipeline fissures pale in comparison."

Peru: Mass Feminist Victory Confronts Embedded Patriarchy..Ni Una Menos

"Feminists, far from being content with not being beaten, have sharpened their detection of everyday patriarchal practices and started talking about rebellion against capitalism, trans rights, and proclaiming what we have always known.. that the Pachamama is a feminist."