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Keystone Rejected, Big Carbon Undaunted

"Here as in so many other areas the Obama story remains the same: fake-progressive symbolism cloaks deadly state-capitalist substance."

Bloomberg: Argentina Fever Is Back for Investors Who’ve Waited 14 Years

Bloomberg Business November 22, 2015   by Katia Porzecanski and Carolina Millan...

A New Frontier, But The Same Ol’ Game

"Currently, 80% of the raw materials produced in the Global South are consumed in the Global North. This is an imbalance of dramatic proportions and illustrates the reason why the countries in the Western nations have such resource intensive existences while the countries that provide said resources are more times often than not inundated with overwhelming poverty."

WKOG Op-Ed: Mining for Blood

"The most costly dependence on bringing our smartphones, computers, gaming systems, car circuitry and innumerous other equipment to market is the outlay of human lives through manipulation of labor in the Third World or Global South. "

Exploiting Feminism for Profit

"Neoliberal capitalism, which is built on the disenfranchisement of women and people of colour, is attempting to contain radical discourse within its walls. In doing so it neutralises the potential for system change. "

There Was Nothing Key about Keystone XL – Except Diverting our Attention for More Dirty Profit

"The fact that this so-called "victory" is being cheered symbolizes the greatest lack of critical thinking – an ongoing social engineering project that continues to surpass all expectations of the oligarchs who finance it."

FLASHBACK | Nostalgia for Origins – Miguel Amorós

"Despite the meritorious cultural renaissances linked to the local intelligentsia or to bourgeois sectors in conflict with the State (due to the unequal development of the ruling classes), the process nonetheless continued, and with the appearance of mass culture, that is, of the spectacle, of generalized entertainment, of the mass media, etc., language lost its validity as a vehicle of culture and means of communication—any language—putting an end to its role as the last sign of surviving identity. "

Real Men Don’t Prostitute Women

"In sheer numbers, it is the poor brown women of the world who pay with bruises, humiliation and deaths for this ignorant and hideous decision that has brought Amnesty International so low." -- Lee Lakeman, Canadian feminist

Report: Upworthy’s Lefty Owners Scared Employees Out of Unionization

Avaaz co-founder Eli Pariser is also co-founder of Upworthy: "Upworthy bet millions of venture capital dollars that progressive values are the ultimate viral content. But after being forsaken by Facebook and facing layoffs, we’re told the site’s left-wing leadership has successfully fought off a staff unionization drive."

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part IV of an Investigative Report]

The Art of Annihilation January 26, 2015 Part four of an investigative...