Nov 08
20150
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Civil Rights Movement Frederick Douglass Harriet Tubman Keystone XL Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. Slavery
"It is time to stop celebrating the individual battles when we are losing the war by any unbiased opinion. And for those who are concerned with the truth, it is time to start talking about winning the war and not be satisfied with useless, facile individual battles and their interpretative victories."
Jun 04
20140
Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Bolivia CIA Civil Rights Movement FBI Libyan Ukraine United States Institute of Peace USAID
"While critics of deceptively-named agencies like United States Institute of Peace point out that the supposed peace research looks more like the study of new and potential means of aggression through trade embargoes, austerity programs, and electoral interventions, its board when it was established in 1984 looked like a who’s who of right-wing ideologues from academia, the CIA and the Pentagon."
Aug 27
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Civil Rights Movement Democratic Party March on Washington Martin Luther King NAACP New York City’s United Federation of Teachers Syria The International Socialist Organization (ISO) United Auto Workers
The statement stressed that it was not possible to defend democratic rights without a struggle against capitalism. “The Achilles’ heel of the civil rights movement, and even its most radical and sincere representatives such as King,” Mazelis wrote, “was its failure to break with the Democratic Party and recognize that the aims of social equality and democratic rights were realizable only in a struggle for socialism.”
"A fellow activist notes, “That we’ve wasted time even talking about the pipeline is EXACTLY what the corporate masters who bought the environmental movement had hoped for. The pipeline has zero to do with what happens next, and they know it. They have to just wonder at the stupidity of so-called environmentalists — dumber than they even thought.”