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Oct 28

2015

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Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

21st Century Statecraft Afghanistan Ali Shari'ati Alliance for Affordable Internet CIA Code Pink cultural imperialism empire by invitation Enrique Dussel Force Multipliers GUSA Human Rights Watch ISAF LGBT Mandela Washington Fellowship Medea Benjamin mimesis NAFSA NATO NUSA Partners of the Americas public-private partnership USAID V.S. Naipaul WikiLeaks YALI

Empire’s “Mimic Men”

"Also, as Pas points out under the heading of “security feminism,” the fetishizing of oppressed women is used as an opportune asset to ideologically advance the cause of imperialist intervention: “the war becomes about her. In this process the host country is also feminized and the American heterosexual pursuit becomes about gallantly ‘saving’ the Muslim woman from Islam."

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Jan 28

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

1Sky 350.org 99 Spring Bill McKibben Code Pink Naomi Klein OWS Rainforest Action Network Ruckus Society

FLASHBACK | 350.org: Environmental Corporatism

"Yet those who flaunt the term "astroturfing" -- namely, those on the left of the spectrum -- have shown a certain reluctance to acknowledge the fact that this same method is being applied to progressive grassroots movements as well, re-concentrating disenfranchisement with the dominant institutions of power into a manageable opposition capable of acting as a voting base. This is not a recent development; it dates back to the "Progressive Era" of American political history, and it forms a central apparatus of US foreign policy abroad under the non-descript diplomacy of "democracy promotion."

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