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Liberalism in India – a Beast that Devours By Way of Shapeshifting

"...the class hierarchy is itself continuously reimposed and reiterated, but under capital instead of religion, while pretending to uplift the working class and neutralise the abuse and injustice."

How Science Ignores The Living World — An Interview With Vine Deloria

"In a capitalist system, whoever supplies the money determines the technology. This means that science, as it’s applied, is never really for the good of humankind, but instead for the good of the financial elite or the military. It also means that science will be dominated by the authorities who have found institutional favor, whether they have the best evidence for their beliefs or not."

WATCH: El Perro Del Hortelano [Dog in the Manger]

The film you are about to see was written by Indigenous and international artists in Peru who volunteered their time and talents because they had a story to be told. The main character, Brus, sums it up as: "Development, NGOs- another type of colonialism." With just $8,000 dollars they created the first ever cooperative film in the Amazon.

Mammon’s Mania

"In a culture of imbeciles — assaulted by advertising, and fed on fantasies – the pursuit of authentic life, liberty and happiness faces the formidable obstacles of complacency and wishful thinking."

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. "

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. "

Islam, Hip Hop and the Liberation Struggle w/ Daulatzai & Almustafa

"Islam, Hip Hop, and the Black liberation struggle as discussed with acclaimed author and professor, Dr. Sohail Doulatzi. Plus the People's Poet, Kahlil Almustafa."

Communication: the Invisible Environment

"While American faith about the truth in advertising might suffer as a result of these amusements, the deaths that result take place mostly in the Third and Fourth World. As Americans are herded into waving signs and marching around Manhattan wearing the color blue, millions around the world are dying from starvation, disease and murder resulting from American consumerism"

Imperialism, Arrogance & Privilege on Full Display: Greenpeace Damages World-renowned Nazca Lines in Peru – Peru Seeks Criminal Charges

"It's a true slap in the face at everything Peruvians consider sacred," Deputy Culture Minister Luis Jaime Castillo said of Monday's action by the environmental group at the famed drawings etched into Peru's coastal desert, a U.N. World Heritage site."

“Focus on tangible climate actions”: “Hop the Scotch” for Climate Change

"Capitalizing on this corrosion of civil society, Wall Street marketing agencies like Purpose and Avaaz -- sponsors of campaigns to support "humanitarian war" and the "new economy" -- have designed and exploited an advertising niche to make money from this social pathology."