Usefully Dumb and Usefully Dumber: Naomi Klein and Glenn Greenwald
"I can’t think of anyone more qualified to hold forth on the Proper Way to Oppose The Ruling Class than wealthy clerks who work for oligarchs."
"I can’t think of anyone more qualified to hold forth on the Proper Way to Oppose The Ruling Class than wealthy clerks who work for oligarchs."
Feb 13
20151
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Alternet Climate Discourse Ecology Energy Media Productivism Salon.com Truthout
"Alternet, Salon.com and Truthout have published material written by “Global Possibilities,” a special interest group funded in part by the oil company BP and a group of automotive and energy industrialists represented through The Energy Foundation (Global Possibilities, 2013). The special interest group “Inside Climate News,” funded in part through The Energy Foundation, the Rockefellers and other productivist interests, claims to publish through numerous media brands ..."
Apr 12
20132
350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Greenpeace, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Pembina Institute, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
1Sky 350.org Barack Obama Bill Ackman Bill Gates BNSF Capitalism CN Rail CP Defend Our Coast Discourse Greenpeace Hillary Clinton Keystone KL KXL Sierra Club Tarsands Warren Buffett
"Very few in the environmental movement wish to discuss, let alone acknowledge, the very ugly reality that the "Stop the KXL!" campaign has absolutely nothing to do with shutting down tar sands production. The actuality is that behind the protest signs (that conveniently blur lines and bear much semblance to the Obama branding campaign), we have an entire rail transport industry burgeoning to transport the oil formerly designated for the KXL pipeline. The show is over. It matters little whether Keystone is approved or not. If it is approved, we have a flourishing rail economy plus the KXL pipeline. Bread and circuses have never been so skillfully orchestrated." ...
Apr 10
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Capitalism Discourse La Maison de Bresil Pacifism Petrobras Tunisia UNCHR White Savior Complex World Social Forum WSF
"Rather than being a dialogue between the people of the world, the WSF has appeared as a huge transfer of notion and knowledge from the North to the South, or from the expert to the North to the rest of the population, a process which does not differ from the technique utilized by the big global actors, which respectfully reproduces the subordination and silencing of the damnés, if we were to use the term coined by Franz Fanon."