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The Disastrous Inseparability of Western Science and Capitalism

"Science, in its many powerful institutional manifestations, is now essentialized as an a priori source of truth, existing above economic interests or social determinations and exempt from historical or ideological evaluation. It is the one remaining mirage of legitimacy behind which global capital continues its rampage of planetary looting and destruction."

WATCH: Planet of the Humans [Full Film]

Jeff Gibbs, the writer/producer/director of Planet of the Humans, has dared to say what few would. Gibbs & Ozzie Zehner lay bare the green illusions of "clean energy" while exposing, once & for all, the corporate "environmentalism" that has led us to the precipice of ecological collapse. Years in the making, this film will blow your mind.

WATCH: FROM ALLY TO ACCOMPLICE

"This film is an experimental essay in three movements that explores the importance of being more than an "ally" in struggle, by sharing histories of committed accomplices John Brown, Marilyn Buck, and others."

Why Is Environmental Damage Of War Considered A Taboo Subject?

"The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has come in for criticism due to its lack of attention to the detrimental effects of wars and military operations on nature."

A Desert Oasis – A Synonym For Mirage

A mirage is just a mirage - no matter how many people profess its presence is anything but.

Exodus To A Brand New World

"As our feet will be the thing to carry us to parts unknown as we will have to go to places we have no choice to go for survival in the not too distant future, I would think that poetic justice would include that we be relegated to the same existence that was imposed on the ones so long ago by such a self-designated exceptional civilization such as this."

The Dark Side of Clean Energy in Mexico

"Sanchez reports that, not coincidentally, it is in this period that the companies began hiring hit men, with the backing of the state.“We see gunmen escorted to the state police. The community is so small, so we know who they are. Because of the threats we began to receive three companions had to leave the community. "

Conjuring Clean Energy: Exposing Green Assumptions in Media and Academia

"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 ..."

Cowspiracy: The Film that the World’s Most Powerful NGOs Don’t Want You To See

  “When Cowspiracy was being made none of the major conservation or...

How Bolivia is Leading the Global Fight Against Climate Disaster

"At the same time, it is conscious that imperialism as a world system continues to pose the main threat to all such efforts as well as jeopardizing the environment as never before. That is why it has consistently campaigned to raise public awareness of the need to go “beyond capitalism” as an integral component of instituting “another world” of harmonious co-existence among humans and between humanity and nature."