New Book: Emergency as Security–Liberal Empire at Home and Abroad

"In becoming akin to private, parastatal organizations, NGOs have been presented with multiple crises on which they build themselves further as prostheses of a state-in-absentia. This has caused some to characterize the formation of a new NGO-Industrial Complex where work by charity and aid organizations sometimes resembles profiteering (see Noel, this volume). Lucrative public funds for disaster relief feed the coffers of seemingly countless NGOs which in turn can exacerbate the human suffering of a crisis by providing the illusion of an effective response while in fact doing little to mitigate the suffering of others."

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Aug 27

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Culture Ecology Feminism Primitivism Technology Youth

FLASHBACK | The Last Twenty Years of Social Liquidation

"In the society of the spectacle protest is a form of leisure and the tragic pathos of the class struggle must recede before hilarity, relaxation and festival, genuine forms of the neo-contestatory spirit which has found in pot and pan-banging, whistles, and costume parades its most suitable means of expression and in software, blogs and cell-phones its best weapons."

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Jul 08

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Oxfam, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Capitalism Climate COP COP17 Ecology Oxfam UN World Wildlife Fund

FLASHBACK | Communique from COP

"Hugo Chavez remarked that presidents go from summit to summit, while people go from abyss to abyss. The same can be said about most self-appointed leaders of civil society. Voyeurs to genocide, this purportedly dissident grouping was altogether well behaved in Durban. The small exceptions of symobolic resistance in the final hours were totally incommensurate with what was at stake for everyone who didn’t have the privilege to be there."

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Jul 04

2013

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Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Co-optation Destabilizations Ecology Imperialism Interventions Media neoliberalism Propaganda R2P

Essential Summer Reading | Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent

The volume includes examinations of the inherent contradiction between genuine democracy and corporate capitalism, the use of corporate media, the entertainment industry, and celebrity activists as propaganda vehicles, the attempts to co-opt and neutralise NGOs and social movements, the demonisation and repression of unco-opted dissent, and the imperialist agendas behind so-called 'democracy promotion' interventions.

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Jun 09

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club

350.org Bill McKibben Capitalism Climate Ecocide Ecology Greenpeace Imperialism Militarism Natural Resources Defense Council neoliberalism Sierra Club

Under Empire, All Life is Imperiled

So we cannot look to the State for meaningful assistance in the struggle to overturn the trends which are delivering humanity and Earth’s systems into ruin—as John Holloway notes rightly, the State is “their organization,” referring to the capitalist class. What of the putative non-governmental organizations which espouse environmental concerns? Clearly, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and company rightly merit the label of “Gang Green,” in light of their toxic incrementalism and their related willingness to accommodate the very structures which are perpetuating environmental destruction.

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May 15

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

BP Capitalism ChevronTexaco Corporate Media Denialism Ecology Exxon Mobil Halliburton Methane Drilling NASA Ocean Acidification PETM Phytoplankton Shell Siberia UN UNAGGG UNFCCC US Department of Defense WWF

FLASHBACK | The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction: Methane, Propaganda & the Architects of Genocide | Part I

"The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction are the melting permafrost, the destabilizing methane hydrates and the corporations such as Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil who, hand in hand with the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense, have been planning and waiting to exploit methane hydrates for decades. Methane hydrates are considered the ultimate in climate wealth opportunity because the control of these hydrocarbons could literally shift the balance of global power.""The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction are the melting permafrost, the destabilizing methane hydrates and the corporations such as Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil who, hand in hand with the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense, have been planning and waiting to exploit methane hydrates for decades. Methane hydrates are considered the ultimate in climate wealth opportunity because the control of these hydrocarbons could literally shift the balance of global power.""The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction are the melting permafrost, the destabilizing methane hydrates and the corporations such as Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil who, hand in hand with the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense, have been planning and waiting to exploit methane hydrates for decades. Methane hydrates are considered the ultimate in climate wealth opportunity because the control of these hydrocarbons could literally shift the balance of global power."

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Apr 07

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Bayer BBKA Big Pharma British Bee Keepers Association Burts Bees Is Clorax Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) Ecocide Ecology EPA Food and Environment Research Agency Pesticides Pharmacutical Industrial Complex Precautionary Principle Speciesism

The British Bee Keepers Association Defense of the Pesticide Industry

"Given the report’s conclusions that economics are not a basis keeping neonics, what is it about ‘lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures’ that the BBKA does not understand? The BBKA’s strap line of ‘supporting bees and beekeepers’ is shown for exactly what it is; a slogan dreamt up by a publicist with little basis in reality."

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Jan 17

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Ecology

Flashback: The Idols of Environmentalism | The Ecology of Work

"ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION proceeds apace in spite of all the warnings, the good science, the 501(c)3 organizations with their memberships in the millions, the poll results, and the martyrs perched high in the branches of sequoias or shot dead in the Amazon. This is so not because of a power, a strength out there that we must resist. It is because we are weak and fearful. Only a weak and fearful society could invest so much desperate energy in protecting activities that are the equivalent of suicide."

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2010

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Carbon Markets | REDD

Ecology Green Capitalism Socialism