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WATCH: Next Floor (A Short Film by Denis Villeneuve)

Prix Canal + for best short film, Semaine de la Critique, Cannes...

LISTEN: The Lies They Tell. The Pitiful State of Environmentalism and its Neoliberalization

"You can't go back, only forward. Not everybody can have it. That's the point of bio-physicality relationship. That's the lie. You will not have all the people in the world living at the American lifestyle, even the poorest American, at that threshold level. It will not happen. You can not exploit those resources, you can not get them cheap enough, you can not get those fossils (fuel) out of the ground without fucking up everything, the planet and so forth..."

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."