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From Eritrea to Bolivia: Who Supported the Washington Backed Coup?

Kwame Ture spoke on the differences between mobilization and organization. He says, mobilization usually leads to reform action, not to revolutionary action.  “Those of us who are revolutionary are not concerned with issues, we are concerned with the system.”

The Insane Nexus of “Natural Capital” & the Rights of Nature

"Merely promoting Rights of Nature without at least attending to the possible threats posed by Natural Capital thinking does nothing to contest the appropriateness of measuring and managing nature into the sphere of financial interests rather than into the interests of priceless nature."

PODCAST: Brazil and the US Left’s Imperial Blindspot

In an interview on the WNUR Chicago radio show This is Hell, which aired on Saturday, December 22, 2018, Brasil Wire co-editor Brian Mier explained what Jacobin and the Western / Northern left media at large got wrong about politics in pre-coup Brazil.

From the End of History to the End of Truth

"No one following these processes with any attention will have failed to notice the leading role played by non governmental organizations in the Western elites’ offensive against resistance to them by political leaders and movements around the world."

Global False Witness – Targeting Nicaragua

"NGOs like Global Witness, International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch, Transparency International and so many others, self-evidently fabricate psychological warfare inputs serving NATO country government policy, itself shaped by the same corporate elites that fund the class of NGOS of which Global Witness is a part."

The Pygmalion Virus in Three Acts [2017 AVAAZ SERIES | PART II]

Let this section serve as an introduction to where 21st century environmentalism meets the 21st humanitarian industrial complex. Where white polar bears meet white helmets.

Silence in NGO Discourse

"As history has shown, such elites are quite willing to fund and even promote radical critiques of society (within limited circles at least), if only so they are better placed to co-opt their ideological adversaries more effectively."

Grinding Grist

"In case you were wondering why Grist magazine, based in Seattle, is pro-GMO and pro-Nukes (as is Bill Gates), following the money is probably a good place to start."

India: Destroying Biodiversity, The Devastating Social Impacts of GMO “Killer Seeds”

"It’s the same old colonial strategy. But the political class and the NGO brigade of India has been genetically modified to remain silent on vital issues."

Arundhati Roy: Things that Can’t be Said, Tamed Tigers & the Missionaries of the “New Economy”

Do "the things we can't talk about in a civilised society, if you're a good, domesticated house pet" include discussing the role of appointed "leaders" within the non-profit industrial complex, who ultimately serve to protect both capital and state? We have found that this is a critical issue that no one with far reach on "the left" will touch (Hedges, Pilger, etc.).