Foundation Funding: Tightening the Bonds of Our Own Oppression

"Elections, corporate-funded nonprofits, NGOs and CBOs, personal change, political pressure, culture-jamming, tinkering with the economy, green jobs, withdrawing our support, symbolic protests – all are offered up as options for dissent. None of them are sufficient; on the contrary, they serve to reinforce the system’s authority and the illusion of democracy."

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Jan 13

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Agriculture Capitalism Ford Foundations Gates' Microsoft GMO Indigenous Peoples monoculture philanthropic colonization Philanthropy Rockefeller Social Engineering

Philanthropic Colonization

"As Barker notes, the philanthropic colonization of civil society is a clear and present danger to democratic governance, and the first step in countering their insidious influence is for progressive activists to dissociate from their foundations. As Barker admits, creating democratic revenue streams won't be easy, but it is necessary in order to free ourselves from the corrosive social engineering of liberal elites."

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Sep 11

2012

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Amnesty International, Avaaz, Change.org, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, MoveOn.org, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Avaaz Coercion Corporate Media Democracy Now Foundations psywar Social Manipulation

Through the Looking Glass

"When the smoke generated by phony progressives clears, all that is left is an industrial wasteland of false hope and real threats. When the betrayals of NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are known, we can finally begin to exercise our responsibilities. Until then, programs like Democracy Now remain little more than adult versions of Sesame Street for the toy Che brigades."

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Sep 11

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Foundations Imperialism Non-profit Industrial Complex

Stop Imperialism Interviews Wrong Kind of Green

"Eric sits down with Cory Morningstar and Forrest Palmer of WrongKindofGreen.org to discuss NGOs, "Green Capitalism", and Wall St. Cory and Forrest explain their mission to expose the way in which NGOs act as proxies for the interests of finance capital. Eric, Cory, and Forrest examine the various ways in which the NGOs manipulate issues and ideologies to fit the corporate agenda. They also analyze so-called "Green Capitalism" and the implications of the mode of thinking."

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Jul 31

2012

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Aid Capitalism CSR Denialism Foundations Gramsci Non-profit Industrial Complex

Non-Profit Corporate Power: Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing?

"I would argue that the answer is ‘no’; corporate profit gained at the expense of humans can never be justified by such philanthropic gestures. No doubt such noblesse oblige is allocated by some elites with noble intentions; but if the price for such charity is for its recipients to ignore economic exploitation, then it is hardly distributed with altruistic intentions. Instead it is given with economic intent to profit more handsomely from a workforce, in a manner that assuages each individual capitalist’s desire to feel (and advertise) their own neglected humanity."

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Jul 31

2012

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Carnegie CIA Ford Foundations Imperialism Miltarism Psychological Warfare Rockefeller

Foundations for Empire: Corporate Philanthropy and US Foreign Policy

"But while the Big Three foundations may well have created strong global knowledge networks, their principal long-term achievement has simply been to undermine efforts to promote a meaningful democratic alternative to capitalism, both at home and abroad. With foundation knowledge networks being just one instrument among many that have been used to consolidate capitalism. ... As such, in this context alone, it is clear that the Rockefeller Foundations’ successes extended far beyond the creation of elite “knowledge networks”, and actually enabled the efficient slaughter and propagandising of civilians all over the world."

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Jul 31

2012

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Environmental Defence Fund, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club, Wilderness Society

Biomass Environmental Defense Fund Forests Foundations Fracking Montana Wilderness Association Sierra Club The Wilderness Society

When Environmentalists Collaborate

"Just this week, The Wilderness Society (TWS) and the Montana Wilderness Association filed a brief in favor of a 2,038-acre Climate Camo logging plan on the Lolo National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, the WildWest Institute and two other real grassroots conservation groups had filed a lawsuit against the Colt Summit Timber Sale alleging that the logging would do grave harm to lynx, grizzly bears and bull trout."

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Jun 21

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Colonialism Foundations Imperialism Maoist neoliberalism Nepal Sovereignty

Imperialists Encroach Upon Nepal and India Through Funded NGO’s

"Imperialist powers continue to encroach upon Nepal, India and other third-world countries, pushing their agenda through the medium of NGO’s. These are funded by international agencies such as the Ford Foundation and thrive in bringing forth issues based on identity while sidelining those which are the real issues of survival as they are politically inconvenient."

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Jun 20

2012

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Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Foundations Natural Resources Defense Council Non-profit Industrial Complex Pew