WATCH: Why Anti-Zionism is Not Anti-Semitism
The Electronic Intifada Oct 6, 2021 In this 2021 mini-documentary from...
The Electronic Intifada Oct 6, 2021 In this 2021 mini-documentary from...
Vanessa Beeley: The West’s depiction of the war as a Hamas-led aggression against Israel is a strategy to delegitimize resistance, influence public opinion, and bolster Israel’s position in the conflict.
Sep 19
20190
Social Engineering, United Nations
doublespeak Framing Neoliberal Language PES. Payments for Ecosystem Services Strategic Ambiguity The Paris Agreement UN Climate Action Summit UNFCCC ‘internationally transferred mitigation outcomes’
The unreality of this document is only matched by the unreality of the praise given to it by the media and others. This is a sign of how much strategic ambiguity and doublespeak have now become an accepted way for international politics to be conducted and reported.
Sep 18
20194
350.org / 1Sky, Amnesty International, Avaaz, B Team [Managed by Purpose - the PR Arm of Avaaz], Carbon Markets | REDD, Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Engineering, TckTckTck, United Nations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Behavioural Change Climate Optimist Fourth Industrial Revolution Framing Greta Thunberg Language Storytelling The Climate Group UN We Mean Business World Economic Forum (WEF)
The social engineering project to "change everything" is today perhaps the most successful behavioural sciences experiment in modern history.
"The circular economy – the newest magical word in the sustainable development vocabulary – promises economic growth without destruction or waste. However, the concept only focuses on a small part of total resource use and does not take into account the laws of thermodynamics."
Jan 30
20170
Social Engineering, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Credit Suisse Framing Holistic Linguistics International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Natural Capital neoliberalism United Nations World Conservation Congress World Wide Fund for Nature World Wildlife Fund
"The use of “natural capital” as a noun is becoming increasingly normalised in environmental governance. Recent natural capital initiatives include the World Forum on Natural Capital, described as “the world’s leading natural capital event”, ..."
Oct 27
20162
Social Engineering, United Nations
doublespeak Framing Neoliberal Language PES. Payments for Ecosystem Services Strategic Ambiguity The Paris Agreement UNFCCC ‘internationally transferred mitigation outcomes’
"Unfortunately, many environmental non-governmental organisations have bought into this illogical reasoning and justify their support as being pragmatic. Neoliberal language is rife across their reports and policy recommendations and their adoption of natural capital, ecosystems services, offsetting and market trading. These new environmental pragmatists believe, without justification, that the financialisation of Nature will help prevent its destruction. "
Jun 08
20161
Amnesty International, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Adam Smith Institute Exploitation Framing Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) Jacobin Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) Linguistics Prostitution World Health Organization (WHO)
"Perhaps the single most effective strategy hit upon so far is to pump out the myth contained in the term “sex work”: the myth that it is possible to commodify consent."
Apr 27
20160
350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
False Hope Framing Language privatization strategy psywar Wall Street
"The half-truth—whole lie strategy of 350, that promotes magical thinking like ending all fossil fuels is actually a textbook case of psychological warfare."
"Ward argues that all of these labels mask the true nature of Canadians; they are occupiers upon indigenous homelands. The labels guests, partners, brothers and newcomers are all pacifist revisionist ways of incorretly re-constructing the relationship. "