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Jul 16

2014

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Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism

Amnesty International Branding Clinton FEMEN Feminism Guantanamo Bay Human Rights Watch Imperialism Libya Marketing misogyny Molly Crabapple MSNBC NATO neoliberalism Odessa Oppression OWS Patriarchy Pussy Riot Racism Russia Syria Ukraine VISE

The Weaponized Naked Girl

"While women who stand against oppression and imperialism are often excluded from public platform, or labeled as “crazy” otherwise, when standing for imperialism, misogyny, racism, and capitalism, women are seen as strong and independent-minded. When their representations of the aforementioned are attacked, these otherwise “modern” women simply melt back into stereotypical gender roles, and are posited as victims. I will present three case studies for this phenomenon that will seek to make this connection between feminism, traditional gender roles, agency and imperial aggression."

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Jul 08

2014

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Occupation of Haiti, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

CIDA Haiti Imperialism Libya Oxfam R2P Red Cross Syria

Unmasking the “Good Intentions” of Canadian NGOs

"The NGO-mining corporation partnerships funded by the Canadian government are the latest example of how NGOs are used to put a “human face” on the inhuman, a tall order considering the trail of dead bodies and devastated ecosystems this sector of corporate capital has left in its wake."

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Jun 04

2014

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

ALBA Bolivia Buen Vivir CONAIE Ecuador extractivism Imperialism Pachamama TIPNIS

How ‘anti-extractivism’ misses the forest for the trees

"Any genuine campaign against South American “extractivism”, particularly by solidarity activists in imperialist countries, must start by pointing the fingers at those truly responsible for extractivism in South America: imperialist governments and their transnational corporations."

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Apr 28

2014

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

ALBA CIA DEA Destabilization DIA Ecuador FBI Imperialism NDA

Raíces desestabilizadoras de FF AA de EE UU en Ecuador [2]

"Quedan retos evidentes. Uno de ellas es la necesidad de buscar la unidad de las fuerzas progresistas, perfeccionar los métodos de trabajo con las masas, enfrentar con oportunidad y convicción la desinformación entre las bases populares y los movimientos sindical e indígena, esclarecer más que imponer, y esa será, sin lugar a dudas, la clave del triunfo."

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Apr 25

2014

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

ALBA Awakening the Dreamer Ecotourism Ecuador El Universo Four Years. Go Fundación Pachamama Generation Waking Up Imperialism John Perkins KIND Pachamama Alliance Rafael Correa Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Soul of Money Institute Spiritual Capitalism The Hunger Project UpToUs USAID White Savior Industrial Complex

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part I of an Investigative Report]

"Yes, the Fundación Pachamama is chained – with shackles that bind to it to imperial interests."

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Apr 04

2014

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Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Capitalism Immigration Imperialism NATO neoliberalism Ukraine Whitism

Left-White Solidarity?

"Could it be that many white radicals have fallen prey to the subtle and not-so-subtle racial appeal to a form of cross-class white solidarity in defense of “Western values,” civilization and the prerogative to determine who has the right to national sovereignty that is at the base of the rationalization of the “responsibility to protect” asserted by the white West?"

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Feb 06

2014

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Amnesty International, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Africom Amnesty International Gaddafi Genocide Human Rights Watch ICC Imperialism Libya Mandela NATO Psychological Warfare Racism Tawargha UN Human Rights Council

Review: Slouching Towards Sirte | NATO’s War on Libya & Africa

"Maximilian Forte’s book on the Libyan war, Slouching Towards Sirte, is another powerful (and hence marginalized) study of the imperial powers in violent action, and with painful results, but supported by the UN, media, NGOs and a significant body of liberals and leftists who had persuaded themselves that this was a humanitarian enterprise."

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Feb 06

2014

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The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Bolivia Imperialism USAID

US Halts Economic Aid to Bolivia Citing Expulsion of USAID

“We do not need charity. We’ll study this thoroughly and, who knows, maybe Bolivia can cooperate with the American people,” President Morales said, without explaining what he meant by cooperation with Americans. “Let them condition , let them blackmail us,” he added, heatedly. “To me, there’s never been any aid.”

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Feb 05

2014

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Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The International Campaign to Destabilize Venezuela

Bolivia Coloured Revolutions Cuba Destabilizations Egypt Eritrea Imperialism Seychelles Syria Thailand Ukraine ZIMBABWE

How the West Manufactures “Opposition Movements”

"In Venezuela, the US sponsored an aborted coup, and it directly pays for hundreds of organizations, ‘NGO’s’ and media outlets, with the direct goal of overthrowing the revolutionary process and the government."

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Jan 21

2014

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

911 development aid Ecology effeminization environmentalism Humanitarian Intervention Imperialism militarization of anthropology militarization of entertainment media Military Industrial Complex neoliberalism paternalism

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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