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WATCH: Why Anti-Zionism is Not Anti-Semitism

The Electronic Intifada Oct 6, 2021   In this 2021 mini-documentary from...

Western framing of Hamas vs Israel is Deliberate as Means of Delegitimizing Palestinian Resistance

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.

The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: The Behavioural Change Project “To Change Everything” [Volume II, Act V]

The social engineering project to "change everything" is today perhaps the most successful behavioural sciences experiment in modern history.

How Circular is the Circular Economy?

"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."

“Clean Energy” is a Dirty Joke

"How do fundamentally economic concepts like unburnable carbon, stranded assets, and carbon budgets work for the inevitable continuation of fossil fuel extraction and the wholesale destruction of forests? How much political will for carbon capture and storage is out there and how is it expressed? How are pundits, mouthpieces or messaging agents able to use “clean energy” to mask their support for energy that is in no way clean?"

White Pedagogy: The Exclusivity of White Hegemony

"White Hegemony is not inclusive. White Hegemony is exclusive. Additionally, White Hegemony racializes linguistics. "

False Hope: The Core Strategy of 350

"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."

Sakej Ward – Decolonizing the Colonizer

"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. "

FLASHBACK | Nostalgia for Origins – Miguel Amorós

"Despite the meritorious cultural renaissances linked to the local intelligentsia or to bourgeois sectors in conflict with the State (due to the unequal development of the ruling classes), the process nonetheless continued, and with the appearance of mass culture, that is, of the spectacle, of generalized entertainment, of the mass media, etc., language lost its validity as a vehicle of culture and means of communication—any language—putting an end to its role as the last sign of surviving identity. "

Stranger Danger: The Infiltration of Dissident Communities by Freedom House’s Sarah Kendzior

"The way radical language and ideas are churned up by power, stripped of their revolutionary potential, sanitized and then redeployed by liberals has always interested me, so I pay attention to it. Further, any “anarchist” can tell you what it’s like to spar with “Libertarians” or “Anarcho-Capitalists” who continue to encroach on our identifying words, “Libertarian Socialism” and “Anarchism.” It’s a constant struggle against the churning machine of appropriation."