The Greenwashing of Wars by NGOs & the US Military
"How can you conserve nature when you are bombing nature in wars of choice around the world?"
Why Is Environmental Damage Of War Considered A Taboo Subject?
"The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has come in for criticism due to its lack of attention to the detrimental effects of wars and military operations on nature."
Imperial Social Media: Avaaz and the Arms Merchants
"Promoting the imperial social media fad of equivocating on US and NATO invasions that destroy entire societies, ostensibly because the current head of state is ruthless or corrupt, Avaaz apologists neglect the growing list of countries where these invasions have made things worse. "
The Peace Industrial Complex (PIC) and the Failure of Movements
"I work my ass off to make my activism obsolete. I am not interested in perpetuating wars or political loyalty to make a buck, or gain influence with the very criminals that I loathe and protest. Organizations in the PIC seem to have unlimited resources to hire staff and open offices, where organizations like mine try to do the best we can with the limited resources and volunteers that we do have."
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."
Thirty Years After the U.S. Invasion of Grenada, the First Neoliberal War
"Therefore it is with considerable nostalgia that I look back on this period, this before the Western left’s spinal cord had been surgically removed and its head compressed into its waist, forming a monstrous human starfish that reaches out in all directions (having little of its own). However, to end on a more productive note, the Latin American left has never been stronger, more dominant, and more unified..."
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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The Soros Network | OSI, United Nations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
The Deeply Distorted ‘Syria Deeply’
"Sites like Syria Deeply & Storyful need to be exposed for what they are –minions of an imperial mindset that act as the propaganda arm for the military industrial complex and profit on war & suffering. Any aid group that aligns with this is either deeply delusional or capitalising on obscene atrocities."