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Tagged ‘Neo-liberalism‘

Feb 08

2017

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The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Neo-liberalism Syria “Day of Rage”

The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t

"On top of this, Assad underscored his allegiance to socialist values against what Washington had once called the “moral imperative” of “economic freedom,” by writing social rights into the constitution: security against sickness, disability and old age; access to health care; and free education at all levels. ... If Assad was a neo-liberal, he certainly was one of the world’s oddest devotees of the ideology."

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Aug 23

2014

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Uncategorized

AFL-CIO Alternatives Canadian Peoples’ Social Forum (PSF) Capitalism Desjardins Caisses populaires Ford Foundation identity politics Neo-liberalism New Democratic Party (NDP) Rockefeller Brothers Fund World Social Forum

The Political Fraud of the Canadian Peoples’ Social Forum

"The Forum is a political fraud. It is aimed not at fighting for the independent political mobilization of the working class, but rather at its subordination to the ostensible “left” wing of the bourgeois political establishment."

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Jan 21

2014

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

Canada World Youth Canadian Hunger Foundation Partners in Rural Development Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Canadian University Service Overseas Development & Peace Haiti Military contractor philanthropy NATO NED | National Endowment for Democracy Neo-liberalism Oxfam Quebec

Same Old Road to Hell

"The universe of NGOs is now enormous. They have been sent by the West to salvage nations torn by invasions, overthrows, and exploitation. In the process they co-opt many members of the leadership class, drawing in both government employees and activists from grassroots political and social movements, as they pay high wages by local standards, and offer travel and other benefits. The NGO as an agent of imperialism is not new—remember the missionaries—but the scale is."

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May 17

2013

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Foundations, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The Soros Network | OSI, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Afghanistan BBC Corporate Media Destabilization Humanitarian Intervention Iraq Libya Media Neo-liberalism

The Left vs. the Liberal Media

“Media Lens has indeed spent more time analyzing the liberal media than right-wing outlets. Why? Because the liberal media is often regarded as the outlets where the most progressive and the most challenging views can be seen and heard. If you like, it’s one end of the acceptable spectrum of news and views. But if even here there are severe limits on permissible challenges to state-corporate power, what does that say about society generally? It’s like a litmus test for dissent.”

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Nov 06

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Huffington Post Neo-liberalism

Experts of the Obvious

"In my recent post Masquerading As Agents For Change, I discussed neo-liberal thought leaders of the progressive media and Democratic Party network who marginalize collectivist viewpoints on public policy and governance. As gatekeepers of civil society, this professional milieu influences public perception of neo-liberal fraud at the root of austerity, and is thus a useful tool for the oligarchy."

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Nov 05

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Feminism Neo-liberalism

WATCH: Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism

"From the Personal Is Political to the Personal is Personal: Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism." Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College, and author of Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, explores how mainstream feminism has lost its way by fighting for the individual rights of a small group of elite white women instead of the collective liberation of all women. Dines argues that much of what passes for feminism today is focused on the pseudo-empowerment offered to women who conform to the narrow standards of femininity set by the porn culture. She calls for a feminism that is unapologetically fierce in its commitment to radical social change.

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Nov 01

2012

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalist Activism Fourth World Neo-liberalism

Capitalist Activism | Masquerading As Agents For Change

"The examples of her particular nonsense, nonetheless, are illustrative of the techniques of marginalization that help insulate the oligarchy and their institutions from social disapproval and civil indignation. The red-baiting and other anti-collectivist memes they propagate help legitimize the neo-colonial brutality toward the Fourth World we see worldwide, and characterizing the Fourth World as illegitimate obstructionists to progress is likely to accelerate with the concomitant depletion of key resources. While neo-liberals like Robinson are careful not to express their bigotry openly, their ideological arrogance serves the same purpose."

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Sep 30

2012

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Avaaz, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The Soros Network | OSI, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence

Avaaz Clicktivism Destabilization Neo-liberalism Open Society Institute

Right Click for War

"Blowback from people pissed off at American supported tyrants or American promoted invasions of their countries may not concern the Ivory Tower activists, but for those of us going without food, shelter or medicine while the U.S. Treasury bails out banks and finances aggression worldwide, perpetual warfare at the expense of general welfare is a real problem--not a ten foot tall myth."

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Sep 30

2012

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Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria

Africom Corporate Media Democracy Now Iran Libya NATO Neo-liberalism Venezuela

Human Rights and Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria

In his critique of Western human rights practice, the African human rights scholar Makau Mutua provides an insight into the question when he asserts that human rights are fundamentally influenced by the normativity of liberal theoretical and philosophical assumptions. For the Eurocentric human rights activist, the assumption that Western society, its institutions, values, social practices and culture represent the embodiment of civilized modernity is uncontested. Therefore, Muta points out that the West as the ‘saviors’ of the innocent ‘victims’ of the evil (read non-Western) state with its savage repression and authoritarism is seen as a both a natural and desirable occurrence, when it can indeed happen. The subtext to this is that non-Western, non-liberal societies require outside intervention, at various times, to bring them up to the level of Western (read fully human) societies.

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Sep 25

2012

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International Forum on Globalization

Capitalism Foundation for Deep Ecology International Forum on Globalization Neo-liberalism

Questioning Vandana Shiva

"Additionally, while Shiva opposes some international aspects of capitalist domination, her politics are far from anti-capitalist and more closely approximate those of a nationalist, and so it is fitting that she has "worked closely with nationalist groups" in India. Likewise it is no coincidence that her close colleague and benefactor, Edward Goldsmith, "favours uniting left and right in a movement against 'globalization'" -- which, as one might expect, has led to his own dalliances with extreme right-wing nationalists."

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