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LISTEN: Colonialism and Gender Today

"Colonialism and its legacies have also influenced how feminists in the Global South and their counterparts in the Global North view and treat each other."

WATCH: Philanthropy is a Scam

A snapshot of facts in 2 minutes, 11 seconds.

Bolivia’s TIPNIS Dispute: Example of How Liberal-Left Alternative Media Becomes a Conveyor Belt for US Regime Change Propaganda

"Genuine solidarity with the peoples of the Third World means basing yourself in opposition to the Empire’s interference and exposing how it attempts to undermine movements seeking to break free from the Western domination."

Reclaim Conservation: Activists & Communities Vs. Mainstream Conservation Myths

"These large NGOs cannot challenge these overarching systems of oppression because they have become part of them."

Silencing Dissent – From Ronald to Donald

"On August 30, with assistance from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Whatcom County (WA) prosecutor obtained a warrant to access confidential information on the Red Line Salish Sea (NoDAPL) indigenous treaty rights activists’ Facebook page."

The Most Valuable Players of the Natural Capital League: Part 1

35 years later we can share with you the 8 MVPs who have made the biggest contribution to the final capture of nature to under-write the "new economy", an achievement of unprecedented scope under neoliberalism.

Greenwashing Capitalism: Conservation’s Cosy Relationship with Corporations

"Conservationists are turning a blind eye to their own past and to the working of neoliberal capitalism, showing a remarkable willingness to entertain future risks to biodiversity from the outworking of neoliberalism."

WATCH: Yejide Orunmila – Surviving the White Women’s March on Washington

"Yejide Orunmila, president of ANWO (African National Women's Organization) and member of the Uhuru Movement examines the (white) Women's March on Washington, and explains the political opportunism of feminism and the complicity of white women in the oppression of African women."

The Age of Humanism is Ending

"In a world set on objectifying everybody and every living thing in the name of profit, the erasure of the political by capital is the real threat. The transformation of the political into business raises the risk of the elimination of the very possibility of politics....Under such conditions, the future of progressive and future-oriented mass politics of the left is very uncertain."

Nature is Being Renamed ‘Natural Capital’ – But is it Really the Planet that Will Profit?

"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”, ..."