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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."

Nonprofits: Beware the Hand That Feeds

"When funding sources come from elite billionaires operating in rarefied air out of their own capitalistic and political agendas, they will always protect the systems that they created. We should expect nothing less."

Privatizing Political Power

"Like earlier captains of industry — who used public investment to privatize political power — Gates has harnessed his fortune to evangelize on behalf of privatizing schools, prisons, and plantations. His investments in social engineering have made it possible for Gates to largely avoid public censure."

And about those green jobs… Prison Inmates Paid 93 Cents Per Hour to Assemble Solar Panels

"The Prison-Industrial Complex is financially lucrative in more ways than one. For example - exploiting prison inmates to build solar panels for 93 cents per hour. Perhaps this is built into "a just transition from fossil fuels and nuclear power" that the Big Greens use to sell their "new economy" dogma."

Learning From Ferguson: The Nature of Police, the Role of the Left [Part I]

"In this debate, the Right claim that the police are working just fine, while the Left claim that changes are needed to get them working better. Both of them are united in preserving the role of police and keeping real people—neighborhoods, communities, and all the individuals affected by police—from becoming the protagonists in the conflicts that affect us. Similarly, we frequently hear leftists claim that “the prisons aren’t working,” exhibiting a willful ignorance as to the actual purpose of prisons. Sadly, for all their distortions and manipulations, the Right is being more honest. The police and the prisons both are working just fine. As per their design, they are working against us."