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Sep 12

2013

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Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

anti-war human rights and liberalism human rights theory Humanitarian Intervention R2P racial justice Right to Protect U.S. attack on Syria U.S. foreign policy U.S. intervention in Syria

Humanitarian Intervention: The Human Rights Gift that Keeps on Giving to U.S. Imperialism

"Humanitarian intervention and the right to protect evoke the unacknowledged white supremacist assumption that the “international community” – read as the governments of the capitalist/colonialist West – has a duty and a right to arrest, bomb, invade, prosecute, sanction, murder and violate international law anywhere on the planet to “save” people based on its own determinations and values."

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Aug 30

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

350.org Avaaz Color of Change Cuba Ella Baker Green For All Libya No Fly Zone phyc Psyops R2P Ricken Patel Syria The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Van Jones Whiteness & Aversive Racism

On the Eve of an Illegal Attack on Syria, Avaaz/350.org Board Members Beat the Drums of War

Today, "The Axis of Evil" psyops (still drilled into the Euro-American psych) has been coupled, if not superseded, with the manufacturing of fear. Add to this orchestrated fear, the "Humanitarian Intervention" and "Responsibility to Protect" doctrines. The crème de le crème of imperial rhetoric. Such doctrines, created by American "think-tanks", for the elite, by the elite, are of critical use for a declining and morally bankrupt empire. An empire that brilliantly attempts to convince and portray, utilizing the language within these doctrines, that the atrocities they manufacture, call for, and carry out, are somehow honourable and admirable – as opposed to what they actually are – crimes against humanity. Orwell would have called this psychopathic persistence, a stunning feat in doublespeak.

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Aug 27

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

anti-war Bashar al-Assad chemical weapons Egypt Gulf War humanitarian imperialism Humanitarian Intervention Jean Baudrillard Libya R2P Syria U.S. intervention “Responsibility to Protect”

The “Arab Spring” and the Seduction of the Western Left

"Seduction is not rape. It needs the complicity of its victim. It needs the victim to want to be seduced. Indeed, it is the victim that dictates the terms on which the seduction will take place. The Arab Spring appeared on our corporate TV screens as it did, because this was how the Western Left wanted to be seduced."

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Aug 26

2013

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Foundations, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Destabilization Jean Bricmont R2P Syria

Talk Nation Radio: Jean Bricmont: Keep Humanitarian Imperialism Out of Syria

Jean Bricmont is the author of Humanitarian Imperialism, and of a recent article on CounterPunch called "The Wishful Thinking Left." Bricmont is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy for Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium.

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Jul 29

2013

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Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Humanitarian Intervention Imperialism Iran Libya R2P Syria

The Empire’s New Clothes: The Naked Imperialism of Humanitarian Intervention

The U.S. imperial juggernaut attempts to bamboozle its home audience with the fiction that its war against Syria is a “humanitarian” venture. “The immediate priority for anti-war, anti-imperialist, human rights activists in the U.S. is to strip away the moral pretext of humanitarian intervention and expose its ugly, imperialist reality.”

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Jul 04

2013

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Foundations, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Capitalism Co-optation Destabilizations Ecology Imperialism Interventions Media neoliberalism Propaganda R2P

Essential Summer Reading | Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent

The volume includes examinations of the inherent contradiction between genuine democracy and corporate capitalism, the use of corporate media, the entertainment industry, and celebrity activists as propaganda vehicles, the attempts to co-opt and neutralise NGOs and social movements, the demonisation and repression of unco-opted dissent, and the imperialist agendas behind so-called 'democracy promotion' interventions.

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Jun 04

2013

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Imperialist Wars/Occupations, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Afghanistan Capitalism Humanitarian Intervention Iraq Libya NATO R2P Syria

Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention”

"...humanitarian intervention, along with the concept of the “right to protect” (R2P) has developed into the most effective ideological weapon the liberal human rights community provided Western imperialism since the fall of the Soviet State. Humanitarian intervention has proven to be an even more valuable propaganda tool than the “war on terror,” because as the situation in Libya and now Syria has demonstrated, it provides a moral justification for imperialist intervention that can also accommodate the presence of the same “terrorist” forces the U.S. pretends to be opposed to."

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Apr 15

2013

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Foundations, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Al Arabiya Al Jazeera Arab Spring Chavez CIVICUS Development Alternatives International (DAI) Freedom House Gaddafi Human Rights Libya R2P Venezuela

Getting It Right: Hugo Chávez and the “Arab Spring”

"The new Libya has apparently placed racist atrocity in the pantheon of “human rights.” All those who wash their mouths with terms like “genocide prevention” have apparently left the room. With a new Libya come new spelling conventions: the correct way to spell “oppression” is now liberation. What part of this Arab Spring do you support?"

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Mar 05

2013

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Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Culture Destabilization Intervention Iraq Miltarism Pacifism Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs R2P Social Engineering Soft Power Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

WATCH: SOFT POWER | The Partnering of Western NGOS and the US Military

"On one side we have US Military personnel parading in certain times in civilian clothes, driving white 4x4's and even driving civilian vehicles. We have civilian "aid workers" wearing Department of Defense ID's surrounded by armed security guards. The media meanwhile refer to soldiers and armed security personnel killed in action as humanitarians, and NGOs themselves in some cases request and accept military escorts or contracts from the Department of Defense."

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Feb 26

2013

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Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The Soros Network | OSI, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Afghanistan Canada Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) Gaddafi Humanitarianism Imperialism Iraq Laurent Loui Libya Mali NATO R2P Syria

Thoughtful, Respectful, and Progressive: Regarding the “Responsibility to Protect”

"One important theme, bridging counterinsurgency, development, foreign aid, and R2P, is that of humanitarianism and its ever more frequent appearance in military garb. Simply put, what we are dealing with is the justifications for empire, that are meant to buy our peaceful compliance with resources that are redirected toward foreign escapades, and to sell others on the legitimacy of our ruling them."

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