Jul 13
20210
Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Colonialism critical race theory Cultural Studies Feminism Great Reset Marxism marxist cultural analysis Media Studies neo-liberal economics Social Media Theory and Philosophy “economic media” “informatic labor
"Deterritorialized factories (that is media companies) convert the horizontal expression of values into the hierarchical accumulation of value such that, as has been said, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism."
Aug 28
20180
Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Otpor | Canvas, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
#OCUPAINSS Catholic Church New Power Nicaragua OCUPA INSS Social Media
In this excerpt from an exclusive interview with Max Blumenthal (the Gray Zone), Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega describes the impact of the social media campaigns unleashed against the Sandinista Government in an attempted coup.
Feb 07
20160
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
Avaaz Ben & Jerry's Capitalism Consumerism New Economy privatization Purpose Inc. Social Media UN Unilever
"The cult of consumerism, through which 350, Avaaz and Purpose adherents identify with their brand, is similar to religion, in that becoming a follower is an act of faith."
Nov 30
20150
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
"clean coal" carbon capture storage CCS Media Metrics Nuclear Social Media
"As the establishment rave in Paris winds down, the chimera of clean energy propels industrial societies toward nuking the future. The new age ghost dance, as an expression of social despair, has led to progressive self-delusion that promises us the world, if only we believe."
Feb 12
20150
Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Venezuela, USAID
NED | National Endowment for Democracy Social Media USAID Venezuela
"“The focus on youth has been a long running strategy, while the social media element is a more recent (and cheaper) instrument of soft power..."
"The way radical language and ideas are churned up by power, stripped of their revolutionary potential, sanitized and then redeployed by liberals has always interested me, so I pay attention to it. Further, any “anarchist” can tell you what it’s like to spar with “Libertarians” or “Anarcho-Capitalists” who continue to encroach on our identifying words, “Libertarian Socialism” and “Anarchism.” It’s a constant struggle against the churning machine of appropriation."
Sep 30
20140
Amnesty International, Avaaz, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, MoveOn.org, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
Avaaz Clinton Clinton Global Initiative Democratic Party Ford Millenium Development Goals MoveOn NAFTA neoliberalism Pupose Rockefeller Social Media Soros Uzbekistan Wall Street WTO
"With laundered funding aplenty -- available through neoliberal foundations like Clinton, Gates, Soros, Ford and Rockefeller -- Wall Street (with help from Madison Avenue) has managed to consolidate its war-making portfolio of investments, while simultaneously acquiring a controlling interest in big international NGOs. As civil society institutions (living on pre-coup residual creds), the NGOs, in turn, legitimate the neoliberal incarnation of fascism."
Apr 03
20140
Avaaz, MoveOn.org, Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Al Gore Avaaz Behavioural Change BuzzFeed corporate pedophilia Democrats Eli Pariser Gates Foundation John Kerry Knight Foundation MoveOn.org Prop 37 Reddit Social Media Spark Capital Upworthy
Aside from embracing misogyny, more recently, Unilever, with Kellogg’s, General Mills, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, and other corporate entities funneled big money into defeating Prop 37. Now, Unilever, one of the largest consumer products corporations in the world, is looking to employ "effective story-telling" to help Unilever "engage with people more meaningfully" in order to "create a better future for children."
Dec 05
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Alliance of Youth Movements Arab Spring AYM Clinton communicative capitalism Egypt Google neoliberalism OWS Social Media
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies December 5, 2013 n association with the...
Nov 16
20130
"Thanks to a combination of the global Occupy movement and ever-evolving social media, our every radical move is being documented in real time and damn, it’s intoxicating. A whole new breed of virtual hero is being spawned—measured by Facebook likes, Twitter followers, and donation page tallies."