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When Will Environmentalists Ever Wake Up? – The Great Pipeline Scam

January 19, 2012 When Will Environmentalists Ever Wake Up? The Great Pipeline Scam by MICHAEL LEONARDI counterpunch In another ridiculous moment of political trickery, Obama managed to dupe a major chunk of the American environmental movement yesterday by refusing to authorize the construction of the Keystone Pipeline now. The keyword in that sentence which seems […]

Little Scraps of Humanity | The Keystone XL “Victory”

Little Scraps of Humanity By Press Action January 18, 2012 “I have a question for you. How do you do it? How do you come into offices like this and squabble with people like me over a few extra inches? How is that you can sit there in your politeness and your grace and basically […]

Indigenist Oil Companies?

Indigenist Oil Companies? By Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti January 18, 2012 The international Right has put on an indigenist costume, not only to draw nearer to its historical victim, but also to infiltrate indigenous organizations to the point of directing their movements. The contribution of millions of dollars for the welfare of indigenous people is […]

The Co-Opted MLK

Don’t Let Conservatives Liberal Left Co-Opt Dr. King’s Progressive Social Justice Legacy January 13, 2012 By Winning Progressive "I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is […]

Flashback: The Idols of Environmentalism | The Ecology of Work

Do environmentalists conspire against their own interests? Environmentalism can’t succeed until it confronts the destructive nature of modern work—and supplants it Parts one and two of a two-part series. by Curtis White Orion | Published in the March/April 2007 issue of Orion magazine Art by Robert and Shana Parkeharrison ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION proceeds apace in spite […]

The Origin of the Alliance Between Some Indigenous Leaders and the Right

By Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti January 11, 2012 Under Politics & Policy Tags: Bolivia, Indigenous Camba image, used by the Bolivian Right to cultivate hatred towards the Colla One of the more surprising decisions of Bolivian indigenism is the obvious alliance between the leaders of the Indigenous Confederation of Eastern Bolivia (CIDOB, acronym in Spanish) […]

The Phenomenon of the Indigenous Counterrevolution

By Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti January 13, 2012 It is no secret that the United States finances the opposition to leftist governments, and that its motivation is to control natural resources. In the case of Bolivia, indigenous resistance to U.S. abuse made the indigenous people formidable defenders of human rights, but their symbiotic relationship with […]

Twitterers of the World Revolution: The Digital New-New Left by Dr. K. R. Bolton – Foreign Policy Journal

"Young people have no conception of the conspiracy’s strategy of pressure from above and pressure from below…. They have no idea that they are playing into the hands of the Establishment they claim to hate. The radicals think they’re fighting the forces of the super rich, like Rockefeller and Ford, and they don’t realise that […]

Secret Forest Sell-off ‘Shopping Lists’ Drawn up by Conservation Groups

Secret forest sell-off ‘shopping lists’ drawn up by conservation groups guardian.co.uk, Wed 11 Jan 2012 The National Trust and Wildlife Trusts gave the government secret lists of public woodlands before the sale was halted The conservation groups handed the government secret ‘shopping lists’ of public forests before the proposed sale was halted. Photograph: Jason Friend/Alamy […]