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White Supremacy Protects Power, Not White People White supremacy is named for race, but its organizing logic is the preservation of power. Public conversation about Jeffrey Epstein tends to settle in a

White supremacy protects power NOT white people
My latest piece in CounterPunch traces the line from Epstein to ICE to show that whiteness means proximity to power ,not immunity from it. www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/24/white-supremacy-protects-power-not-white-people/

#power#ICE#epstein#justice

Alex Pretti's killing by ICE should be taken as clarity :whiteness under empire means proximity to power, NOT immunity from it

The privilege was never immunity, just delay

'til white supremacy is confronted nothing changes because it decides whose deaths are acceptable
#empire#power#justice#ICE

MCM handing Trump her Nobel marks the post democracy phase of empire. The highest moral currency available in liberal international politics is rendered irrelevant

elections,ethics ,international approval exist stil but:

They don't constrain power preferred outcome has been selected #empire

White supremacy was never meant to protect white people but to protect power

Thus Renee Good gets shot by ICE & Black / brown ppl can sometimes be the one pulling the trigger

whiteness gets lifted when it serves power & dropped when it doesn’t . Anyone can enforce the system & be expendable to it

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Why White Supremacy Is Never Named in the Venezuela Crisis Explanations of Venezuela that avoid white supremacy are faithful to the world that made this outcome ordinary. Across the current debate, there is no

My latest in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social on how explanations of Venezuela that avoids white supremacy are faithful to the world that made this outcome ordinary

#whitesupremacy#empire#venezuela#power#decolonizeeverything

From Red Bull to Gaza: The Empire of Wreckage A professional cyclist from Spain was recently paralyzed from the chest down after a catastrophic crash at a Red Bull event. He rides for Monster —

www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/12/f...

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My latest in Counterpunch exposes how Empire sends its own victims flowers and then sends the invoice to communities, while cashing in on empathy

The same moral supply chain runs through sport, humanitarianism,war,big pharma

Because the wreckage isn't a flaw- it's the POINT

#morallaundering

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Empire of Empathy The most insidious privatization of the 21st century isn’t material—it’s moral. The right to define “goodness”, once born of collective struggle, has been

Empire's Favorite Laundry Detergent is Feminism 👈🏽

My latest piece in Counterpunch media unpack it

From Melinda Gates to María Corina Machado to
Meghan Markle ...

"Goodness” has been privatized

#morallandering#empire#decolonize#justicenotoptics#feminism

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The Peace Industry: How Empire Rebrands Occupation as Compassion The headlines call it a ceasefire. The diplomats call it peace. But what’s being unveiled isn’t peace — it’s colonial revival. Under the banner of

Empire learned it’s cheaper to manage optics than armies.
Gaza’s “peace deal” isn’t liberation :it’s administration with better PR

My latest in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social :The Peace Industry

#gaza#empirerebrands#decolonizeeverything#morallaundering#justice

Ceasefire headlines=empire rebranding itself as peace & outsourcing the occupation

Banning Palestinian factions from politics, replaces Israeli troops with a U.S. -Arab “stabilization force”,“special economic zone” for investors to rebuild

Recolonization packaged as reconstruction
#freepalestine

Recognition without redistribution is theater : a desperate attempt to get on the “right side of history” without ever surrendering the spoils of empire

The settler colonial bloc didn’t suddenly discover Palestine. They discovered their own weakness

#freepalestine#gaza#gazagenocide#moraltheatre

Taqat’s work speaks for itself ...happy to see my piece in Counterpunch is circulating

From the Rubble, They Built Three Incubators While the world debates whether Palestinians deserve electricity, young people in Gaza are building tech incubators from the rubble. Not one. Three. Taqat

Resilience is empire’s favorite word. Refusal is Gaza’s

TAQAT built 3 incubators in Gaza under siege... sustaining freelancers, training teenagers, building a future empire wants erased

This isn’t inspiration. It’s insurrection.

My latest in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social

#gaza#palestine

You can't make empire sound like care
#decolonizeeverything #morallaundering

Empire with a Humanitarian Accent The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is calling it a “world-first” contraceptive: an eight-year hormonal IUD. The launch site? Kenya. Not Seattle. Not

My latest CounterPunch exposé: The Gates Foundation is launching its “world-first” 8-year IUD in Kenya. It’s power disguised as charity. Colonial population control wrapped in feminist branding. Who decides whose futures get to grow?

#Philanthrocapitalism#ReproductiveJustice #Decolonize#africa

Injustice loves a shortcut

Statehood for Palestine without ending occupation is moral laundering optics over liberation

As Noura Erakat & Shahd Hammouri make clear in their recent piece it's a performance

Once you see the shortcut, you can’t call it justice.

#MoralLaundering #Palestine#gaza

Gates’ new 8-year IUD launches in Kenya, not Seattle or London

That’s philanthrocapitalism: risk on African women, rewards to billionaires

Until racialized women set the research agenda this will be about control not choice

#MoralLaundering #Philanthrocapitalism #GlobalHealth#decolonizeeverything

My latest in Counterpunch

If we can’t name the structure,we can’t dismantle it.
We don’t need curated resistance.

We need a redistribution of epistemic power

We deserve better

#degrowth#racialcapitalism#gaza#climatejustice#sustainability

This isn’t about one project.It’s about how whiteness defines the problem and narrates the resistance

If white authorship stays centered,
even the sharpest critiques become containment.

Just published in CounterPunch:

“What’s Missing from Jason Hickel’s Global Inequality Project”

On whiteness, authorship, critique as control—
and how even radical frameworks can reproduce empire

www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/28/w...

Whiteness doesn’t just extract :it curates critique, defines the radical, controls who gets to speak

A major inequality project critiques empire...without naming the structure that underwrites it: whiteness.

Link to my piece in next post

#Degrowth#RacialCapitalism #EpistemicViolence #Gaza#racism

Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves

Suresh Naidu, a Columbia University economist delivers a masterclass in dismantling power from inside the machine @nytimes.com

This is using tenure as it’s meant to be used

A must read that gives a blueprint & detonates the illusion that elite institutions will save us

#Gaza#genocide#resistance

From a war zone,they built three business incubators

Despite genocide, siege, isolation, young Palestinians created Taqat: a co-working hub now supporting 700+ freelancers in Gaza

This isn’t “resilience” it’s resistance : survival through dignity & defiance

👉🏽 taqat-gaza.com

#genocide#gaza