Anita Naidu
@proximitydeclined.bsky.social
Critiquing Moral Theatre
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
The same moral supply chain runs through sport, humanitarianism,war,big pharma
Because the wreckage isn't a flaw- it's the POINT
#morallaundering
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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
The same moral supply chain runs through sport, humanitarianism,war,big pharma
Because the wreckage isn't a flaw- it's the POINT
#morallaundering
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
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
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
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October 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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
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
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
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
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
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October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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
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
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
October 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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
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
The settler colonial bloc didn’t suddenly discover Palestine. They discovered their own weakness
#freepalestine#gaza#gazagenocide#moraltheatre
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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
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
"[Y]oung people in Gaza are building tech incubators from the rubble."
"Taqat began with a single solar panel and a car battery."
"Today it is Gaza's largest incubator: three hubs — Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat — sustaining more than 400 freelancers."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
"Taqat began with a single solar panel and a car battery."
"Today it is Gaza's largest incubator: three hubs — Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat — sustaining more than 400 freelancers."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
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
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September 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Taqat’s work speaks for itself ...happy to see my piece in Counterpunch is circulating
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
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
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
www.counterpunch.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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
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
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
#Philanthrocapitalism#ReproductiveJustice #Decolonize#africa
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
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August 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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
#Philanthrocapitalism#ReproductiveJustice #Decolonize#africa
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
www.counterpunch.org
August 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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
#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
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
August 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
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
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
August 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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
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
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
August 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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
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
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
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
August 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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
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
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
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
Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves
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July 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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
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
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
July 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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
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
Billionaires are claiming space while the planet burns. This isn’t progress , it’s empire in orbit. My piece in The Tyee pulls the curtain back.
Because who controls space controls the future
#BillionaireColonialism #DecolonizeTheFuture #SpaceIsPolitical #TheTyee#techforwhom
Because who controls space controls the future
#BillionaireColonialism #DecolonizeTheFuture #SpaceIsPolitical #TheTyee#techforwhom
Today, headlines are dominated by billionaire-led ventures like Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic.
They are rebranding space — not as a domain of public possibility, but as a playground of private power and profit.
@proximitydeclined.bsky.social writes.
They are rebranding space — not as a domain of public possibility, but as a playground of private power and profit.
@proximitydeclined.bsky.social writes.
Billionaires Want to Own Space. And Everything Else | The Tyee
Ditch your astronaut dream. Public space exploration is being replaced by the astronomically rich and their pals.
thetyee.ca
July 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Billionaires are claiming space while the planet burns. This isn’t progress , it’s empire in orbit. My piece in The Tyee pulls the curtain back.
Because who controls space controls the future
#BillionaireColonialism #DecolonizeTheFuture #SpaceIsPolitical #TheTyee#techforwhom
Because who controls space controls the future
#BillionaireColonialism #DecolonizeTheFuture #SpaceIsPolitical #TheTyee#techforwhom
Thanks@Degrowth Collective 4 sharing my article
When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed
This piece is about how empire, wealth and whiteness repackage domination as virtue whether in climate justice, DEI or philanthropy
#degrowth#morallaundering#empirerebrands#truth
When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed
This piece is about how empire, wealth and whiteness repackage domination as virtue whether in climate justice, DEI or philanthropy
#degrowth#morallaundering#empirerebrands#truth
A great article by @proximitydeclined.bsky.social about How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h...
How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue
When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed Rutger Bregman, once hailed as the Dutch progressive mascot, rose to global attention
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July 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Thanks@Degrowth Collective 4 sharing my article
When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed
This piece is about how empire, wealth and whiteness repackage domination as virtue whether in climate justice, DEI or philanthropy
#degrowth#morallaundering#empirerebrands#truth
When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed
This piece is about how empire, wealth and whiteness repackage domination as virtue whether in climate justice, DEI or philanthropy
#degrowth#morallaundering#empirerebrands#truth
Jason Hickel’s Project is powerful but fails to name whiteness as the structure behind global extraction. A white scholar is positioned as the voice on global suffering & whiteness curates critique by repackaging anti-colonial ideas for Western legibility. This is not power redistributed
#Degrowth
#Degrowth
Global Inequality - Global Inequality
globalinequality.org
July 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Jason Hickel’s Project is powerful but fails to name whiteness as the structure behind global extraction. A white scholar is positioned as the voice on global suffering & whiteness curates critique by repackaging anti-colonial ideas for Western legibility. This is not power redistributed
#Degrowth
#Degrowth
BCG didn’t contaminate humanitarianism- it revealed its design
It lent its tools to genocide, 700+ Palestinians died trying to eat.
UNICEF, WHO, WFP, IRC still won’t cut ties
Because BCG didn’t hijack the sector...it exemplifies it.
This isn’t a scandal, it’s a structural reveal
#empire#gaza
It lent its tools to genocide, 700+ Palestinians died trying to eat.
UNICEF, WHO, WFP, IRC still won’t cut ties
Because BCG didn’t hijack the sector...it exemplifies it.
This isn’t a scandal, it’s a structural reveal
#empire#gaza
July 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
BCG didn’t contaminate humanitarianism- it revealed its design
It lent its tools to genocide, 700+ Palestinians died trying to eat.
UNICEF, WHO, WFP, IRC still won’t cut ties
Because BCG didn’t hijack the sector...it exemplifies it.
This isn’t a scandal, it’s a structural reveal
#empire#gaza
It lent its tools to genocide, 700+ Palestinians died trying to eat.
UNICEF, WHO, WFP, IRC still won’t cut ties
Because BCG didn’t hijack the sector...it exemplifies it.
This isn’t a scandal, it’s a structural reveal
#empire#gaza
Albanese didn’t just condemn Israeli violence,she mapped the infrastructure of profit behind it. How weapons companies, surveillance tech firms, construction contractors, banks etc profit from it
She reframed genocide not as a tragic event but a revenue stream protected by global capital
#gaza
She reframed genocide not as a tragic event but a revenue stream protected by global capital
#gaza
July 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Albanese didn’t just condemn Israeli violence,she mapped the infrastructure of profit behind it. How weapons companies, surveillance tech firms, construction contractors, banks etc profit from it
She reframed genocide not as a tragic event but a revenue stream protected by global capital
#gaza
She reframed genocide not as a tragic event but a revenue stream protected by global capital
#gaza
Once genocide is understood not as a outlier in an otherwise legitimate order but as a FUNCTIONING ECONOMY, divestment becomes inevitable & complicity is traceable
So empire is doing a full frontal.The sanctions on Albanese are about criminalizing the act of tracing profit via genocide
#genocide
So empire is doing a full frontal.The sanctions on Albanese are about criminalizing the act of tracing profit via genocide
#genocide
July 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Once genocide is understood not as a outlier in an otherwise legitimate order but as a FUNCTIONING ECONOMY, divestment becomes inevitable & complicity is traceable
So empire is doing a full frontal.The sanctions on Albanese are about criminalizing the act of tracing profit via genocide
#genocide
So empire is doing a full frontal.The sanctions on Albanese are about criminalizing the act of tracing profit via genocide
#genocide
You can’t stand with Palestine while clinging to whiteness
Gaza is not a "cause" but part of a global racial control system
Liberation isn’t optics. It’s dismantling the systems that protect you
If your solidarity doesn't target the system,it protects it ...and that's just performance
#gaza
Gaza is not a "cause" but part of a global racial control system
Liberation isn’t optics. It’s dismantling the systems that protect you
If your solidarity doesn't target the system,it protects it ...and that's just performance
#gaza
July 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
You can’t stand with Palestine while clinging to whiteness
Gaza is not a "cause" but part of a global racial control system
Liberation isn’t optics. It’s dismantling the systems that protect you
If your solidarity doesn't target the system,it protects it ...and that's just performance
#gaza
Gaza is not a "cause" but part of a global racial control system
Liberation isn’t optics. It’s dismantling the systems that protect you
If your solidarity doesn't target the system,it protects it ...and that's just performance
#gaza
The U.S. sanctioning Francesca Albanese is what empire does when it loses narrative control:
It punishes those who speak the truth
This is imperial panic and how empire defends itself
It’s a confession and tells us exactly who’s afraid.
#genocide#gaza #Decolonizeeverything #morallaundering
It punishes those who speak the truth
This is imperial panic and how empire defends itself
It’s a confession and tells us exactly who’s afraid.
#genocide#gaza #Decolonizeeverything #morallaundering
July 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The U.S. sanctioning Francesca Albanese is what empire does when it loses narrative control:
It punishes those who speak the truth
This is imperial panic and how empire defends itself
It’s a confession and tells us exactly who’s afraid.
#genocide#gaza #Decolonizeeverything #morallaundering
It punishes those who speak the truth
This is imperial panic and how empire defends itself
It’s a confession and tells us exactly who’s afraid.
#genocide#gaza #Decolonizeeverything #morallaundering
Rutger Bregman compared October 7 to “twelve 9/11s” & Palestinian deaths to “2,500 9/11s.”
This isn’t radical, It’s moral laundering
9/11 racialized Muslims globally and expanded empire’s war machine. That’s the frame he wants to borrow?
#freepalestine#morallaundering#gaza#genocide#moralambition
This isn’t radical, It’s moral laundering
9/11 racialized Muslims globally and expanded empire’s war machine. That’s the frame he wants to borrow?
#freepalestine#morallaundering#gaza#genocide#moralambition
July 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Rutger Bregman compared October 7 to “twelve 9/11s” & Palestinian deaths to “2,500 9/11s.”
This isn’t radical, It’s moral laundering
9/11 racialized Muslims globally and expanded empire’s war machine. That’s the frame he wants to borrow?
#freepalestine#morallaundering#gaza#genocide#moralambition
This isn’t radical, It’s moral laundering
9/11 racialized Muslims globally and expanded empire’s war machine. That’s the frame he wants to borrow?
#freepalestine#morallaundering#gaza#genocide#moralambition