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

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

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

Amazon now sells "Hands Off Public Lands" Tees

"Down with empire! ... in 3-5 business day & just as soon as your Prime Order arrives"

Nothing says resistance like a mass produced protest T shipped by the empire you are supposedly resisting

Moral laundering: tumble dry low

#morallaundering

This is capitalism panicking

@patagonia.com campaign claiming to fight billionaire power is moral laundering in a recycled fleece

Pata IS billionaire power. Telling us to call Congress re: public land loss (while ignoring it's stolen land) but not to stop funding genocide in Gaza
#morallaundering

Rutger Bregman blocked me on another platform ( even though I never followed him) for saying what his @cnn.com interview tried to erase: that Black liberation didn’t fail...it was buried by people like him.
#smaexposed#bregman #morallaundering #elitecapture#schoolformoralambition#empirerebrands

In Greta's powerful message to the world today there are two important underlying themes :

1) Ppl who say little amid a genocide are the systems insurance policy

2)Oppression thrives not only because of those who enforce it but because of the millions who quietly adjust to it

#gazagenocide#gaza

NO ISRAEL DID NOT "DETAIN" GRETA THUNBERG. IT KIDNAPPED HER AND THIS IS COLONIAL PIRACY

The pushback has already started — is that the right word? Is it " intercepted" ?Is it “detained”?

No, this is a kidnapping.This is colonial piracy :the logic of empire, enacted on the sea.

#morallaundering

Credit to Samatha Suppiah 👏🏾

#moralambition
#powerandprivilege
#accountabiity
#whitesaviorcomplex
#justicenotbranding
#lberationnotoptics

My latest @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social unpacks how elite-funded projects like the School for Moral Ambition—backed by billionaire donors—repackage power as virtue.

I’ll share it again in one week once it’s open access.

www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h...

#JusticeNotBranding#elitecapture

As someone who took part in the Canadian Astronaut Selection Process let me say that the real tragedy is billionaires play dress-up in space suits and the media frames it as “historic,” while pathways allowing women to become astronauts are quietly disappearing. #decolonizespace#equityinstem

@cornelwest.bsky.social and my friend @aljazeera.com scholar Adel Iskander in conversation this Friday. Two ppl who can't be co opted.In an era of carefully curated panels that flatten justice into a brand, this is a lifeline. Vancouver/Seattle peeps you don't want to miss it! #decolonizenow

Excited to be collaborating with @greenpeace.org on this initiative. Join us for a strategic intervention that provides clarity amid the noise, confusion and messaging shaping the upcoming election in Canada - which, for many of us, feels more existential than political.
#greenpeace#elections