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Anita Naidu

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Critiquing Moral Theatre

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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Climate change has broken empire’s oldest trick: there is no “somewhere else” The sacrifice zone is now planetary and the atmosphere has no colony. My latest in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social on why we need to confront white supremacy as the operating logic #degrowth #climate #empire #decolonize
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There Is No Elsewhere: A World Burning
British Columbia, Canada is my home and once again, it’s burning. More than 100 fires were burning across the province as B.C. declared a state of emergency.
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday doesn't have to be innocent for structural racism to be real The problem is white supremacy i.e racial progress measured by who gets access to elite spaces Dismantling white supremacy means institutions stop using marginalized ppl as proof of their own moral legitimacy #jasonarday
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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
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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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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
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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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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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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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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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
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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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Taqat’s work speaks for itself ...happy to see my piece in Counterpunch is circulating
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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
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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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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
You can't make empire sound like care #decolonizeeverything #morallaundering
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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
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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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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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
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Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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
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Global Inequality - Global Inequality
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
BBC SILENCES THE GENOCIDE WHILE BCG MAPS OUT THE PROFITS This is full spectrum colonial control of perception, land,memory & future. Genocide isn't a comms challenge & colonialism isn't a design brief May entire industries awaken that they are not bystanders but part of the architecture #gaza
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Moral laundering is the new ESG, it’s empire with better PR Fossil fuel giants sponsor climate summits, weapons manufacturers fund research & Palestine Action gets labeled a terrorist group for disrupting the system they bankroll Empire power laundering its image #MoralLaundering #PalestineAction
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This isn't about a brown man gaining power but about about someone refusing to perform identity for power and using that refusal to expose and confront the system itself This isn't hope. This is what we fought to make possible... earned through courage and clarity @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
For all of us who eschew the liberal representation politics of I'm brown in this elite space - be inspired"... Zohran's win is our collective message which is: "I’m here because global systems of violence & economic injustice shaped my life and I’m here to dismantle them with you" #disrupt
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Chanting at festivals won’t shake empire, disrupting its profits will We interrupt by refusing its narratives, withdrawing our labor, blocking its flow. It’s power analysis (not purity) to ask what happens after festivals chants? Chanting names the harm but interruption makes it stop #gaza
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
How empire protects itself in 2025 : Weddings for billionaires & terror charges for the resisters Bezos floats a $50M spectacle in a drowning city while Palestine Action faces prison for spray painting warplanes One launders empire in couture,the other exposes it and gets caged. #morallaundering
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
If you still think Rutger Bregman and his School for Moral Ambition is a good thing , check out Tim Schwab's report from following the money. Bregman blocked Schwab as well while calling him unethical. The pattern is impossible to miss : block & smear anyone who points out the rot under SMA
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Bregman uses his CNN platform to say " activists" do nothing but that elites are our best hope for the future #SMAexposed#morallaundering#moralambition
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Petra Verdonk she/her @petraverdonk.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
👇🏿Author of this 👉🏿 piece www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h... about Bregman and his SMA and she made my day 👏🌎💪
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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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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Rutger Bregman went on CNN to say that Black Liberation "didn't work" but that his Trump aligned billionaire funded foundation is the real hope for justice You can't make this stuff up www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/u... Moral laundering is replacing liberation with leaders who answer to billionaires
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Silence wasn’t hesitation. It was strategy to stay in good standing Those same voices reappear claiming moral clarity It’s historical laundering South Africa. Vietnam.Standing Rock. Gaza This is how empire rewrites resistance: replacing those who risked everything with those who risk nothing
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t generosity. It’s a tax-subsidized system of influence that lets the ultra-wealthy privatize public priorities while avoiding accountability #elitecapture#morallaundering#philanthrocapitalism
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"Profit for Good" is not justice. It's moral laundering. Capitalism rebranded Donating 100% of profits sounds virtuous but it’s a sleight of hand. Changes nothing about ownership, power or challenge how profits were generated /why public systems are so underfunded #SMAexposed #morallaundering
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Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
U DON'T GET TO SPEAK ON GAZA WITHOUT OWNING UR SILENCE We hear "Welcome everyone for Gaza’s sake.” Not without accountability Silence was not neutral It was alignment with empire. Justice needs truth We are in the long fight. We know who stood We will not launder silence into virtue #gaza
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