Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 21/08/2026@naomiaklein.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social @350.org @xrglobal.bsky.social @juliasteinbrecher.bsky.social 001
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 21/08/2026@counterpunchmedia.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @greenpeaceca.bsky.social @degrowth.bsky.social 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Climate 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 #decolonizecounterpunch.orgThere Is No Elsewhere: A World BurningBritish 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. 274
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Jason 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 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 26/02/2026@counterpunchmedia.bsky.social @cornelwest.bsky.social @butchware.bsky.social 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 26/02/2026White 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#justicecounterpunch.orgWhite Supremacy Protects Power, Not White PeopleWhite supremacy is named for race, but its organizing logic is the preservation of power. Public conversation about Jeffrey Epstein tends to settle in a 100
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 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 16/01/2026MCM 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 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 12/01/2026White 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 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 12/01/2026My 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#decolonizeeverythingcounterpunch.orgWhy White Supremacy Is Never Named in the Venezuela CrisisExplanations of Venezuela that avoid white supremacy are faithful to the world that made this outcome ordinary. Across the current debate, there is no 111
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 16/11/2025www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/12/f...counterpunch.orgFrom Red Bull to Gaza: The Empire of WreckageA professional cyclist from Spain was recently paralyzed from the chest down after a catastrophic crash at a Red Bull event. He rides for Monster — 021
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 16/11/2025My 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 241
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Empire'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#feminismcounterpunch.orgEmpire of EmpathyThe 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 120
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 11/10/2025@aljazeera.com @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social @thenewarab.bsky.social @mondoweiss.net @intifada.bsky.social @democracynow.org @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social @thegrayzonenews.bsky.social 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Empire 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#justicecounterpunch.orgThe Peace Industry: How Empire Rebrands Occupation as CompassionThe 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 220
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Ceasefire 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 010
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Recognition 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 030
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Taqat’s work speaks for itself ...happy to see my piece in Counterpunch is circulating 021
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Resilience 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#palestinecounterpunch.orgFrom the Rubble, They Built Three IncubatorsWhile the world debates whether Palestinians deserve electricity, young people in Gaza are building tech incubators from the rubble. Not one. Three. Taqat 040
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 16/08/2025You can't make empire sound like care #decolonizeeverything #morallaundering 020
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 15/08/2025My 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#africacounterpunch.orgEmpire with a Humanitarian AccentThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is calling it a “world-first” contraceptive: an eight-year hormonal IUD. The launch site? Kenya. Not Seattle. Not 001
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Injustice 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 100
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Gates’ 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 010
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/08/2025My 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 010
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/08/2025This 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. 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Just 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... 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Whiteness 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 200
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Suresh 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#resistancenytimes.comOpinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 24/07/2025From 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 010
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 23/07/2025This isn’t about space,it’s about who gets to define the future & who gets erased Appreciate work of @adambecker.bsky.social @gilduran.com @decolonizemyself.bsky.social for cutting through the noise We need more voices naming empire not just admiring rockets #SpaceIsPolitical #DecolonizeTheFuture 020
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Billionaires 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 221
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Thanks@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 110
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Naming colonialism without naming whiteness leaves the structure intact Inclusion ≠ justice Citation ≠ authorship Speaking about the South isn’t the same as speaking from it. Redistribution means ceding space not curating it. @jasonhickel.bsky.social #DecolonizeDegrowth#WhiteSupremacy#degrowth 020
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Jason 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 #Degrowthglobalinequality.orgGlobal Inequality - Global Inequality 130
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 18/07/2025BCG 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 001
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 001
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Once 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 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 13/07/2025You 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 010
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 12/07/2025The 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 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Rutger 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 000
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 07/07/2025@bbcnews.bsky.social @eyeonpalestine.bsky.social @aljazeera.com @democracynow.org @decolonizemyself.bsky.social 000
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 261
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Moral 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 040
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 04/07/2025This 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 031
Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · 04/07/2025For 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 000