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HEART OF DARKNESS

By Jay Taber

New World OrderSame Old Crimes

November 2015: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with Mary Robinson and Ricken Patel,
Executive Director of Avaaz at One Heart One Tree: Lighting of the Eiffel Tower. UN
Photo/Rick Bajornas
In terms of relevance to the indigenous nations often referred to as the Fourth World, the rollouts
from the COP21 gathering of UN member states, Wall Street-funded NGOs, and the global
financial elite resemble colonial initiatives undertaken as a result of similar 19th Century
gatherings to carve up the world for capitalism. Then, as now, indigenous territories and
resources were targeted for expropriation through coercion, with Africa being a prime target.

Photo: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (fourth from left) and Christiana Figueres (centre),
Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), meet
with Civil Society Leaders at the Le Bourget-Paris exhibition site, for Cop21. From left:
Jagoda Munic, Chairperson, Friends of the Earth International; Ricken Patel, President and
Executive Director, Avaaz; Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union
Confederation; Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International; May Boeve,
Executive Director, 350.org; Wael Hmaidan, Director, Climate Action Network International;
and Bridget Burns, Administrator on Climate, Global Gender and Climate Alliance.
As statements emanating from COP21 by Wall Street-driven entities like the World Business
Council for Sustainable Development and the Breakthrough Energy Coalition were tailored to
seduce the nave into believing that First World consumption of indigenous territories and
resources for luxury goods could continue unabated under the pretext of saving the planet, the
agenda of the financial elite at Paris was to subsume human rights to the all-encompassing clean
energy/New Economy regime.

A look at the clean energy Ponzi scheme led by magnate Bill Gates, and promoted by Havas
reveals two key attributes of the plan are 1. Expanding nuclear power development and 2.
Privatizing public process and policy. Indeed, privatization of the planet, which led to the
indigenous revolution in Bolivia and elsewhere, is a core component of the Natural Infrastructure
for Business launched at COP21.

Clean energy: Lithium mining in Mexico


While the allure of the clean energy chimera is appealing to First World consumers of
electronics and energy storage devices such as electric car batteries, the Fourth World reality in
Africa, Asia and South America where resources for these technologies are mined is one of
utter devastation. Indeed, it has been convincingly argued that the recent misadventures of
AFRICOM, NATO, and the UN in Libya, Mali and the Great Lakes region of Africa are aimed at
securing these minerals for the US and the EU.

COP15, 2009: Bill McKibben of 350.org, Ambassador Antonio Lima of Cape Verde (VicePresident of AOSIS), and Ricken Patel, Avaaz Executive Director
The NGOs and PR firms behind the social engineering used to drum up support for Wall Streets
privatization plan Avaaz, Havas, Purpose and 350 are key to saving the planet for the
financial elite. While their choreography of the climate drama has resulted in lots of moral
theatrics, the failure of 21 years of lobbying and protesting suggests something more serious is
needed. Organizing for political power requires challenging these Wall Street-funded fronts.
Civil society does not equal NGO.

Creating Failed States | Next up: Burundi

The White House


Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
November 23, 2015

President Obama today issued a new Executive Order (E.O.) declaring a national emergency
with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of
the United States posed by the situation in Burundi.

Left: U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power. Right: Butcher of the Great Lakes, Paul
Kagame | The US based Kagame lobbyists, including the US Ambassador to the UN
Samantha Power are responsible for the crisis we see in Burundi. Dr. Charles Kambanda,
Great Lakes Post
The African Great Lakes region (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania
and Uganda) is rich in mineral wealth. East/West superpower competition for these minerals

used in consumer electronics has prompted the United States military to arm rebels and
dictators alike, as well as to increase the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) presence in the
region.

On July 6, 2015, the U.S. State Department announced that Tom Perriello will serve as President
Obamas special envoy for the Great Lakes region of Africa. On November 6, 2015, the State
Department announced that Perriello was alarmed by Burundi government violence. On
November 8, 2015, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, in response to the Burundi
government offer of amnesty to insurrectionists, warned of Rwanda-like government massacres.

Above: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speaks with United States Ambassador to the
United Nations Samantha Power during the United Nations Security Council meeting (photo:
(Sept. 18, 2014 Source: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images North America)
As noted by Charles Kambanda, a former professor at the University of Rwanda, what really is
happening in Burundi is that multinational corporations are seeking to create a failed state as
they did previously in the Congo in order to plunder the resources of the region. Avaaz*, an
NGO co-founded by Perriello, has called on the UN, US and EU to send in the troopsmuch like
it did in Libya and Syria.
*Avaaz was initially funded in 2006 by George Soros (a currency speculator convicted of
insider-trading) through his Open Society Institute.

The Purpose of Avaaz: Crimes Against


Humanity

Avaaz (initially financed by convicted inside trader George Soros) is the Blackwater of
PSYWARmercenaries posing as missionaries. The non-profit Avaaz works closely with its forprofit arm and PR firm Purpose. As a social media NGO, Avaaz promotes campaigns to
undermine governments hostile to US hegemony, especially in South America, Africa and the
Middle East.

Avaaz co-founder and former U.S. Congressman Tom Perriello with war criminal, General
David Petraeus (far left). Under this Flickr photo the caption reads: Passing the Baton, United
States Institute of Peace [2009] [Photo: Jon-Phillip Sheridan | Source] [In July, 2011,
General David Petraeus was approved as CIA Director by both the Senate Intelligence
Committee and then the full Senate, whose vote was an astounding 94-0, astounding because this
is a man who was deeply implicated in war crimes, including torture. Source]
The core cadre of Avaaz Tom Perriello, Ricken Patel, Tom Pravda, Jeremy Heimans, David
Madden, Eli Pariser and Andrea Woodhouse have working relationships with the UN and
World Bank, and coordinate with US-controlled institutions like the UN Security Council and
UN Human Rights Council. When challenges to US hegemony arise such as in Bolivia,
Libya, Syria, Burundi and Congo Avaaz and Purpose create campaigns to discredit and
destabilize these independent governments.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry releases the 2015 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development
Review (QDDR) outlining the strategic priorities to be pursued by the U.S. Department of State
and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with USAID Acting Administrator
Alfonso Lenhardt, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Heather
Higginbottom, and Special Representative for the QDDR and Avaaz co-founder Tom Perriello at
the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on April 28, 2015. [State Department photo/
Public Domain]
With the US-controlled NATO as the de facto military enforcement arm of the UN, the interests
of Wall Street merge with the Pentagon and U.S. State Department to thwart challenges from
regional bodies like the African Union. Public support in the US and EU for murdering
indigenous African leaders like Lumumba and Gaddafi is aided by Wall Street control of media,
especially social media, which positions Avaaz as a key player in Neoliberal imperialism.

Above: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad demonization campaign by Avaaz. Avaaz The
Behavioural Economics of Hatred: SYRIA: Avaaz, Purpose & the Art of Selling Hate for Empire
This conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity is well-documented, but not well-known.
Most consumers of social media are under the illusion that the UN is an honest broker, and that
the Wall Street fronts Avaaz and Purpose are somehow grassroots. Working with increasingly
corrupt NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch essentially owned by
Soros Avaaz and Purpose create the illusion of advocating for human rights, which, in turn,
serves as pretext for economic sanctions by the IMF and military invasions by NATO.
Ironically, the mass murders and warlords that NATO and the UN use as justification for
invasion are often armed by the US and EU, which begs the questionWho is really committing
crimes against humanity, the gangsters on the ground, or the manipulators of public opinion?

Imperial Social Media: Avaaz and the Arms


Merchants

Avaaz Hones In On Burundi as Next U.S. Fait Accompli

Promoting the imperial social media fad of equivocating on US and NATO invasions that destroy
entire societies, ostensibly because the current head of state is ruthless or corrupt, Avaaz
apologists neglect the growing list of countries where these invasions have made things worse.
Indeed, I am at a loss to find a country in my lifetime (1952-present) where US military
aggression either directly or through proxy mercenaries and US-financed and trained death
squads made things better.
Of course, if you look at militarism as a market-oriented strategy, then making war or creating
armed mayhem is just part of doing business. With the crippling financial sanctions available to
the US through the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, invasion is just for show
part of the expected social spectacle that routinely transfers wealth from the U.S. Treasury to
Wall Street and the military industrial complex.

Given the US influence at the UN Security Council, any country seeking to conduct its
governance, diplomacy and trade independent of the US and EU risks destruction. The evidence
can be seen in the chaotic, murderous aftermath reigning in these unfortunate societies, and in
the tsunami of refugees seeking asylum. Meanwhile, the revolving door between the arms
merchants, the Pentagon and the State Department is now open to NGOs like Avaaz and its PR
firm Purpose.

Image: U.S. President Barack Obama with Avaaz co-founder and former U.S. Representative
Tom Perriello

The Empires War against Burundi: War Propaganda in Preparation for an R2P Humanitarian
Intervention

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry releases the 2015 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development
Review (QDDR) with USAID Acting Administrator Alfonso Lenhardt, Deputy Secretary of State
for Management and Resources Heather Higginbottom, and Special Representative for the
QDDR (and Avaaz co-founder) Tom Perriello at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC
on April 28, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

Annihilating Tribal Society

Modern states, through international institutions (i.e. International Monetary Fund, World Bank,
and NATO), routinely annihilate peaceful tribal societies. As the dominant modern state, the
United States combines these institutionalized enforcement tools with its war-making capacity to
expropriate tribal territories and resources for the benefit of the market sector (i.e. energy,
consumer electronics, and the military industrial complex). This collusion between US and EUdominated institutions and markets is what led to the genocides in the Great Lakes Region of
Africa (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda) as well as in the Balkans.
If fascism is defined as a rationalization of theft through coercion, then it fits the US/EU model
exercised in Central and South America, Africa and Asia, where tribal societies (i.e. Maya, Hutu,
and West Papuans) are annihilated or displaced to facilitate access to their resources. Aided by
imperial social media networks (i.e. Avaaz, Purpose, and Amnesty International), war against
tribal societies and independent states now manipulates public opinion to support this
institutionalized aggression.

Meeting with Rwandas President Paul Kagame (R) and Tom Perriello, US Special Envoy for
Great Lakes Region- Kigali, 19 August 2015

Rwandas President Paul Kagame (R) walks past US President Barack Obama (2nd R) as US
Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and National Security Advisor Susan Rice (C) look on during a
Peacekeeping Summit at the United Nations headquarters on September 28, 2015 in New
York. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gives the thumbs-up to participants in the Leaders Summit
on Peacekeeping with National Security Advisor Susan Rice (R), U.S. Ambassador to the UN
Samantha Power and Rwandan President Paul Kagame during the 70th annual UN General
Assembly at the UN headquarters September 28, 2015 in New York City. Source: Chip
Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Reign of the Internet

In the 1973 film The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord described the total domination of the
industrialized capitalist economy over the psyche of 20th Century humankind, and the resulting
separation of modern urban society from reality. Represented in images projected by the
bureaucratic state, the assumption of this unreal role of urban consumers enables the ruling class
to control consciousness. Today, that separation from reality is so complete that the economy of
war including genocide and mass displacement of indigenous peoples is largely
unchallenged, despite the fact that consumer demand created by the spectacle of advertising is
complicit in these crimes against humanity.
War for the resources required to fulfill consumer demand of luxury goods like automobiles and
electronics is now accepted as normal, shrugged off by hyper-consumers as an unfortunate but
inevitable consequence of progress. Unlike the spontaneous resistance by students and
marginalized sectors of urban society to this total bureaucratic domination in the 1960s,
consumer reaction to mass murder and dispossession in the 21st Century is itself choreographed
by the ruling class. Controlling consciousness through mass communication via the Internet has
created what the French philosopher Debord described as A Culture of Imbeciles, in which
advertising has become the only factor.
The ongoing social disintegration of industrial civilization that produces pseudo-citizens signing
online petitions created by ruling class entities like Avaaz, Purpose and 350, is indicative of the
unbridled power of seamless spectacle, begun in the era of television, and culminated in the reign
of the Internet. Controlling Consciousness through public relations has generated a discursive
monoculture, where self-organized democratic renewal is unimaginable. Communication in this
environment has become what the American cultural critic Neil Postman described in 1985 as
Amusing Ourselves to Death. Thirty years later, and contrary to Postmans assertions, technology
has substituted itself for human values.

Jay Thomas Taber is an associate scholar of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, a
correspondent to Forum for Global Exchange, and a contributing editor of Fourth World
Journal. Since 1994, he has served as communications director at Public Good Project, a
volunteer network of researchers, analysts and journalists engaged in defending democracy. As a
consultant, he has assisted indigenous peoples in the European Court of Human Rights and at
the United Nations. Email: tbarj [at] yahoo.com Website:www.jaytaber.com

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