Anita Naidu

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

Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves

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

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

This 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

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

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

Naming 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

Global Inequality - Global Inequality

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@bbcnews.bsky.social @eyeonpalestine.bsky.social @aljazeera.com @democracynow.org @decolonizemyself.bsky.social

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

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

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

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

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

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

@jacobinmagazin.bsky.social @jacobinnl.bsky.social

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

thank you Petra ! ✊🏽🙏🏾

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

Bregman uses his CNN platform to say " activists" do nothing but that elites are our best hope for the future
#SMAexposed#morallaundering#moralambition

Hi Petra, I appreciate the support for the piece but want to clarify that the words being quoted are mine, based on my experience with the School for Moral Ambition. Please update the attribution accordingly. Thank you.