CounterPunch Exclusives

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Criminal Fraudsters Threaten Wildlands and Wild Animals

Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

All recent activity affecting ‘public lands’ today seeks to stop ecological stewardship and promote mercantile relationships.  At the core of American settler-colonialism which began in the late 1490s and continues, uninterrupted today.

To colonize is to plant or establish a colony in; to plant or settle subjects of a native territory in a remote location, for the purpose of cultivation, commerce, defense – and for permanent residence – conversion of native, natural forest into a computer-model, forest simulation, i.e. “virtual tree plantation.”

Here in flyover country federal land managers “just follow orders” handed down from reprobate bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.  Threatened and endangered wildlife are methodically murdered as their home territory is stolen by 21st Century pirates.

Heavy machines destroy homelands, causing starvation, terror, and genocide.  Deforestation plans and methods resemble the way the apartheid, genocidal states of Israel and the U.S. exterminate Palestinians and steal their ancestral homeland – just as early Christian colonial settlers stole territory (land) from Indian nations across the “western hemisphere.”

Neoliberalism wants nothing less than a symbolized subject who neither feels guilt, nor can trust in individual critical free will.

Rampant lawlessness clears the way for plunder, industrial larceny, and........

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