#morallaundering
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
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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
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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October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
September 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
You can't make empire sound like care
#decolonizeeverything #morallaundering
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
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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August 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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
August 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
August 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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
July 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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
July 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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
July 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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
July 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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
June 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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
June 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Bregman uses his CNN platform to say " activists" do nothing but that elites are our best hope for the future
#SMAexposed#morallaundering#moralambition
Bregman joins the ranks of those who wish to, contrary to activists, really wish to do something. And so now he helps the privileges to have their cake and eat it too

“Awareness is at best a starting point, while for many activists, it seems to have become the end goal.”
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
June 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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
June 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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
In my new investigation, I reveal the taxpayer costs of billionaire philanthropy: a half-trillion dollars.

In an era where there is growing concern about oligarchy, it's time we confront billionaire philanthropists.

Check out my full analysis on Substack:
timschwab.substack.com/p/the-taxpay...
The taxpayer cost of Big Philanthropy
If billionaire philanthropists follow through on their "Giving Pledges," they could reap more than $500 billion in tax breaks. Isn't it time to end taxpayer subsidies for oligarch philanthropists?
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June 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"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
June 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Our job isn't to make justice more palatable.. it's to make liberation irresistible

#gaza#elitecapture#morallaundering#empire
June 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
NO ISRAEL DID NOT "DETAIN" GRETA THUNBERG. IT KIDNAPPED HER AND THIS IS COLONIAL PIRACY

The pushback has already started — is that the right word? Is it " intercepted" ?Is it “detained”?

No, this is a kidnapping.This is colonial piracy :the logic of empire, enacted on the sea.

#morallaundering
June 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM