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
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
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
The same moral supply chain runs through sport, humanitarianism,war,big pharma
Because the wreckage isn't a flaw- it's the POINT
#morallaundering
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
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
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
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
September 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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
#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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A great article by @proximitydeclined.bsky.social about How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h...
How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue
When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed Rutger Bregman, once hailed as the Dutch progressive mascot, rose to global attention
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July 22, 2025 at 5:27 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
Bregman uses his CNN platform to say " activists" do nothing but that elites are our best hope for the future
#SMAexposed#morallaundering#moralambition
#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.”
“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
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
Bregman uses his CNN platform to say " activists" do nothing but that elites are our best hope for the future
#SMAexposed#morallaundering#moralambition
#SMAexposed#morallaundering#moralambition
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
@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
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
@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
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
#smaexposed#bregman #morallaundering #elitecapture#schoolformoralambition#empirerebrands
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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
#smaexposed#bregman #morallaundering #elitecapture#schoolformoralambition#empirerebrands
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
#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...
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?
timschwab.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:20 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
#elitecapture#morallaundering#philanthrocapitalism
"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
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
"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
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
Our job isn't to make justice more palatable.. it's to make liberation irresistible
#gaza#elitecapture#morallaundering#empire
#gaza#elitecapture#morallaundering#empire
June 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Our job isn't to make justice more palatable.. it's to make liberation irresistible
#gaza#elitecapture#morallaundering#empire
#gaza#elitecapture#morallaundering#empire
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
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
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
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
The Moral Laundering of Transphobia in Women's Sports
theherocall.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
#TransRights #WomensSports #TransAthletes #LGBTQRights #EqualityInSports #ProtectTransKids #MoralLaundering #TransVisibility #FairnessNotFear #EndTransphobia #TheHeroCall
theherocall.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
#TransRights #WomensSports #TransAthletes #LGBTQRights #EqualityInSports #ProtectTransKids #MoralLaundering #TransVisibility #FairnessNotFear #EndTransphobia #TheHeroCall
The Moral Laundering of Transphobia in Women's Sports
Turning prejudice into politics under the guise of fairness.
theherocall.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The Moral Laundering of Transphobia in Women's Sports
theherocall.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
#TransRights #WomensSports #TransAthletes #LGBTQRights #EqualityInSports #ProtectTransKids #MoralLaundering #TransVisibility #FairnessNotFear #EndTransphobia #TheHeroCall
theherocall.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
#TransRights #WomensSports #TransAthletes #LGBTQRights #EqualityInSports #ProtectTransKids #MoralLaundering #TransVisibility #FairnessNotFear #EndTransphobia #TheHeroCall