«Não vejo delegação para quatro patas. Não vejo um assento para as águias. Esquecemos e nos consideramos superiores. Mas, afinal, somos apenas parte da criação. E temos que considerar isso para entender onde estamos. E estamos parados em algum lugar entre a montanha e a formiga. Em algum lugar e apenas lá como parte integrante da criação. »
– Chefe Oren Lyons, Nação Seneca, em discurso para Organizações Não-Governamentais das Nações Unidas, Genebra, Suíça, 1977
«Os últimos 500 anos viram uma ‘reorganização rápida, contínua e radical da vida na Terra sem precedentes geológicos’ – a chegada do colonialismo europeu, o imperialismo e a expansão associada dos sistemas econômicos capitalistas levando à transferência de doenças, plantas, animais, formas de uso da terra e sistemas administrativos para todo o mundo.»
De acordo com a ONU, estamos entrando em uma «era de pandemia”» causada pelo desmatamento, perda de habitat, agricultura intensiva e tráfico…
Activists from the climate protest group, Extinction Rebellion, broke into the UK’s largest oil refinery early this morning and blockaded the entrance.
The people who none of us elect, who ultimately control international finance, all corporate & business activity, government policy and international relations have constructed a system that will enable them to seize the “global commons.”
They are the Global Public Private Partnership (GPPP) and while elected representatives are within their ranks, they don’t set either the agenda or policy.
We need to both recognise who the GPPP are and understand the implications of their gambit. How are this group of global stakeholders going to seize the global commons and why should we resist them?
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While we have been distracted and transitioned by the alleged global pandemic, or pseudopandemic, the Global Public Private Partnership (GPPP), who orchestrated the chaos, have been very busy. They have created the asset rating system that will afford them total, global economic control. This is based upon Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and utilises Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics (SCM).
This new global economic system is what the politicians mean by “build back better.” It is the essence of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.
Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics – SCM – were devised by the World Economic Forum, who describe themselves as the international organisation for public-private cooperation. When combined with the SDGs outlined in the UN Agenda 21 and 2030 frameworks, SCM enable the GPPP to seize the entire Earth, all its resources and everything on it, including us.
Lake Akgol in eastern Turkey’s Van Province on June 7. Typically home to thousands of birds, the lake dried up this summer. Ozkan Bilgin / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
No nation in the Mediterranean region has been hit harder by climate change than Turkey. But as heat and drought increase, Turkey is doubling down on water-intensive agriculture and development and spurring a water-supply crisis that is expected to get much worse.
Across Turkey’s sprawling breadbasket, the Konya Basin, wheat withered and fields lay parched this year under the stress of the lowest rainfall in decades. In July, thousands of baby flamingos perished for lack of drinkable water, their corpses entombed in the dried, cracked mud.
Marx couldn’t see that his brilliant blueprint for communism was also a reflection of his own drive for supremacy, and the ‘necessity’ of centralized power could end up little different from centuries of dictatorship by crazed despots.
Against Marx: Did Bakunin predict the failure of the USSR?
The famous Russian anarchist saw in the postulates of Karl Marx a sure way towards the collapse of the very revolution that he sponsored.
Bakunin in a photograph by Félix Nadar, c. 1860 Public domain
Was the dictatorial socialism of the Soviet Union a logical consequence of the thought of Karl Marx? Much ink has been spent in answering that no, that the Rhenish philosopher was innocent of the excesses committed in his name.
From this point of view, Marx would be as little responsible for Stalinism as would Jesus Christ for the Crusades and the Inquisition. But … is the question really so clear?
When he founded the International Workers Association, the author of Capital confronted Mikhail Bakunin, the famous Russian anarchist. There was an ideological and personal struggle between them that would divide the labor movement.
Karl Marx
Faced with the hagiographies of Marx written by his supporters, beginning with Engels, Bakunin’s texts provide us with a penetrating and critical look at his person and his principles. With nuances, sometimes unsuspected.
This is not a gratuitous disqualification, but the testimony of a man who, in a sense, deeply admires his opponent. Bakunin has no problem recognizing Marx’s superior knowledge and the merit of a lifetime dedicated to the cause of revolution.
What he cannot bear is a mood that seemed to him all authoritarianism.
For the libertarian thinker, the great dream of the Marxists, the dictatorship of the proletariat, did not differ in practice from those it intended to replace: “Marx’s People’s State and Bismarck’s monarchical and aristocratic state are completely identical in terms of their fundamental internal and external objectives ”.
He believed that both the German Empire and the hypothetical workers’ state of the future would end up using force
It is a serious accusation. Why do you establish an equivalence between two apparently opposite political models?
Bakunin believed that both the German Empire and the hypothetical workers state of the future would eventually use force. Both would seek military expansionism and repress the masses whenever they threatened rebellion.
In both cases, the government would be based on the dominance of a minority over a majority.
A state, however much it called itself “popular,” always implied, according to Bakunin, that a few, theoretically better prepared, controlled a supposedly ignorant and incapable many.
Where Marx announced that social classes would cease to exist, he warned that a new ruling caste would form, oblivious to the concerns of ordinary people.
Marxism would cease to be a revolutionary doctrine to become an official and imposed truth, with which the possibility of a free discussion would be annulled.
On March 21st, 2021, thousands entered the streets of Bristol in the UK to vent their anger at deaths in police custody, police violence on the streets, as well as a slate of repressive laws including the SpyCops Bill, increasing impunity for government officials breaking their own laws, as well as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and CourtsBill, or simply The Bill, targeting Roma people, Travelers, lengthens youth prison sentences and criminalizing dissent and protest amidst some of the harshest Covid-19 lockdowns the UK had seen. What became known as the Kill The Bill riot led to running fights with police, burnt cop cars, a dizzying disinformation campaign by police centering themselves as victims, and over 80 people arrested to date, with more being detained and some facing years in prison. From Monday the 25th & Wednesday the 27th of October 2021, defendant Ryan Roberts will be facing trial and is calling for international solidarity.
For the hour, Tom and Nicole of Bristol Anarchist Black Cross talk about the #KillTheBill, police violence in the UK, the radical scene in Bristol, anti-repression work of Bristol ABC & BristolDefendant Solidarity, the legacy of former Bristol resident Anna Campbell, the cases of the Colston 4 as well as that of Toby Shone, prison expansion in the UK and more. To learn more about their work and how to support and write to Ryan Roberts and other #KillTheBill defendants, visit BristolABC.Wordpress.Com, and to you can search that hashtag on social media for a demo in your area to join in on or to advertise your solidarity action! If you happen to be in Manchester, there’s a demo on the 27th at 5pm at the Crown Court. And check the ongoing fundraiser for the defendants at GoFundMe!
Berlin and Paris must provide their assessment of how Kiev’s threats of a missile strike at Russia influence the Normandy Four negotiations process, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Tuesday, adding that their lack of reaction raises questions.
“The behavior of our partners on the Normandy Four format – Berlin and Paris – raises questions,” the diplomat pointed out.
According to Zakharova, France and Germany do not react to Kiev’s open sabotage of the Minsk Agreements and “the recent degradation to threatening Russia openly.”
She noted that Kiev’s remarks regarding a missile strike at Russia and an initiation of a full-scale military operation “cannot but cause concern.“
