The Transnational Capitalist Class. The Billionaires, The Trillionaires. “Stakeholder Capitalism” and the New World Order

 

The Transnational Capitalist Class. The Billionaires, The Trillionaires. “Stakeholder Capitalism” and the New World Order By Rick Thomas, January 21, 2024 In 2011, the Great British Class Survey was conducted, in collaboration with academics from the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics, and the University of York. The British have always been obsessed with class, so it is not surprising that British academics would attempt something of this nature.

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Reflections on Racism, “Coloniality of Power”, Mal-Development and Contemporary Capitalism By Tina Renier, January 21, 2024 Several Caribbean countries including Jamaica and Belize have expressed an active interest in decolonising their constitutions and transition from a parliamentary democracy to a republic. While these efforts and proposals aimed at national self-determination are commendable, the racialization and colonial infrastructure of social institutions remain highly visible to social activists in Jamaica.

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) –United Nations Partnership Constitutes “A Global Corporate Takeover” By Jacob Nordangard, January 21, 2024 A reader of my latest Substack article, G20, BRICS, WEF and the “building of a just world and a sustainable planet”, notified me of an open letter, from September 2019, where over 400 civil society organisations and 40 international networks condemned the 2019 groundbreaking partnership between World Economic Forum and United Nations (which I became aware of in 2020 and have been trying to alert the world to in my books, articles, interviews, and lectures).

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Thousands of Babies Being Born Into ‘Hell’ in Gaza, Says UNICEF By Julia Conley, January 21, 2024 With the Israel Defense Forces continuing to block supplies from reaching shelters, refugee camps, and hospitals in Gaza, humanitarian workers are warning that there is “no end in sight” for the horrors facing an estimated 55,000 pregnant women as well as postpartum parents and newborns.

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Attacks on the Houthis by the US and UK Have Escalated the Situation in the Red Sea Shipping Lane. Interview with Suat Delgen By Suat Delgen and Steven Sahiounie, January 21, 2024 The Houthis in Yemen have been attacking ships in the Red Sea which are associated with Israel or the US in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza being carried out by Israel, who is supported by the US with all weapons and funding. US President Joe Biden continues to refuse all international calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.

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The Two Wars of the West: America Targets Europe as Well as the Middle East. Manlio Dinucci By Manlio Dinucci, January 21, 2024 We are embroiled in two wars, in Europe and the Middle East, which have increasingly serious consequences for our living conditions and security.

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It’s All About Me: Netanyahu Rejects Palestinian Statehood By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 21, 2024 The latest remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 18 suggest that the license also extends to ensuring that Palestinians will never be permitted a sovereign homeland, that they will be, in a perverse biblical echo, kept in a form of bondage, downtrodden, oppressed and, given what happened on October 7 last year, suppressed.

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Technocratic Victory for China? Cold War 2.0 in the Year of the Red Dragon By Michael Welch, Patrick Wood, and Pepe Escobar, January 21, 2024 According to the U.S. Department of Defense 2022 National Defense Strategy, the People’s Republic of China “remains our most consequential strategic competitor for the coming decades” and quoting President Biden’s National Security Strategy, the PRC is “the most consequential strategic competitor for the coming decades.”

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Former NATO Commander Calls to Bomb Crimea By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, January 21, 2024 In a recent statement, American retired General Philip Breedlove, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, stated that the West should send heavy weapons to Kiev to enable intense attacks on the Crimea region. According to Breedlove, only by attacking Russian positions in the Black Sea will Ukraine be able to make Moscow “rethink its posture”.

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Evisceration of the United Nations Security Council. A Historical Analysis. The Gulf War By Carla Stea, January 20, 2024 Calls for a ceasefire from around the world are ignored, and, most shamefully of all, the United Nations Security Council, whose mandate requires it to uphold global peace and security, has, to date, remained impotent, failing to draft any resolution which would demand a cessation of the bombing; and despite the fact that United Nations workers themselves have also been killed as a consequence of the assault on Gaza, the Security Council has completely failed, as of this writing, to produce any resolutions which would halt this collective punishment of the Palestinians, which is now described as genocide.

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