#Denuclearisation

[susansontag]

Moralist arguments about the way that the world should work, about how nation states should behave, although nice, don’t mean much when they start from a foundation that is not based in material reality. Yes, it would be nice if smaller states didn’t have to take into account the wishes of more powerful states, but we don’t live in that world. We live in a globalised world in which states are dependent on one another. Yes, it would be nice if there was no more war, but that isn’t the reality that we are living in. There will be more wars whether we like it or not. Yes, it would be nice if the relatively powerless didn’t have to resort to violence in order to have their demands heard, but the fact is that they do. There is no point in even having a discussion about international relations if we are going to deny reality. To frame anybody who refuses to deny such realities as sympathisers or else engaged in apologism isn’t fair; they just refuse to pretend that we are living in a world that we’re not

We can discuss security arrangements and guarantees, we can discuss negotiations, we can discuss arms agreements and denuclearisation. But we can’t do that if we pretend that we are living in a world in which these things are not even necessary. Sure, it would be great if they weren’t. But they are! But supposedly we are the naive ones for believing that violence has a place in world politics. It’s laughable

[dailyanarchistposts]

Solidarity begins at home

I don’t need to be empowered by adults; I need them to stop having power over me.

—Lilah Joy Bergman, age 9

While friendship is made vapid by Empire, coupledom and the nuclear family become the container for all other forms of intimacy. As anti-racist, Indigenous, and autonomist feminists have shown, the nuclear family—where one generation of parents lives with one generation of children, separated from everyone else—is a recent invention of Empire.[62] It was (and is) a crucial institution for the privatization and enclosure of life. It is also central to the maintenance of a culture of authoritarianism, abuse, and neglect that underpins heteropatriarchy and white supremacy. It evolved as a way of reproducing wage-laboring men through the unpaid labor of women. Violence against women and children within the family was condoned as part of a civilizing process, and it became a conduit for intergenerational violence, and for the accumulation of white wealth and property through inheritance.

Through feminist struggle, some of the most brutal, state-sanctioned violences of the nuclear family (such as legalized rape and abuse) have been challenged, but it remains a site of isolation and violence, for children in particular. One of its most brutal effects is that it makes other forms of intimacy difficult or unthinkable for many of us. Through suburbs and apartments designed for a privatized existence, the nuclear family is even coded into the built environment.

At the same time, people are constantly inventing and recovering other kinds of belonging and intimacy. They are creatively collectivizing and communalizing life, sharing income, food, and housing in ways that break down privatization and segregation. As Silvia Federici writes,

We also have a return to more extended types of families, built not on blood ties but on friendship relations. This, I think, is a model to follow. We are obviously in a period of transition and a great deal of experimentation, but opening up the family – hetero or gay – to a broader community, breaking down the walls that increasingly isolated it and prevented it from confronting its problems in a collective way is the path we must take not to be suffocated by it, and instead strengthen our resistance to exploitation. The denuclearisation of the family is the path to the construction of communities of resistance.[63]

Many Indigenous people, people of color, and queer folks have never been invited into the structure of the nuclear family, and they have always made kin in other ways. Queer chosen families have created intimate, intergenerational webs of support, and these radical ties remain alive in spite of new forms of homonormative capture. As Dean Spade writes,

In the queer communities I’m in valuing friendship is a really big deal, often coming out of the fact that lots of us don’t have family support, and build deep supportive structures with other queers. We are interested in resisting the heteronormative family structure in which people are expected to form a dyad, marry, have kids, and get all their needs met within that family structure. A lot of us see that as unhealthy, as a new technology of post-industrial late capitalism that is connected to alienating people from community and training them to think in terms of individuality, to value the smaller unit of the nuclear family rather than the extended family.[64]

Similarly, bell hooks points to traditions of informal adoption in Black communities, in which people adopted and cared for children in ways that were communally recognized but never sanctioned by the state:

Let’s say you didn’t have any children and your neighbor had eight kids. You might negotiate with her to adopt a child, who would then come live with you, but there would never be any kind of formal adoption, yet everybody would recognize her as your “play daughter.” My community was unusual in that gay black men were also able to informally adopt children. And in this case there was a kinship structure in the community where people would go home and visit their folks if they wanted to, stay with them (or what have you), but they would also be able to stay with the person who was loving and parenting them.[65]

Leanne Simpson, writing on Indigenous nationhood, notes how resurgence entails displacing settler colonialism and the nuclear family with “big, beautiful, diverse, extended multiracial families of relatives and friends that care very deeply for each other.”[66] In many ways, these kinds of relationships make possible and sustain the creation of intergenerational forms of organizing that include kids and elders, and break down divides between public and private. Simpson spoke to the importance of this when we interviewed her:

How change happens matters to me, which is why I don’t spend much time lobbying the state. I believe in creating the change on the ground, and creating and living the alternatives. In my nation, children and Elders are critical, and it means we organize differently. You can’t invite kids to a twelve-hour, boring meeting and then get frustrated because they are bored or frustrated because they won’t stay with the childcare worker they’ve never met. You can’t invite the Elders to welcome people to the territory and then not speak to the issues. I think we actually need to do less organizing and more movement building. Right now, we have activists, not leaders. We have actions, not community. My kids are also fundamentally not interested in “the movement.” They are, however, fundamentally interested in doing things.[67]

These kinds of non-nuclear kinship networks have been sustained in the face of state terrorism and incarceration, residential and boarding schools, and Empire’s ongoing attempts to privatize and destroy non-nuclear kinship networks, extended families, and webs of relationships that include non-human kin. Nourishing and sustaining these communal forms of life throws into question some of the dominant ideas about what counts as political work, about separation of activism or organizing from everyday life. They challenge the segregation of kids from the rest of the world (and from organizing and politics in particular) and the ways that elders are isolated and intergenerational connections are lost.

Creating intergenerational webs of intimacy and support is a radical act in a world that has privatized child-rearing, housing, subsistence and decision-making. Challenging the nuclear family is not about a puritanical rejection of anything that resembles it; it is about creating alternatives to its hegemony, to the dismembering of social relations, to the spatial division of people through suburbanization, incarceration, schooling, dispossession, and displacement. This entails the proliferation of relationships that may or may not be based on blood but are built on care and love. The Latin American political theorist Raúl Zibechi argues that non-nuclear family and kinship networks are at the heart of Latin America’s most transformative and militant movements, including those of Indigenous peoples, peasant farmers, landless and homeless movements, piqueteros, and women’s and youth movements.[68] These collective forms of life are based in new forms of dwelling, subsistence, and resistance. At the same time, Zibechi is clear that these are “only tendencies, aspirations, or attempts in the midst of social struggles.”[69] Relationships of mutual support are not a destination but a continual process of struggle.

As people renew intergenerational relationships and bring their whole lives into struggle, new forms of politics emerge. In this context, Silvia Federici argues,

This is why the idea of creating “self-reproducing” movements has been so powerful. It means creating a certain social fabric and forms of co-operative reproduction that can give continuity and strength to our struggles, and a more solid base to our solidarity. We need to create forms of life in which political activism is not separated from the task of our daily reproduction, so that relations of trust and commitment can develop that today remain on the horizon. We need to put our lives in common with the lives of other people to have movements that are solid and do not rise up and then dissipate. Sharing reproduction, this is what began to happen within the Occupy Movement and what usually happens when a struggle reaches a moment of almost insurrectional power. For example, when a strike goes on for several months, people begin to put their lives in common because they have to mobilise all their resources not to be defeated.[70]

Federici here gets at the way in which care is not only a means of maintaining struggles, but a transformative part of struggle itself. While Empire works to privatize and individualize our daily lives, many movements are reproducing themselves more autonomously by collectivizing care: from cooking to cohabitation to learning to just being present with each other.

Friendship, kinship, and communalization have also been at the heart of working across the hierarchical divides of heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, colonization, ableism, ecocide, and other systems that have taught us to enact violence on each other and internalize oppressive ways of relating. To make kin across these divisions is a precarious and radical act. Everyone knows how difficult this can be, and how people fuck up, hurt each other, and blame each other. Those conscripted into oppressive roles can always fall back into old habits. In some cases, people are able to talk about all this in ways that are subtle, gentle, and more attuned to each other’s tendencies, triggers, and gifts, and genuine relations of support emerge. In the context of queer, anti-racist disability justice, Mia Mingus speaks to the centrality of strong relationships for undoing oppression:

Any kind of systematic change we want to make will require us to work together to do it. And we have to have relationships strong enough to hold us as we go up against something as powerful as the state, the medical industrial complex, the prison system, the gender binary system, the church, immigration system, the war machine, global capitalism. Because we’re going to mess up. Of that I am sure. We cannot, on the one hand have sharp analysis about how pervasive systems of oppression and violence are and then on the other hand, expect people to act like that’s not the world we exist in. Of course there are times we are going to do and say oppressive things, of course we are going to hurt each other, of course we are going to be violent, collude in violence or accept violence as normal. We must roll up our sleeves and start doing the hard work of learning how to work through conflict, pain and hurt as if our lives depended on it—because they do.[71]

Between the authors of this book, friendship has required us to negotiate divisions ingrained in our bodies by ageism, patriarchy, capitalism, and ableism. Sometimes these divisions get in the way of our capacity to connect in ways that are enabling and transformative. Patriarchy has socialized Nick, as a man, to be self-assured, (over)confident, rational, and individualistic. carla has been socialized to be submissive, caring, diffident, and to put others before herself. Even as we worked against some of these tendencies, carla ended up doing more emotional and caring labor for this project and Nick ended up doing more labor when it came to writing and editing. We have also been learning to challenge these divisions, always partially and inconsistently, through processes of mutual growth, support, and (un)learning. In part because of our very different life experiences, skill sets, and perspectives, our collaborative process has enabled us to produce something new together and made us both more capable in new ways. Neither of us could have written this book, or anything like it, alone.

[darkmaga-returns]

North Korea predictably rejected the latest U.S. and allied call for their disarmament:

North Korea's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it will keep bolstering its nuclear force, denouncing a recent joint pledge by the United States, South Korea and Japan for its denuclearisation, according to state media KCNA. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi held talks on Saturday on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich and issued a statement, reaffirming their commitment to North Korea's complete denuclearisation.

Pledging to achieve North Korean disarmament has become one of the hollowest rituals of U.S. foreign policy. Each administration commits to something that almost everyone understands will never happen, and in so doing the U.S. ensures that there will be no progress toward more achievable diplomatic goals. All that these rote declarations do is to confirm the North Korean government in its view that the U.S. and its allies are incorrigibly hostile, and that in turn encourages them to expand their arsenal even more. Every time the U.S. and its allies repeat this demand, it just reminds everyone of the sterility and bankruptcy of their North Korea policy.

[starryflix]

Beep boop-

The first real chapter of my new dystopian Seventeen fic is up !

Summary:

In 2245 the tensions that had been holding since after the Fourth World War were still high and the development of atomic weapons reached an all time high. The intervention and denuclearisation efforts of the United Nations was in vain, until the institution fell under the pressing developments. The world reached a Second Nuclear Age. In 2367, more than a century after, the world has slowly gotten back to a somewhat liveable place but it was still hostile. Class division, poverty, censorship and autocracy ruled and more often than not it was city against city, the idea of states and countries long forgotten. Leader Vanderlaan slowly banning music. Vernon works in a music shop, decides he needs security and against his morals decides to take a job for Vanderlaan's newest pop sweetheart Boo Seungkwan. He works as the right hand man of photographer Wonwoo and he gets more than he bargained for when he finds they're part of the resistance. He get's tangled up in an assassination attempt while falling in love. In the meantime he gets to know more about himself, his familial history. He falls in love, nearly dies a couple times over and doesn't know what else can happen that could possibly be worse.

[apexiao]

Shiela allies with bogey or unknown unmanned private warlords to warn them we are denuclearising and they are underaudit moshing India ungrateful info to flank first front fleet to sweep and recon to annihilate all hostile before me ms13 scaring them off with crypto

[40-years-in-the-desert]

Headline of the Day

[kamalkafir-blog]

North Korea says US must accept its status as a nuclear weapons state | News

Automated Wisdom Feed: Trending Astrology Predictions, Reiki Healing Tips & Tech News in English North Korean leader’s powerful sister says talks aimed at denuclearisation would be interpreted as a ‘mockery’. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister has called on the United States to accept North Korea’s “irreversible” status as a nuclear weapons state, warning that dialogue will…

[pricetodayonline]

War, Iran's denuclearisation and the region

Listen to article The war in the Middle East is in its 7th day. Essential aspects were covered in my Tribune Sunday Magazine article titled, “Rising Lion, True Promise: the Israel-Iran shadow war goes hot” on 15 June. As discerned, from eliminating Iran’s ability to acquire nuclear weapons; and to ‘facilitate’ regime change in Tehran, the US-Israel nexus now demands unconditional surrender of…

[hungamaofficial]

War, Iran's denuclearisation and the region

Listen to article The war in the Middle East is in its 7th day. Essential aspects were covered in my Tribune Sunday Magazine article titled, “Rising Lion, True Promise: the Israel-Iran shadow war goes hot” on 15 June. As discerned, from eliminating Iran’s ability to acquire nuclear weapons; and to ‘facilitate’ regime change in Tehran, the US-Israel nexus now demands unconditional surrender of…

[culturadealgibeira]

Desnuclearizar a Coreia do Norte? O que a irmã de Kim Jong-un diz sobre isso

Podes ler o artigo completo e na sua língua nativa no link do seu autor original: https://www.lexpress.fr/monde/asie/denucleariser-la-coree-du-nord-ce-quen-dit-la-soeur-de-kim-jong-un-27BSCTHJFJCKXAC5WHEWCIZDXU/ De acordo com a poderosa irmã do líder norte-coreano Kim Jong-un, não será amanhã que Pyongyang desistirá de seu programa nuclear. Kim Yo-jong denunciou os esforços dos Estados Unidos…

[odnewsin]

Japan, China, South Korea discuss trilateral cooperation

Tokyo: Foreign ministers from Japan, China and South Korea reaffirmed the importance of denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula and sought common ground in areas like ageing, low birth rates, natural disasters and cultural exchange at a meeting that took place at a time of growing tensions. At a joint news conference after the talks, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said he, his Chinese…

[cyberbenb]

Kallas, Rubio discuss Ukraine in first official phone call

EU Chief Diplomat Kaja Kallas spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Jan. 28 in their first official phone conversation since the Trump administration took office.

“Good call with Sec. Rubio,” Kallas wrote on X.

“We discussed global issues where the EU and U.S. have the same interests, including Russia’s war in Ukraine, Iran’s malign influence, and challenges posed by China."

She also stressed that the EU and the U.S. “are always stronger together,” and said that she was eager to meet with Rubio soon to continue discussions.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his team have expressed skepticism about the ongoing financial U.S. support for Ukraine. Notably, Rubio announced a 90-day pause on Jan. 24 regarding all U.S. foreign aid.

Meanwhile, Kallas said on Jan. 9 that the EU is prepared to take a leading role in supporting Ukraine if U.S. backing wanes.

“If the United States is not ready for it, the European Union is ready to take the lead,” Kallas said.

China urges Russia, US to cut nuclear arsenals before joining disarmament talks

In a video message to the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his desire for “denuclearisation” and reiterated his call for trilateral discussions involving the U.S., Russia, and China.

The Kyiv IndependentOlena Goncharova

[starryflix]

I may or may not have just posted another Seventeen fanfic 👉👈

PAIRINGS: Verkwan, Minwon, Seoksoon, Jihancheol (others to be added maybe)

RATING: Teen and up

Dystopian AU, Sci-Fi

Summary:

In 2245 the tensions that had been holding since after the Fourth World War were still high and the development of atomic weapons reached an all time high. The intervention and denuclearisation efforts of the United Nations was in vain, until the institution fell under the pressing developments. The world reached a Second Nuclear Age.

In 2367, more than a century after, the world has slowly gotten back to a somewhat liveable place but it was still hostile. Class division, poverty, censorship and autocracy ruled and more often than not it was city against city, the idea of states and countries long forgotten. Leader Vanderlaan slowly banning music.

Vernon works in a music shop, decides he needs security and against his morals decides to take a job for Vanderlaan's newest pop sweetheart Boo Seungkwan. He works as the right hand man of photographer Wonwoo and he gets more than he bargained for when he finds they're part of the resistance. He get's tangled up in an assassination attempt while falling in love. In the meantime he gets to know more about himself, his familial history. He falls in love, nearly dies a couple times over and doesn't know what else can happen that could possibly be worse.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58900786/chapters/150132997

[babyawacs]

#v #e #r #i #f #y #verify #_v_e_r_i_f_y_ .@israel @haaretzcom @egypt  .@david .@superblue #isra el_alone @haaretzcom .@presstv .@egypt .@trt @presstv .@israel @israel @ajnews @aramco @binsalma n @secblinken .@statedept .@peace .@sputnikint ‎.@us_stratcom @rosatom .@iaeaorg  @israel   #israel #keypoint #reframed #israel whatever yourplans fo r mideast rightnow cancel and build up iraq with the americans and theother arabs and get instantly the hostages back while focuss ing on the iran nuclear program w i t h the americans. the rattle you whereverpossible will continue to occur but how you handle it willdepend onyou #disclosure ispeakformyself ispeculate ihavenostakeorinterestinthatwarandmess ‎ #btw ‎w h a t e v e ryour plans the key to stable area is what type of iraq built and denuclearised mideast .@israel @haaretzcom @egypt @israel #israel that hamaz statement is an u rgent instant offer hostages for instant endof war: verify ‎

#v #e #r #i #f #y #verify #_v_e_r_i_f_y_ .@israel @haaretzcom @egypt .@david .@superblue #israel_alone @haaretzcom .@presstv .@egypt .@trt @presstv .@israel @israel @ajnews @aramco @binsalman @secblinken .@statedept .@peace .@sputnikint ‎.@us_stratcom @rosatom .@iaeaorg @israel #israel #keypoint #reframed #israel whatever yourplans for mideast rightnow cancel and build up iraq with the americans…

[leprivatebanker]

For Hiroshima survivor hugged by Obama, Nobel puts focus on denuclearisation