#multipolar movement

[workersolidarity]

*closes my eyes and taps my shoes together*

The US Dollar is still the dominant reserve currency

The US Dollar is still the dominant reserve currency

The US Dollar is still the dominant reserve currency

[zvaigzdelasas]

Houthi militants who continue to attack merchant ships in the Red Sea are doing China "a big favor" by challenging American supremacy, a professor at Beijing's top military academy said this week.[...]

"It means the Houthis have turned their original blockade of Israel into a blockade against the West," Xiao Yunhua, a professor at the People's Liberation Army National Defense University said on Monday in comments posted to Douyin, TikTok's Chinese cousin.

From Beijing's perspective, the Houthi's threat to the security of international shipping lanes represents an opportunity to double down on China's rail links from Asia to Europe, according to Xiao.

"It is precisely our international strategy to sever U.S. hegemony, undermine American sea power and promote global multipolarity," he told his 500,000 followers. "In a way, the Houthis have done us, China, a big favor," Xiao said.

>do nothing

>win

22 Dec 23

[argyrocratie]

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"To describe this situation we, the Permanent Assembly Against the War, have spoken of a Third World War. We repeat it. This means not only that the war is spreading, but also that its effects and logics go beyond the spaces where it is fought, affecting also social struggles. Even admitting that a new multipolar world is emerging from this scenario, we do not believe that more and new political managers of the capitalist social order will be favourable for social justice, or that they will renounce the logic of war. On the contrary, an even greater expansion of the logic of war could result.

Even in a multipolar world, we don’t believe that an autonomous antiwar position could emerge when workers struggles and social movements are buried under the weight of geopolitics, or reduced to supporters of authoritarian regimes, confessional political projects, or national politics. As long as we remain passive or take positions in favour of one or the other belligerent side, we are digging our graves with our own hands. It is more urgent than ever to form some clear positions and work collectively for the practice of a transnational politics of peace, finding our resources in the ongoing struggles and manifold acts of refusal which today fuel an expanding and long-lasting opposition to the war.

From the very beginning of the war in Ukraine, we have witnessed the lack of a strong, transnational movement against the war. We have been galvanized, in the first weeks of the Israeli blind revenge and politics of death and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, by the people who protested massively on the streets of the world demanding a ceasefire. This massive and spontaneous opposition to militarist horror is crucial, and, beyond humanitarian sentiments, it expresses a claim for justice voiced by a multitude of subjects, workers, migrants, women and lgbtqi+ people, who do not want to be oppressed and exploited any longer.

Yet, denouncing massacres is not enough if we want to fight against the war and its reproduction. This is why we need to support the claim for freedom for Palestine and the call for an immediate ceasefire by strengthening our transnational connections. We shouldn’t perceive the atrocities committed by the IDF in Gaza as a mere continuation of the 75 years of occupation, nor the ones committed during the Hamas’ attacks as an inevitable continuation of the Palestinian Resistance. The Third world war scenario connects Palestine, Ukraine, Yemen, and is more than the mere sum of many local wars: it is reshaping what is happening in Palestine beyond the history of a long-lasting experience of colonial oppression.

It is up to us to reshape also our solidarity with Israeli war resisters and the Palestinians who are killed, exploited and oppressed, as part of a stronger, transnational opposition to the war, fuelled by the force of collective struggles against racism, exploitation, and patriarchy which could not be reduced to nationalist claims, State politics or authoritarian religious projects.

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A shift towards the right is also happening at the other end of the political spectrum: ”democratic”’ forces embrace militarism as an unavoidable choice while pushing for racist policies in the name of national security; as authoritarian and oppressive regimes present themselves as leaders of an emerging “multipolar” world, sections of the left advocate that tyrannical, authoritarian, and reactionary forces and regimes represent a progressive resistance to “Western imperialism”. Many of those who one year ago supported Iranian women shouting “Woman, Life, Freedom” are now supporting the so-called Axis of Resistance, thus legitimising a political Islam which is not a rival of capitalism and makes patriarchy a foundation of its projects.

Nationalism ends up being the language of those who fight for the end of oppression, whether this oppression is represented by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, by the West, or by the unbearable ethnic cleansing of the Israeli State against Palestinians. We take a firm stand against people being exploited and oppressed because of their nationality, since we know that all nationalisms are exclusionary and oppressive. For building a transnational politics of peace, we must confront all these contradictions: as Iranian feminists clearly stated, we will not pursue a collective liberation by choosing between national fronts, we refuse that our only chance is that to choose between the “bad and the worse”. A transnational politics of peace begins by refusing the imposition of belligerent fronts as part of the war logic, and to organize our side: together with workers, women and queer people, migrants who are challenging that logic beyond the war fronts.

As we clearly stated right after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war is limiting our possibilities of struggle, deploying its consequences beyond the horror of the battlefields. Movements for climate justice are increasingly repressed; war and militarism reinforce patriarchy and patriarchal societies reinforce a culture where violence against women and Lgbtq* persons are normalised. The ordinary disagreements of the European Union disappear when the war on migrants is to be fought. To practice a transnational politics of peace, we need to recognize that the war on workers, the war on women, the war on migrants are not side-effects but rather the everyday reality of the ongoing world war, which we must fight back.

This is why on February 24th, we will organise an on-line public meeting where voices from the different fronts of war can speak against the war, but also voices of those who, aware of its consequences, have taken a stance against the war. Together with class struggle organisations and social movements, together with war resisters and deserters from the various war fronts, together with feminists, migrants, precarious workers and environmental activists we aim to create an autonomous anti-war movement against the capitalist machine of death and despair. This event will hopefully also serve as a bridge towards the mobilization of March 8th, when we need to support the speaking out against the war in all the initiatives that are going to take place. We express our solidarity with our comrades in Kazakhstan, where the protests for March 8 have been prohibited."

[berniesrevolution]

Spectre Journal

As the late Samir Amin wrote in 2006, “the challenges with which the construction of a real multipolar world is confronted are more serious than many ‘alterglobalists’ think.” Sixteen years later, Amin’s call for nations to “delink” from the Western-led economic order appears more ignored by state elites in the global South now than ever before. Earlier this year in a speech at Davos, Xi Jinping reaffirmed that “China will continue to let the market play a decisive role in resource allocation,” while “uphold[ing] the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization at its center.” And Russia’s assaults on Syria and Ukraine, financially supported by its plunders in regions like Sudan, serve as a reminder that the rise of national powers supposedly challenging US hegemony provides no guarantee that conditions will be more favorable to the international left. Thus, as Aziz Rana recently noted, the left needs an internationalist framework that “universally and effectively joins anti-imperial and anti-authoritarian ethics,” and refuses both “an old, broken Pax Americana” and “a new multipolar order dictated by competing capitalist authoritarianisms.”

But praxis can only emerge from a precise theoretical understanding of the objective conditions of imperialism today. What characterizes this new multipolar order and the nature of inter-capitalist competition? As a whole, this emerging multipolar world of bourgeois states does not create better conditions to challenge global imperialism, but merely preserves and even heightens these capitalist dynamics. Martín Arboleda cautions against “fetishizing” the role of the state in facilitating imperialism today at the expense of accounting for the role of international actors, and so conversely, we must also not overstate the capacity of the state—even developmentalist ones—in resisting imperialism.1 The decline of US imperial power and the rise of multiple “poles” on the global stage only reshuffles which states are mediating the existing global relations of production, without reorganizing the latter differently, and without fundamentally empowering independent movements in each region. Identifying the most effective strategy for the global left to build power requires understanding how this new expression of imperialism works. Rather than seeing multipolarity as opening up space for revolutionary struggles against imperialism, I contend that contemporary multipolarity functions as a new stage of the global imperialist system, a departure from unipolar US hegemony without neatly falling back into the traditional mode of inter-imperialist rivalry as described by Vladimir Lenin and Nikolai Bukharin commenting on the last century.

Today’s multipolar imperialism represents an intensification of the world-system sketched out by Bukharin, which sees the internationalization of finance capital and the development of national capitalist groups as two aspects of the same process. While national economic blocs have been increasingly sidelined in favor of multinational institutions by neoliberal globalization, nonetheless we see the strengthening of the power of nation-states to help facilitate financial capital in further containing the working class. A Marxist theory of imperialism today must thus not overstate the dynamic of inter-imperialist rivalry without endorsing a perspective that capitalist states are now entering a stage of peaceful co-existence enabled by financial interdependence, or what Karl Kautsky called “ultra-imperialism.” This deeper intertwining of state and capital enables new and more complex dynamics between ruling elites. Even as value transfer from peripheries to core remains intact, we can now witness multiple geographies of inter-imperial relations, with different cycles and layers of collaboration and competition between different sectors of the ruling class. Now joined by an often invisible class of institutional investors, state elites draw from more sophisticated technologies of repression and control across geopolitical blocs, leading to an uneven development of global authoritarianisms to counter independent and popular movements. This widespread erosion of political democracy, as it takes diverse forms, is thus a central policy of imperialism today.

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[covenawhite66]

Multiple nerve cords connect the arms of octopuses, providing alternative paths for inter-arm signaling REPORT| VOLUME 32, ISSUE 24,DECEMBER 19, 2022

Study Published:November 28, 2022

Octopuses are remarkable in their ability to use many arms together during behavior.

Arm responses and multi-arm coordination can occur without engagement of major brain regions, which indicates the importance of local proprioceptive responses and peripheral connections. Here, we examine the intramuscular nerve cords (INCs), are the key proprioceptive anatomy in the arms. INCs are understood to include proprioceptive neurons, multipolar neurons, and motoneurons and are thought to contribute to structuring whole-arm movement.

Highlights

• Octopus bimaculoides’ intramuscular nerve cords extend proximally from the arm

• Oral intramuscular nerve cords are anatomically continuous between distant arms

• A nerve cord bypasses two arms connecting to the third arm over

• The same anatomical connection pattern occurs for all eight arms

[kneedeepincynade]

Sorry for not being active this days,I'm currently working on translating the posts and all that,my article about the pro palestine movement in italy is also coming out in the coming days on multipolar reports

[connorthemaoist]

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle stands united in unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.  The Palestinian people are absolutely united in their aspiration to bring an end to the Zionist occupation and to finally live in a free and democratic Palestine.

The actions by the Zionist state are nothing short of a genocide.  Since the latest attacks against Gaza began, over 3,000 have been killed in indiscriminate airstrikes, including at least 500 getting medical treatment and taking refuge in a hospital.  A complete blockade has deliberately cut Gaza off from food, water, fuel and electricity, leaving the people starving and with a medical system on the brink of collapse with over 10,000 injuries and rising.  Palestinian health officials cannot keep up with carrying away the dead bodies that lie unattended throughout the strip, leading to the high risk of a disease outbreak amongst the population.  Zionist forces have also demanded that 2.3 million Gazans evacuate to the south to make way for their ground invasion and likely attempt to re-occupy the strip while killing even civilians obeying this order.  Airstrikes have even hit the southern border between Gaza and Egypt, the only way for Palestinians to leave the strip if they want, leaving desperately needed humanitarian aid packages sitting at the border unable to enter.  In addition to airstrikes, the Zionists have even used internationally banned weapons such as white phosphorus gas.  Included is the continued violence by soldiers and armed settlers which has killed over 70 in the past 11 days alone.

Indeed, the Zionist government may have declared war on October 7th, but the previous 75 years of occupation and ethnic cleansing policies since the Nakba have been a never-ending war against the Palestinian people.  What we see now is merely a heightened general offensive by Zionism within Palestine itself with continuing aggression against neighboring rival countries.

The Zionists may have openly declared war this time, but that’s only because of the Palestinian resistance’s decision to unite in struggle to take up arms against the US-backed occupation state and its “state-of-the-art” military.  For over 75 years, the Palestinian people have used every option they’ve had against the occupation of their land, to no avail.  The international governance system has allowed the occupation to become normalized with no end in sight.  The people have chosen to take the courageous path of united coordination in armed resistance, bravely tearing up the Zionist-imposed border fence of Gaza and launching coordinated strikes in air, land and sea that inspired peoples’ movements the world over to see a united people taking the military might of an imperialist satellite state off guard.

The Palestinian resistance is a beacon to our resistance!  By this, we mean that this strike against a running dog of US imperialism is a move that weakens US imperialism as a whole.  The global imperialist system is entering into a new stage of multipolar turmoil, from the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, to the build up to war in Asia-Pacific, to the upsurge of peoples’ movements for national self-determination in Latin America and Africa, and of the continued advance of armed resistance movements in the Philippines, India, Kurdistan, West Papua and of course Palestine.  The Palestinian resistance gives inspiration to all people struggling in this context for national and social liberation, and therefore we must support their resistance as if it was our own.

The ILPS supports all resistance fighters regardless of organizational affiliation – now is the time to unite!

We also condemn the attacks on Palestinian and Palestine solidarity organizations around the world on behalf of the US and Zionist forces.  We are witnessing an unprecedented outlawing of democratic organizations and bans on free speech when it comes to the Palestinian cause while pro-Zionist slogans are given full support, even within the so-called “democratic” liberal states of North America and Europe.  Now is the time to defend peoples’ struggle in all its forms.

The ILPS calls on its members to take actions worldwide outside of Israeli, US and European embassies to condemn the genocide taking place in Gaza.  We also encourage members to demand of their own governments official condemnation and to push for the unconditional end of the blockade, assault and genocide of Gaza, as well as the end of all military aid to the Zionist state, especially from the US.

All organizations are encouraged to hold educational sessions on the history and current situation of the US-Zionist occupation and resistance of Palestine.  Ongoing actions in support of the Palestinian resistance must be maintained worldwide, especially amidst the crackdown and banning of anti-Zionist organizations.  We must assert that activism and resistance of any form is not terrorism.

From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!

Palestinian resistance is a beacon to our resistance!

Long live international Solidarity!

Signed:

Len Cooper

ILPS Chairperson

20 October 2023

[newsnigeria]

Africa is Not a Country: The West tries to Woo African Union to Joining G20-member countries

The aging G20-member countries have agreed to grant the status of Permanent Member to the African Union! AU will have the same status as the EU. Decision to be announced September 9-10. Interesting times. Remember that after the BRICS Summit in South Africa that saw the bloc expand officially from just a bloc of 5 nations to now a bloc of 11 powerful nations, with arguably dozens more countries on the waitlist to join, the Russian, Brazilian, and Indian presidents have all been very vocal about the need for G20 to give Africans a permanent status at the “club.” Talks got to a point that some even suggested observer status to start with. That too didn’t fly with G20. They were adamant because of course, Africans were slaves and mere colonies of most of the countries in G20. That’s why at the founding of the UN in 1945, only four African countries were present - Egypt which already had its independence in 1922, Ethiopia which was never colonized, Liberia which was also nobody’s colony and South Africa which was under the colonial Apartheid regime. Interestingly, other than Liberia, a much smaller and weaker country (compared to the rest), the other three African countries that were present at the founding of the UN have now become parts of the BRICS alliance, which bears a huge significance. The topic for another day. So, as you can see, none of the colonized nations in AFRICA, which by the way, make up over 90% of the countries on the continent, were present at the 1945 event in San Francisco, because they were not regarded as nations. So it’s easy to now understand the mindset of these dominant G20 forces: How can a slave sit at the table with his masters for meals or talks? Inconceivable right? But what changed all of a sudden?! Well, everything! The moment it dawned on the colonial West that Africans now had a potential alternative to their Unipolar hegemonic order of institutional and generational slavery, they reluctantly began to rethink some of their utterly condescending positions and conclusions about AFRICA/Africans. If it wasn’t for the aggressive emergence of the multipolar world today, I can tell you for free that even the so-called “observer status” for AU wouldn’t even be discussed. Why is it that right after BRICS went from just BRICS to BRICS +6 with almost immediate consolidation efforts, G20 suddenly realized it was time to bring their African “slaves” to the table where big boys dined and wined? The West has lost every shred of respect and dignity they had left on the continent. Africans have seen the nakedness & wretchedness of their hypocrisy - preaching one thing & doing another. In the past, their shenanigans were easily shrouded in secrecy. Not anymore. They’re throwing caution to the winds left right and center and the big masquerade is after all, human. That’s what desperation can do. That’s the good side of healthy competition - it brings monopoly to its knees and feeds its arrogance to the vultures. That’s why Africans would hear of a coup and rather than shrivel with angst, they explode with joy and celebrate. Because, as far as they’re concerned, any coup that removes a Western stooge from power in favor of populist, people-centered ideals, is democratic! Such coups are now being hailed as liberation movements across AFRICA. What do you expect when you lie to the people that Democracy was the government of the people by the people for the people, but you turn around and strip them of the right to question, repudiate, hire, or fire the same government - just because in reality, you colonial west own these fake “African democracies?!” Thank God it’s finally Africa’s time. The long walk to freedom has begun. We are not delusional and won’t expect it to be over in one day. But we are confident that we will get there, sooner than later. With these little victories from the Sahel, the rest of AFRICA will be free and the heavens won’t fall. Viva Mother AFRICA! Read the full article

[mariacallous]

In fact, they spit on the natural right of billions of people, most of humanity, to freedom and justice, to determine their own future on their own. Now they have completely moved to a radical denial of moral norms, religion, and family.

Let's answer some very simple questions for ourselves. I now want to return to what I said, I want to address all the citizens of the country - not only to those colleagues who are in the hall - to all the citizens of Russia: do we want to have, here, in our country, in Russia, instead of mom and dad there was “parent number one”, “number two”, “number three” (they were completely crazy already there!)? Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and extinction to be imposed on children in our schools from the primary grades? To be drummed into them that there are supposedly other genders besides women and men, and to be offered a gender reassignment operation? Do we want all this for our country and our children? For us, all this is unacceptable, we have a different, our own future.

I repeat, the dictatorship of the Western elites is directed against all societies, including the peoples of the Western countries themselves. This is a challenge for everyone. Such a complete denial of man, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, the suppression of freedom acquires the features of a "reverse religion" - outright Satanism. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ, denouncing the false prophets, says: "By their fruits you will know them." And these poisonous fruits are already obvious to people - not only in our country, in all countries, including for many people and in the West itself.

The world has entered a period of revolutionary transformations, they are of a fundamental nature. New development centers are being formed, they represent the majority - the majority! - of the world community and are ready not only to declare their interests, but also to protect them, and see multipolarity as an opportunity to strengthen their sovereignty, which means to gain true freedom, a historical perspective, their right to independent, creative, original development, to a harmonious process.

All over the world, including in Europe and the United States, as I said, we have many like-minded people, and we feel, we see their support. A liberation, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is already developing within the most diverse countries and societies. His subjectivity will only grow. It is this force that will determine the future geopolitical reality.

Dear friends!

Today we are fighting for a just and free path, first of all for ourselves, for Russia, for diktat, despotism to remain forever in the past. I am convinced that countries and peoples understand that a policy based on the exclusivity of anyone, on the suppression of other cultures and peoples, is inherently criminal, that we must turn this shameful page. The collapse of Western hegemony that has begun is irreversible. And I repeat again: it will not be the same as before.

The battlefield to which fate and history have called us is the battlefield for our people, for great historical Russia. (Applause.) For greater historical Russia, for future generations, for our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We must protect them from enslavement, from monstrous experiments aimed at crippling their consciousness and soul.

Today we are fighting so that it would never occur to anyone that Russia, our people, our language, our culture can be taken and erased from history.

[donewithcapitalistfrayers]

Attacks (discourse) on multipolarity are often based on an implicit or explicit assumption that “the capitalist imperialist logic” is at play in every major world power so there is no difference if power is relatively centralized or decentralized. This is based (as always) on a Weberian or idealist separation of “the logic of capital” from the actual historical course of capitalism. In the latter case western imperialism historically proceeds through evaporation of states, income deflation, induced famine, etc.

Genocidal counterinsurgency —> primitive accumulation of land in settler states; no one remotely serious makes serious arguments that rising semi-peripheries do this kind of political-social engineering. Nor does anyone remotely serious argue that accumulation on a world scale which is historically constituted by those genocidal practices, would endure in anything like its current form if the semi-peripheries ‘mature’ or emerge towards auto-centered national development. Almost by definition, rising political-economic power in these semi-peripheries opens up space for “leaning” on them for foreign aid, lower cost development loans, arms supplies, alternative financial-technological arrangements outside the whim of US monopoly capital.

The last point, is that the entire discourse exposes the habitual, constitutional dishonesty of these people, who shrug at US support for their preferred movements, saying this doesn’t taint them; is this not an argument that these movements are maneuvering between domestic and US power to their own supposed advantage? seems like multipolarity is OK when the pole they want to align with is US/Euro imperialism but bad when it’s not

[workersolidarity]

🇮🇷 I support Iran. I want to make that clear. 🇮🇷

Iran's anti-Imperialist creds are unquestionable. The entire basis for the existence of the revolutionary Iranian Islamic Republic is anti-Imperialism. No country supports Palestine and the Palestinian people more than the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The moment the Iranian government no longer supports the fight against Western Imperialism, the justification for its existence vanishes with it, along with the support of the Iranian people it enjoys today.

National Sovereignty is the basis of Socialism. And though Iran is by no means a Socialist country, neither is it a Neoliberal Western Proxy, and Iranians enjoy one of the largest economic safety nets in the Middle East, as well as an economy who's natural resources are dominated by SOEs. Including their National Oil Company...

Iran's oil, of course, was initially Nationalized under Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh in March 1951... and of course two years later he was couped by the United States in a typically American Colonialist move, giving full political power to the Shah who used it to stifle dissent, especially and not coincidentally, Socialist and Communist dissent, responsible for a multitude of slaughters against the Iranian people, who were demanding a more active and independent government.

At least, that was until the Islamic Revolution, beginning in 1978 and culminating in the overthrow of the Shah, imposed on the Iranian people by the United States, in February 1979.

You cannot have Socialism without National Sovereignty. And one way the Iranian government can be thought of, is as a radical movement for National Sovereignty; an anti-Imperialist project to expel the colonizers and Western Capitalists who would see the wealth sucked out of their country by Wall Street.

Please, please please don't fall for more US sponsored color revolutions!

Support the revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran and its fight against Western Imperialism and US Hegemony! And join our fight to build a Multipolar world and Socialism!

[matthewclan]

“After Election Day [1976], neoconservatism scored its major victory behind the scenes.

“The formerly Marxist immigrant Jews [who were] at the forefront of the movement had trained rigorously for political warfare in the hothouse ideological environment of the Depression, most famously in furious debates in the alcoves of the cafeteria of the City University of New York. They came of age in the passionate belief that Communism was the inevitable wave of the future. They still suspected this—only now they dedicated their lives to vanquishing it, for the survival of the West in the ongoing war for the world. Détente, they believed, was a fatal delusion. The ever-expanding cadres of quisling liberals within both parties, who refused to grasp that Communism was determined to conquer the world, were the Kremlin’s objective allies.

“They also still believed, as the had in their Marxist youth, that the most effective way to change history was to organize in subterranean cells, vanguardists guiding the hand of history by deploying the power of ideas. Thus did they burrow within the establishment to tutor Republican and Democratic politicians in these dire imperatives before it was too late.

“Washington conventional wisdom had not been kind to them: it held that the world was ‘multipolar,’ and ‘interdependent,’ rivalry between the Communist and capitalist worlds no longer the central concern, that after the debacle in Vietnam the United States could no longer act as the world’s policeman.”

–Rick Perlstein, Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976–1980 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020), 42-43.

[italonews22-blog]

New paths to multipolarity

Russia continues to find and activate reference points of the multipolar world. The new centres of power that have emerged on the geopolitical atlas of the planet are being filled with fresh meanings and relevant content.

On 19 April, the first World Forum "New Era - New Ways" was held in Moscow. It was organised by the International Organisation for Eurasian Cooperation (IOEC).

The ambitious objectives of the new Forum were emphasised by the stated theme of the event: "The Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP) - an initiative capable of uniting states and integration entities for equal and fair co-operation". The theme of the first meeting of the World Forum participants, "A New Era - New Paths", refers to the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin to form the Greater Eurasian Partnership.

The Moscow event was attended by over 600 delegates from 35 countries, including China, India, Turkey, Hungary and Bulgaria. We are witnessing new trends and interesting processes. Countries for which multipolarity is synonymous with a just world order, today not only do not share the collective West's desire to isolate Russia, but also place certain hopes on Moscow. This large-scale Eurasian project has considerable expectations. It is also of interest to those countries that are not part of the Eurasian space. But the very idea of a Greater Eurasian Partnership seems to all these countries to be a serious alternative to the state of affairs in which the collective West is trying to dictate the laws of global political and economic processes and claims to be the sole spokesman and distributor of civilisational values.

Dmitry Stasiulis, President of the World Forum "New Era - New Ways", emphasised that Vladimir Putin's strategic initiative to create a Greater Eurasian Partnership was echoed by the participating countries of the largest interstate associations. This is evidenced by the wide representation of the event participants. "Today at the Forum, my foreign colleagues and I discussed the practical vector of this integration movement," D. Stasiulis said.

The organisers of the event note that the World Forum "New Era - New Ways" brought together "representatives of international organisations, government bodies, business, expert community, representatives of traditional confessions, cultural figures of various states, who set common goals and share common principles". These common principles include: respect for the sovereignty of all participants in the dialogue; non-proliferation of the jurisdiction of some states over the territory of others; respect for the right of peoples to independent and democratic choice of ways of political and socio-economic development; respect for traditional values and cultural and historical characteristics of all participants in the dialogue; and not directing the activities of the World Forum against any states, international, public organizations and individuals who are not participants in the dialogue.

Marat Berdyev, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, welcomed the participants of the plenary session of the World Forum "New Era - New Ways" on behalf of Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin. The Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry also emphasised the peculiarities of the Forum, which works at the junctions of the state, public and business. "This is especially important because today many tasks are of a complex nature and cannot be solved solely by the government," M. Berdyev emphasised.

Many Forum participants spoke about the important role of people-to-people diplomacy in shaping the Greater Eurasian Partnership and harmonious relations in the world. One of the sessions of the event was also devoted to this topic: "People's diplomacy as an instrument of co-operation in a multipolar world". In addition, the Forum participants worked in such thematic sessions as "In search of new tools for the development of Eurasian integration", "Scientific and educational cooperation in Greater Eurasia", "Strategic nature of Russia-Asia multi-sectoral cooperation: status, prospects, risks", "Eurasian Bar Association as a new format for interaction between legal communities of different countries".

Initiatives to create the Greater Eurasian Space are attractive in many integration aspects, such as: the formation of common Eurasian markets that claim strategic independence, the construction of "seamless" transport corridors; joint development of the digital economy; industrial cooperation; legal, cultural, scientific, educational and social co-operation. Therefore, the geography of the participants of the next World Forum "New Era - New Ways" will certainly be expanded. After all, for many countries, the Eurasian space is the most open and friendly, where they are ready to co-operate with them on an equal footing.

And some countries that gained sovereignty as a result of the collapse of the USSR still feel phantom pains over the lost economic opportunities of the Eurasian space. Vasily Tarlev, former head of the Moldovan government, speaking at the Forum, said: "No one will replace the traditional, historical market of the former Soviet Union and especially Russia for Moldovan goods - neither the European nor the international market".

Important international agreements were signed during the Forum. For example, documents on cooperation between the International Organisation for Eurasian Cooperation (IOEC) and the international non-governmental organisation Euro-Asian Alliance, the Moscow Bar Association "Dictatorship of Law" and YOUSIF ZAINAL LAW FIRM.

It is noteworthy that on 20 April, as part of the New Era - New Ways World Forum, the OIEU headquarters hosted a Business Breakfast "Russia-Africa: Horizons of Cooperation" with business representatives from the African region. The delegation of African countries interested in the broad opportunities of the Greater Eurasian Partnership included representatives from Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon.

Victor Kusiani, a political scientist, chairman of the International Non-Governmental Organisation "Euro-Asian Alliance" and member of the General Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Eurasia, shared his impressions about the work of the World Forum "New Era - New Ways" with us:

"The Eurasian platform is becoming important for the whole world. Deputy ministers of justice and economy have come from some countries. And it is probably not for nothing that these people were sent by their leadership. I think the representatives of 35 countries did not come for nothing. Probably, some foundation for the future and forms of active co-operation are being laid already now. Indeed, as stated in the Forum's title, a new era opens new paths. The world is changing rapidly, and the Forum has already presented a new view of these changes and new challenges. We talk about Eurasian co-operation, but here we also see Africa, India and China. The topics of the Forum were equally interesting to the deputy from Azerbaijan, as well as to the representatives of Bulgaria and Bahrain... Everyone is looking for something new. The International Non-Governmental Organisation Euro-Asian Alliance, which I head, also signed an important agreement at the Forum. Everyone is looking for new ways and approaches".

Indeed, Forum participants from different countries agreed that the old ways and approaches, formed under the dictates of the unipolar world, have now lost their attractiveness. Because the unreliability and vague prospects of the old ways cannot be attractive for any small country participating in the big geopolitical game of the West.

Victor Kusiani explains this on the example of the problems of Transcaucasia:

"We are at the junction of Europe and Asia. We are not going to Europe. The country is sliding into a swamp. Young people are leaving Georgia. We as representatives of public diplomacy can only inform about the threats, warn, prepare the society for this conversation, while the governments of Georgia and Armenia close their eyes to these threats and do not want to hear about them. This is what is happening with the problem of American biolaboratories in Georgia and Armenia. These are, in fact, American military bases. And our governments do not want to talk about this topic. They are not the ones who rule. They are ruled by the West. And we, non-governmental organisations, representatives of people's diplomacy, should communicate to know what is really going on in our countries, to see common problems. At such forums, we meet new and old friends, identify priority projects. Now everything was beautifully organised and the questions were correctly posed. When we start working in these directions, it will become clearer for Georgia, for Armenia, for Azerbaijan, for Eurasia as a whole, which paths are promising and which are dead ends.

Public diplomacy has become very active all over the world. We, its representatives, are taking the first steps to restore lost ties and meanings, charting new ways of cooperation between countries - everything that is necessary for their good-neighbourliness".

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Is It World War Fatigue?

Global instability generates demand for pacifist rhetoric

Members of anti-NATO movements and anti-war associations took part in a conference in Rome from 27-28 October.

The meeting was organised by the political organisation Dissent Front. The aim of the meeting is for participants to”create an international coordination network to achieve specific goals.”

The West’s military and political adventure in Ukraine and the sharp escalation of the conflict in the Middle East have become a litmus test of the radicalisation of the global political process. Washington and its NATO allies realise the gradual destruction of Pax Americana – the American-style world and are trying to confront a just multipolar world with the participation of India, China, Russia and many other countries.

The conference participants expressed the view that the conflict in Ukraine is in fact a war against NATO and a warning to the rest of the world about Washington’s continued imperialist policy.

Read more HERE

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I see so many people talking here about their High School History classes but nobody talks in specifics so there's no point of comparison....

I thought I'd share the Índice/Syllabus of the book of my History of the Contemporary World class, an optative in first of Bachillerato, if you choose the Humanities and Social Sciences track. That'd be like the year previous to the year of preparation for our uni exams, Selectividad in Spain. Until then a class on a bit of World and Spain-ish/European History is mandatory each year since like fourth or third of Primary school, when you're like 9 years old? After, History of Spain in specific is mandatory for everybody on second of Bachillerato.

This is from someone who was in high school on the 10's although I have it from my mother her syllabus included much of the same mine did. Maybe things have changed since I went. Spain is notorious for not being able to settle in one educational model.

Below photos of the syllabus of the book itself. The sub-themes won't be translated from Spanish.

The syllabus themes title translations to English:

1. The Europe of the Ancient Regime.

2. The new Industrial Era.

3. The Nationalist and Liberal Movements (1789-1871)

4. The Origins of the Labour Movement (1800-1914)

5. The European Domination of the World (1870-1914)

6. The Great Potentials (1870-1914)

7. The First World War (1914-1918)

8. The Russian Revolution and the Birth of the Soviet State (1917-1927)

9. Prosperity, Crisis, and Depression (1918-1939)

10. The Totalitarian Regimes in Inter-war Europe (1918-1939)

11. The Second World War (1939-1945)

12. A Bipolar World (1945-1991)

13. The End of the Colonial Empires (1945-1991)

14. The Communist Block (1947-1991)

15. The Capitalist Block (1945-1991)

16. The World Today - > this one has bits of everything. a general analysis of the status quo, east europe after urss, Africa as a continent, the Islamic world, European union, Latin America, BRICS, globalization and asking about the new world order as possibly multipolar.

In general I'd say we center on Europe, as is expected, specially Western, but we also talk about Russia, USA, China and Japan as is relevant to that, and a bit of other regions as an overview. If you can read Spanish, the photo of the book shows in more detail what's in each theme and the more or less practical approach to it.

I have to say that the end of the 1700 and the start of the 1800 are covered extensively also in fourth of ESO (year prior to first of Bachillerato) and then again from the perspective of the Spanish Empire in decadence on second of Bachillerato. It's in Spanish history when we talk about the independence process of Latin America and Philippines and the chaotic 19th century for Spain. Seriously it's war after war after after war after constitution after constitution with a failed republic and an Italian guy who was put on the throne after deposing Isabel II who quit after 3 years of pure frustration, and the rotation of prime ministers and voting fraud that led to our also disaster first three quarters of the 20th century. People would pray not to get certain themes of the 19th on the exams of Selectividad for uni bc of the brain twisting to get all the names and dates straight on your head.

Well this is it for Spain History classes. What about yours?

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Jackson Hinkle: Western Elites Want War Against Russia, China

The US Establishment is Not Hesitant to Start World War III to Maintain its Globalist Dominance, American Political Commentator Jackson Hinkle told Sputnik's New Rules Podcast.

— Sputnik International | September 23, 2023

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"I guess Tucker [Carlson] has got a point when he says, 'I'm willing to bet my house that Joe Biden is going to start World War Three with Russia,' because look what they've done," Jackson Hinkle told Sputnik. "These people are insane. Even like, taking [ex-House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi on her jet to go to Taiwan and meet with Taiwanese officials. There was a lot of people, myself included, who were thinking, 'Goodness, the [Chinese] People's Liberation Army (PLA) is going to shoot her out of the sky or something right now? Is this going to be how it all begins?' They're reckless. They are completely Russophobic and beating the drums of war to go to war with China."

Moreover, the American elite's hostility toward Russia has surpassed that of the Cold War era, leading to a worrying breakdown in communications between Washington and Moscow, according to the political commentator.

"The level of communication breakdown is so severe compared to the Cold War," he said. "I got to meet the guy that actually developed the telephone, they had the red hotline telephone between the US and the USSR during the Cold War. And he told me he’s like, 'there's nothing like that right now in the White House. There's no communication whatsoever.' And we're not too far off from that same sort of a lack of dialogue with the Chinese, because they want to go to war against the Chinese."

It did not happen overnight, according to the analyst. Over the past 30 years, Washington and its allies have reneged on all the pledges they made to Moscow at the end of the Cold War. One of them was a verbal promise that NATO would not extend an inch east of Germany. "NATO since then, at the behest of the US, has violated that promise on 16 occasions now," Hinkle remarked. The transatlantic alliance does not conceal its plans to draw in Ukraine and possibly Georgia, thus moving even closer to Russia's borders.

Jackson Hinkle. “These people are insane. Even like taking Pelosi on her jet to go to Taiwan and meet with Taiwanese officials. There was a lot of people, myself included, who were thinking, "goodness, PLA is going to shoot her out of the sky or something right now? Is this going to be how it all begins?" They're reckless. They are completely Russophobic and beating the drums of war to go to war with China,” Jackson Hinkle, host of The Dive, told Sputnik.

US Elites Seek to Dismantle Economic Alternative Offered by Russia & China

The emergence of a multipolar world order - with Russia and China at the forefront of the movement - is challenging the globalist Great Reset aimed at prolonging centuries of Western colonial hegemony, according to Hinkle.

"[The multipolar world] poses a serious threat to the West's effort to secure the Eurasian heartland, which that's been like the basis of US foreign policy for so long, is to have control over the people and the resources in the Eurasian heartland, which of course encompasses Russia," Hinkle said. "And now that Russia and China and these other countries more and more and more are working together to form BRICS and develop a new currency that's going to challenge the dollar, I would be worried if I was the United States and I was also refusing to do business with them. We could just do business with them and we'd all win, but they're not going to do that."

At the recent BRICS summit, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August, the group's participants condemned the West's unfair trade practices and unilateral sanctions and discussed the increased use of national currencies and domestic financial mechanisms instead of the US dollar. The Global South leans toward Russia and China, whose economies have proven remarkably resilient despite Western predictions of imminent collapse. Moreover, in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), China has overtaken the US as the world's largest economy. Russia, for its part, overtook Europe's three largest economies - France, the UK and Germany - in PPP terms in 2022.

"The State Department and Wall Street are very concerned," the US political analyst said. "I think the State Department currently, as it presents itself, is just a tool of Wall Street, because what is Wall Street? Wall Street is just this Byzantine labyrinth of predatory economic schemes. It's rent, it's interests. It's speculation on stocks. All of this is just BS. It's nothing. And at the end of the day, when you compare that sort of an economy to what China and Russia represent, which is real production that's aimed at uplifting the public good, China's lifted 840 million people out of poverty over the last 40 years through developing oil, gas, coal, doing land reform, silver, gold, all these things and more, agricultural goods. Yeah, that is a challenge to the West, and it's a substantive one because the West doesn't produce anything anymore. We outsourced all our manufacturing. So what is left? Nothing, really. And that can crumble very easily if there's a real challenge." — Jackson Hinkle, American Political Commentator

Russia and China Aren't Enemies of US People

It's not Russia and China that pose a real threat to Americans, Hinkle emphasized, but those who hoard all U.S. resources and act contrary to U.S. national interests.

"We have this rich group of people in America that are hoarding all of our resources. Some of these large investment firms like BlackRock and Vanguard. (…) BlackRock, they're making money off of all this real estate. Bill Gates is as well. Why is it that they get to buy up all the real estate, but 60,000 American veterans have to sleep out on the streets every night? That's supposed to be acceptable, and we're not supposed to question that?" Hinkle asked.

“Average Americans are being put in prison because they can't pay their taxes, because we're sending $250 billion to Ukraine, and hundreds of millions to Taiwan. Anyone who thinks that Russia or China is our enemy is sorely mistaken. Our enemy is Wall Street, World Economic Forum, the DC Beltway region and the city of London,” Jackson Hinkle, host of the Dive, told the New Rules podcast, commenting on the real enemies of the American people.

"There is no reason for them to be running free on yachts and traveling back and forth to Lake Como, to the Hamptons and wherever when average Americans are being put in prison because they can't pay their taxes, because we're sending $250 billion to Ukraine, and hundreds of millions to Taiwan. The people that are our enemies are really this globalist class of finance capital that are sucking out every last bit of breath from the American public in the working class. For anyone who thinks that Russia or China or whoever is our enemy, they're sorely mistaken. Your enemy is Wall Street, World Economic Forum, the DC Beltway region and the City of London," the political commentator continued.

The neocons in the Biden administration, Wall Street and the U.S. military-industrial complex have already profited from Washington's proxy war in Ukraine and are salivating at the opportunity to profit even more from the US conflict with China. However, these overseas conflicts have nothing to do with core US interests. What's worse, these proxy wars would most certainly backfire, according to the analyst.

"I think a lot of people have their eyes set on China and a war with China, and I think that's what they really want. And I think that [they’re also eyeing] a war with Russia. I pray that there's no World War Three with Russia. That's how it starts," Hinkle concluded.