THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL RENAISSANCE
AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Stes de Necker
There is a new development
in human history that is taking place around the world; A global Political
Awakening or Renaissance. For the first time in history almost all of humanity
is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive.
Global activism is generating a surge in the quest for cultural respect and
economic opportunity in a world scarred by memories of colonial or imperial
domination.
It is, in
essence, this massive ‘International Political Renaissance’ which presents the
gravest and greatest challenge to the organized powers of globalization and the
global political economy.
The Transnational
Capitalist Class (TCC), are globalized like never before. For the first time in
history, we have a truly global and heavily integrated elite. As elites have
globalized their power, seeking to construct a ‘new world order’ of global
governance and ultimately global government, they have simultaneously
globalized populations.
The
‘Technological Revolution’ involves two major geopolitical developments.
The first is that
as technology advances, systems of mass communication rapidly accelerate, and
the world’s people are able to engage in instant communication with one another
and gain access to information from around the world.
Herein lays the
potential – and ultimately a central source – of a massive global political
awakening, THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
Simultaneously,
the Technological Revolution has allowed elites to redirect and control society
in ways never before imagined, ultimately culminating in a global scientific
dictatorship.
The potential for
controlling the masses has never been so great, as science unleashes the power
of genetics, biometrics, surveillance, and new forms of modern eugenics;
implemented by a scientific elite equipped with systems of psycho-social
control (the use of psychology in controlling the masses).
There are only a
few pockets of humanity left in the remotest corners of the world that are not
politically alert and engaged with the political turmoil and stirrings that are
so widespread today around the world. The resulting global political
activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural
respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of
centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination.
The world’s
population is experiencing a political awakening unprecedented in scope and
intensity, with the result that the politics of populism are transforming
the politics of power.
The biggest challenge
of our time is posed not by global terrorism, but rather by the intensifying
turbulence caused by the phenomenon of global political awakening.
Europe in 1848, and more generally the
nationalist movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reflected the
new politics of populist passions and growing mass commitment. In some places
this combination embraced utopian Manichaeism for which the Bolshevik
Revolution of 1917, the Fascist assumption of power in Italy in 1922, and the
Nazi seizure of the German state in 1933 were the launch-pads.
The political
awakening also swept China, precipitating several decades of civil conflict.
Anti-colonial sentiments galvanized India, where the tactic of passive
resistance effectively disarmed imperial domination, and after World War II
anti-colonial political stirrings elsewhere ended the remaining European
empires. In the western hemisphere, Mexico experienced the first inklings of
populist activism already in the 1860s, leading eventually to the Mexican
Revolution of the early 20th century.
Ultimately, what
this implies is that – regardless of the final results of past awakenings –
what is central to the concept of a ‘political awakening’ is the population –
the people – taking on a political and social consciousness and subsequently,
partaking in massive political and social action aimed at generating a major
shift and change, or revolution, in the political, social and economic realms.
Thus, no social
transformation presents a greater or more direct challenge to entrenched and
centralized power structures – whether they are political, social or economic
in nature.
It is no
overstatement to assert that now in the 21st century the population of
much of the developing world is politically stirring and in many places
seething with unrest. It is a population acutely conscious of social injustice
to an unprecedented degree, and often resentful of its perceived lack of political
dignity.
The nearly
universal access to modern technology, television and increasingly the Internet,
is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized
and channelled by demagogic political or religious passions. These
energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing
states as well as to the existing global hierarchy.
The youth of the
Third World are particularly restless and resentful.
The demographic
revolution they embody is a political time-bomb. With the exception of Europe, Japan and
America, the rapidly expanding demographic bulge in the
25-year-old-and-under age bracket is creating a huge mass of impatient young
people.
Their minds have
been stirred by sounds and images that emanate from afar and which intensify
their disaffection with what is at hand. Their potential revolutionary
spearhead is likely to emerge from among the scores of millions of students
concentrated in the often intellectually dubious “tertiary level” educational
institutions of developing countries.
Depending on the
definition of the tertiary educational level, there are currently worldwide
between 80 and 130 million “college” students. Typically originating from
the socially insecure lower middle class and inflamed by a sense of social
outrage, these millions of students are revolutionaries-in-waiting, already
semi-mobilized in large congregations, connected by the Internet and
pre-positioned for a replay on a larger scale of what transpired years earlier
in Mexico City or in Tiananmen Square.
Their physical energy and emotional
frustration is just waiting to be triggered by a cause, or a faith, or a
hatred. Democracy per se is not an enduring solution, as it could be overtaken
by radically resentful populism. This is truly a new global reality.
The Politically Renaissance
craves political dignity, (which democracy can enhance), but political dignity
also encompasses ethnic or national self-determination, religious
self-definition, and human and social rights, all in a world now acutely aware
of economic, racial and ethnic inequities.
The quest for
political dignity, especially through national self-determination and social
transformation, is part of the pulse of self-assertion by the world’s
underprivileged.
Power and People
To properly
understand the ‘International Political Renaissance’ it is imperative to
understand and analyze the power structures that it most gravely threatens.
Global power
structures are most often represented by nation-states, of which there are over
200 in the world, and the vast majority are overlooking increasingly
politically awakened populations who are more shaped by transnational
communications and realities (such as poverty, inequality, war, empire, etc.)
than by national issues.
Among
nation-states, the most dominant are the western powers, particularly the
United States, which sits atop the global hierarchy of nations as the global ‘hegemony’
(empire). American foreign policy was provided with the imperial impetus by an
inter-locking network of international think tanks, which brought together the
top political, banking, industrial, academic, media, military and intelligence
figures to formulate coordinated policies.
The most notable
of these institutions that socialize elites across national borders and provide
the rationale and impetus for empire are an inter-locking network of
international think tanks.
In 1921, British
and American elite academics got together with major international banking
interests to form two “sister institutes” called the Royal Institute of International
Affairs (RIIA) in London, now known as Chatham House, and the Council on
Foreign Relations in the United States.
Subsequent
related think tanks were created in Canada, such as the Canadian Institute of
International Affairs, now known as the Canadian International Council (CIC),
and other affiliated think tanks in South Africa, India, Australia, and more
recently in the European Union with the formation of the European Council on
Foreign Relations.
Following World
War I, these powers sought to reshape the world order in their designs, with
Woodrow Wilson proclaiming a right to “national self determination” which
shaped the formation of nation-states throughout the Middle East, which until
the war was dominated by the Ottoman Empire.
To control
people, one must construct institutions of control. Elites have always sought
to control populations and individuals for their own power desires. It does not
matter whether the political system is that of fascism, communism, socialism or
democracy: elites seek power and control and are inherent in each system of
governance.
In 1928, Edward
Bernays, nephew of the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, wrote one of his
most influential works entitled “Propaganda.” “If we understand the mechanisms and motives
of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses
according to our will without their knowing it.”
“The conscious
and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses
is an important element in democratic society… Those who manipulate this unseen
mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true
ruling power of our country. . . . In almost every act of our daily lives,
whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our
ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of
persons . . . who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses.
It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
The Crisis of Democracy
Since the 1960s we
saw a surge in democracy worldwide, with an upswing in citizen participation,
often in the form of marches, demonstrations, protest movements, and ‘cause’
organizations. We also saw a reassertion of the primacy of equality as a goal
in social, economic, and political life.
The New World Order
Following the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, American ideologues – politicians and
academics – began discussing the idea of the emergence of a “new world order”
in which power in the world is centralized with one power, and laid the basis
for an expansion of elitist ideology pertaining to the notion of
‘globalization’: “That power and power structures should be globalized.” In
short, the ‘new world order’ was to be a global order of global governance.
The Global Political Awakening and the
Global Economic Crisis
In the face of
the global economic crisis, the process that has led to the global political
awakening is rapidly expanding, as the social, political and economic
inequalities and disparities that led to the awakening are all being
exacerbated and expanded.
Thus, the global
political awakening itself is entering into a period in which it will undergo
rapid, expansionary and global transformation.
This ‘Political
Renaissance’ towards a New World Order has been exemplified in the ‘Global
South’, or the ‘Third World’ developing nations of the Middle East, Central and
Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Developments in
recent decades and years in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Iran exemplify the
nationalist-orientation of much of this awakening, taking place in a world
increasingly and incrementally moving towards global governance and global
institutions.
Global
socio-political economic conditions directly relate to the expansion and
emergence of the ‘global political awakening’.
In 2006, a groundbreaking
and comprehensive report released by the World Institute for Development
Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) reported that,
“The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household
wealth.”
An incredibly startling statistic was that:
[T]he richest 1%
of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000, and that the
richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total. In contrast, the
bottom half of the world adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth.
This is worth
repeating: the top 1% owns 40% of global assets; the top 10% owns 85% of world
assets; and the bottom 50% owns 1% of global assets; a sobering figure, indeed.
Thus, the
majority of the world’s people live in absolute poverty and social dislocation.
This is directly the result of the globalized world order that has been and is
being constructed.
Now, as that same
infrastructure is being further institutionalized and built upon, people are
being thrown into the ‘awakening’ like never before.
Their very
poverty pushes them into an awakening.
The West and the Awakening
The middle classes
of the western world are undergoing a dramatic transition, most especially in
the wake of the global economic crisis.
In the previous
decades, the middle class has become a debt-based class, whose consumption was
based almost entirely on debt, and so their ability to consume and be the
social bedrock of the capitalist system is but a mere fiction. Never in history
has the middle class, and most especially the youth who are graduating college
into the hardest job market in decades, been in such peril.
The global debt
crisis, which began in Greece, and spreading throughout the euro-zone economies
of Spain, Portugal, Ireland and ultimately the entire EU, will further consume
the UK, Japan and go all the way to America. This will be a truly global debt
crisis.
The bankers, who
are primarily responsible for the crisis, are now revelling in record bonuses
while official unemployment is around 10 percent and unemployment in the
manufacturing sector is at Depression-era levels. This same financial industry
is directly linked to Obama, who is supporting their interests, and people are
noticing.
When the middle
classes of the west are plunged into poverty, it will force an awakening, for
when people have nothing, they have nothing left to lose. The only way that the
entrenched powers of the world have been able to expand their power and
maintain their power is with the ignorant consent of the populations of the
west. Issues of war, empire, economics and terror shape public opinion and
allow social planners to redirect and reconstitute society.
The people of the
west have allowed themselves to be ruled as such and have allowed our rulers to
be so ruthless in our names. People have been blinded by consumerism and
entertainment.
So long as we
have our TVs and PCs we won’t pay attention to anything else!
When the ability
to consume is removed, the people will enter into a period of a great
awakening.
This will give rise to major new political movements, many
progressive but some regressive, some fringe and radical, some violent and
tyrannical, but altogether new and ultimately global.
This is when the
people of the west will come to realize the plight of the rest. This will be
the era in which people begin to understand the realization that there is great
truth in Dr. Martin Luther King’s words, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.” Thus, the struggle of Africans will become the struggle of
Americans: it must be freedom for all or freedom for none.
This is the major
geopolitical reality and the pre-eminent global threat to world power
structures. No development in all of human history presents such a monumental
challenge to the status quo.
As global power
structures have never resembled such a monumental threat to mankind, mankind
has never posed such an immense threat to institutionalized power. For every
action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Even if
elites think that they truly do run the world, human nature has a way
of exposing the flaws in that assumption. Human nature is not meant to be
‘controlled,’ but rather is meant to be nurtured.
A View From the Top
“War on Terror” – is presenting a major
challenge to American hegemony, as it is increasingly isolating the United
States and damaging the nation’s credibility, as well as hiding the issues in
virulent rhetoric which only further inflames the real and true challenge: the
global political awakening.
We live in an age
in which people are becoming politically conscious and politically activated to
an unprecedented degree, and it is this condition which is producing a
great deal of international turmoil.
But we are not
focusing on that!
We are focusing
specifically on one word, which is being elevated into a spectre, defined as an
entity, presented as somehow unified but unrelated to any specific event or
place—and that word is TERRORISM ... ISIS
The global
challenge today on the basis of which we tend to operate politically is the
definition of terrorism with a global reach as the principal challenge of our
time.
I don’t deny that international terrorism and ISIS is a reality, a threat to us, an ugly menace and a vicious
manifestation. But it is a symptom of something larger and more
complicated, related to the global turmoil that takes place in many parts of
the world and manifests itself in different ways.
That turmoil is
the product of the political awakening, the fact that today vast masses of the
world are not politically neutered, as they have been throughout history. They
have political consciousness. It may be undefined, it may point in different
directions, it may be primitive, it may be intolerant, it may be hateful, but
it is a form of political activism.
Conclusion
Never before has
humanity been so awakened to issues of power, exploitation, imperialism and
domination; and simultaneously, never before have elites been so transnational
and global in orientation, and with the ability to impose such a truly global
system of scientific despotism and political oppression.
These are the two major geopolitical
realities of the world today. Reflect on that. Never in all of human history
has mankind been so capable of achieving a true global political psycho-social
awakening; nor has humanity ever been in such danger of being subjected to a
truly global scientific totalitarianism, potentially more oppressive than any
system known before, and without a doubt more technologically capable of
imposing a permanent despotism upon humanity.
In all of human
history, never has the potential nor the repercussions of human actions and
ideas ever been so monumental.
This new reality
in the world, coupled with the fact that the world’s population has never been
so vast, presents a challenge to elites seeking to dominate people all over the
world who are aware and awakened to the realities of social inequality, war,
poverty, exploitation, disrespect, imperialism and domination.
In a previous article I wrote about the New World Order and the
dangers this new political awakening is posing to the world. (http://stesdeneckerfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/06/new-world-order-definition-and.html)
Their intention is to affect complete and total
control over every human being on the planet and to dramatically reduce
the world's population by two thirds. The
toll in human suffering and the
loss of innocent lives are non issues for these individuals!
The real tragedy
however lies in the fact that most of the world’s nations do not realize that
they are actively fuelling this wild fire which is rapidly consuming the entire
globe - THIS NEW WORLD ORDER