It should be as familiar to us as communism was to the people of the Soviet Union. But the greatest success of this tremendously powerful ideology is its anonymity. And by heck, has it succeeded. https://t.co/oz0OmwjmIw
— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) December 29, 2021
The Christmas Truce of 1914 – Why There Is Still No Peace On Earth https://t.co/tB5Rg3zsxJ
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 28, 2021
/ by @DA_Stockman … for more: https://t.co/6SGoanjmQm*
"Chinese Aggression" Is Just China Responding To US Aggression
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) December 18, 2021
"One need only imagine what would happen if China began constructing a chain of long-range missile systems off a US coastline to understand who the actual aggressor is between these two powershttps://t.co/CmlmeGd49J
I quote a former American ambassador to China, Stapleton Roy, who told me, ‘Kishore, when Xi Jinping made an offer to demilitarize the South China Sea, America should have grabbed that offer and agreed to stop all our military activities in the South China Sea. That would have pushed the Chinese out.’ Of course, the Americans would be out too. But the South China Sea is much more important to China than it is to America. If America steps out, the Chinese military steps out. And that’s a win for America, right? Instead, the U.S. Navy responded by sending naval vessels. So Xi said, ‘Okay. You reject my offer. So be it.’*
China is not a military threat. The military threat is against China. China is ringed with US bases with nuclear armed missiles, right offshore, aimed at China. It’s China that’s under threat. Not the United States.*
ICYMI, a transmission line could carry intermittently surplus – and therefore low-cost – power from renewables back to Quebec from New England, effectively using existing dams in Quebec as a massive energy storage system.
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 1, 2021
The fight for votes cost both sides almost a combined $100 million, making it the most expensive referendum question in Maine’s history.
The project was proposed in Maine in 2017 after a previous proposal to run a transmission line through New Hampshire was blocked by local opposition. It received a series of state and federal permits from 2019 to 2021 and began construction early this year.*
Andrew Nikiforuk:
We have entered a new era that demands we embrace these seven transformative truths:
- Complexity delivers diminishing returns
- Not acting early ups the eventual cost
- Growth equals emissions
- Governments learn from punishments meted by voters, not nature
- The coming catastrophes will victimize those least powerful
- Anti-fragility should be the new goal
- More data doesn’t lead to better decisions
any form of hierarchy and domination is illegitimate unless it can justify itself*/ in very rare cases it can; if it can’t, dismantle it for “a more free, participatory, cooperative society" – aka a “mainstream” anarchist system
An anarchist system could very well have hierarchy, as long as it’s controlled from below. Like, if I need surgery, I go to a doctor, not a carpenter. That’s hierarchy. But I chose it – he’s a doctor by virtue of my decision, our decision collectively, that some group of people can gain skills that the community needs. So, as long as responsibility is vested in the democratic participatory community in every institution, in the workplace, in communities everywhere, then we’re moving toward a free and just society.
It will be a highly organized society. There can be a lot of planning about how we should distribute resources, what our policies ought to be. It could be, or should be, international in scope. So, a rich and complex organization based on popular and democratic control, meeting the condition that any form of hierarchy that can’t justify itself has to be dismantled in favor of more freedom. Then you can spell that out in many detailed ways.