Tag: Globalism

Season Of The Protest

As a young man I spent many a days in protests….mostly for an end to the Vietnam War….also many days of fighting off the effects of tear gas…and a few beatings…..but that was then and this is now…..

I know that trying to keep up with the silliness coming from the White House and the Congress and the Media is a full time gig…..but while you were being lulled into boredom the world has erupted in protests….

Iraq

Lebanon

Chile

Haiti

Spain

Hong Kong

Ecuador

And the count goes on…..

Another day, another protest.

On Monday it was Bolivia – angry people clashed with police after the political opposition said it had been cheated in an election won by incumbent President Evo Morales.

Last week, the streets of the Chilean capital Santiago descended into chaos, as demonstrators enraged by a hike in public transport fares looted stores, set a bus alight and prompted the president to declare a state of emergency.

Earlier this month, Ecuador’s leader did the same after violent unrest triggered by the decision to end fuel subsidies that had been in place for decades.

And that was just South America.

Hong Kong has been in turmoil for months, Lebanon’s capital Beirut was at a standstill, parts of Barcelona resembled a battlefield last week and tens of thousands of Britons marched through London at the weekend over Brexit.

Protests have flared around the world in the last few months. Each has had its own trigger, but many of the tactics and underlying frustrations are similar. Governments, economists and ordinary people are taking notice.

https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1956991/season-discontent-protests-flare-around-world

In honor of those in protest….a musical interlude from Buffalo Springfield……

Or if you do not like that…how about the Rolling Stones…..

I Read, I Wrote, You Know

“Lego Ergo Scribo”

Anti-Globalists Used to Be Left Wingers

During this past election there was a term bounced around and it has caught on for the Right wing when they are searching for an insult to anyone that disagrees with them….”globalist”.

I tried to cover this situation in an op-ed for my friend at Ace News Room…….

For a decade those people that do not agree with the bean brains on the Right have been labelled…..”apologists“……”elitists“……”socialists“…..”bleeding hearts” and now we are “globalists“…..which is fine but I am not sure that the nose pickers actually knows what the term means….other than a convenient insult.

But as with anything thing its meaning is subjective……subject to the whims and mental farts of idiots.

The “Globalist Agenda“….as defined by a conspiracy site(I would give a link but screw it…find the looney tunes for yourself)……

Source: Warning: The “Globalists” Are Coming | Ace News Room

And now for the part that so many dislike….my historic perspective…..(listen for the moans and groans)……

Not so long ago it was the Left that was spouting the anti-globalist rhetoric……

If the current political narrative pits Donald Trump’s “real Americans” against the “global elites,” in the waning days of the 20th century it was just the reverse. Organized opposition to global “free trade” agreements was overwhelmingly a province of the left (though with a diverse sprinkling of various small-scale traditionalists). Anti-globalization protesters suffered intense police repression and were treated as misfits, oddballs or at best an inscrutable coalition of disparate groups — although polls showed they enjoyed public support. If that earlier, pro-democracy anti-globalist movement had been listened to and engaged with by elites, we might not be facing the kind of much darker anti-globalist backlash we’re seeing today.

Source: Historic Switcheroo: Anti-Globalists Used to Be Left Wingers; Now It is Donald Trump | Alternet

Bringing Down the Globalist Monster

Since many seem to read a title and then think they know what the post is about…I thought I would try something different…..

Have you noticed that there is a new word that is making the rounds on sites like FOX and Breitbart and even some blogs…..the term is “globalist”….the alt-Right adores the use of labels…..Me?  If I call someone a moron it is not a label so much as an observation…..

To some it is referring to the expansion of globalization and to others it is an off-handed insult…….an insult for anyone that is not a faux conservative of today….

This article is a bit of a Libertarian look at globalization…..(sorry for the trickery)

The main issue in the world today is globalism versus national sovereignty, and it is playing out in the politics of countries on every continent.

In the United States, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s critique of globalism – encapsulated in his campaign theme of “America First” – has galvanized a mass movement opposed to the internationalism of the regnant elites, their transnational allegiances and their foreign wars.

In Britain, the opposition to the European Union culminated in a referendum which – against all odds, and against all the Powers That Be – repudiated the EU in a stunning blow to the political class.

Source: Bringing Down the Globalist Monster – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com

For a couple of years now anyone that would stand up to the GOP and its shitload of lies and platitudes has been labeled an “apologist”……

I wrote a couple of op-eds for my friends at Ace News room…the first one is the term “apologist”……

Source: Are You An “Apologist”? | Ace News Room

And then one about the off-handed insult of “globalist”…….

Source: Warning: The “Globalists” Are Coming | Ace News Room

I understand when some spout the crap about the UN as a tool for a one government world….I think they are mistaken….the UN could be a positive step in international relations but not before they eliminate the control of the Security Council by 5 nations…..

While I agree in principle to the push back against globalization….I do not like the term of “globalists”….I do not mind being insulted but at least get it right.