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... Economic inequality continues to widen, with a small percentage of the global population controlling a disproportionate share of wealth and resources.
The 1% own or control all the systems of the Earth. First and foremost, they control the macroeconomics of the world, which ultimately means they control, directly or indirectly, the communications of the world, the health care services of the world, the food and agricultural services, the transportation, the mining, energy, and industrial processes of the world.
To facilitate and consolidate their control over everything, they colonize the governments and political processes around the world, so that most politicians and legislators serve their interests.
...They want more: they want it all
To enforce the laws and regulations tailored to suit their interests, they colonize the militaries and police forces of the world. They are insatiable in their greed for money, power, and control. They have most of the world’s resources and assets in their control, and they want more: they want it all. ...
They use the imperial hegemon, the immense military and economic power of the United States, to enforce their global system of domination... They cannot stand, as Noam Chomsky has repeatedly pointed out, any nation or people attempting to take independent economic initiatives.
Socialist economic solutions - the threat of a good example. Intolerable.
The threat of a good example, the threat that some group might create a decent life for itself outside their system, is utterly intolerable to them. The world is so fragmented and divided that it is easy for them to target independent initiatives in Chile, Haiti, Nicaragua, Angola, Venezuela, or elsewhere and crush any moves toward freedom.
During the Great Depression, the New Deal was implemented within the US in order to prevent a possible socialist revolution. The 1% agreed to pension plans, social security, graduated income tax, employer health care systems, and relatively weak economic regulations in return for the silence and complicity of the 99% in the US with this global system of domination and exploitation.
In the interests of its ruling class, U.S. forces proceeded to destroy emerging democracies in Guatemala and Iran in 1954 and instituted military repression in those countries. For the next six decades, the US continued to overthrow, subvert, invade, or destroy progressive governments and social movements worldwide, largely with the tacit complicity of the American people, who were doing OK because of their New Deal.
We recall the movement called “Occupy Wall Street.” It represented the awakening of a portion of the 99% within the US to a spirit of rebellion and resistance against this nightmare of totalitarian domination by the 1%. ...
The struggle is worldwide, not limited to individual nations
The system of domination is a world system. The 1% who dominate the U.S. use that domination as a mechanism for imperial exploitation of the planet. The struggle is worldwide and not limited to individual nations.
People all over the world are making demands that are not unique to their own countries. The phenomenon is worldwide. The majority of the world over are living in poverty while the rich live in unimaginable luxury, and this is a worldwide crisis that no single government can address. ...
Militarism is rampant, and the nuclear powers are acting in ways that may lead the world to nuclear holocaust if something is not done decisively and quickly to disarm these monstrosities, yet governments are only making this situation ever more dangerous.
The meeting of the G-20 countries in India in 2025 did not and cannot solve the problem. Most of these G-20 nations are imperialist nations using their military power to invade and dominate all countries seen as opposing their system of global economic exploitation. ...
Demand for a New Deal not just for US, but for the whole world
What have been the demands of Occupy Wall Street in the US? At the surface level, insofar as the multiplicity of voices can be pieced together coherently, they go something like this. Reinstating some financial regulation, creating jobs, benefits, pension plans, healthcare, protecting social security, progressive taxation, and ending foreign wars that drain the wealth from this country into the Pentagon and the industrial-military complex. In other words, Occupy Wall Street has been demanding another New Deal.
They are not demanding that the insane global capitalist system of greed and domination be dismantled. They are not demanding that the exploited billions worldwide be given jobs, pensions, healthcare, and social security. ...
They are only demanding “concessions” from the super-wealthy within the US: a kinder, gentler treatment by the 1%. ... There is a contradiction between the demands within this particular country and what is required for justice worldwide.
However, the deeper meaning and real spirit of Occupy Wall Street is precisely this: the demand to create a decent world system of freedom, peace, justice, sustainability, and prosperity. ...
It is expressing moral outrage because a system of domination, exploitation, military mass murder, premised on lies and propaganda is wrong, deeply wrong, and evil. What we really want is a world system founded on the freedom and well-being of the people of Earth: the 99% of human beings; the rights and dignity of all people everywhere, the rights of people everywhere on Earth to peace and a protected planetary environment. ...
How are we to go beyond a parochial demand for a new New Deal to actualize the deeper meaning of Occupy Wall Street? ... the current system of domination uses the fragmented system of nations to divide and conquer. They invade Afghanistan, and no other states or few people around the world come to the aid of Afghanistan.
They destroyed Libya because the ruler of Libya was a vocal critic of the US and was attempting to keep Africa’s resources for the benefit of Africans. And almost no one came to the aid of the Libyan people. ... They attempted to destroy the revolutionary government of Venezuela for the same reasons.
Ending domination of the few over the many
Ultimately, we can only triumph by really joining together with people everywhere. Really joining with them means legally uniting with them within a planetary democracy in which they are actually equal with us, in which there really is the rule of democratic law on the Earth, and no longer military domination of the few over the many.
The Constitution for the Federation of Earth is the key to this solidarity and nonviolent transformation of our corrupt world disorder. ... We must unite with the people of Earth by ratifying a constitution giving the people of Earth democratic control over the global economy.
Establishing the Earth Federation gives the people of Earth the power and authority to demilitarize the world and end war forever, to protect human rights everywhere on our planet, ...
None of this is utopian in the least ... Without real transformation through ratifying the Earth Constitution, we will destroy ourselves through vicious wars of extermination, global pollution, and ultimate climate collapse.
The most practical and common-sense thing we can do is join together in a global social contract. ... It is time we overcome our parochial nationalistic demands and join in solidarity with people everywhere to ratify the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. READ MORE
Dr. Glen T. Martin:
– Member, TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment
– Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
– Founder/Chairperson Emeritus, Program in Peace Studies, Radford University
– President, World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA);
– President, Earth Constitution Institute (ECI)
– Author of twelve books and hundreds of articles concerning global issues, human spirituality, and democratic world government; a recipient of many peace awards.
www.earthconstitution.world – Email: gmartin@radford.edu
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2026/05/domination-as-means-for-imperial-exploitation-of-the-planet/
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