Byron Belitsos
January 19, 2023
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Face it, world federalists, we are lonely outliers. Our cause is forgotten or ignored in the halls of academia and the corridors of power. And yet, implementing our vision is crucial to humankind’s very survival...
Let’s imagine for the moment that you are the leading strategist and spokesperson for our cause... By my reckoning, if you don’t succeed, you’ll have failed to summon the leadership urgently needed to stem the cascading effects of global anarchy... And yet, your effort represents the only viable solution to this anarchy! Such a default in world federalist leadership may well prove calamitous to our world.
(Sadly...)The UN’s overwhelming task in the near future will become one of cleaning up the messes after the war crimes, famines, pandemics, refugees, or the horrendous weather events caused in large part by the dysfunction of the UN itself—which in turn corrodes the foundations (and the solvency) of national governments that can no longer cope with the spillover of global problems.
We will need to be fearless in relation to today’s global controllers, and our new approach must be based on an enlarged worldview not beholden to America’s parochial politics or the shallow mainstream media.
Our opposition is none other than the world’s most powerful and rapacious global elites... These anti-democratic “globalists” and their corporate and academic minions control most of our global institutions, alliances, and large nations—and they especially inhabit openly elitist and globalist organizations like the World Economic Forum. Let’s face it: These extremely well-funded players are ruthlessly pursuing global leadership while offering virtually zero appeal to our core world federalist values of representative constitutional democracy, justice through world courts, and the enforceable rule of global law on that basis.[1]
Stated differently, we need to better understand how contrarian our vision of enforceable global law is to a lawless and plutocrat-centered world, and this new reality calls for a more radicalized target audience that will respond to a more far-reaching and urgent message.
Transpartisanism refers to the need for world federalist organizations to eschew any entanglement with the assumptions and patterns of American politics; ... Our mainstream political culture pits new postmodernist and “woke” versions of the old left-liberalism against a spectrum of shallow right-wing ideologies. And yet both sides still accept the deeply flawed assumptions of America’s dominant narratives concerning climate, intelligence, public health, and especially national security.
Our danger is that, without realizing it, American world federalists are likely to read global events through this same provincial political lens, choosing audiences and messages tied to such assumptions. One can observe how both Citizens for Global Solutions and Democratic World Federalists are subtly biased in this regard—though in different ways.
While we federalists are usually strong critics of State Department policies, we need to go further in challenging the very foundations of today’s prevailing narratives, ... We must especially go on the offensive against the covert and criminalized operations of the national security state and its corporate allies, the very mortal danger Eisenhower sternly warned us about long ago—...
What then is the right perspective from which we can argue for such critiques? I believe our discourse must reflect the sphere of global public opinion, meanwhile remaining hyper-vigilant to any sign of entanglement with exclusive left- or right-wing discourses beholden to hyper-polarized U.S. politics.
But few have envisioned a transpartisan global politics, that is, the practice of taking the standpoint of the entirety of the world’s people—a much higher paradigm that reflects humanity’s intrinsic right of sovereignty over global affairs,...
Shadow work...Building on Freud’s discovery of the unconscious, the idea of a human shadow (as first proposed by Carl Jung), refers to dissociated or repressed parts of the personality that must be recovered in order to overcome neurosis or psychosis. Sometimes, what is presented to the world masks what lurks underneath. Mental health, as well as social healing, requires unmasking the false self or the unacknowledged delusions of the group.
In a similar way, the concept of a group shadow refers to hidden, covert, or repressed aspects of society or government that often controls the action in secret. Shadow factors such as deception, propaganda, counter-intelligence, mind control, assassination, “special ops,” and suppression of whistleblowers or minorities is observable in political organizations all the way up to the global level, though this phenomenon is obviously more complex than the individual’s quest for healing.
In this light, I advocate that world federalists become aware of our world’s political unconscious. And this concept also refers to a domain known as deep politics. This growing movement to unveil secret depths can be found all over the world, and in the U.S. came to prominence during the Bush II administration and especially, for example, after the historic Understanding Deep Politics conference held in 2009 in Santa Cruz, California that featured such prominent academics as Peter Dale Scott, Peter Phillips, David Ray Griffin, and Michael Parenti.
No one today doubts that an adult can achieve wholeness without confronting their personal unconscious. But much more is at stake if a nation or even a planet is unable to identify its group shadow that often expresses itself in covert political intrigues, criminal conspiracies, war profiteering, and futile conflicts. Political shadow work is especially vital because toxic or criminal elements are not in the habit of issuing press releases to publicize their work!
Imagine what would happen if the world federalist movement were to take leadership in such an endeavor, operating all the while from a transpartisan point of view? Or, consider what new audiences we could generate if we took on the work of unmasking rogue factions in our government that foment unnecessary and unsuccessful wars on behalf of their war-profiteering friends, and further, what if we were to call out these shadow-gangsters while not framing the issue from the left or the right?
And in this respect I argue that we should especially take inspiration from the work of an academician named David Ray Griffin, who was both one of the world’s leading theologians and as well as a fervent world federalist before he passed away in November 2022. In addition, and by all accounts, Griffin had also become the world’s leading advocate of “9/11 truth.”
Beginning with his 2004 breakthrough work, A New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Interlink Publishing; reissued as A New Pearl Harbor Revisited in 2008), Griffin went on to create a large corpus of writings about 9/11 as an “inside job,” easily becoming the world’s most prolific author on this topic.[1]
[1] It happens that I have been both an observer and participant in the movement that Griffin helped create. In the same year that Griffin published A New Pearl Harbor (2004), I edited and published the best-selling Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies (Origin Press, 2004) by the distinguished journalist Jim Marrs—author of the Crossfire, the key source for Oliver Stone’s movie “JFK.” I spoke on a few of the same platforms as Griffin did, emceed a large conference at which he spoke, helped make a film about his work, and got to know him as a movement colleague.
Griffin understood that, while we can’t survive without enforceable world law, we must also be intellectually congruent with the principles we are advocating in order to create such a well-governed world.
Like him, we know that, without the rule of law, one is left with anarchy and what I like to call “the law of the vacuum.” Whenever governance based on principle is missing, unprincipled players rush in to fill this power vacuum—that is, as alluded to before, greedy or criminal elements who are able to move in to quickly occupy the vast political gap at the global level left behind by the failures of the UN or the ineffectiveness of our movement.
Deep realism... refers to our dire survival predicament on planet earth. World federalists must face the fact that decades of gross mismanagement of global institutions is leading to a partial collapse of global civilization, and we must overcome our denial of this obvious reality and act to prevent a total breakdown. We are in the best position to take this wide-angle view of things, and must become leaders in this respect by becoming “deeply realistic.” Read Entire Article
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