We One People

The journey to a new World Order has begun

 On January 5, 2012 the United States changed its military strategy.  The key elements of this change are:

• The size of the US military will reduce
• The focus of US military strategy will change to the Asia-Pacific region

This happens under a backdrop of economic and military ascendancy of China and other asian countries.  Will this change in strategy stop the shift of economic and military power from the west to the east?  Probably not.

Does the new World Order have to require the superiority of one country, continent or region over others? Can all people of earth not share economic prosperity and eliminate the spending on military in its entirety under a world government?

 

In the mind of Anders Behring Breivik

Was this mass murderer sane or insane at the time he killed 77 young people in Norway? The experts are divided. How different is Anders Breivik from Al-Qaida in the Arab world, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or the Maoists in India?

Dual Currency

This post presents Dual Currency as a means to bridge the gap between the ideals of Capitalism and Communism.

Greece and Democracy

Greece is largely recognized as the place where Democracy was born.  Today Greeks are torn between staying in the eurozone, swallowing the austerity measures being imposed upon them by member states or rejecting these austerity measures and treading their own way, assuming hugh economic risks.  The referendum expected in early December 2011 on the austerity package will decide which way Greece will go.

The outcome of the referendum and its aftermath will determine whether Democracy will die or be reborn - in Greece.

Democratic Zoo

There are democracies but there is no democracy.

Like animals in a cage citizens of democratic countries (or unions such as the EU) are free to move within the confines of their borders.  Within their borders they have liberty, equality and fraternity under the laws of their land.  When they leave their own country or union however and go to another "democratic country" they are no longer equal and do not belong to that fraternity.

Alter Dialectic

The dialectic process is when two or more people with different points of view have an intelligent discussion arriving at an intelligent conclusion.  This process continues when this conclusion is challenged by another point of view arriving at a new conclusion, and so on and so forth.  Hegelian dialectic describes this process as a thought or idea (thesis) meeting another thought or idea (anti-thesis) to form a new thought or idea (synthesis).  This synthesis meets another thought  or idea to form a new synthesis, and so the process goes. The dialectic process works well in an ivory tower but real life is different.

Egalitocracy

Its not in any dictionary.  Yet Egalitocracy is what people have and continue to fight and die for in the great revolutions of the past, revolutions of the present and presumably revolutions of the future.

So what is Egalitocracy?

Israel's greatest threat: Secular Democracy in the Arab World.

Israel's greatest threat is not Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran but the wave of democracy that is sweeping the Arab world.

Breaking out of the Ballot Box

For hundreds of years Secret Ballots have been held to determine the free choice of people.  In 1872 the Ballot Box was invented and is used today all over the world at election time to choose leaders.  The ballot box has become the Bulwark, the Bastion, of Democracy.  While it has worked well for over a century, it is inadequate in the 21st century to support democracy.  In Burma, Egypt, Indonesia, Tunisia and many other parts of the world people are taking to the streets to vote with their feet.

At the Crossroads between World Orders: What will the New World Order be?

The Old World Order is crumbling.  Tunisians, Egyptians, Yemenis and other Arabs are on the streets shaking themselves off of their western backed leaders.  Elsewhere in the world countries once caught in the polarization of the Cold War are now free, spreading their wings.  The Economic and Political influence of China, India and Brazil are waxing while those of the United States and the West are Waning.  A new World Order is on its way.