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WorldConsul imagines a world without destructive nationalism- like Diogenes did 2,400 years ago. A Consul represents citizens in another country; WorldConsul represents all. World Consul’s goal is to providing truly independent consultation, information, expertise, and agency to world citizens and global organizations, in order to aid Human Rights Defenders in their work on behalf of humanity.
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[Many experts have] identified today’s great threat as the rise of authoritarianism, autocracy, and illiberal democracy. They fear that constitutional democracy is receding as norms are broken and institutions are under siege.
Unfortunately, this approach misunderstands the nature of the current crisis. The challenge we face today is not one of authoritarianism, as so many seem inclined to believe, but of nationalist oligarchy. This form of government feeds populism to the people, delivers special privileges to the rich and well-connected, and rigs politics to sustain its regime.
Ganesh Sitarman is Chancellor Faculty Fellow, Professor of Law, and Director of the Program on Law and Government at Vanderbilt Law School
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. … Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” –
Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Pandemic PostsIs Your Outfit Ready for Covid-19 February 2020. WorldConsul issues Covid-19 prep advice before the US Federal Government Pandemic Travel Advisory March 2020 Consular Advice for Travelers March 2020 Pandemic as Pretext: Travel Advisory for Report for 2021 Quo Vadis 51 Things to do during the Pandemic How to deal with your Post-pandemic PTSD
- Election 2024: What to Expect Part IIIWhat to Expect, Part III: Trump has already given us a dress rehearsal for four escalating levels of civil/political conflict in the lead up and aftermath of the 2024 election: Scenario 1) Right wing foreign authoritarians, corporations/US Intel contractors, FBI, Congress or SCOTUS attempts to interrupt, influence the election- high confidence, high likelihood. Scenario 2)Continue reading “Election 2024: What to Expect Part III”
- Election 2024: What to Expect Part IIWhat to Expect, Part II: George Floyd Protests as Insurrection Rehearsal- the Past is Prologue: From the Lafayette Park Massacre: The police can be allies- it helps to befriend an officer ahead of any problem like November 2024, but just as easily turning to the police can be a peril- keep contact with the policeContinue reading “Election 2024: What to Expect Part II”
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The Cost of Nationalism
What is nationalism? The belief one country is better than others, so it can treat other country’s people worse than their own. It’s related to racism, class elitism, and sexism. National pride, cultural diversity, and patriotism are separate from the ideology that seeks advantage for one country- power, control, profit- over others.
Countering nationalism the cost in lives– https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-years
Is liberal internationalism dead? https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/43/4/7/12221/Bound-to-Fail-The-Rise-and-Fall-of-the-Liberal
US Global Domination and Dick Cheney https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/vice-vs-the-real-dick-cheney https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/remembering-why-americans-loathe-dick-cheney/244306/
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The Coronavirus and Covid-19 Pandemic are being politicized and used as a pretext to drive a new Cold War nationalist conflict between the U.S. and China Coronavirus: who will be winners and losers in new world order? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/coronavirus-who-will-be-winners-and-losers-in-new-world-order
Covid-19 response limited by national response https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/20/21179040/coronavirus-us-italy-not-overreacting
Coronavirus shakes the conceit of ‘American exceptionalism’ WASHINGTON (AP) — What if the real “invisible enemy” is the enemy from within — America’s very institutions?
When the coronavirus pandemic came from distant lands to the United States, it was met with cascading failures and incompetencies by a system that exists to prepare, protect, prevent and cut citizens a check in a national crisis.
The molecular menace posed by the new coronavirus has shaken the conceit of “American exceptionalism” like nothing big enough to see with your own eyes.
A nation with unmatched power, brazen ambition and aspirations through the arc of history to be humanity’s “shining city upon a hill” cannot come up with enough simple cotton swabs despite the wartime manufacturing and supply powers assumed by President Donald Trump.
Costs of War Summary of War Spending, post-9/11 $6.4 Trillion Current Dollars https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2019/budgetary-costs-post-911-wars-through-fy2020-64-trillion tldr; nearly $20,000 for every citizen in the U.S.
The Broken Bargain: How Nationalism Came Back https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2019-02-12/broken-bargain
Nationalism Is a Poison https://reason.com/2015/02/08/nationalism-is-a-poison/
As Nationalism Rises, Europe Dies https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/opinion/nationalism-rise-europe.html
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