Can Flickers of Sanity Be Transformed into a New Paradigm?
Can Flickers of Sanity Be Transformed into a New Paradigm? PDF (121 KB)
July 6—This week has seen a breakthrough in the censorship regime just as flickers of sanity have emerged in the form of reporting on US-Russia back-channel negotiations for peace and a decline in hysterical claims that Russia is about to destroy the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Take advantage of the improved opportunity to organize for a new security and development paradigm!
The censorship regime that has done so much to prevent people from speaking honestly and openly with each other has been dealt a major blow. A comprehensive and powerful injunction from a federal district judge in Louisiana has ordered dozens of government agencies and officials to stop telling social media companies to censor free speech.
The broad preliminary injunction, delivered on U.S. Independence Day, demands that officials not meet with social-media companies “for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner, the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction” of posts presenting legal speech. Judge Doughty explicitly forbids “flagging content or posts,” demanding that social-media companies change their policies on speech, collaborating with such agencies as the Election Integrity Partnership or the Stanford Internet Observatory, or “requesting content reports from social-media companies detailing actions taken to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce content containing protected free speech.”
Peace negotiations conducted shortly after Russia began its military operation in Ukraine — negotiations involving Israeli Prime Minister Bennet and Turkish President Erdoğan — were spiked by Boris Johnson and Anglo-American demands that Ukrainians be used up in a meat-grinder war to wear down Russia.
But that hasn’t stopped NATO from choosing “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine” as its favorite phrase.
But NBC News reported on Thursday that back-channel negotiations have been conducted since at least as early as April between former US officials and Russian interlocutors, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov himself! Is a flicker of sanity emerging?
Even the archly anti-Russian, Anglo-American-connected Kyiv Post has had to address reality. Perhaps recognizing that claiming for the umpteenth time that Russia was about to destroy its own assets was becoming increasingly unbelievable, they [quote] the Ukrainian intelligence chief that tensions around the ZNPP are now declining:
“The threat of a terrorist attack at the #Zaporizhzhi Nuclear Power Plant begins to subside, Ukraine’s Intelligence Chief Kyrylo #Budanov said in an interview with The Times.
“‘We are taking certain actions in this area, both public and non-public, and I think that the danger of an artificial man-made disaster is gradually decreasing,’ Budanov said.”
The IAEA has publicly stated, repeatedly, that it has observed no explosives at the plant. And Russia has possibly passed on more specific warnings about the attacks that Ukraine had been planning — would there be incontrovertible evidence that Ukraine struck the plant?
Perhaps recognizing this reality was among the “certain actions” taken by Budanov and his handlers.
Demands for peace ring out from across the globe. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, meeting on Tuesday, pledged a shared “commitment to formation of a more representative … multipolar world order.” Iran has joined the SCO. Syria has rejoined the Arab League. Egypt and Turkey are re-establishing diplomatic ties at the ambassadorial level. Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called on Australia to take “concrete action” to reduce the US-China tensions that are threatening the region.
Peace is possible. But the danger of war remains, and will remain, until power is wrested from the Anglo-American order that demands unipolar hegemony. Will you act now to secure a future for mankind?