“How to Take Down the Billionaires: A Manual in Eleven Chapters” by Emanuel Pastreich

“코로나 이후의세계는 어디로 가는 가” (를로벌조선연구자넷) 2023년 6월 17일 (토) 오후 8시 온라인

“코로나 이후의세계는 어디로 가는 가”

(를로벌조선연구자넷) 2023년

6월 17일 (토) 오후 8시 온라인

강연자: 임마누엘 페스트라이쉬 아시아인스티튜트 이사장 (글로벌피스재단 연구원)

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“Is America ready for truth politics?”

“Is America ready for truth politics?”

Interview

Emanuel Pastreich

Candidate for President of the United States

Green Liberty Caucus

The Green Party

Chuck Fall:

I’m Chuck Fall, a media activist who believes in speaking truth to power, and I believe that the demand for truth should be at the center of all political action in the United States.

Today I am reaching out to Emanuel Pastreich, a fellow concerned citizen, to speak about truth politics.

I am active in the Green Party and familiar with the debates on policy that make up much of our politics. I have found myself to be, increasingly, a dissident voice.

When I deal with bread-and-butter issues, because of the influence of the deep State, because the corporate-government plutocracy has extended so deep into society, I feel we must address directly the criminality that is behind what we see on TV, we must pull back the curtain if we want to have meaningful politics in the United States.

Please allow me to introduce the project that I am advancing today. We have launched within the Green party a “Green Liberty Caucus” dedicated to making truth politics mainstream in America.

I want to highlight our website greenlibertycaucus.org, where you will find interesting posts from truth leaders. Among them, those of Cynthia McKinney have been inspirational for me, especially the appeal that she made to the “Lawyers Committee of 9/11 Truth” for the leadership necessary to engage in truth politics.

That is the motivation behind Emanuel Pastreich’s run for the presidency.

Let’s go straight to Emanuel. Give us an introduction; Why are you engaging in truth politics?

Emanuel Pastreich:

I thank you very much for the opportunity to join you and I am glad to have a chance to address everybody about the truth.

When I announced my candidacy, and started to campaign in United States in February, 2020, it was so clear then, and it’s even more bitterly clear now, that it was no longer possible to talk about the truth in American politics. Essentially all political discussion has been frozen.

We’re no longer able to address serious issues. Instead, we are caught up in trivialities. We need to change direction in the United States, to get back to a politics that addresses real issues. And real issues are not just about, what Robert Kennedy talks about in his campaign, “the destruction of the middle class.” That has become a standard line in politics, but it doesn’t go anywhere near far enough.

The reality is that we face a systemic effort by a tiny handful of the extremely rich to destroy the United States, and the global economy, and to reduce us to a form of serfdom or slavery. We have faced a series of trials, starting with the Kennedy assassination in 1963, picking up speed with the 9/11 incident in 2001, and this trend reached its crescendo with COVID-19. During COVID19, the important issues our nation faced could no longer be addressed by politicians, or by the media in the United States. So, we have been essentially flying blind since 2020.

Rather than do what most political figures would do, which is to focus on what we are allowed to talk about, I decided that it was critical to address the issues that no one’s allowed to talk about. Like where does money come from? How is it created? What actually happened with 9/11 and COVID-19?

I wanted to ask citizens, how have we gotten into this out-of-control secret governance, defined by borders within the United States? How did this small group of the super-rich, using their various mouthpieces and puppets, manage to create this politics of grand guignol, of puppetry?

This “politics” makes it impossible to address any issue seriously. So that’s what my campaign is about.

Obviously, I’m not a professional politician to start with, and obtaining power is not my dream. I will run this campaign as best I can, with help from people like you, Chuck.

If somebody else is better at kissing babies. giving rally speeches, and he or she will step in and take my place. Then I will have no attachment to the power of the presidency.

However, I will say this: I haven’t seen anyone like that yet. I haven’t seen anybody who’s willing to take this degree of risk, who’s willing to actually run for president and to argue that we must face, head on, what’s going on in the United States, and not indulge in a limited hangout discussion about secondary issues.

Chuck Fall:

You got my attention with your frankness, and your candor, about the nature of what’s happened to our society. From the Green Liberty Perspective this approach is important because we argue that history has been stolen from us.

We remember the historical possibilities represented by figures like John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Freddy Hampton, and others. We remember the warning from Dwight Eisenhower about the power of the military industrial complex, and

how, when Kennedy heeded that warning it cost him his life.

The sixties, in my opinion, was a blood bath. We witnessed a brutal counter-revolution.

Yet those possibilities remain with us. Imagine if all of those figures had survived. Imagine what could have been-how American society might have unfolded very differently. It might have been a much kinder nation. I want to explore that potential here, because you are entering into the competition of politics for truth.  

We see this new politics today with Robert Kennedy Jr., another candidate for president. We have his materials up on the Green Liberty caucus website.

Kennedy’s statements are extraordinary in that he says flat out that the CIA was responsible for 9/11, and that they are behind Covid19.

Robert Kennedy is trying to break out and to take truth politics to the national level. And that is why there is no media attention for him. How will you address these issues from the outside, and what will you say?  

Where do you see national conversation going?

We are all struggling for air time, struggling to get our words out there. So, if Robert Kennedy’s campaign is an insurgency, and you go even further, what can you do and what can you offer

the movement? Can your campaign, and presidency, be a bully pulpit?

Emanuel Pastreich:

Obviously, I support Robert Kennedy’s campaign for President, as I’ve written before. I think there are some issues that he has to address more directly, but I support him. I’m not good at kissing babies and I can see he is a much more professional politician.

However, sadly, he’s taken a path which is very difficult, I would say even impossible. I think it’s an impossible task for him to get the Democratic party nomination.

You mentioned Kennedy’s attack on the CIA. This is a topic we could spend a lot of time on.

I’ll just make a statement which might be controversial enough to wake up the audience.

I’m not a big fan of that old “blame the CIA” analysis. That approach is like blaming butchers or assassins.

Those guys do what they’re told to do by powerful people, by a small group of extremely wealthy families in the United States—those people are the ones making the decisions.

I think that we have to understand correctly that we are talking about class.

I do not want to align myself with the left, or the right, especially since the left in the United States has been possessed by this “gender identity” demon. That identity politics has distorted political discourse and made it almost impossible to talk about class.

Class, by the way, was not a leftist term. The philosopher John Stewart Mills used the term nineteenth century in his analysis without a word about Marx or socialism.

We need to be talking about class, not identity.

I am disappointed in Kennedy’s failure to take on class as an issue, but I am supportive of his campaign.

I’d love to have a debate between myself and Mr. Kennedy, to make truth politics part of the process. But what I really want the American people to understand is that if we follow along with mainstream politics, if we let Biden stay in office, or, God forbid, we have a zombie apocalypse, Biden vs. Trump, if we have these people at consulting firms run the show behind the scenes, then we’re finished.

Those guys are hard at work creating a class society, one in which you, as an ordinary citizen, will not be able to own anything, and will be under surveillance 24 hours a day.

You will be worn down slowly, whether it’s by using the immigration trick, the manipulation of currency, or the outsourcing of manufacturing overseas. They are using any number of tricks to destroy your lives.

We need politics that address real issues:

How is money controlled? Who makes the real decisions in government? Obviously, it’s not Biden, and it wasn’t Trump either.

How can we counter this false politics? We cannot do so just at the top level. Any solution that relies on increased dependence on the Federal Government is not an answer. We need to organize ourselves at the local level.

That means creating our own communities—that has to be at the center of politics.

My position is as follows, and maybe you think it is radical, but I think that in a legal sense it is the only legitimate position a politician can take.

“If you were one of these politicians who sat there twiddling your thumbs while the whole 9/11 comedy show was going on, while the United States was shut down between 2001 and 2004, if you are one of those politicians who spent all his or her time talking about vaccines and lockdowns during operation COVID-19, if you bought into this whole fraud, then how can you possibly be ready to hold office? Basically, you have been collaborating with a corporate fascistic system.”

My job is to take that position, to go one step further than Kennedy can. I am not dismissing him. Maybe he is a far better candidate.

But we are not going to make any progress unless we stake out the front line where we will make our stand.

I believe that our position should be to say that those who have gone along with this massive criminal conspiracy over the last 20 years—and I’d be happy to go into detail about what that conspiracy was—that such people do not have any qualifications to address the American people, to lecture us about anything, really.

And if the media is not reporting on people like you, Chuck, people who are speaking truth, and there’s a whole growing number of people like us, then that media also has no legitimacy.

We don’t need to pay any attention to it, and we have to take it all down it, to take the whole system down.

That doesn’t mean I’m not an anarchist, that I think there should not be a government. The opposite is true.

We have to go back and establish a democracy and a republic that follows the basic principles of the constitution. Being a republic means having an accountable government that is relatively transparent in its processes.

We do not want secret government, a government that is the plaything of private equity, a small handful of multi-billionaire families, and that is for sale to the Saudis and Israelis, to powerful players in Russia, Japan, China, etc.

These guys, at home and abroad, bought stock in the United States and they are essentially trying to sell our country off at fire-sale prices to their private equity friends.

Chuck Fall:

You covered a lot of terrain there!

One thing I have noticed is that you take an acerbic tone, in comparison with other politicians.

You really want to take on the billionaire class

Let me talk another truth candidate, Cynthia McKinney. She recently made a broad appeal at the “Rage against War” rally. We are closely aligned with her at the Green Liberty Caucus in terms of our opposition to war and resisting the military industrial, complex. You take a similar position.

My question for you is, what can we do that is going to rally the masses? What’s it going to take to get people to support a liberty coalition?

You speak frankly about the rot generated by this opaque plutocracy. Some have written about the families behind these developments, and the history of banks and power.

You and I recently spoke with Howard and Rita of the Banking Monitoring Committee at the Green Party on these issues, about how money is created, how the economy can be made democratic, about public ownership of money can be a central part of economic policy.

You touch on these issues in your book “How to take down the Billionaires.”

You are practical in your suggestions, but in terms of contemporary politics, many would say the expressions are incendiary.

You are talking about class, and that we need to face the fact that class is a political issue. There really is a problem with the concentration of wealth in itself. This has gotten much worse under Covid. We witness this huge transfer of wealth.

So please just talk to the American people directly. What do you think we need to do to take down the billionaire class? And why do you think your words are not hyperboles but realistic and practical?

Emanuel Pastreich:

The super-rich have assembled teams of strategy and intelligence advisors who come up with plans for how to control us, ordinary people. This project is not entirely secret, but you need to search around to find out how we are being herded.

Most citizens are unaware of the degree to which wealth has been concentrated over the last 15 years, especially the last 5 years, so much so that a tiny handful of people essentially control more assets than 90% of the entire population, and these super-rich are concerned about protecting their own interests at any cost.

They use state crimes like 9/11 or COVID-19 to consolidate their power.

What is ignored in all the crazy debate about gender, Trump, racism and identity is how the entire military, industrial complex, the police homeland security complex, the financial banking complex, have been taken over by this class and crafted into a super-state, with NATO, World Economic Forum, and private equity firms as its backbone, a super-state that is run to protect their investments and their wealth.

When they went as far as to engage in massive state crimes like 9/11 and COVID19, they were crossing the Rubicon. Obviously, if these crimes are exposed, if a real organized opposition emerges, then all of them can be branded as criminals, taken down, and their assets seized.

For this reason, they do not want these topics to be discussed in politics, but they will allow you to blow off steam in conspiracy website postings.

The strategies they employ together to dumb down the population and to prevent the organization of real opposition has its roots in research conducted at DARPA and RAND back in the 1970s. Research showed how deep trauma could be induced in the entire population through traumatic events, like the Kennedy assassination, 9/11 or COVID-19. That trauma, combined with boredom and low-level stimulation of subconscious desires, creates a psychological state wherein the citizen is not able to conceive of what’s going on, and not capable of organizing resistance.

Operation COVID-19 was above all an effort to traumatize the population so that no one discusses what is going on, no one organizes resistance, and those who are interested in the public good are dismissed, even ostracized.  

What should we do?

We have to start to organize a new system of governance, starting with this small group here today. We are small but we are focused. If we reach out to our neighbors, form our own organizations for resistance that stand in opposition to the decadent collection of controlled opposition groups, we will get the ball rolling. We must say that we will not tolerate any of the current fictions, to say we won’t tolerate any of this.

This first step of setting ourselves apart from the compromised crowd requires a sharp cutting edge.

I apologize to those who may be offended by my harsh tone. I personally would prefer to speak in a polite manner.

I try to be as polite as I can towards all of you, the honorable citizens of the United States. But we have no choice, at this point, but to try to awaken the masses.

We have a large part of the population in the United States that is basically asleep. They cannot conceive of the scale the crisis, cannot imagine that a tiny group of the super-rich want to kill them off, destroy their ability to make money, to live independently, to be educated, to take care of their children, etc.

It is an enormous challenge for a politician like me to respond to the current takeover by the rich by organizing resistance to this class war—which many are not even aware of.

That is why, instead of trying to get the nomination of the Democratic Party, I have chosen rather this clarion call, wake up call, approach to politics.

It’s not my preference, but it’s necessary.

This approach has an impact on the larger political discourse. That is to say that if there is one person in the larger political discourse who is willing to start smashing the false idols, or, questioning candidates like Robert Kennedy, asking,  

“Why don’t you talk about 9/11?”

“Why don’t you demand that the assets of Pfizer, Moderna, and Black Rock be seized to compensate the people who suffered from the vaccines?”

Those questions will push the envelope for mainstream politics. This is good for the country and is good for Robert Kennedy.

It might even be good for the Democratic party, although I’m not so sure that organization can be saved.

Talking about the Democratic Party, some have praised Robert Kennedy for seeking the Democratic Party nomination and taking on the CIA.

Personally, I had a lot of trouble swallowing this line of argument. If I had to compare the criminality of the CIA and the Democratic Party, I would be late at night. I mean the assumption that you can work with the Democratic Party and take on the CIA is not clear to me.

The Democratic party is one of the best organized criminal syndicates in the world today.

I do not know, but I would guess that if you are looking for someone who is willing to risk his or her life for truth, for good governance, you would be better off looking for that person in the CIA than in the Democratic party today.

So, I am a bit skeptical about any candidate working within the Democratic or Republican parties.

Moreover, let us face facts. We are in the midst of a massive institutional collapse in the United States. We need to go back to the Constitution to get our bearings. And there is not a single word in the Constitution about the Democratic and Republican Parties that govern us.

They have no legitimacy. They are pay-to-play criminal syndicates serving private equity, much of it outside the United States. As far as I am concerned, they belong in the trash.

What if that means that the entire Congress is engaged in criminal activities? Well, I’m really sorry to have to take the harsh position of saying that they’re all criminals. But saying something like that is not factually wrong.

I hope that it doesn’t hurt your feelings to at least get this story out on the table and to declare that if everybody in authority participated in covering up for operation COVID-19, then in a legal sense they’re all collaborators. They’re all co-conspirators. We should just start our political discourse there.

Chuck Fall:

I want to mention that on the Green Liberty Caucus website we have postings written by Sasha Latypova. Ms. Latypova is a retired businesswoman deeply familiar with the FDA approval process. When she looked at the approval process for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccinations, she discovered that this was a national security operation, not a normal public health approval process. It was launched as a national security operation.

I remember back in February, 2020, when I read what was written in the mainstream media, and saw references to a “national security operation” being kicked into gear, I smelled a rat.

In hindsight we can see that this was what happened at the end of January, 2020.  Kennedy makes criticisms of the policies, which Sasha articulates more completely.

To put it simply, the Federal Covid response was an attack on the American people. You take a similar position.

This crisis is also linked to a real urgency to return to nature for our health, to restore nature in our nation, and to create supportive communities within our cities, in our neighborhoods, that create mutual aid associations for citizens.

Such mutual aid could be the organic expression of democracy in the community. In that vein, the writings of Murray Bookchin about libertarian municipalism are also featured on the website of the Green Liberty Caucus.

We want to put forth an alternative, but we recognize that one must be educated about what needs to be done.

We need a society that is authentic and human, rooted in the natural.

In your campaign you criticize the plutocracy, and talk about restoring integrity to a republic.

Tell us what that means for we the people in our lives, in our communities?

Emanuel Pastreich:

I speak in detail in my platform about how we can build a green society, a democratic economy, by returning to nature, returning to food, organic food, and by producing our own food after we take back all the land that has been bought up by multinational corporations and the super- rich from around the world.

We should actually own our own country. The best opportunity for creating jobs is a return to family farming. I that’s that should be a top priority for us. But farming is also about security, being food secure, and making sure that we’re healthy.

I would even go as far as to say that family farming is at the roots of the United States.

Let us look at where the United States came from: we signed the Constitution in 1787 that assumed a democratic society wherein the citizen would be engaged in the community that will be run democratically at the local level. The foundations for the democracy were to be agriculture. Citizens would produce their own food, and would not be dependent on corporations or banks.

But the Constitution is not where that vision of a participatory, democratic, agricultural society began.

The Constitution itself was inspired by another Constitution, the “Great Law of the Iroquois Nation” of 1722. That Great Law laid out a vision for  a sustainable and democratic society, and a participatory government. It was the Great Law that inspired people like Benjamin Franklin to conceive of a constitution unlike anything in Europe.

The roots of our Constitution are in the sustainable tradition of the native Americans. That is not about the past, but about the future. That native tradition is about how we’re going to survive.

At this moment the Biden administration is working day and night to make bioengineered food a requirement for living. Corporations will be allowed to bioengineer basically everything and to sell it to you without any labels. This dark food revolution is being forced on people by corporations who are buying up farmland and controlling distribution and sales for agricultural products. They will force the American people to eat food which has been bioengineered—we will have no choice.

The latest step is bioengineering food, both plants and animals, to include mRNA proteins that will act as a vaccine.

That will be we will have multinational corporations forcing us to eat things that alter our own genes. I don’t think we have any choice but to go back to family farms.

That will require an enormous shift in our thinking. The commercial media that you’re forced to watch from childhood is telling you that we need the stock market to go up to help the economy.

I say, as candidate for president, America does not need a stock market. The stock market is one of the most parasitic and dangerous parts of the American economy.

I am not against the idea of using stock. Stock can be an effective way to raise money, but the system, as it stands today is essentially fraudulent. The bankers have created a bubble economy, a false economy in which multinational investment, banks and private equity are able to create money out of nothing through the Federal Reserve. They, Goldman Sachs or Vanguard, can use that fake money to buy up real farmland critical to national security, to the security of the American people.

And when they make up that money, that “money” comes out of your pocket because your money in the bank is reduced in value through inflation. Inflation is not like the weather. It is the result of the dilution of your money by printing up money to finance stock buybacks, derivatives and other obscure products of the imagination that serve to enrich the wealthy, the parasitic class.

Tom Rodman:

I hope that we can learn from your knowledge of Asia. Our news sources about China and Korea, or Kazakhstan and central Asia, is quite limited.  Perhaps you can provide us some insights.  

Mark Goldman:

China is so complicated. What do you think Americans should know about China?

If you are president, how are you going to lead the nation and handle our relationship with China?

Emanuel Pastreich:

Asia is critical to my view of the world. I was a Chinese major at Yale, and I spent time in in Taiwan; I also I speak Japanese and Korean, and I deliver talks in those languages. I think deep knowledge of Asia is an important part of the puzzle.

We want to say that America needs a president who’s fluent in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Today most people would say that is an impossible demand. But, in fact, it should be obvious.  

Asia has become the central part of the world economy. Those countries are making decisions that affect Americans at home. And yet none of our American politicians have that ability in the languages, or even the sense that they need to know Asia that well.

But that sort of ignorance is not the case in China, Japan or Korea. In those countries the major political figures actually speak some English and can certainly read it.

They follow what is going on in the United States.

So, I want to say to the American people that I can read the languages and keep up on China, Japan, and Korea. I understand what is going on there.  

I want to state clearly that China is going to be an enormous problem for us, a challenge for us both in terms of who we are and what we want to be.

China is one-sixth of the world population. Any efforts to demonize China using some sort of “yellow peril” ideology are not going to be successful.

China could be a military threat in the future, but the United States itself is the greatest threat to the United States today. We would be much better off focusing on trying to get the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and the intelligence community to follow the Constitution, to report to Congress, and to respect the rule of law. That task is much more critical issue than fighting with some imagined Chinese threat.

Whether we are talking about trade or the environment, US-China conflicts are ultimately class issues. We have this handful of the super-rich in China and in the United States who put together, for example, operation COVID-19, and they cooperate to push this agenda to destroy the lives of the people in both countries.

The response should not be to demonize China. But rather to say, let’s organize people in the United States and in China to resist this takeover.

If the top-level people of the criminal corporate world in China and the United States are cooperating with each other to destroy us, then we had better cooperate with our peers among working class people of China, or, for that matter, of Europe, or Turkey, or other countries around the world.

I am talking about a return to the politics existed in the 1920s and 1930s, organizing working people around the world.

There are limits to what you can achieve in such internationalist, as opposed to globalist, movements. But the problem is that such efforts are nonexistent today.

The so-called “left” is lost in identity politics. They’re not committed to trying to find some way to take down billionaire parasite class around the world.

I could say a lot about China, but let me stress that the number one priority is to understand China, not to demonize it. Americans need to understand the economy of Sichuan province, to understand how Shanghai is different from Beijing.

We need to understand the Chinese and what they are trying to do.

I was in China last year, and I met a lot of Chinese ordinary workers, as well as intellectuals.

They’re not idiots. They know they’re under attack from this globalist operation COVID-19. They’re suffering from its consequences. They also know how China has been infiltrated by Black Rock, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, the whole nine yards of international investment banks and private equity. They are squeezing the Chinese.

Mark Goldman:

It is wonderful that we have a candidate willing to speak his mind and to speech truth to power in a way that is powerful.

It gives me hope that you understand that what is happening today is no entirely new. You talk about 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination. These state crimes go way back.

What has changed is that the ruling elite have taken off their mask. We now know what their agenda is.

That gives us hope for the future because now we can respond to the threat.

The problem is that we are so divided as a country. Some understand what Emanuel is talking about. But there is an awful lot of people that have never heard these words before. That is the challenge for us is how to we reach out to them so that they can understand what has happened, what the real danger is that we face today.

How do we reach people? How do we break through?

Chuck Fall:

How to overcome this cognitive dissonance?

Emanuel Pastreich:

I appreciate Mark’s question and as I ran for president from 2020 on this truth platform, I have spent a lot of time on the pike, I have a lot experience trying to talk to ordinary people about truth issues and state crimes.

I’ve learned a lot from talking with Mark. Cynthia McKinney’s efforts to take on state crimes from within government have been critical. Her efforts at Rage against War, and Chuck’s efforts, help us move beyond the divisions in the population that have been planned out by the powerful to mislead and divide us.

Divide and conquer is working principle for them.

What we’re doing today, organizing and discussing the facts, is the most important thing that we can do.

Everyone has his or her role. We shouldn’t tell you what your role should be. We should say that you, as citizens who are concerned about your country, your children, your families, and your friends, must be active in your own way to create a political environment wherein we can address real issues and formulate real solutions.

That is what contemporary politics does not offer us now.   

The process is not going to be easy. It’s going to require us to essentially take on everybody in the system because everyone is a collaborator.

I think the bottom line for the Green Liberty Caucus is that at the beginning it will seem like we are the oddballs. We are taking on everyone and we are doing what no one else is doing. That can give people the impression that we’re way out there. That is precisely what the billionaires want ordinary people to think.

But I have no doubt that there is an enormous number of people in the United States who are aware that there is something profoundly wrong, an enormous number of people don’t believe the 9/11 and COVID-19 narratives. They’re looking for some alternative.

Our narrative must be repeated enough times to get them to listen. It has to be articulated with enough authority, enough self-confidence, and enough bravery that people start to wake up and get themselves organized.

I’m not a fortune teller, so I can’t tell you exactly how things will unfold. If we look back at history, such political transformations have happened before.

In the 1920s, there were strikes organized against the ruthless automobile manufactures to demand basic rights for workers, and also in steel mills, and elsewhere. The strikes were crushed and most people looked the other way. But the presidential candidate Al Smith was forced to take labor seriously by those events and the foundations for the transformation of the backwards and racist Democratic Party were laid.

Later, in 1932, and especially in 1937, the truth about exploitation of workers, became mainstream politics.

Those years of struggle, when the politicians were out to lunch, was not a waste of time.

The foundations were laid for a massive shift in thinking.

That’s what we’re doing now. We’re laying the foundations for a truly new politics. Whether it will be me at the center, or somebody else, is not important.

Mark ran for president on a truth platform and paid a tremendous price. He passed the torch down to me and I will pass it down to others beyond me. We will reach the promised land. Whether it is in my lifetime is not the critical issue.

I think the vision for the United States should be grounded in the United States Constitution, based on universal principles of human dignity and sustainability, and must avoid those left- right, conservative-liberal rhetorical traps that have been set up for us by the advisors to the super-rich. If we do so, there will be hope for us going forward.   

Chuck Fall:

Tell us why you’re running as an independent. Would you consider running navigating into the Green party and competing at their convention?

Where do you see yourself heading? You don’t have to make any hard decisions, now, but I would certainly champion you as a candidate in the Green party. I think you are a green party candidate as you value nature, you address environmental issues and you see technology as a moral issue, not just a scientific issue. I see in you the humanitarian spirit of Martin Luther King when he said,

“Let us realize that the arc of the moral universe is long but that it bends toward justice.”

You could be a solid Green Party candidate because you have established yourself as a leader in the truth movement.

How might you approach the Greens?

Emanuel Pastreich:

So, regarding my decision to run as an independent back in February, 2020, it was clear that if I had tried to jump through the hoops set out by any of the political parties, the Green Party included, that I would not have been able to address the important issues. I would not have been able to come out as the only candidate opposed to operation COVID 19 in February, 2020.

Now things are a little bit different. I feel that it would be meaningful to enter into a discussion with other candidates in the Green Party and even to become an active member of the Green party. I am happy to enter into that process, absolutely.

As I mentioned with regards to Robert Kennedy Jr., however, I think it’s a profound mistake to try to get the nomination from the Democratic party. The Democratic party is just too far gone; it’s beyond redemption.

The Green Party has also been compromised profoundly on multiple critical issues. Maybe they felt they had no choice. Maybe they were issued a series of classified directives limiting what they could talk about. Maybe Homeland Security has assigned them a detail that dictates what topics they can and cannot treat. I do not know.

I am sympathetic to the cause. But we need to create a Green Party that can actually win. We need a candidate who can actually win the Presidency.

There’s only one way to do that, and that is to seize the bulls by the horns, to go full throttle truth politics.

If the Green Party is willing to adopt truth politics, everything will be different. They can turn to the Democrats and Republicans and just say flatly:

“Get the hell off the stage! You guys have no legitimacy. You participated in all these criminal activities over the last twenty years. You took all that money and you worked with private equity and billionaires to secretly push their agenda. You have the blood of 9/11 and COVID 19 all over your dirty hands. You guys have nothing to say. Get out of here!”

If the Green Party can say that, then they are playing from a position of strength and from that moment on the Greens are on track to win the election.

The question will be where the Green Party wants to go.

I am completely open. If the Green Party is willing to include me in future debates, I would be deeply honored.

But I do not think I can tone down, moderate, my positions for a middle-of-the-road, “think left; live right” audience.

Chuck Fall:

I agree with you. We have an essay on our website declaring that the Green Party should lead, should be out in front by denouncing state crimes. I found the language for speaking out about state crimes in the speech that Cynthia McKinney delivered.

It would be wonderful to have a round table discussion with you and Cynthia.

Sasha is also a truth leader, and we had a conversation about truth. I just say frankly that was a state crime; that wasn’t. We’re just frank and honest. That means that we command the space. Sasha refers to it as “the language space.” We are fighting against this “condition of silence,” this taboo realm in the media.

Robert Kennedy is breaking with the taboo by speaking frankly. We can debate whether he is going far enough, or too far. Is he trying in your opinion?

Emanuel Pastreich:

The best analogies for this trauma that leaves behind silence are incest, rape, and child abuse.

The American people or citizens have been so traumatized by what was done to us over the last 50 years, and especially the last 20 years, that we’re incapable of even conceiving of how we’re being abused. Waking ourselves up out of that emotional trauma, being able to address and say this person raped me, that that that’s the first step.

When we get there, when the American people can admit, can recognize, that our government was run by this handful of the rich and that they were using our government to destroy us, demolish our lives, both intellectually and physically, then, and only then, can we move forward.

Chuck Fall:

I hear you. Spider and I have debated the impact of Edward Bernays’s ideas about social control on conditioning of the population via media propaganda.

There is a violence in those big lies. We are told big lies over and over again until we are conditioned.  

World Trade Center Building Seven just collapses by itself and we’re told, “The fire did that.” That violence of language and thinking induces in us deep cognitive dissidence. That cognitive dissidence is how people cope. I have an article on our website entitled, “Navigating the Shoals of Cognitive Dissonance in a Sea of Big Lies” which was inspired by Fran Shur’s powerful essay, “Why do good people go silent – or worse – about 9/11?”

Mark, Spider and I are interested in the question of trauma. We are a traumatized nation, and people don’t even think about it. They don’t think they don’t consider that fact in politics. You’re willing to speak to that and acknowledge that. I think your analogy is a fair one.

We must call out state crimes, and other forbidden topics in politics like the fake money supply, and use these topics to galvanize the masses, giving us a rallying point.

Spider:

Let us go back to what you spoke about a few minutes ago, the history of fascist endeavors for mass control. You mentioned Edward Bernays.

I will refresh everyone’s memory. Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist of the Nazi Party, idolized Bernays. American people were first exposed to his techniques when primed to swallow the United States entry into the First World War. Bernays went on to find ways to get women to start smoking, and so on.

Americans have no idea of the level of psychological manipulation that they are exposed to. Americans live in a fantasy that this is a country that’s beyond reproach, that would never do anything evil. Certainly not to their own people.

In order to hold such an opinion of America, you have to overlook a lot of stuff like the Tuskegee experiments in which African Americans were purposefully allowed to suffer from untreated syphilis, and many other incidents which most Americans probably do not even know about.

If someone brings up these unpleasant facts, many Americans will try to deny them, try to maintain a level of comfort by clinging to an image of America.

So let us dissect fascism. Why does it work? And why do we see it reemerging today? Granted all the warnings we have been given over the last fifty years, why do we see it raising its ugly head again?

Is there something in human nature that allows a person suffering from a certain level of stress accept fascism as a way to feel safe? I think that if we can crack that nut, understand the psychology behind fascistic politics, we can go a long way towards reaching people.

Chuck Fall:

I think that the truth movement speaks to this question, and that’s why there’s a yearning for an answer to the problem of fascism. There is a desire for unity, for building a liberation coalition. We are making efforts, but we do not have a unifying theme.

I think your candidacy for president as a truth leader, provides that theme. And I that’s why I’m on board, and delighted to be advancing this conversation.

Emanuel Pastreich:

So many people involved in the truth movement who come from the conservative side, whether we are talking about the JFK assassination, 9/11, or COVID19. But when they describe this phenomenon, they don’t say “fascism,” they say “communism.”

Yet they are describing the same totalitarian trends, whether they call it communist, or socialist, or leftist.

The super-rich intentionally promote different terms, fascism and communism, with different spins so as to have us fighting each other over ideological perceptions instead of combatting totalitarian rule by the few.

Chuck Fall:

There’s an emerging techno-totalitarianism that’s coming down the pike to get us, and I agree with those on the right that that’s happening. There is a unity that is growing across the board as we recognize global capitalist, totalitarianism.

Emanuel Pastreich:

I want to stress that this campaign is not about me and it’s not about elections. It’s about building substantial movements which are well organized,

I don’t care that much about elections. Elections aren’t all that meaningful these days. But rather I want to change the dialogue on politics and the way in which countries are run.

So, what would be the next step?

The next step is to organize ourselves, so we can make decisions and come to consensus among ourselves about where we stand. Then we can go forward, working with other groups, and put forth proposals for policy.

The failure to articulate concrete policies is one of our greatest weaknesses. There are thoughtful journalists like Whitney Webb, Stephen Corbett, or Caitlin Johnstone who do good work. Their numbers are increasing.

But they are not proposing policy. They are not risking their lives, or careers, standing up to say in person to the government, “you have no legitimacy.”

That is what our role should be. I imagine a future date when the Green Party’s Green Liberty Caucus goes to Homeland Security.

We say to them: “Give us all the information on what happened on 9/11.”

They will just be silent, not sure what to say. Or they will say, “Oh, well, we can’t talk about this. We’ll give you an answer in 5 years.”

Unlike the gutless progressives of the past who are willing to wait forever, until the entire nation is a fascist playground, for things to just get better, unlike them we will respond to Homeland Security thus, “Obviously you’re following classified directives that do not allow you to tell us what the Constitution guarantees us the right to. You have no legitimacy. Resign immediately, all of you!”

That’s when we start to get some action. They will have to decide what they’re going to do.

They can arrest us, or they can try to ignore us.

But if we keep knocking on the door. Keep repeating the same legitimate questions, at a certain point some of the people inside Homeland Security, or Department of Defense, or the White House, are going to start saying to themselves, “Actually, these guys have more legitimacy than Biden, or, Trump, or any of these pay-to-play clowns. Maybe we should start to talk to them.”

At that moment they will open the door a crack and then we will see real change.

It will not be the start of a dialogue, but a shift in the structure of power.

We are talking about how decisions are made, who makes decisions. It is not Biden or McCarthy, or anyone in Congress. All of them, without exception, are being fed material by consulting firms and lobbyists who work for the major financial players. First, we have to tell this truth to the people.

We need to form a very different kind of political party. I don’t like calling it a “party.” It has to be a movement. Large movements like this have been successful before in the United States. We had mass movements in the thirties that actually changed things. It’s totally possible and it’s not about supporting me.

Chuck Fall:

That is what we are doing here. We are having a conversation about how to build a movement and how to find the language that will build a cohesive, coherent program.

There are examples in Uruguay of such programs, and they are linked to the cooperative economies we are building.

So, this must be a multi-layered conversation, and this is our first.

We will meet up again to talk about planning a provisional government, taking down the billionaire class, and building relations across the ideological continuum, so that we can form a caucus that offers a coherent program for the nation.

Green Liberty Caucus Link

「朝鮮半島の統一と日本の蘇生」

「朝鮮半島の統一と日本の蘇生」

基調演説

地球平和を日本から創る

今こそ日本本来の精神を取り戻そう

衆議院第一会館

(2023年 2月24日午後 六時)

Emanuel Pastreich

エマニュエル パストリッチ

アジアインスティテュート

理事長

私は若い頃から日本の文化に深い関心を持ち、源氏物語から夏目漱石の小説まで幅広く日本文学を読んで深く感銘を受けたアメリカ人です。ライシャワー博士、マンスフィールド大使、日本の文化と歴史を理解して本当の協力に努力した知識人の業績に学んで、今この危機の中に新しい転換を日本の文化の中に掘り出そうとしています。

今度は謙虚な態度をもって日本に伺って、朝鮮半島の統一、新しいアジアの秩序と日本の文明の蘇生、それにこれからのアメリカの本当の役割に対して皆さんにいろいろお教えをいただきたくまいりました。アメリカができることは大変限界があり、かえって日本人が内なる力を発揮してくだされば、この闇の中に希望が生じると信じております。

私は若い頃から日本の文化に深い関心を持ち、源氏物語から夏目漱石の小説まで幅広く日本文学を読んで深く感銘を受けたアメリカ人です。

これからの安全保障について 科学的な基礎に基づき、長期的な戦略をたてて、一般市民を中心と考えて日本人の自由と幸福のため、協力すべきだと思います。

日本人と一緒に努力します。

それにおいての新しい日米同盟をお約束し、精一杯真相を追及することをお約束します。真実のための同盟、平等のための同盟、グローバリストに対抗する同盟です。それは東洋と西洋文化の融合をもとにして、統一した朝鮮と日本を中心となるあたらしいアジアの秩序を造像して実行することになります。

日本の文化は細かいことに対する感覚の文化

相手に対する思いやりの文化

でもそれと同時に大変な勇気をもつ文化です。

西洋の文明が混乱に陥るこの瞬間に東洋の文明に期待しており、日本人の勇気にきたいしております。

文明の崩壊は簡単に政策をすすめて解決できません。悪い人を追い出して解決できません。

昔「葉隠れ」を読んで感銘を受けた

自分を捨てて初めて自分の意志を表現できる。

ドイツのゲーテもいいました。

「お金をなくしても全部をなくしたことにはならない。時間を失ってもすべてをうしなうわけではない。しかし勇気を失うことはすべてを失うことだ。」

しかし、日本人が武士道を忘れてコロナの祟り、安倍首相の暗殺の背景にある「影の帝国」の侵略に怯えています。環境を壊して、非人間的な社会に変身にさせる動きにも怖がって何も言えない状態。

女性を商品にして、市民のちょっとした店を潰して、町を砂漠に創ることを力なく傍観する人が多い。

それは日本の立派な伝統ではない。日本が主体性をもって日本を日本らしく作って、アジアをまた立派な文明に戻して、地球に望みがあるように立てるのは日本のリードする役割。

朝鮮半島の統一と日本の蘇生

東洋の文明の新興、日本の精神的蘇生、アヘン戦争以来中心となった西洋の消費、快楽主義を克服するにはなぜ 朝鮮半島統一が重要

分断朝鮮半島は国連の失敗を象徴している。何人かのお金持ちが人類の将来を左右することを象徴している。その分断は日本国内の社会的距離とつないでいます。

統一は人類の将来です。ただ、何人かが地球を統制するのは統一ではない。統一は精神的に隣の市民と一緒に村を作る課題、村から市民に責任がある政府を作り、政府から透明な国際社会をつくる。

競争ではなくて、協力

衝突ではなくて 協和

戦争ではなくて 平和

健全な文化が日本から発すれば、朝鮮半島、東アジアを変身させる過程に日本が変身しあす。

日本は革命的な考えが必要。G7の準備ではない。

タイと一緒に帝国の植民地にならなかった。

伝統がいきている。

朝鮮半島の統一はやはり新しい文明を作り、新しい国を建国する作業です。平和の文明をつくる作業です。安い北朝鮮の労働力を利用してお金を儲かるチャンスではない。

日本人は新しいめにみえない挑戦を把握して新しい文明を作る勇気がありますか。その勇気の伝統はいますけど。

あの昔研究した荻生徂徠の「政談」を思い出します。

「政談」には荻生徂徠は囲碁をうって勝つに二つの方法があるといいます。

1囲碁のルールをマスターすること

2囲碁のルールをつくること

後者は歴史にそのチャンスが非常に少ない。でもこの時代はそのような時代です。

日本があたらしい国際秩序、新しい文明をつくるなら大変な力になります。それは高い武器のことではなくて先端技術ではなく、お金の問題ではない。

まずここからきょうから人生に何が価値あるのかを国のもっとも重要な対話にしましょう。

新しい日本、新しい東アジアのために明治維新みたい

それ以上関ケ原のような変化が必要。

上関ケ原の伝統

譜代大名、徳川を支持した大名

外様大名、直接に支持しない大名を合わせて新しい体制をつくってお互いの信頼と相互の影響力を利用して

参勤交代をもって300年も維持できた体制をつくった。国連以降の国際社会の行くべき方向。日本しかできない。

あいてを壊してしまっては長期的な平和を得られない知恵。

関ケ原はアヘン戦争とは性格は正反対

いま世界大戦に臨む国際社会に希望を抱かせる唯一の方法

アヘン戦争と反対の模範

私たちはコロナの危機、文明とイデオロギーの危機に直面しています。アヘン戦争の規模の危機です。

消費と成長、永遠の国際貿易と投資による経済は終焉に近づいています。新しい文明はここから、日本からうまれてきます。

それは消費文化と国際貿易のはじめ

コロナは文明に対する攻撃、人間性に対する攻撃。アヘン戦争とにています。アヘン戦争の時は日本には唯一にアジアで対策を準備して成功させた。今度はコロナには

コロナみたいな大規模文明戦争は大変な危機いながら、大変なチャンスです。普通とんでもできない改革地政学的な変化ができる環境を作ってくれた。

これをもって世界大戦をするのではなくて、世界平和をつくりましょう。まず朝鮮半島と日本から

そのプロセスにかけて日本は変身して知的、科学的、文明的なリーダーになります。

いまと反対。いまは日本は技術などにリードしますが、優先順位は外国で決められます。しかも古代からの日本の哲学と知恵が無視される。

日本人は朝鮮半島に対する否定的な態度

脱亜思想の残屑はその一つの原因

北朝鮮という独裁永遠に変わらない。望みがない。私たちは武器を買って準備するしかない。臆病と絶望に陥る傾向。日本に蔓延るはびこる受身的な態度と観点。平和を作れない観点。

2)朝鮮半島は統一すれば日本に競争者ができて経済によくない。 

これは戦略ではない。競争ではなくて協力の可能性をしか想像できない。しかも歴史問題は永遠にのこるという錯覚。歴史問題は既成特権が自分の力をまもるためにすすめられたもの。複雑な歴史現実を無視して日本は加害者、韓国は被害者としかいわない世の中を作った。日本の被害者を無視して、朝鮮の加害者を無視すること。 

しかも朝鮮半島の統一が硬くなった日本社会の構造にもたらす刺激を無視します。それは勘違いです。新しい制度ができる。新しい国を作れるという希望を市民をしらすと以前不可能な改革が可能になる。

日本経済の軍事化の危険性についてはだれもなにもいわない。朝鮮半島統一と平和の時代は唯一日本を救う機会かもしれない。

過剰生産に悩んでいる日本には政治家が簡単に戦争によって経済に刺激を与える考えが強まっているようで。武器は経済のエンジンになる傾向がある。

朝鮮半島統一にさんせいすれば、本当の安全保障。環境の崩壊、市民を馬鹿にする反知的文化普及、情報戦、新しい体と脳を攻撃「武器」のために準備すべき。日本は言及も許されていない戦争に対して準備をしないといけない。

統一朝鮮半島と日本は古代にならって、新しい共同体になり、アメリカ合衆国とEUのまちがいを繰り返せないでアジアの文明をもとにして仏教、儒教、道教、神道などの泉に汲み、国民、地球民を基礎にして立てられます。

そのため、真実のため、正義のため、健全な文化のため、戦いの準備をして、でもそれは軍事化とはちがいます。多国籍投資銀行の武器販売は市民を奴隷にします。

真実がない限り民主主義あり得ない。科学がない限り、医学はあり得ない。その現実を認めましょう。

くるっている制度は問題解決できない。革命的な変化が必要である。

 

アインシュタイン博士がいったように

「どんな問題もその問題を生み出した意識のレベルでは、解決することができない。」

私が先日ワシントンからやってきました。そこで私たちが慣れていたアメリカの制度、組織、大学、新聞などの崩壊を直接見ました。この歴史の変局はどんなに悲惨であっても否定できません。

これからどうしますか。

残念ながら、日本人の知識人がアメリカに依存する一方です。

その反対であるべき。

アメリカ人が日本人の助が必要。助とはアメリカ製の武器を買うことを意味しません。

この危機の中にウクライナ戦争が象徴する文明と制度の崩壊の中に、日本はお金をだして日本の利益をまもる政治家を応援したり、日本を広報する会社を雇ったりすることは方法ではない。

日本から健全な国際秩序をつくるべき。

もしかしていま国際社会の崩壊はロマ帝国の4世紀の崩壊とにているかもしれない。

その現実を直視すべき

でも同時に新しいチャンスをつかむ想像力も必要。

ロマが崩壊したその当時にロマ帝国の東に新しい都Byzantiumビザンチウム

が盛んになり、その後千年も新しい秩序の首都となった。

日本もその役割を演じるかもしれない。もっと建設的な国際社会をここから、今日から。

はじめの一歩は日本人が日本の素晴らしい文明を盾にして影の帝国に対抗して、新しい国際社会を作ること。

日本は影の帝国に抵抗できる昔からの伝統があり、ほかの国がもてない独立性もあります。

しかも朝鮮半島の統一に大きな貢献をする日本をそれをきっかけに変わります。

例えば、憲法は変わる可能性ある。それは「戦争できる国」というせまい、もしかして危ない意味でも憲法改編ではない。それより平和を中心として日本の古代からの素晴らしい平和思想、全世界の政治哲学を収集してこのじだいにもっともあっている新しい憲法を作ることを意味します。

朝鮮半島にも同時に同じように憲法をかいて建国します。建国は憲法の一部書き直すこととはちがいます。新しい国をつくることです。危険性がありますか。もちろんあります。でもkのように漂流すればもっともっと危険です。

憲法は国民のためです。多国籍都投資銀行のためではない。お金持ちのためではない。

最後に新しい朝鮮半島と新しい日本は新しい国連と直接関連しています。

国連は長いプロセスの結果であり、大変不足な制度です。まず19世紀の末からハーグ国際平和会議が続いて、第一世界大戦を防ごうとして、そこに平和のための具体的な政策を実施した。第一世界大戦以降は国際連盟が出発して歴史にはじめてはっきりした平和のための国際機関ができた。でも第二次世界大戦がさけられなかったので1949年に国連ができた。

その国連もいまその命の終焉に近づいています。今度東洋と西洋の文明を融合して国連を超えて現在の国際社会が悩んでいる問題を直接扱う新しいglobal governance 機関に進化してその本部を日本あるいは日本と朝鮮半島に置けばいいと思います。

今度のあたらしいGlobal governance は朝鮮半島統一からはじめるものとして

金融ではなく人を中心とします。

戦争と競争ではなくて

平和と協力を中心とします。

短期的な収益ではなくて

長期的な精神と文明を中心とします。

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日時 2023年5月21日 (日)

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幼少期から人間社会の矛盾を見つめ続けてきた著者が、欲望と狂気にテーマを置き、書き上げた渾身のエッセイ「欲望と狂気が織りなす日本社会」を執筆しました。今回は、その出版記念パーティーを三鷹の老舗フルーツショップ「一富士」さんが経営する「Café Ichifuji 」で開催します。

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18:15 開場(Café ichifujiさんは18時までカフェ営業されています。恐れ入りますが、早めに会場に着いた場合は外でお待ちいただき、お店へのご配慮をお願い致します。)

18:45 開始の挨拶

18:50 三鷹市議会議員 伊沢けい子さんによる本の紹介

19:00 著者 河中 葉による本の解説、講演会(30分)

19:30〜 懇親会

19:55 閉会の挨拶

20:00 終了

Crying out against the drive for world war

Crying out against the drive for world war

Emanuel Pastreich

April 29, 2023

https://vimeo.com/822227352?share=copy

https://vimeo.com/822227352?share=copyhttps://vimeo.com/822227352?share=copy

I want to speak to you today about the grave situation we face, a crisis of the soul and of the nation that politicians fear to even mention as they bury us in talk about domestic programs.

When NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, and declared to the world that “Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO” and then he announced the next day that “all NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of NATO” he was essentially stating that the institutional groundwork for a world war has been all laid down for us and that a dictatorial institution, shrouded in secrecy, called NATO, will seize control of the entire operation and enforce “full interoperability” within the militaries of the countries that have had the misfortune to become members of NATO.

“Full interoperability” means, for those unfamiliar with such technical military terms, that decisions within the military will be made in secret by a cabal of select military officers reporting directly to the billionaires.  

Under the rule of Stoltenberg, an unelected general, the way forward to world war can no longer be impeded by mere citizens who arrogantly pretend they have ideas that they are entitled to express, that they have a right to hold opinions other than those fed to them by the New York Times or Fox News.

This push to destroy the chain of command in the militaries and in the governments of NATO members, the nations of Europe, Turkey, and the United States, has been extended to Asia as well. The bureaucrats and politicians of Japan, of the Republic of Korea, and of Australia and New Zealand have been told, in unambiguous terms, that they also must turn over the chain of command for their countries to NATO, using the newly invented AP4 (Asia-Pacific Partners) system, and that their nations will be lassoed into a drive for war with China–against the will, and the interests, of their citizens, against the interests of every child on earth.

This silent coup d’état has been advanced through the promotion of intelligence sharing, interoperability, and military exercises.

Each of these words has a special meaning that you are entitled to understand.

“Intelligence sharing” means that the information required for a nation to make decisions on critical security issues is being farmed out to multinational corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, and that the nation state no longer controls its military, no longer can decide its response in a crisis.

“Interoperability” means that only certain weapon systems can be used, those built by Lockheed Martin or General Dynamics, and that those weapons cannot be serviced, or modified, by third parties.

“Military exercises” (which are increasing in frequency) means that the militaries of each country in NATO (and allies in Asia) must work within an opaque and oppressive chain of command wherein officers practice being told how to wage war by forces that are invisible to them.

That means that neither the politicians, nor even the high-ranking generals, will have any say in this planned rush towards death.  

And what has been the response of my colleagues who would run for president, or for congressman, to this push for world war? What words of protest have we heard from our elected officials in Washington DC as they are rushed around in limousines to and from all-too-important meetings?

Well, although there have been a few controversial comments about vaccine safety, about the destruction of the middle class, a morbid silence hangs over Washington DC like a shroud; the silence of the lambs.

I remember when the Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia spoke out against the plans for a disastrous and unprovoked invasion of Iraq—which was nothing in comparison with a war between NATO and Russia, or between NATO and Russia and China.

Senator Byrd said then, and I say now,

“Today I weep for my country. I have watched the events of recent months with a heavy, heavy heart. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. The image of America has changed. Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination.” 

I ask you politicians running for office why you have not condemned this rush to world war?

You have no legitimacy, and no right, to bamboozle the American people with your trinkets and your dribble.

But it is not enough to denounce our leaders as cowards and clowns, as prostitutes and lackeys. We must first recognize the truth, and at this moment, facing a world war that may well kill us all, we cannot wait for truth.

The truth will set us free, or as James Baldwin wrote,

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

Or, as Frederick Douglass put it,

“Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.”

Let us stop accepting half-truths. Let us stop assuming that we must accept certain lies in order to be allowed to speak about some truths.  

Let me, for a change, speak the truth to you, honored citizens.

The reason why no politician can stand up against the rush for war being promoted by multinational investment banks, private equity, and a host of parasitic entities is NOT simply that the politicians are corrupt and cowardly, selfish and narcissistic—although they are all of those things too. No, the truth is that the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other parts of the federal government that have been largely privatized and rendered up as cat’s paws for the rich and powerful to use have issued classified directives that prohibit the discussion of critical issues like the drive for world war, the 9.11 incident, COVID19 and other operations—with serious consequences for anyone who violates those directives.

Such classified directives are accompanied by secret laws (whose existence is not secret). The Congress passes secret laws that prohibit certain actions by public figures.

Secret law is as binding as federal law—but disclosing its use is illegal and punishable by heavy fines.

The use of these unconstitutional secret directives and laws renders impossible the discussion of the most serious issues facing our country, even as our politicians boast of our democracy. All politicians recognize, and accept, this criminal and deadly deal with the devil, an arrangement resulting from years of corporate and bureaucratic power playing footsie.

It is not the first time in history that the control of government and of the military has been taken over by a hidden elite that are ready to kill millions in order to protect their wealth and power.

In the intolerable days of early summer, 1914, citizens across Europe watched in horror as the institutions of government embraced a suicidal march towards war without any space for discussion or for diplomacy. The leaders of France, Germany, England, Russia and Austro-Hungary appeared to be possessed by evil spirits forcing them to take steps that would leave millions of people dead, killing an entire generation of young men—young boys—for sport.

Later, however, it was revealed that these nations had signed numerous secret treaties between them that forced the hands of politicians and bureaucrats—and made it impossible for government to reflect the will of the people. The narrow interests of a handful of the rich, the Rothchilds, the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rockerfellers, were promoted at the expense of the rest of the world through such secret governance.

Such an unholy politics of secret governance is precisely what we face today. If any of us survive, no doubt those classified directives, and secret treaties between nations that are used to enforce the COVID19 operation, or to force the drive for war with Russia and China, will be released decades in the future.

What kind of a president do I want to be?

What kind of a president do I want to be? I want to be a president who serves the role of president, making decisions in accord with the law, and following the constitution in a manner that reflects the interests of the American people. I want to do so in a transparent and scientific manner, and I want to treat the people as rational thinking citizens, not consumers, who are entirely capable of understanding my speeches and of coming to their own conclusions without being manipulated by advertising and nefarious public relations campaigns.  

I do not want to make money from secret bribes, or to give the veneer of legitimacy to criminal operations meant to destroy our world.

When the so-called progressive politician Bernie Sanders endorsed Joe Biden’s bankrupt campaign for president immediately, we knew that the system was broken beyond repair. Joe Biden at 80, and Donald Trump at 76 make the confused and aged leaders who oversaw the fall of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev at 75 and Yuri Andropov at 68, seem young by comparison.

I ask that you pull pack for a moment from the steam of lies and manipulative images, that the powerful are drowning us in, and that you think seriously about how we can take back control of our minds, of our families, of our economy, and of our government, and that you do so before the rich and powerful have dragged us into wars that we cannot escape from.

Their goal, without any doubt, is to create a crisis wherein we will have no choice but to enter the dark prison cell that they have lovingly prepared for us in advance.

『日本が世界的危機を乗り越えて再興するために』パストリッチ博士の講演

『日本が世界的危機を乗り越えて再興するために』

エマニュエル パストリッチ 所長

アジア研究所 The Asia Institute アジアインスティチュート

日本再興と未来を考える会

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Green Liberty Caucus addresses Green Party USA on Pastreich and Truth Politics

The Green Liberty Caucus

EMANUEL PATREICH ADVANCES TRUTH POLITICS

Can truth politics around 9/11 launch a presidency?

Interview with Richard Gage on 9.11 Truth

Can 9/11 Truth launch a presidency?

Argument for why he should be president.

See the video click at his substack: https://emanuelprez.substack.com/p/the-super-rich-vs-humanity

Emanuel Pastreich is an interesting person to follow. Check out his work at Global Research. Thank God for the Canadians.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/emanuel-pastreich

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We need a real strong message about liberation going into the 2024 electoral season. For this reason I support Emanuel Pastreich’s strong anti-plutocracy and pro-democracy and pro-nature and pro-humankind messages. Emanuel Patreich advances truth politics – Green Liberty Caucus

Maybe we need to start a meme about ending impunity: https://greenlibertycaucus.org/wp-content/uploads/End-Impunity-start-the-meme.pdf


Chuck Fall
Oregon Delegate

The Green Party

「コロナ祟りに惑う日本」の書評

「コロナ祟りに惑う日本」の書評

サットーヴァ メグミ

とても素晴らしい著書でした。

ありがとうございます【紙の書籍でしか読めませんよ】

圧倒的な知のキャリアが背景にある著者のパストリッチ博士の日本語の最新著書です。

膨大な知識の中から精査して、分析して、国際情勢の時系列も縦軸横軸に編み上げて、、、

選択した貴重な情報を見せてくれている著書でした。

タイトル通りコロナ関連の情報はもちろん重要な内容ですが、グローバリズムや米国の思想の歴史、アジアにおけるそれぞれの国の変化と実情、などがわかりやすく項目ごとに書かれてます。

前頭前野と偏桃体の間の支配争い、階級闘争を越えた先の未来、市井の人間が創る可能性、絶望的ではない日本の未来をどのように作り上げるか??など本書でしか知ることが出来ない内容が読みやすくまとまっており、大変ありがたいです。

私が個人的に思うことは、Google万能の時代はとうに終了していて、WEBの限界はあらゆる場面で証明されたように感じます。

ただしWEBが衰退することはありませんから、用途やジャンルによって使い分けるようになるのでは?というのが私見です。

パストリッチ博士の著書はオンラインブックでは危険かもしれません。

日本に起きた様々な事例も書かれてますし、博士の情報分析のおかげでつながる点と点もありました。

ユーモラスなイラストも楽しく学びになりました。
やはりユーモアは大切ですね。実感しました。

この数年間の、パンデミック以降の疑問の答えがすべて書かれているのでは?(しかしパストリッチ博士はそのような意図で書かれていないとは思います)

情報の縦軸横軸をながめるうち、ストンと腑に落ちる体験が出来ることは保証いたします。

自分にとって2023年の博士はハンナ・アーレントです。

コロナ祟りに惑う日本
エマニュエル・パストリッチ (著)
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4815037302/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

アジアインスティチュート

アジアインスティチュート

The Asia Institute

アジアインスティチュートは、アジアで見受けられる世界レベルの問題を扱う初めての汎アジア的シンクタンクである。アジアから全世界における関心事を包括し、適切な観点を示すべく専念する。技術、国際関係、経済から環境分野にいたるまで、多様な討論が可能な客観的な場を提供する。

アジアインスティチュートは4つの課題に焦点を当てる。

1) 新しい係の秩序にする正確な理解

グローバル化により物理的距離が大きな障害とならず、地球の多種多様な個体が未だかつてない連携の下、活動している。その新たなる国際社会におけるインターネット、外交、言論、貿易、そして移民の分野で生じている変化の原因を調べ、客観的に分析する。

2) 動と環境問題の影響

急速に進む気候変動、環境、生態の問題を捉え、社会、経済、技術、そして思想との関わりを検証する。

 3) 技術の発展と社会の変化

 日進月展する技術が我の社と考え方にいかなる影響を及ばしているのか。その技術の展の背景にいかなる構造があり、社経済などにいかなる影響を、目に見えないものも含め、えているのか。

 

 

4.反知性主義の克服

人間は社会的な存在であるが、それがゆえに起こる摩擦を知の獲得によって乗り越えようとしてきた。しかし、昨今は歴史的・客観的な事実を無視して、自分の願望を通して世の中をみるような反知性主義的な傾向が政策決定過程にも及んでいる。大衆に迎合する感情的なポピュリズムが政治の主流となり、長期的な戦略を持ちえないところに近代民主主義の行き詰まりが現れている。

反知性主義の顕著な例として【科学との戦争】がある。これは気候変動など科学的に証明された事実を、為政者が否定する動きであり、科学者の役割を軽視しているとして注目を浴びている。アジアインスティチュートでは、研究者と市民との間の真摯な対話を通して反知性主義を克服し、教育・研究といった知的活動の本来の意義を再確認すべく努力を続けている。

これら4つの課題は、複雑に絡み合っている。現在の国際政治、経済、安保を理解しようとするならば、これらの関連性を検証すべきであるが、ほとんどの研究機関は、それに触れていない。


昨今、アジアは貿易、技術、財政面において、著しい速度で統合されつつある。アジアは知的、技術的、財政的な諸側面において、世界のハブとなりつつある。しかしながら、物流、エネルギーの側面でのアジアの統合が遅れ、加えて文化的、知的な連携も進展していない。このような変化に対し、アジアでは、真の議論が十分になされていないというのが現実である。国境を越えて全ての利害当事者が参加した上で、アジアの流れについて分析し、討論を交すことが切実に必要とされている。

 

 

アジアインスティチュートは、技術が我々の社会に及ぼす影響、また、環境、青少年及び女性の問題、教育、コミュニケーション、そしてビジネスが国際関係にもたらす影響に主に焦点を当てる。アジアの未来のために、これらの問題に対し、慎重な分析と議論が行われるべきだと思われる。アジアインスティチュートは、産・官・学に大きく貢献してきたリーダーたちと知見を交わし、解決策を講究するための中立的な場を提供する一方で、アジアのあらゆる事柄について積極的に関与していく。

アジアインスティチュートは、日本、韓国、中国、東南アジア、南アジア、中央アジア、中東、その他の国家間における協力及び論議が円滑に行われるための新たな機会を模索する。それと同時に、アジア全体をまとめ、地域内において有意義な協力関係が保たれるように貢献する。そしてアジアインスティチュートは、生態学的に持続可能なように統合され、かつ安定したアジアという新たなビジョンを提示していくが、利潤追求を第一とした組織ではない。

アジアインスティチュートは、国境を越えてアイデアを考案し、適用するチームとして活動するために個人が参集し、効率的な協力を図る。活動するそれら個人は、共通のテーマを究明し、地域全体の利害当事者を結集させるべく、新たな場を設けることに尽力する。

アジアインスティチュートは今日、論じられている問題点を究明すべく、アジア全地域の協力を図るために、これまで光が当ててこられなかった均衡点を見出す。各界各層の利害当事者が参加する様々なシンクタンクが、アジア地域を取り上げてきたが、バランスのとれた観点で真の国際化の青写真を示すことはできずにいた。今日、アジア及び世界各国の国々は前例のない経済技術統合に向け、真の国際機関を必要としている。アジアインスティチュートは、このような必要性を受け、これまで5年余りの間、活動、発展し続けてきた。

また、アジアインスティチュートは、若者にも活躍の機会を提供する。若者に政策立案者や専門家に対して直接、意思を伝達できる機会を与えることによって、有意義な論議を成立させることができる。最近の専門家たちは、このような若者の経験を基に多くのことを学んでいる。青年及び次世代にバトンを渡すリーダーたちが共に協力し、全アジア地域をつなぐ架け橋を作り上げている段階である。政策論議に青年たちを積極的に関与させる重要性は十分に認識されており、そのようなリーダー、そして専門家の議論は一般市民にとっても有意義なものとなるであろう。

1. アジアのための新たなビジョン

アジアインスティチュートは、世界で最も目まぐるしく変化、成長している地域であるアジアの足かせとなっている長年の問題点を解決するために、従来とは異なったアプローチが必要であると考える。世界において、もはやアジアは経済、知識面での中心となっている。しかしながら、軍備増強、誤った方向への経済成長、生態系の破壊に代表される環境負荷、技術の際限なき使用、そして消費至上主義から起こる伝統文化の衰退がアジアの巨大な潜在力を押さえ付けている。アジアインスティチュートは、これらの障害を克服し、現世代を鼓舞させるべく、より大きなアジアの成長ビジョンを示していく。

 

 

課題への適切な対応

アジアインスティチュートは、地域レベルに見合った、容易に適用可能かつ関連のある報告書及び提案書を迅速に作成する。提案は迅速に適用され、世界規模での課題にいかに対応すべきかについて国内外の利害当事者とともに深い話し合いが行われる。例えば、ベトナムに対して発展した環境基準を提案した場合においては、政府関係者及び地域市民が地域レベルに合わせて支障なく基準を適用できるようにベトナム語の資料を準備する。世界各国の青少年とともに取り組み、青少年がチームとして協力しながら、共通した問題点を模索できるよう奨励する。

多言語の使用

研究活動において主に用いる言語は、アジアの共通語である英語である。しかしながら、アジアインスティチュートは、多様な聴衆のため、英語以外の言語でも研究活動を進めていく。アジアインスティチュートの目指ざすところは、重要プロジェクトを多国語で実行していくことである。

若い世代の関与奨励

政策入案においては若年世代からも学ぶ点が多い。ゆえに、若者が、地域、国家、世界的なレベルで政策論議に参画すべきであると考える。アジアインスティチュートでは、インターン、セミナー、そして執筆者として若者に活動の機会を与える。アジアインスティチュートで行われるセミナーでは、若者が研究、政治、経済の各分野に直接関与できるような場を提供する。アジアの未来に関する論議のため、若者が声を上げるべきであると考える。

 

2. 重要究分野

3E (ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY, ECONOMY: 環境、エネルギ経済)

3Eプログラムは、アジアの各地域レベルに合った持続的な開発を企図している。中でも、アジアエコシティーの開発に集中している。3Eは、筑波大学の3Eフォーラムと協力しながら、筑波大学近辺の地方自治体、企業関係者とともに2009年に設立された。

技術融合プログラム

技術融合プログラムは、現代社会の多様な技術融合の影響及び融合の結果として現れる技術に関連したイノベーションが生み出す利益にも注目する。技術融合プログラムは、政界、実業界、そして社会科学の専門家と、技術の専門家との橋渡し役となり、技術融合の成果を探求する。加えて、ジョエル・モンバーガー博士によって運営されているフォーラムにおいては、技術融合に関する政策技術的論議を行う。技術融合は、国際関係及び経済にいたるまで多大な影響を与えており、看過できない分野である。

アジアプログラムにおける女性

アジアプログラムにおいて、女性は社会に大きな変化をもたらす存在として期待されている。アジアの女性は、男性以上の能力と情熱で、旺盛なチャレンジ精神を発揮し、地域に密着した新たな未来を提案している。アジアにおける女性の役割を発展させる新たなアプローチを提案するために女性科学技術協会の韓国協会と共同で業務を行っている。

 

所長

エマニュエルパストリッチ (Emanuel Pastreich)

 

1987年にエール大学で中国学学士号を取得、1992年に東京大学で比較文化学修士号、1997年にはハーバード大学で東アジア言語文化学博士号を取得。1997年より2005年までイリノイ大学(University of Illinois)において東アジア文学の助教授、他にもハーバード大学、ジョージワシントン大学、韓国外交安保研究院で講義を行う。

2005年からワシントンの駐米韓国大使館において政務及び広報公社諮問官を歴任。この経歴を基に、韓国大使館において、アメリカの国内及び国際政策に関する諮問、外交行事に関する主幹及び韓国政府に対する報告書作成を担当。また、ワシントンにおいて日本政府とアメリカ政府が関わっていた文化及び事業に関する多数の共同プロジェクトを主管。2005年から2007年まで韓国・海外広報院の公式オンライン新聞『ダイナミックコリア』の主席編集長としてテーマ設定ならびに記事編集を担当する一方で、広告及びマーケティング政策を提案し、随時、重要課題についても寄稿。そして、2005年には、韓国・外交通商部が運営する政策シンクタンクである駐米韓国大使館広報院所属KORUS Houseの理事に就任。 KORUS Houseは、現在も東アジアの政治及び事業に関する広報活動を実施。ちゃ                                      

 アジアインスティチュート所長兼慶熙大学国際学部副教授。忠清南道、大田広域市、大徳イノポリス、光州広域市の投資諮問を務め、韓国生命工学研究院、地質研究院、原子力安全技術院、ソウル大学次世代融合研究院、標準研究院、国家ナノ総合Fabセンター等との共同研究にも従事。主な関心分野は日韓中米間における共同研究の推進。

履歴

グローバル・ピース・ファウンデーション (日本)https://gpf.jp

専任研究員

 

2023年ー現在

アジアインスティチュート The Asia Institute (asia-institute.org)

理事長(ソウル、東京、ハノイ、ワシントンDC)

2007年―現在

未来都市環境研究院 (ソウル)

事務総長

2020年―2022年

2020年ー現在

米国大統領選無所属の独立候補

ジョージワシントン大学

朝鮮半島研究センター 

研究員

2019年―現在

イエール大学

東アジア研究委員会

客員研究員

2014-現在

慶煕大学 国際大学院

副教授

2011年―2017年

駐米韓国大使館 

政務公使顧問

Dynamic Korea 国政広報処英語サイトdynamic-korea.com  編集者

KORUS FORUM 外交官、国際関係専門家の公演シーリスの担当者

2005-2007年 

ジョージ ワシントン大学東アジア言語文化科 時間教授 (adjunct Professor)

2005-2007年 

イリノイ大学アジア言語文化学科 助教授 

日本語語学プログラム主任 (1997年―1999年)

1997年―2004年 

1999年

東京大学 比較文学比較文化研究室

客員教授

 

学歴

1992年 8月~1997年 4月 ハーバード大学東アジア言語文化研究科 博士修了

1995年 7月~1996年 9月 ソウル大学 中国文学研究科 交換留学生

1990年 4月~1992 4月 東京大学大学院総合文化研究科 比較文学専攻 修士修了

1988年 10月~1990年 4月 東京大学大学院総合文化研究科 比較文学専攻 研究生

1987年 7月~1988年 5月 アメリカ・カナダ十一大学連盟日本研究センター(横浜)語学研修

1983年 8月~1987年 5月     イエール大学中国文学学部卒業 (文学士)

1985年 6月~1986年 7月    台湾国立大学 国文学(中文)学部 留学生

《コロナ祟りに惑う日本》

(デザインエッグ出版社、東京、2023年)

《私は悪を恐れない:なぜアメリカには本当の意味の無所属大統領候補が必要なのか

(デザインエッグ出版社、東京、2020年)

《詐欺的統一をやめよ:財閥主導の北朝鮮開発ではなく、希望をもてる建国へ》(사기통일 그만! 재벌의북한 개발말고, 희망을 주는 건국으로)

(ナルト出版社、ソウル、2023年)

《コロナ詐欺を革命で終わらせよう》(코로나 사기를 혁명으로 끝내자 )

(ナルト出版社、ソウル、2022年)

《武器よさらば:地球温暖化の危機と憲法九条》

(東方出版社、東京、2019年) 

《未来中国:关于人类与地球命运》

( 現代文化出版社 香港、2019年)

《韓国人だけが知らなかったもっと大きい大韓民国》(한국인만 몰랐던 더 큰 대한민국)

(ソウル、レッドウッドブックス, 2017年)

《지구경영 홍익에서 답을 찾다:地球経営 弘益にその答えを求める》 李承憲共著 이승헌 공저 (韓文化한문화, ソウル、2016年)

《海を越えて真実を求める:ハーバード博士が論じる米中の未来》(跨海求真:哈佛博士论中美未来)

(銀河出版社、香港, 2016年) 

《人生は速度ではなく方向だ:ハーバード大学 博士の韓国漂流記》(人生은 速度 아니라 方向 이다: 하버드 博士의 韓國漂流記) 

(21世紀部 ブックス、 ソウル、2016年)

《韓国人しかしらない違う大韓民国:ハーバード博士がみた韓国の可能性》(한국인만 모르는 다른 대한민국: 하버드대 박사가 본 한국의 가능성) 

(21世紀 ブックス、ソウル、2013年)

Selected Publications of the Asia Institute

Asia Institute Press、ソウル、2013年)  

《世界の碩学が勧告のみ例を話す》(세계의 석학들 한국의미래를 말하다)

茶山ブックス、ソウル、2013年) 

The Visible Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan (目に見える世俗:中国白話小説の伝播と江戸時代の「通俗」に対する討論の成立)

(ソウル大学出版社、ソウル、2011年)

The Novels of Park Jiwon: Translations of Overlooked Worlds (朴趾源の小説:見過ごした世の中の翻訳)

(ソウル大学出版社、ソウル、2011年)

The Asia Institute

INTRODUCTION

OUR GOAL

   THE ASIA INSTITUTE COVERS ASIA NOT ONLY IN ITS SEMINARS AND REPORTS, BUT ENGAGES AT A MUCH MORE DEEPER LEVEL BY CONSTANT DISCUSSION WITH STAKEHOLDERS AT ALL LEVELS ACROSS ASIA ABOUT THE CRITICAL ISSUES OF OUR TIME: THE ENVIRONMENT, THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON SOCIETY, THE FUTURE THAT OUR YOUTH FACE AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. THE ASIA INSTITUTE IS INDEED A TRULY PAN-ASIAN THINK TANK.

   THE ASIA INSTITUTE CONSIDERS MAINTAINING A BALANCED PERSPECTIVE ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AS ITS HIGHEST PRIORITY WHILE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE CONCERNS OF THE ENTIRE REGION AND THE INTERESTS OF ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS WHICH SPANS ACROSS GENDER, CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS. THESE INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TECHNICAL EXPERTS, POLICY MAKERS, LOCAL AND REGIONAL COMMUNITIES AND EVEN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

  WE PROVIDE AN OBJECTIVE SPACE WHEREIN A SIGNIFICANT DISCUSSION ON CURRENT TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT IS CARRIED OUT. THE ‘OBJECTIVE SPACE’ ACTS AS AN OPEN PLATFORM THAT ALLOWS ANY AND EVERY ONE TO PARTICIPATE.

  THE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INTEGRATION IN ASIA IS INCREASING AT A REMARKABLE PACE IN TERMS OF TRADE, TECHNOLOGY AND FINANCE. ASIA IS NO LONGER SIMPLY A HUB FOR MANUFACTURING, BUT ALSO A CULTURAL, INTELLECTUAL AND A STRATEGIC CENTER FOR THE WORLD. HOWEVER, DESPITE ASIA’S INCREASING ROLE IN ON THE GEOPOLITICAL STAGE, A SERIOUS GAP REMAINS BETWEEN THE STRIKING SPEED OF INTEGRATION IN TERMS OF LOGISTICS, ENERGY AND FINANCE AND THE MUCH RETARDED GROWTH OF INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITIES AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE THAT ADDRESS LONG-TERM COMMON PRIORITIES.

THE ASIA INSTITUTE IS DEDICATED TO INCREASING THE IN-DEPTH DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE CITIZENS OF ASIA ON THE IMPORTANT ISSUES OF OUR AGE SO THAT IT PARALLELS THE LEVEL OF PROMINENCE AND ATTENTION OF TRADE AND FINANCE. THERE IS A DESPERATE NEED FOR OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS AND RIGOROUS DEBATE THAT GOES BEYOND NATIONAL BORDERS AND INCLUDES ALL STAKEHOLDERS IN ASIA.

OUR PRINCIPLES

THE ASIA INSTITUTE FOCUSES ON THESE FOUR INTERRELATED ISSUES WHICH IMPACT THE ENTIRE WORLD. WE SEEK TO INTERPRET THEIR SIGNIFICANCE AND PLAN FOR A GLOBAL RESPONSE THROUGH A COLLABORATIVE DIALOG THAT INVOLVES A BROAD RANGE OF EXPERTS IN MANY COUNTRIES.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR SOCIETY, AND OUR ECONOMY, BY THE UNPRECEDENTED RATE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE.

ALTHOUGH THE BRICK AND MORTAR BUILDINGS AROUND US ARE UNCHANGED AND THE BORDERS OF COUNTRIES REMAIN ESSENTIALLY THE SAME, OUR WORLD HAS BEEN AND UTTERLY TRANSFORMED BY TECHNOLOGY. COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY BRINGS TOGETHER LIKES WITH LIKES ACROSS THE GLOBE IN UNPREDICTABLE COMBINATIONS. THE VERY PROCESS OF DETERMINING TRUTH FROM FICTION IS MADE ULTIMATELY MORE PROBLEMATIC AS TECHNOLOGY CHANGES HOW WE KNOW AND WHAT WE KNOW, OR DO NOT KNOW.

SO ALSO 3D PRINTING MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO CREATE VIRTUALLY ANYTHING WITHOUT ANY NEED FOR MANUFACTURING. RESPONDING TO THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE ON SOCIETY WILL BE THE MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR OUR AGE, MADE MORE DIFFICULT BECAUSE THE MANY TRANSFORMATIONS ARE INVISIBLE FOR MOST PEOPLE.

THE IMPACT OF THE NEW SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS ON OUR CLIMATE AT THE LOCAL, REGIONAL AND GLOBAL LEVELS.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS BY FAR THE GREATEST SECURITY THREAT THAT WE FACE TODAY. ALTHOUGH IT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PROFOUND DANGER FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS, OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM AND OUR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS ARE INCAPABLE OF FORMULATING AND IMPLEMENTING A RESPONSE. WE MUST UNDERSTAND HOW OUR CURRENT GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL REGIME CONTRIBUTES TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND FORMULATE CONCRETE STEPS FOR ADAPTATION TO, AND MITIGATION OF, CLIMATE CHANGE ON A GLOBAL SCALE.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BY TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, SPECIFICALLY CHANGES IN DIPLOMACY, SECURITY, EDUCATION, FINANCE AND TRADE.

ALTHOUGH WE USE THE SAME TERMS TO DESCRIBE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THAT WE EMPLOYED 100 YEARS AGO, THE NATURE OF DIPLOMACY, SECURITY AND TRADE HAVE BEEN ALTERED BEYOND RECOGNITION BY TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. IMAGES, TEXTS AND VIDEOS CAN BE TRANSPORTED AROUND THE WORLD INSTANTANEOUSLY, AFFECTING A TRUE “DEATH OF DISTANCE,” AND INCREASINGLY THEY CAN BE FABRICATED JUST AS EASILY.

PEOPLE AND GOODS ARE TRANSPORTED WITH GREAT EASE AS WELL OVER VAST DISTANCES, AND GLOBALIZATION HAS CREATED ENORMOUS DISPLACED POPULATIONS. SO ALSO GOODS CAN BE PROCESSED AND SHIPPED AROUND THE WORLD IN AN ENTIRELY AUTOMATED MANNER—PART OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. WE MUST ENTIRELY RETHINK THE CONCEPT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN LIGHT OF THESE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGES, MOVING BEYOND A VAGUE ANXIETY ABOUT GLOBALIZATION AND RATHER IDENTIFYING THE DISTINCT IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGIES ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

THE RISE OF ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM AND THE DECLINE OF THE APPLICATION OF RIGOROUS SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO ANALYSIS AND PROBLEM SOLVING, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION.

THE WORLD FACES A TERRIBLE WAVE OF ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM, FROM CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL TO RACIST ESSENTIALISM, WHICH UNDERMINES OUR ABILITY TO RESPOND TO THE PRESSING ISSUES OF OUR AGE AND ENCOURAGES A SELF-INDULGENT ATTITUDE BORN OF IGNORANCE AND INDIFFERENCE. THIS DEVELOPMENT IS A PRODUCT OF THE DEBASEMENT OF EDUCATION INTO A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT AND THE RESULTING DECLINE IN THE INTELLECTUAL RIGOR IN THE MEDIA AND OTHER FORMS OF EXPRESSION. THIS NEW CULTURE IS INHERENTLY ANTI-SCIENCE, EVEN AS IT EMBRACES GLITZY TECHNOLOGIES.

WE MUST AVOID EMOTIONAL RESPONSES DRIVEN BY TECHNOLOGICAL BELLS AND WHISTLES, RATHER APPLYING A RATIONAL SCIENTIFIC APPROACH IN POLICY, IN TECHNOLOGY AND IN STRATEGY. WE MUST AVOID THE ANTI-SCIENCE, “BREAD AND CIRCUSES” APPROACH TO POLITICAL DISCOURSE THAT WE SEE SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD. ABOVE ALL, INTELLECTUALS MUST HAVE A STRONG SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS ESSENTIAL FIGURES IN SOCIETY.

The problems we face today, from the environmental crisis to the increasing divide between the rich and poor, can only be solved by primarily initiating a profound contemplation within ourselves so as to cooperate for building more novel and sustainable solutions. Only when we have addressed the spiritual hunger and psychological insecurities that lead to unrestrained consumption, or ruthless conflict, can we begin find meaningful long-term answers. As Albert Einstein once remarked, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Our research and our endeavors take into account the underlying contradictions within ourselves that have brought about the crisis of this day.

Our Fukushima Initiative, for example, has built a global platform that brings together different forms of expertise from around the world so as to find a solution to the dangerous challenges posed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In the process we have created new approaches to collaboration in policy, technology, analysis and implementation. This discussion has also touched on the philosophical and spiritual challenges for us and future generations posed by rapid and disruptive technological change.

Finally, the Asia Institute is engaged in a dialog with stakeholders from across Asia concerning the future of Asia itself. We always have been debating on how Asia can move beyond traditional geopolitical rivalries and envision an Asia as a peaceful totality in which current integration provides new horizons. We have written concrete proposals for a security architecture built around the response to climate change; for a “constitution of information” to respond to the current crisis we faced as a result of the rapid change in the technology for communication and massive scale surveillance and for new systems to promote international collaboration; and P2P (peer to peer) cooperation throughout Asia and around the world that would encourage free interaction of the stakeholders to jointly produce knowledge and other forms of goods/services primarily for its ‘use value’ instead of its ‘market value’ to temper the ever widening economic gap and promote empowerment at the grass roots level. We have been in debates and discussions on how to incorporate the perspectives of experts from the Middle East or Southeast Asia to the debate on the peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula. We have also discussed on how ecologists, artists and philosophers can contribute meaningfully in the debate about trade, finance and other forms of integration.