“Capital or Life”: President Gustavo Petro’s 2025 UNGA Speech — Annotated A close reading of the Colombian president's 2025 speech, which wields dependency theory, decolonial ideas, and eco-socialism to demand a planetary change.

The "War on Drugs"

An eco-socialist plan for energy interdependence.

A call for a UN General Assembly-mandated force to stop the genocide in Gaza.

I think you'll find this analysis compelling: themindness.substack.com/p/capital-or...

I've just published a deep dive into what I believe is a historic UN speech by Colombian President Gustavo Petro. It was less a diplomatic address and more a critique of the global system.

My piece is an annotated transcript, unpacking how he builds a coherent argument by stitching together:

Trump’s incarceration nation: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is just the beginning Collaborating with state governments, the Trump administration is building out an "unprecedented" mass incarceration system. “This is something we've not really seen at this scale before in the United...

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Incompetent or Imperial? Rethinking Western Leadership in an Age of Decline From NATO doctrine to Ursula von der Leyen, today’s transatlantic leaders appear incompetent, until we ask: competence for whom?

Still working on Part II of Weaponizing Time. But I had to get this one out: why Western elites aren’t “incompetent” at all, at least not for the goals their selectorates set. New Substack up now: themindness.substack.com/p/incompeten...

When discussing how to handle the unhoused and mentally ill populations, Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends recommended to “just kill them” using “involuntary lethal injection.”

This is how the Trump regime and its propagandists can normalize and bring about the mass murder of vulnerable populations.

Die Vereinnahmung der Eliten und die Selbstzerstörung Europas – Teil 1/4 Von dem Schweigen zur Sabotage der Nord-Stream-Pipelines bis zur wirtschaftlich und politisch ruinösen NATO-Aufrüstung: Viele Menschen in Deutschland fragen sich, warum unsere „Eliten“ in Medien und P...

New in German: Part 1 of “Elite Capture” at NachDenkSeiten—on how transatlantic elites are influenced by a shared socialization that shapes policy outcomes.
Read: www.nachdenkseiten.de?p=138428

Die Vereinnahmung der Eliten und die Selbstzerstörung Europas – Teil 1/4 Von dem Schweigen zur Sabotage der Nord-Stream-Pipelines bis zur wirtschaftlich und politisch ruinösen NATO-Aufrüstung: Viele Menschen in Deutschland fragen sich, warum unsere „Eliten“ in Medien und P...

Ich zeige, wie Auswahlmechanismen, Netzwerke und Denkstile elitenhafte Normen erzeugen. Keine „Verschwörung“, sondern homogene Sozialisation → ähnliche Outcomes.
Hier geht’s zum Text (Original erschien auf meinem Substack „Worldlines“.): www.nachdenkseiten.de?p=138428

The Wage Gap Between CEOs And Workers Is Widening—And This Popular Company Is The Biggest Offender The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

Weaponizing Time: Elite Anxiety and the Fight for a Closing Window The first of a two-part analysis. Here, we dissect the ideological and historical roots of Western elite panic. Next, we examine its material base and the dangerous military doctrines it has spawned.

I just published Part I of a two-part analysis on the politics of time. How Western elites weaponize uncertainty via strategic ambiguity and MDO to stall a shifting order, from doctrine to talk shows. Part II goes into the machinery.
Read → themindness.substack.com/p/weaponizin...

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A Note for New Readers: What to Expect at Worldlines Understanding the Hidden Architecture of Geopolitics

New here? This is your guide to Worldlines. I analyze how elites are ‘formatted’ to serve transatlantic interests, why conflict is engineered, and how invisible yet visible systems shape geopolitics. themindness.substack.com/p/a-note-for...

A Note for New Readers: What to Expect at Worldlines Understanding the Hidden Architecture of Geopolitics

New here? This is your guide to Worldlines. I analyze how elites are ‘formatted’ to serve transatlantic interests, why conflict is engineered, and how invisible yet visible systems shape geopolitics. themindness.substack.com/p/a-note-for...

YouTube video by Neutrality Studies Persecution of Russian Scholars REVEALED By Science4Peace | Prof. Hannes Jung

Finally someone is addressing what is happening to Russian scientists in EU, its double standards, treatment of anti-war scientists, and deliberate sabotage of their careers by some countries. youtu.be/gImeSqQyIzo?...

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction: The Hidden Architecture of Transatlantic Hegemony From Nord Stream’s sabotage to NATO’s 5 % arms push: Inside the Networks Fueling Transatlantic Madness

The tragedy: They don’t choose this path. By the time they reach power, dissent feels unthinkable. Atlanticism is political common sense as instinctive as breathing. Read the full analysis: themindness.substack.com/p/elite-capt...
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The costs?: Collapsing industry, Energy poverty, Conscription debates.
All borne by the public, while elites ascend through U.S.-certified loyalty.

• Bilderberg 2025’s agenda, nuclear proliferation, AI warfare, shows how “informal alliances” prototype policy before it trickles into NATO doctrine.
• Willy Brandt’s exile network vs. today’s pipeline: Outsider biographies once widened strategic imagination. Now, they’re extinct.

It’s a biographical pipeline from Ivy League seminars to NATO war plans. Key revelations:
• The Ford Foundation and German Marshall Fund educated generations to equate Atlanticism with “Western civilization.”

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Europe’s elites are fulfilling a biographical destiny. My new essay dissects how transatlantic networks (Bilderberg, Atlantik-Brücke, Fulbright) engineer Germany’s march toward self-destruction. Why do leaders like Scholz, Merz, and Klingbeil prioritize U.S. hegemony over national survival?

- illegally send the marines to crack skulls of protesters & protect ICE gestapo while they raid schools

- give overtly political & authoritarian speech to active duty military

- send tanks in DC for a police state parade

This is all in 1 day, fascism is here & its never been this naked & obvious

Many officials outsource history to talking-points, but others weaponise it. Amnesia on one side, grievance on the other—both risky guides for 2025. I unpack the fallout in a new piece on Berlin’s Zeitenwende, NATO budgets: themindness.substack.com/p/the-transa...

The Transatlantic Split Myth: How U.S.-Europe Militarization Thrives Behind the Rhetoric Synchronized defense budgets, shared doctrines, and welfare cuts expose the fiction of a 'rift'—while citizens foot the bill for perpetual war readiness.

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BERLIN DRÄNGT WIEDER NACH OSTEN…

1/ Germany sees in costly war preparations the historic chance to shed every post-1945 restriction and reclaim influence in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Transatlantic Split Myth: How U.S.-Europe Militarization Thrives Behind the Rhetoric Synchronized defense budgets, shared doctrines, and welfare cuts expose the fiction of a 'rift'—while citizens foot the bill for perpetual war readiness.

Just dropped a long read on the *myth* of a trans-Atlantic split.
🛠️ Think-tank blueprints in the open
🇩🇪 Germany’s path from “Zeitenwende” to 5 % GDP for guns
🕳️ Social programs quietly hollowed out
If Magritte painted NATO budgets, it would look like this. Dive in: open.substack.com/pub/themindn...

“I pay taxes to support disabled people who are getting a free ride. I’m not going to help them in any other way”

First, we ALL pay taxes. Even the disabled.

Second, none of us are getting a “free ride”. We’re barely surviving.

Third, this is “useless eater” rhetoric that feeds right into fascism

Politik der schwindenden Mehrheiten Merz’ chaotischer Start entlarvt, wie fragil die schwarz-rote Regierungskoalition ist. Ihr verzweifelter Versuch, nach dem Ampel-Chaos Stabilität zu vermitteln, bedeutet im Klartext: Geschenke an die Unternehmen, Kürzungen für den Rest.

»Es lässt sich unschwer erkennen, dass diese Regierung eindeutig eine Schlagseite zugunsten von Unternehmerinteressen hat. Wer darin einen großen sozialdemokratischen Verhandlungserfolg sehen will, braucht viel Fantasie«, schreibt Astrid Zimmermann, Managing Editor von JACOBIN.

Tariffs as Siege Engines: The Long War on China and the Return of Neo‑Mercantilism Inside Washington’s Neo‑Mercantilist Playbook: How U.S. Tariffs Aim to Slow China’s Rise and Re‑arm American Industry.

The U.S. tariff war on China was never about trade—it’s economic siegecraft for Cold War 2.0.
An article on how Washington is:
Bleeding Russia to buy time
Reshoring missiles, not Main Street
Pretending inflation is collateral damage substacktools.com/sharex/fQqDu...

Der heutige Tag ist ein Kampftag.
Ohne die organisierte Arbeiter_innenbewegung kein 8-Stunden-Tag, kein Arbeitsschutz, kein Verbot der Kinderarbeit, kein Schutz von Schwangeren, kein guter Lohn, keine antifaschistische Organisierung, keine Demokratie, kein gar nichts. Hoch der 1. Mai! 🌹

Koalitionsvertrag erhöht Druck auf Grundsicherung: "Fatale Auswirkungen auf alle Menschen im System" Ob HartzIV oder Bürgergeld: Seit 20 Jahren bekommen Menschen in Deutschland eine Grundsicherung. Union und SPD wollen den Druck auf die Empfänger nun erhöhen. Dies werde mehr Menschen in die Armut tre...

"Wir bestrafen kollektiv Menschen, weil es angeblich ein paar gibt, die sich weigern zu arbeiten.Diese Erzählung stimmt nicht und sie hat fatale Auswirkungen auf alle Menschen im System und auch alle diejenigen, die bereits arbeiten und schlechte Arbeitsbedingungen haben." www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish “Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.

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