Global South & the TDG

Many world citizens are living very difficult lives. We should not expect them to build the TDG.

Many of in the Global North have comfortable lives. This comfort will give us time and energy to build the TDG.

Then we can teach this way to the rest of the world:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=436

It is an awesome responsibility.

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#globalsouth #globalnorth

Why People Killed By Aerial Bombing Don't Matter

The West’s monopoly over this most lethal violence has conditioned how we see the victims of bombs – if we see them at all.

by Raghu Karnad
The Wire
November 17, 2023

https://thewire.in/history/israel-gaza-palestine-aerial-bombing

Traveling to an unequal country is one thing; living there is another. I've met many Europeans and Americans who travel extensively, including to countries in the Global South.

Some seem to genuinely care about inequalities and their consequences, and are thoughtful about these issues. However, it's a very different thing to start a project far from the turmoil and not have firsthand experience or understanding of the obstacles that might appear under those circumstances.

I've only met a few people who grew up in a privileged country and understand that. As a white man from a lower middle-class background, I acknowledge that I don't fully understand what minorities in Brazil endure. However, I still clearly remember how harmful violence in a country like Brazil can be.

#Inequality #GlobalSouth #GlobalNorth #US #Europe #Brazil #Germany #Violence

"A new report, Gender, Debt and Fossil Fuels: A Mapping of Key Insights from the African Continent, shows that #climatechange, #fossilfuel #extraction and #debt all reinforce #gender #injustices on their own. The injustices only compound and worsen as the associated and growing crises they create overlap.

"As a result, #Africa is at the frontlines of the global climate, fossil fuels and debt #polycrisis that is largely based on unjust systems perpetuating #extraction of #resources to the #GlobalNorth."
#FossilFuelTreaty
Check out fossilfueltreaty.org

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It's a sad world when we have to pay such attention to the nonsense of this vile, small man, who was able to conquer immense power because our societies allowed it.

Meanwhile, some brave and skilled political leaders are trying to change our unequal world, but no one hears about them, especially if they're from a country in the Global South. Not to forget that some poor regions of the world are connected to the history of colonization, slavery, and genocide. Which wouldn't be surprising if it were taught superficially in the Global North. Is it?

#Inequality #leadership #globalsouth #globalnorth #colonization #slavery #genocide #Africa #America

Global South & the TDG

Those of us who have relatively calm political climates should build a new democracy to show the rest of the world how this new democracy works:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=436

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#globalsouth #globalnorth

Pulling Out All Stops to Keep Colonialism Afloat

The very aggressiveness of capitalism, its very effort to roll back the historical advances made by the people, underscores the necessity of socialism.

by Prabhat Patnaik
Newsclick
January 24, 2026

https://www.newsclick.in/pulling-out-all-stops-keep-colonialism-afloat

Ben Norton's tweet on January 21, 2026:

The historic speech given by Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum in Davos has gotten a lot of attention, but many people are overlooking the most revealing admission he made, which exposes the blatant hypocrisy of Western imperialism.

It is perhaps understandable that most observers are focusing on Carney's response to Donald Trump's threats and his announcement that Canada will "fundamentally shift our strategic posture" and "diversify" away from the US. This is significant and historic.

Nevertheless, an even more important part of the speech was when Canada's prime minister admitted that the so-called "rules-based international order" was always deeply hypocritical and biased, serving the interests of the imperialist West.

He said, "We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim".

"This fiction was useful" for Western imperialist countries, Carney added. Which is why, "We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality".

However, "This bargain no longer works", he stressed.

In other words, Carney was admitting that Western "middle powers" (like Canada or European countries) willingly went along with US hegemony and supported the US-led imperialist system -- which is predicated on the systematic subjugation and exploitation of Global South countries in the periphery -- because these Western middle powers also benefited from this pillage of the Global South.

But now that the US empire has turned against these Western imperialist middle powers that it previously called its "allies", and now that they are getting just a glimpse of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of what they have been doing to the Global South for centuries, they are (ostensibly) turning against the exploitative system that they had helped to sustain for so long.

They supported imperialism as long as it benefited them. Now that it doesn't, they pretend to be acting in a principled way, supposedly to uphold international law and defend sovereignty. But Canada's prime minister has publicly acknowledged that they never truly cared about that. It was just the public relations narrative.