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Defund #Science, Distort #Culture, Mock #Education

It’s not just about cuts to #research.
It’s about #power.

By Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump
theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/…

Autocracy in America: Defund Science

It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.

^{Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)}

"I’s worth noticing the craft, the composition, and the content of these 17 minutes [of PM Carney] on stage. ...

It made several important ideas 'real,' by naming them. That is one of the most powerful things any piece of writing can do. Through the speech, Carney threaded the idea that world relations were at a rupture, not a 'transition.'”

~ James Fallows

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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fallows.substack.com/p/a-speec…

A Speech for the History Books.

And for the here and now. A memorable discourse on America's place in the world, by the leader of a US neighbor and former friend.

^{James Fallows (Breaking the News)}

"As Prime Minister of a country whose own territory it is the stated policy of the US president to annex- and which would be encircled by America if Trump succeeds in his ambition of seizing Greenland – he surely feels both the gravity and urgency of the moment keenly."

~ Simon Nixon

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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bylinesupplement.com/p/mark-ca…

Mark Carney’s Speech Showed America and Britain the Sort of Global Leadership They Have Now Abandoned

The Canadian Prime Minister’s powerful response to the growing threat from Donald Trump has put other world leaders to shame, argues Simon Nixon

^{Simon Nixon (Byline Supplement)}

"[Carney] didn’t say Donald Trump’s name, though. He didn’t need to. What he said was calmly, straightforwardly earthshaking enough as it was."

~ Evan Hurst

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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wonkette.com/p/canadian-pm-mar…

Canadian PM Mark Carney Declares Flame Of American Global Era Extinguished

July 4, 1776-January 20, 2025. It was a good run, or something.

^{Evan Hurst (Wonkette)}

"It's a brilliant articulation of the new architecture that is going to frame the world going forward. So the days of the American hegemonic power, this from 1988 to today, this is the first day you heard the articulation from what was an ally saying America is no longer the lone superpower. It's over."

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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"Carney just gave the first speech today of the new global order as it exists. … He was the first major leader to say… America, the United States of America, is no longer a hegemon. We are in a multipolar world, a multilateral world, where the great powers, Russia, China, the United States of America, are finding their equilibrium through panic, fear, greed, & just the pursuit of all of the middle powers."

~ Mike Madrid

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/und…

Under Trump, A Weak, Isolated America Stumbles Into the New World Order

At Davos, Canada's PM Mark Carney acknowledged that Trump's failed leadership has blown up the fiction of a rules-based order, alienated America's allies, and forced the world to move forward.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"We cannot simply carry on as if it’s business and normal. ...

We’ve been lucky through a golden age of peace and prosperity but as he so clearly articulates, that age is gone. Ahead lies [sic] dragons."

Cadwalladr's posting has the full text of Carney's speech. It's also at the Guardian link below.

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos

In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it here

^{Mark Carney (The Guardian)}

"It does what a great speech should do: it gives us the language to process and understand what is happening. It does so from a position of moral clarity. And it includes a call to action to what remains of the liberal world. ...

We can’t respond and act to this hugely consequential geopolitical moment if we are complicit in the denial of our leaders and media. This is a week in which the world we have known has swung on its axis."

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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"Mark Carney’s speech at Davos yesterday really is worth your time. It made some of the front pages today but the news cycle moves so fast that it’s already yesterday’s news. Part of the challenge of this moment - and I believe the job of journalists - is to focus on the signal, not the noise. And if you have time to take in one thing properly, this week, I’d suggest it’s this."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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broligarchy.substack.com/p/the…

The Rupture

Mark Carney nails it. We have to "stop pretending"

^{Carole Cadwalladr (How to Survive the Broligarchy)}