By Kayla Epstein, BBC News, February 4, 2025 The Trump administration reportedly intends to merge the US government’s main overseas aid agency with the state department, as workers were asked to stay out of its Washington headquarters on Monday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters he was now the acting head of the United […]
By Koen Jacobs, February 3, 2025 As was expected to happen in 2025, alternative communitarians currently occupy some of the highest positions in national and international politics. Effectively merging the mainstream communitarian movement and the alternative communitarian movement. Recent developments, events and statements confirm this. Trump’s USDA Ordered to Scrub Climate Change from Websites (January […]
By Willow Tohi, February 3, 2025 As President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., prepares for his confirmation process, a surprising and concerning effort is emerging from some of the most influential conservative circles. This effort, spearheaded by Federalist Society Co-chair Leonard Leo, is […]
By Emma Pirnay, January 24, 2025 Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister, has proposed a bill to withdraw Italy from the World Health Organization (WHO), following Donald Trump’s executive order on Monday. “I presented this morning at the Chamber of Deputies, the League’s bill to leave the WHO (World Health Organization), as did the United […]
By Patrick Wingrove, Jennifer Rigby and Emma Farge, Reuters, January 22, 2025 NEW YORK/LONDON/GENEVA, Jan 21 (Reuters) – The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises. Trump said the WHO had failed to […]
By Koen Jacobs, July 10, 2022 So, how does that work, luring alt media audiences into the world of alternative communitarianism? First of all, there are many angles from which such audiences are being targeted. Second. The best way to come to understand it is by seeing real-world examples. Including the above article published on […]
By Koen Jacobs, July 1, 2022 The question I want answered: is the Venus Project an alternative communitarian project? In 1975, jewish social engineer Jacque Fresco introduced his Venus Project. An idea about creating a utopian global kibbutz on Earth, by re-engineering all of society – including the world economy, all infrastructure and perhaps ‘the […]
By Koen Jacobs, June 29, 2022 The short answer is this: it’s communitarianism for ‘truthers’ and ‘conspiracy theorists’. To get a good idea of what an advanced (professional) alternative communitarian talks about, listen to this conversation between Sacha Stone and Jesse Hal (The Missing Link). Interestingly, while Jesse Hal is very much aware of communitarianism, […]
By Koen Jacobs, June 28, 2022 ‘Mainstream’ Communitarianism By now, we should all already know what mainstream (political) communitarianism is, and obviously there are many and very good reasons to reject it. For more than 20 years, until she recently passed away much too soon, Niki Raapana and her daughter Nordica Friedrich have been explaining […]