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Geopolitics & Empire

Alfred de Zayas: The West Has Become a Totalitarian Dystopia, The World Has Become Multipolar

Geopolitics & Empire

Geopolitics & Empire

History, News, Government, Politics

4.2568 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Alfred de Zayas discusses how democracy and media and institutions in the West have become fake and are morphing into Orwellian totalitarianism. However, the world is changing, we are no longer the unipolar world of Washington and Brussels, we are a multipolar world…the global majority is not anymore with the West. NATO is a criminal organization with a history of violence and violation of the UN Charter. The EU is a scam. We are living the totalitarian dystopia that George Orwell predicted. He explains the true history behind the Russia-Ukraine War. With the support of the U.S., Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Julian Assange’s fate does not look good. He doesn’t think the West has it in them to start WW3. He never gives up hope and is optimistic in the long-term.

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About Alfred de Zayas

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas studied history and law at Harvard, where he obtained his J.D. He practiced corporate law with the New York law firm Simpson Thacher and Bartlett and is a retired member of the New York and Florida Bar. He obtained a doctorate in history for the University of Göttingen in Germany.

Mr. de Zayas has been visiting professor of law at numerous universities including the University of British Columbia in Canada, the Graduate Institute of the University of Geneva, the DePaul University Law School (Chicago), the Human Rights Institute at the Irish National University (Galway)and the University of Trier (Germany). At present he teaches international law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy.

In 2009 de Zayas was a member of the UN workshop that drafted a report on the human right to peace, which was subsequently discussed and further elaborated by the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council. He is also a signatory of the Declaración de Bilbao and Declaración de Santiago de Compostela on the Human Right to Peace. He served as a consultant to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the issue of mercenaries. De Zayas is an expert for civil and political rights and has published nine books on a variety of legal and historical issues, including “United Nations Human Rights Committee Case Law” (together with Jakob th. Möller, N.P. Engel 2009), and has been co-author and co-editor of numerous other books, including “International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms” (together with Gudmundur Alfredsson and Bertrand Ramcharan). His scholarly articles in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights and Macmillan Encyclopedia of Genocide, encompass the prohibition of aggression, universal jurisdiction, the right to the homeland, mass population transfers, minority rights, refugee law, repatriation, legal aspects of the Spanish Civil War, indefinite detention, Guantanamo and the right to peace. He is fluent in six languages and has published a book of Rilke translations with commentary (“Larenopfer”, Red Hen Press 2008) and is completing the translation of Hermann Hesse’s “Das Lied des Lebens”.

From 2002-2006 he was Secretary-General, from 2006-2010 President of PEN International, Centre Suisse romand. He was member of several advisory boards, including of the International Society of Human Rights (Frankfurt a.M.), Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen (Berlin), the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (Canada) and of the conseil scientifique of the Académie International de droit constitutionnel (Tunis). He has received several awards, most recently the “Educators Award 2011” of Canadians for Genocide Education.

*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Alfred de Zias, who's a former UN independent expert, senior lawyer with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Professor at my alma mater, the Geneva School of Diplomacy, where I was also his students and he's got many more accomplishments. He grew up in my hometown of Chicago as well, and he's the author of many books, including

0:22.2

his latest countering mainstream narratives, fake news, fake law, fake freedom, and the human rights

0:27.9

industry.

0:28.8

Welcome back to geopolitics and Empire Alfred.

0:31.5

Thank you for having me.

0:33.0

Delighted to be here again.

0:34.7

It's great to connect.

0:36.0

I think it was back in 2008, nine. I was a student at Geneva

0:40.3

school, and I think this is your probably third appearance on the podcast. I saw you were recently

0:45.2

on T&T radio as well, where I've also got a show. You were with Dirk Pullman, I think, and so I thought

0:51.2

maybe we'd start discussing your book. I just finished reading,

0:54.3

countering mainstream narratives. It's fantastic. And I love your rants on Twitter X as well.

1:02.5

And in the first or second page of the book, you talk about, you know, it's the fake news,

1:07.5

West, basically. You mentioned that this disinformation governance board and i don't know if

1:12.1

you know but in 2000 april of 2022 when they rolled that out with nina yankowitz consortium news

1:19.8

minth press news and me i also got banned from PayPal uh as part of a part of that group and so

1:25.7

you're sort of you know in the book you talk about a slick form of totalitarianism,

1:29.9

which has become the new normal and how dissenters are being canceled by government and big tech.

1:35.1

And it's all destroying what's left of our democracy.

1:38.0

And you often talk about this fake democracy in the West.

1:41.5

So, you know, your further thoughts on all this.

1:44.1

Well, democracy means that the West. So, you know, your further thoughts on all this. Well, democracy means that the sovereign is a people and that the sovereign have genuine choices.

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