During a keynote speech delivered virtually to South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Foundation on July18, UN Secretary General António Guterres proposed a new worldwide “social contract” that he called a New Global Deal. The name Guterres selected for his initiative harkens back to the original New Deal, a series of socialist programs enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939 as a supposed antidote to the Great Depression.
But instead of an economic depression justifying the New Global Deal, Guterres identified “inequality” — highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic — as the social ill that must be remedied by the New Global Deal. And while he did not specifically state that the UN must implement this deal, his language suggested a supranational approach to putting his proposals into effect.
“A new model for global governance must be based on full, inclusive and equal participation in global institutions. Without that, we face even wider inequalities and gaps in solidarity — like those we see today in the fragmented global response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Guterres said.
“Global governance,” of course, is maintained by a world government.
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In his speech, Guterres employed a rhetorical technique described in a 2019 CCN op-ed, “The Socialist Politics of Envy” that warned “about the dangers of using socialist rhetoric and envy politics as a tool of governance.”
“COVID-19 has been likened to an x-ray, revealing fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies we have built. It is exposing fallacies and falsehoods everywhere: the lie that free markets can deliver healthcare for all; the fiction that unpaid care work is not work; the delusion that we live in a post-racist world; the myth that we are all in the same boat,” Guterres said as he complained about free market economics.
“Because while we are all floating on the same sea, it’s clear that some are in superyachts while others are clinging to the floating debris,” Guterres said, providing a prime example of “envy politics.”
The Russian news agency TASS summarized Guterres’ message using the headline: “UN Secretary General initiates New Global Deal for fairer world order.”
Long-time readers of The New American recognize the term “New World Order” as the name long used by globalists for what Guterres called “global governance.” As we observed in 2018, “The Deep State’s globalist plan for what insiders refer to as the ‘New World Order’ — basically, a global government controlled by themselves — begins with submerging the sovereignty of nation-states into regional ‘orders.’”
The report of the address issued by the UN news office focused on Guterres’s theme of “inequality,” but also complained of favorite socialist targets such as colonialism and racism, noting, “Protests have been occurring daily in New York City against racism and police violence, following the death of George Floyd.”
Guterres and the UN offered these many social ills as evidence that a UN-directed New Global Deal is needed.
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Warren Mass has served The New American since its launch in 1985 in several capacities, including marketing, editing, and writing. Since retiring from the staff several years ago, he has been a regular contributor to the magazine. Warren writes from Texas and can be reached at [email protected].
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