Trump’s America: The Fulcrum of a Global ‘Network War’ on Democracy

“Donald Trump’s victory is an inflection point – not merely for the future of American democracy, but for the future of the West, and the planet. The driving forces behind his re-election must be properly understood…there is a more alarming, overarching – and insidious – factor at play: a network of billionaires, think tanks and lobbying groups that believe, as does the Russian Government, that democracy must be destroyed… The liberal paradigm which has governed the growth of industrial civilisation is now increasingly embattled – and in many ways irrelevant… Either the status quo is defended and we end up moving inexorably into that rut, which ends with collapse; or we move forward to rebuild and redesign our societies in line with economic, energy, and ecological reality.” Also see.