Symposium Describing Global Subversion of National Democracies Under the Guise of Public Health: 2020-2023

For decades to come journal indexes will direct scholars and researchers to a ground-breaking symposium from the November, 2023 volume of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Entitled “The New Leviathan: Usurping Democracy and the Rule of Law,” the Symposium’s Introduction begins by defining The Question Before Us:

The age of surveillance, monitoring, and control has just begun. Even before declaring the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization made clear that the world will now be on high alert at all times in the future. In July 2022, the WHO declared mpox (formerly monkey pox) to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). As of October 2022, only 25 people had died globally of this disease. The probability of dying of kidney stones is about 600 times greater than the chance of dying of mpox. Yet, this is an indication of what the WHO will consider an emergency. Undaunted, the Director-General of the WHO announced plans in January 2023 to create a global health emergency council. In addition, the WHO general assembly will consider amendments to the International Health Regulations that will give the Director-General global powers to unilaterally declare pandemics and impose orders that will supersede the directives of national governments.

The proposed expansion of power of global institutions is accompanied in many countries by growing censorship. (pp. 385-386).

By May 11, 2023, after 5 meetings, WHO had tweeted that Mpox was no longer a PHEIC Emergency: https://x.com/WHO/status/1656680264469450752?s=20..

For this Symposium, an international group including health officials, a human rights official, a propaganda specialist, academics, historians and editors were invited to identify the forces and agencies causing the current crisis in national democracies, and to trace the acceleration of the crisis during Covid-19.

Problematic agencies? A record 1500 private jet flights into Davos as leaders arrived for World Economic Forum (The Guardian, 2019)

The symposium is rounded out by a paper presenting a possible antidote to the systemic problems that were identified.

How to obtain the papers? The entire symposium is published in one volume. The table of contents is shown in the image below. Free abstracts to all the papers are available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15367150/current

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