CSE | Citizens’ Europe

https://www.dianabronson.com/

Thanks for being accessible. 

It is interesting for me to connect with you after sixteen years. You see that I went to the trouble of putting subtitles on this Copenhagen discussion, which I find becoming useful again. 

https://www.enouranois.eu/enouranois/english/ekdilosisenglish/indexenglishekdilosi1.htm

It has been a long time since I was seriously concerned with geoengineering. I am glad that there is enough previously completed investigation still online to make it possible to take up again to some extent where one left off. Do you mind if I ask what motivated you to depart from the ETC Group?

This is the English translation of my introduction to the 2010 discussion in the (now closed) municipal theatre of Aegina, Greece.

https://www.enouranois.eu/enouranois/english/ekdilosisenglish/indexenglishekdilosi71m.htm

We are moving into a new phase. I am very pleased that it has been so easy to find you.

Best wishes,

Wayne Hall 

Aegina, Greece  (In Greek “Aigina”)  

p.s. I am ccing my collaborator Nikos Vakolidis in the northern Greek city of Ioannina.  

The Aegina Active Citizens’ Association’s active involvement with Capodistrias as a pioneer of European integration began on November 22, 2008, with a conference at the Danae Hotel in Aegina, entitled “Capodistrias-Spinelli-Europe.”

http://www.enouranois.eu/enouranois/european_integration/synedrio.htm  

The conference was attended by such prominent figures such as the ambassadors of Switzerland and Ukraine, the deputy director of the European Parliament Office in Greece, the Greek historian Andreas Koukos, the Swiss historian Michelle Bouvier-Bron, not to mention the then president (and current Vice-President) of the Association, Stratos Pantavos. To quote from the local press coverage of the time (by Marilena Giannouli):

https://www.enouranois.eu/enouranois/english/european_integration/Marilenagiannouli.htm

“Starting from the 18th century through Capodistrias, moving into the 20th century through Spinelli, and outlining the elements of today’s European dialogue, a dialogue was opened on the necessary future developments in Europe, using the ideas of these two historical figures as a starting point, benchmark, and model. It is significant that such a dialogue began in Aegina.

Altiero Spinelli played a leading role in the founding of the European Federalist Movement and exerted a powerful influence on the early decades of European integration following World War II. Later, he contributed to the relaunching of the integration process He served as a member of the European Commission for six years and as a member of the European Parliament for ten years, until his death. The main building of the European Parliament in Brussels bears his name.  However, in the light of current developments in the European Union—the rise of Euroscepticism, Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, the EU’s abandonment of its original declared mission to be a voice for peace — the advantages of a diplomatic reorientation toward the Global South today appear to be steadily gaining ground.

Greece is not located in the Global South, so that pursuing a reorientation toward such diplomacy is no easy task if undertaken from Greece. However, the historic leap forward

embodied by the Greek Revolution of the early 19th century and, above all, the political legacy of  Ioannis Capodistrias, are two factors that contribute to facilitation of such  realignment. Long before the founding of the European Union, Capodistrias championed the idea of a unified Europe based on shared cultural heritage, collective security, and mutual economic cooperation. During his tenure as Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, he  actively promoted a European confederation, envisioning a system in which European powers would settle their differences diplomatically through collective agreement rather than through war. He promoted inclusion of smaller, independent nations on an equal footing, viewing a balanced Europe as essential for the continent’s long-term stability.  In Switzerland, he helped mediate intense disputes between the Swiss cantons, drafting a federal constitution that balanced local autonomy with a strong central government. Today, his legacy as a “bridge-builder” between Eastern and Western Europe is honored across the continent and should be honored even more.

Aegina,  June 11, 2026

https://www.ourcivilisationalmoment.com/p/henry-nowak-is-britain?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=8584620&post_id=201679147&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3pqxhe&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I am aware of a lifelong debt to “cultural Marxism) (i.e. Marcuse, Adorno, Lukacs, Hegel) for emancipating me from the conventional wisdom of Cold War anti-communism (and reaction against it) and providing the beginnings of an intellectual way forward in life.

In today’s conjuncture, where the role of China has come to predominate, the “cultural Marxist” outlook, if this kind of analysis is given its due https://halva.proboards.com/post/2726, remains a guide for adequate intellectual and practical orientation.

The caricaturing so beloved for people of conventional right-wing views, then, now, and always (?) continues to distract more superficial mentalities: ‘a cultural Marxist ideology that teaches that white people are by definition racist, and even that non-whites cannot actually be racist. Anti-racism emphasises systemic and institutional racism as well as “unconscious bias”.

I don’t recall ever reading anything so vulgar in the “cultural Marxist” texts I read back then in the heyday of the post-de Gaulle and post-May 1968 explosion of “cultural Marxism”.