This is an excellent overview of the Atlas Network’s influence on our democracy by Lucy Hamilton. As she says “New Zealand is being driven into difficult times by the same architecture of influence that aimed to divide Australia on race lines with the No Campaign. And it goes right to the heart of their government.”
While Atlas’s system largely functions to connect and train operatives, as well as acting as an extension of American foreign policy, this modest-seeming program must not be ignored. We have a handful of years to achieve a monumental shift from fossil fuel towards renewable energy: Atlas partners aim to ensure this does not take place.
And Atlas partners will push us at each other’s throats while we procrastinate.
By Lucy Hamilton for Pearls and Irritatations