Wed Feb 15, 2023 – 3:04 pm ESTWed Feb 15, 2023 – 4:01 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Today is the third and final day of the 2023 World Government Summit, which has taken place each February in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, since 2013. Initially a forum for the rulers of these small oil and gas rich gulf statelets, it was relaunched with a video address by President Barack Obama in 2016 as an organization with global ambitions.
This year’s offering features no world leaders from the West, but did include an appearance from Klaus Schwab. The World Government Summit is suffering from the same decline in interest as the World Economic Forum, with both organizations seeing diminished attendance and press coverage.
Dubai is not a democracy, and nor are any of the six neighboring Emirates. These Persian gulf microstates are hereditary autocracies whose interest in funding such an undertaking appears to be motivated by a desire to modernize their public image.
The past and present themes of the summit would appear familiar to the casual student of technocratic managerialism. With the WEF unable to command sufficient prestige – or power – to advance its agenda elsewhere,
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