Making Globalism Great Again
CJ Hopkins
Photo by Michael Nicholson/Corbis via Getty
Maybe Donald Trump isn’t as stupid as I thought. I’d hate to have to admit that publicly, but it does kind of seem like he has put one over on the liberal corporate media this time. Scanning the recent Trump-related news, I couldn’t help but notice a significant decline in the number of references to Weimar, Germany, Adolf Hitler, and “the brink of fascism” that America has supposedly been teetering on since Hillary Clinton lost the election.
I googled around pretty well, I think, but I couldn’t find a single editorial warning that Trump is about to summarily cancel the US Constitution, dissolve Congress, and proclaim himself Führer. Nor did I see any mention of Auschwitz, or any other Nazi stuff … which is weird, considering that the Hitler hysteria has been a standard feature of the official narrative we’ve been subjected to for the last two years.
So how did Trump finally get the liberal corporate media to stop calling him a fascist? He did that by acting like a fascist (i.e., like a “normal” president). Which is to say he did the bidding of the deep state goons and corporate mandarins that manage the global capitalist empire … the smiley, happy, democracy-spreading, post-fascist version of fascism we live under.
I’m referring, of course, to Venezuela, which is one of a handful of uncooperative countries that are not playing ball with global capitalism and which haven’t been “regime changed” yet. Trump green-lit the attempted coup purportedly being staged by the Venezuelan “opposition,” but which is obviously a US operation, or, rather, a global capitalist operation. As soon as he did, the corporate media immediately suspended calling him a fascist, and comparing him to Adolf Hitler, and so on, and started spewing out blatant propaganda supporting his effort to overthrow the elected government of a sovereign country.
Overthrowing the governments of sovereign countries, destroying their economies, stealing their gold, and otherwise bringing them into the fold of the global capitalist “international community” is not exactly what most folks thought Trump meant by “Make America Great Again.” Many Americans have never been to Venezuela, or Syria, or anywhere else the global capitalist empire has been ruthlessly restructuring since shortly after the end of the Cold War. They have not been lying awake at night worrying about Venezuelan democracy, or Syrian democracy, or Ukrainian democracy.
This is not because Americans are a heartless people, or an ignorant or a selfish people. It is because, well, it is because they are Americans (or, rather, because they believe they are Americans), and thus are more interested in the problems of Americans than in the problems of people in faraway lands that have nothing whatsoever to do with America.
Notwithstanding what the corporate media will tell you, Americans elected Donald Trump, a preposterous, self-aggrandizing ass clown, not because they were latent Nazis, or because they were brainwashed by Russian hackers, but, primarily, because they wanted to believe that he sincerely cared about America, and was going to try to “make it great again” (whatever that was supposed to mean, exactly).
Unfortunately, there is no America. There is nothing to make great again. “America” is a fiction, a fantasy, a nostalgia that hucksters like Donald Trump (and other, marginally less buffoonish hucksters) use to sell whatever they are selling … themselves, wars, cars, whatever. What there is, in reality, instead of America, is a supranational global capitalist empire, a decentralized, interdependent network of global corporations, financial institutions, national governments, intelligence agencies, supranational governmental entities, military forces, media, and so on. If that sounds far-fetched or conspiratorial, look at what is going on in Venezuela.
The entire global capitalist empire is working in concert to force the elected president of the country out of office. The US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands, Israel, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Argentina have officially recognized Juan Guaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela, in spite of the fact that no one elected him. Only the empire’s official evil enemies (i.e., Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, and other uncooperative countries) are objecting to this “democratic” coup. The global financial system (i.e., banks) has frozen (i.e., stolen) Venezuela’s assets, and is attempting to transfer them to Guaido so he can buy the Venezuelan military. The corporate media are hammering out the official narrative like a Goebbelsian piano in an effort to convince the general public that all this has something to do with democracy. You would have to be a total moron or hopelessly brainwashed not to recognize what is happening.
What is happening has nothing to do with America … the “America” that Americans believe they live in and that many of them want to “make great again.” What is happening is exactly what has been happening around the world since the end of the Cold War, albeit most dramatically in the Middle East. The de facto global capitalist empire is restructuring the planet with virtual impunity. It is methodically eliminating any and all impediments to the hegemony of global capitalism, and the privatization and commodification of everything.
Venezuela is one of these impediments. Overthrowing its government has nothing to do with America, or the lives of actual Americans. “America” is not to going conquer Venezuela and plant an American flag on its soil. “America” is not going to steal its oil, ship it “home,” and parcel it out to “Americans” in their pickups in the parking lot of Walmart.
What what about those American oil corporations? They want that Venezuelan oil, don’t they? Well, sure they do, but here’s the thing … there are no “American” oil corporations. Corporations, especially multi-billion dollar transnational corporations (e.g., Chevron, ExxonMobil, et al.) have no nationalities, nor any real allegiances, other than to their major shareholders. Chevron, for example, whose major shareholders are asset management and mutual fund companies like Black Rock, The Vanguard Group, SSgA Funds Management, Geode Capital Management, Wellington Management, and other transnational, multi-trillion dollar outfits. Do you really believe that being nominally headquartered in Boston or New York makes these companies “American,” or that Deutsche Bank is a “German” bank, or that BP is a “British” company?
And Venezuela is just the most recent blatant example of the empire in action. Ask yourself, honestly, what have the “American” regime change ops throughout the Greater Middle East done for any actual Americans, other than get a lot of them killed? Oh, and how about those bailouts for all those transnational “American” investment banks? Or the billions “America” provides to Israel? Someone please explain how enriching the shareholders of transnational corporations like Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin by selling billions in weapons to Saudi Arabian Islamists is benefiting “the American people.” How much of that Saudi money are you seeing? And, wait, I’ve got another one for you. Call up your friendly 401K manager, ask how your Pfizer shares are doing, then compare that to what you’re paying some “American” insurance corporation to not really cover you.
For the last two-hundred years or so, we have been conditioned to think of ourselves as the citizens of a collection of sovereign nation states, as “Americans,” “Germans,” “Greeks,” and so on. There are no more sovereign nation states. Global capitalism has done away with them. Which is why we are experiencing a “neo-nationalist” backlash. Trump, Brexit, the so-called “new populism” … these are the death throes of national sovereignty, like the thrashing of a suffocating fish before you whack it and drop it in the cooler. The battle is over, but the fish doesn’t know that. It didn’t even realize there was a battle until it suddenly got jerked up out of the water.
In any event, here we are, at the advent of the global capitalist empire. We are not going back to the 19th Century, nor even to the early 20th Century. Neither Donald Trump nor anyone else is going to “Make America Great Again.” Global capitalism will continue to remake the world into one gigantic marketplace where we work ourselves to death at bullshit jobs in order to buy things we don’t need, accumulating debts we can never pay back, the interest on which will further enrich the global capitalist ruling classes, who, as you may have noticed, are preparing for the future by purchasing luxury underground bunkers and post-apocalyptic compounds in New Zealand. That, and militarizing the police, who they will need to maintain “public order” … you know, like they are doing in France at the moment, by beating, blinding, and hideously maiming those Gilets Jaunes (i.e., Yellow Vest) protesters that the corporate media are doing their best to demonize and/or render invisible.
Or, who knows, Americans (and other Western consumers) might take a page from those Yellow Vests, set aside their political differences (or at least ignore their hatred of each other long enough to actually try to achieve something), and focus their anger at the politicians and corporations that actually run the empire, as opposed to, you know, illegal immigrants and imaginary legions of Nazis and Russians. In the immortal words of General Buck Turgidson, “I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed,” but, heck, it might be worth a try, especially since, the way things are going, we are probably going end up out there anyway.
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Guys, this might not be for everyone – well not all topics covered – but I found this interview fascinating. I don’t know either of the people involved, as in, I don’t know their backgrounds or real political views. It is definitely worth a listen even though it is quite long.
Watching this now……really good.
Thanks
You’re welcome, mate. Just stumbled across it on Youtube; what a find. Brutal honesty, brutal reality. The banking and debt stuff is fascinating.
Am interested to learn the reason for the dislike. Not being combative but would like to be informed.
One downvote could simply be an error (can one correct a ‘like’ error?). It could be because the interview doesn’t include the downvoter’s primary theory, or does posit one they don’t agree with. Or simply doesn’t tell them anything new after giving an hour and a half of attention? I haven’t listened to much of it but I feel I have moved on from framing our times in the way this vid and most others dot – but I almost never up or downvote anything or give much weight to them. I associate voting online with identity investment and reinforcement – and it may be easy to rig for all I know. Populism could mean democracy. It can also be a manipulative appeal crafted and targeted to please. (Telling people what they want to hear). I don’t disagree with the destructive nature of the way we are socially structured as… Read more »
Excellent reply and thanks for taking the time to write, binra. Feedback like yours is really important and I appreciate it. As for the downvote, I was merely intrigued to learn a different perspective, perhaps I was missing something? I think this may be the first time I have come across an Irish perspective, provided by Gemma Doherty, about the consequences of EU membership post-2008 financial crash and other things happening in the country, which I hear very little about. I was surprised to learn that Brexit is dominating their media as much as it is here in England. The views from Danish ex-banker, Mads Palsvig, were particularly interesting, as well as learning about his political party’s movement and its objectives. “I wonder if part of the conditioning of human minds is to tell them what is being done – but in such framing as to leave nowhere to go… Read more »
On the ‘outside’ we have social political situations – depicted as war upon populations by the professional institutions supposedly set up to serve. As pointed to in my oft quoted: “Everything is BACKWARDS; everything is upside down! Doctors destroy health, Lawyers destroy justice, Universities destroy knowledge, Governments destroy freedom, Major media destroys information, And religions destroy spirituality”. Michael Ellner On the inside we have a consciousness predicated upon fear and conflict – but masked and protected against exposure – in the same ways we are seeing reflected ‘outside’. I see the awakening to our own part as the release of a pattern of dissociating entanglement that goes back millennia. What we may wish for in our world (if not merely vengeance) is to regain a way of living that truly embraces life – rather than marketising and weaponising ways of possession and control over a feared life. So embracing life… Read more »
Thanks J.
Very interesting and thought provoking content on planned depopulation, open borders and much else.
It’s remarkable how in just a few years abortion, homosexuality, transgenders, have been pushed and promoted as never before.
Paedophilia, bestiality, incest, are not just in the pipeline, they are already here.
Even all this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Woss quite long, Jay-Q?
Let me add this: The Brazilians voted this fascist Bolsonaro into power for just this reason: To get rif of the Mafia.
Very rightfully CJ Hopkins puts forward a question, which hardly anyone else asks: Why this absurd “references to Weimar, Germany, Adolf Hitler, and ‘the brink of fascism’”? But I would give another answer to his question. To me this “global capitalism” is no more the classical (evil) Capitalism/Liberalism, but an outright mega-‘Mafia/Mobster/Cartel/Syndicate’-system. 911 is always seen a ‘political fraud’. I see it as probably the greatest INSURANCE FRAUD of all times. And yes, I even believe that not only the Pentagon and WTC 7 were never hit by a plane, but also the Twin-Towers were not brought down by planes. Think of the billions of Dollars of insurance payments then (to Silverstein and others). Also think of the missing gold from under the Twin Towers (never searched for by the then responsible Robert Mueller). Also think of the – in 2001 – in the Pentagon/DOD already missing $ 2.5 (I… Read more »
While I attempt to sketch from observing consciousness – in discernment of a broken and conflicted constellation that I see as framing our thought, perception and identity-response, I notice that Ivan Illich posits a complimentary perspective in terms of sociological and spiritual observations – where the latter are grounded in truly shared value – not dogma or mystery. “Modernised poverty appears when the intensity of market dependence reaches a certain threshold. Subjectively, it is the experience of frustrating affluence which occurs in persons mutilated by their overwhelming reliance on the riches of industrial productivity. Simply, it deprives those affected by it of their freedom and power to act autonomously. to live creatively; it condemns them to survive through being plugged into market relations. And precisely because this new impotence is deeply experienced, it is with difficulty expressed.” …”Many professions are so well established that they not only exercise tutelage over… Read more »
Many thanks, CJ, for another brilliant piece reminding us of the danger of globalists – their eyes currently on Venezuela. Sitting here in my armchair, two questions occur to me as the situation approaches boiling point. 1. According to the majority of Venezuelans who should be leading the country? The Maduro government has lost support of the majority (the May 2018 election, for example, had the lowest turnout in Venezuelan history). It has failed to deal with food and medicine scarcities, hyper-inflation, lack of security (Venezuela has 2nd highest murder rate in the world) and other critical issues. The majority now support the National Assembly and its president Guaidó. In the December 2015 elections, the opposition took control of 67% of the seats, a big loss for Maduro. The majority look for a change and Guaidó and the opposition appear to offer a viable alternative. The danger: Washington takes control… Read more »
He has consciously chosen to take this position whilst knowing at the same time that the assassination had gigantic consequences for the post-Kennedy world. Surely he must be able to comprehend the implication his murder had on the future of the war against Vietnam and the millions killed as a consequence?
We can’t be sure what Chomsky does or doesn’t know or comprehend. What we can be sure of, is that he wrote a whole book arguing that there were no consequences of the assassination, because Kennedy would have carried out exactly the same policies as Johnson did. Apparently, the quality of the argument is similar to that in the video above.
Michael Morrissey — Rethinking Chomsky
see also:
Michael Parenti — Conspiracy Phobia on the Left
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It is amazing how everybody misses the vital issue, that Maduro revolted against the petrodollar and tried to bypass US exploitation, therefore he has been taken out of action. He should count himself lucky they didn’t assassinate him, like they did with all others who don’t kowtow, viz: Saddam Hussain, Gaddafi, JF Kennedy, Hitler, Lincoln, etc. Their only crime was the same, bypass of the phoney Fed fiat finance.
Geeze, Smelly – ya knows yer stuff – eh wott? An Maddy’s still standin’ last I hurd!!
Excellent article. What a great capture of the situation.
And what a situation it is.
Very good post CJ Hopkins. A few years ago I came across recordings from Dr John Marciano lectures and seminar series called: “Empire As A Way Of Life”. It changed the way I look and understand US history and also post WW1 world history (about 12 hours of recordings). I would like to recommended it to Off-Guardian readers. Here’s Dr Marciano’s introduction to the series: “A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became “a way of life” in the U.S., a “combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society.” This “way of life” has convinced many U.S. “Americans” they have a right or “manifest destiny” to impose… Read more »
You ain’t read the transcript of the Norman Dodd/G.Edward Griffin interview then, eh?
Milosevic: great link M, thanks. Had a quick look then, some names already knew about, viz Democracy Now, Alternet, Mother Jones, 350.org, Amy Goodman, Michael Moore, etc, but some surprised me a lot; Earth First, Earth Liberation Front, Howard Zinn, Occupy, etc. On way to work, will have a proper look at that site tonight. Told you the other day can be a bit naive. Thanks.
Once you catch on to what Noam Chomsky actually is, it all starts to seem rather obvious. They really overdid it with the 9/11 operation; that’s succeeded in waking up an uncountable multitude of people.
Passing Noam on My Way Out
A truly expert-level psyop would involve the audacious tactic of explaining to people exactly how you intend to control them, at the same time as you’re actually doing it. Surely, nobody could ever figure out how to escape from that intellectual gulag.
Milosevic: Chomsky: “the less violent countries, say like United Kingdom, United States, and France…” WTF? The same sheepdog who urged people to vote for Obama and Clinton. “It doesn’t matter who killed JFK” his thoughts on 9/11, etc etc. And I used to be a Chomsky groupie 15-20 years ago. I woke up too him few years ago. That website on controlled ‘grassroots’ opposition really interesting M. Even Deepak Chopra? Sigh. These bastards are so fecken devious. Pretty much all the New Left….. Fakes.
“less violent countries” — WTF, indeed.
Try that “Passing Noam on My Way Out” article; it explains not just the funding, but how the controlled opposition system actually works.
The Toxically Useful Idiocy of Amy Goodman
The Toxically Useful Idiocy of Amy Goodman
note the White Helmets propaganda video continuously playing in the background.
She has to earn her shekels from Soros. Amy has to sing for her supper.
It actually saddens and infuriates me when I watch this monologue by Chomsky. As far as I am concerned the mask has not just slipped off but completely fallen off and we get to see the true face of a very intellectual man putting his mental powers to work in the most deceitful way. What adds to the insult is the smug way Chomsky patronises his audience with his, “worthless” and “low credibility” position regarding the complexity of events, persons, ideology and power surrounding 9/11 and the JFK assassination, and the crypto-psycho-babble about less violent nations etc, which then turns into a declaration that even in these ‘power systems’ operating democracies the populations are the ‘enemy’. Well, what is it, Noam? Are they friendly or are they the enemy of the people, like you just said? “Even if were true, which is extremely unlikely, who cares?” This is his flippant… Read more »
I think he feels there are limits on what he can say and some things can’t safely be discussed. Cowardice, or discretion?
He has consciously chosen to take this position whilst knowing at the same time that the assassination had gigantic consequences for the post-Kennedy world. Surely he must be able to comprehend the implication his murder had on the future of the war against Vietnam and the millions killed as a consequence?
We can’t be sure what Chomsky does or doesn’t know or comprehend. What we can be sure of, is that he wrote a whole book arguing that there were no consequences of the assassination, because Kennedy would have carried out exactly the same policies as Johnson did. Apparently, the quality of the argument is similar to that in the video above.
Michael Morrissey — Rethinking Chomsky
see also:
Michael Parenti — Conspiracy Phobia on the Left
Hey Milosevic, thanks a lot for those links. Really interesting articles. The Parenti one is brilliant.
This line surmises my view of Chomsky, relating to his remarks in the above video:
“Chomsky is able to maintain his criticism that no credible evidence has come to light only by remaining determinedly unacquainted with the mountain of evidence that has been uncovered.”
Much of the MSM and today’s journalists behave in much the same way.
Chomsky has the feel of a snob, someone who is content to know what he knows, research only what he wants to confirm or bolster his views and dismisses the rest. It is sad to see that he has apparently manufactured his own consent for some of the most disturbing events in modern history.
I propose the following term of art for Chomsky’s oeuvre and similar left-wing gatekeeping: Manufacturing Dissent
Perfect!
Jay-Q: I have a friend who regularly listens to Goodman and her ‘show’ and who thinks Chomsky is the bees knees and a true ‘dissident’. As I said to Milosevic, I also was sucked in by Chomsky for maybe 20 years, my rose tinted glasses fell off and my eyes opened too him few years ago. I now feel pretty disgusted by him, and also Goodman and her mate Juan Cole. I have pointed out various things to my friend, and directed him to more Credible sites – all too no avail. We had a major disagreement about what happened at Douma, and also about the White Helmets who he believes the mainstream narrative that they are heroic ‘civil defence’. Goodman and Chomsky have sucked in a lot of people, and yes, I was one of them.
Whether we like it or not we become a gatekeeper for the lie when we select the truths that hide our fear from us. But are people ‘sucked in’ or are people needing to maintain a narrative identity and worldview in exactly the same way as was once referred to as a false idol? That is to say, images and symbols (personified) have all the power we give them because we believe they give us something we lack or save us from a greater fear. The “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”, has more to it – though I don’t invest in shame – projected or sucked. Loss of trust in the word of those who are crying ‘wolf!’ – or giving false witness – and withholding true. This is a withdrawal of allegiance from acceptance of the forms, appearances and presentations of a… Read more »
Binra: thank you mate. Your first 4 paragraphs resonate strongly – I get your meaning. Also: “Devaluing or demonising our past is thus to deny us the blessing that we HAVE lived and thus shared” I appreciate your feedback. As I told you last week, sometimes my mind is like a whirlpool.
Chaos can be the recognition of a need for truth rather than the imposition of ‘order’. I reflected on the mind-whilrpool… Mind in reaction is its own dreaming. Stillness holds and extends the embrace of a mind renewed. The capacity of a negative synergy of mutually reinforcing facets is its compelling experience and convicted identity. So a self-reinforcing negative vortex, has all the force of its intent and attention. Until a mind elects to change. Positively or integratively self reinforcing thought and purpose extends freedom to our relations – as the ‘space’ or awareness in which to know or recognize truly. We give up or discard choice, to judgemental reactions as convictions of fact. And just as with the algorithms of financial computers, set up patterns of mutually reinforcing ‘facts’ from which to escalate or intensify the ‘reality experience’ of lost or broken communication and relationship to ‘hate objects undeserving… Read more »
Binra: “stillness holds and extends the embrace of a mind renewed”….. I appreciate the time you take to craft your comments. To put it as simply as possible, where I’m coming from is: there is so much rank injustice in the World, so much innocent blood being spilt, so many lies told, so much darkness binra. I am one person; me. Most of the time I feel pretty helpless and powerless. My comments come from the position that if you see great injustice in the World, countries bombed, children killed, You Do Not ignore that injustice, whether it’s Yemen, Palestine, Venezuela, Guatemala, anywhere. You do not bury your head in the sand and pretend nothing is happening. Very simply, its about right and wrong. You don’t ignore great injustice. I comment because I have a conscience mate. “Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know… Read more »
The breaking of the mind is the condemnation of a part of it to being trapped within a world of hate – as if now to escape or overcome it – but in any case to suffer and seek such power as we can in defence, alliance and lessening of pain. Sometimes it can seem we have escaped, sometimes some new promise of victory makes us glad – but the dream fails and nightmares return. The above is a picture of a mind IN a world that is OUTSIDE its control – and therefore compelled to seek power or hide in its seeming protections. But I hold that despite the nature of our experience, we are engaged in the experience of a world of our own defining, and that this experience is within consciousness. Not the other way around. We see through a glass darkly, means we see through not… Read more »
Binra: its 11.27 pm down here in Australia, and I’m really tired, aye. I’ll reread your comments in the morning. Any suggestions on reading material? As I said, I find Ivan Illich pretty intriguing, and will investigate further. Anything else you recommend? I assume you’re in the UK? Have a good day😁
Nothing is more transformational than living our own discovery.
Increasing motivation for learning supports fundamental change.
This means questioning what we think we already know.
I would not presume to know what would resonate for you at this time – but I know that the desire to learn is never left unmet.
I wouldn’t bother with some of those, GP.
Democracy Now/ Goodman are bankrolled by Soros. It follows a Neocon agenda calling for Libya style bombing of Syria. Parrots a lot of Neocon/ Ziocon garbage. Controlled opposition at best. Same applies to Mother Jones/ Counterpunch. Bogus/ Faux Left.
Michael “I’m An Ordinary Joe” Moore is a repulsive fat turd of a hypocrite with 7 mansions who is worth well over $100 million. He was breaking all records whitewashing Clinton’s warmongering, corruption and mendacity, presenting her as a cross between Jesus Christ and Mother Teresa. Really vile individual.
Without engaging in whether what you say has merit, I notice that the way you say it is simply smear by opinion stated as fact. The fact remains that deceit is the masking of hidden agenda – and that this can include different facets of bias in different sources of information. Such that a perfect source is nowhere. But opinion everywhere. That is everyone seeking the moral high ground in which to have the advantage in a shit throwing contest. One reason that many limit disclosure is when doing so is believed to be playing into an enemy – whose disempowerment is considered a lesser evil than a full disclosure – for example. Or of course feared and believed to bring an outcome of penalty, exclusion, pain and loss. Not everyone who finds they have chosen against their own integrity persists in doing so, and yet a blame and vilification… Read more »
I’m just raising a red flag so people don’t accept those organs uncritically as valid sources.
What I say has been extensively documented.
The Soros money is a fact, the neocon agenda is a fact.
But don’t take my word for it, check it out for yourself.
If you don’t agree with that and take the opposite view, that’s fine.
It doesn’t matter what I think, I just work for a living.
Thanks for responding.
I think that’s what he meant by “already knew about” — who was pulling the strings of those particular puppets.
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Thanks for noting this crucial issue of funding and freedom of expression. How do non-MS POVs get funded and yet stay independent? OffG is a good example. Apart from Patreon (which also does some censoring apparently), what sources are there? Other services or markets? More marketing? If we like OffG or other sites/writers it is time to pony up what with Google algorithms blocking many sites on the left(and right). By coincidence, I help fund the writer of this article(CJ) and hope others will do so as well, especially by purchasing Zone 23(e-book $3), his brilliant anti-neo-liberal novel about our probable dystopian future.
And the Guardian roll out one of their favourite billionaires, who’ll be waiting to leap on any opportunity to profit from the chaos:
“The EU looks like the Soviet Union in 1991 – on the verge of collapse”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/12/eu-soviet-union-european-elections-george-soros
Dear Mr. Hopkins – how come you think the same as me? You psychic – or wha’?
and which pub d’ya frequent in Berlino;Harry’s Bar – oder der (alte) “Palast der Republik”?
Cafe Moscow? 🙂
Wo ist das?
An der Karl Marx Allee!
Sorry – Cafe Moskau:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cafe+Moskau/@52.5197051,13.4227057,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x370146c081733d33?ved=2ahUKEwjP4JK2kbfgAhVAUBUIHZUOCLQQ_BIwDnoECAYQCA
Awesome place – sadly, not been for many years!
See yas darn’ere……somtime. I did use to love walking down the Friedrichstraße after having “passed go” with Ostmark at 6 to 1 in me socks……oh Yes!
I definitely owe you that beer, but Berlin is not on my itinerary. I may have asked in a previous comment, but might you be headed to the Pacific NW of the USA sometime?
Besides the content of your article, I enjoyed the breadth of commentary that your article elicited. Wide range of political analyses, philosophical dissertations, humor, and common sense. As Zimmerman put it: “Oh me, oh my. Love that country pie.”
Globalism can be countered if people think the alternatives are better. 1. People can set up local credit unions/thrifts which have in their Articles of Association that they be owned by depositers and that they only invest locally. If people think they can satisfy local demand for loans and mortgages locally, these schemes can definitely work. 2. People can refuse to invest in companies they disapprove of and refuse to purchase their products. Buying TNC coffee is a choice, as is buying TNC ICT hardware. Technology is now old hat to produce PCs without back door surveillance hooks in the OS. The vast majority need very simple ICT and value security. 3. They can elect independent representatives not tied to Establishment parties. Voting Labour/Conservative or Republican/Democrat can be changed easily if people care. 4. They can vote to deny trading rights to companies hoarding cash in tax havens. If you… Read more »
That there is a true choice may need the belief and commitment to making it. But this is heavily weighted against with an existing and acquired set of beliefs and commitments that in some sense can be likened to an operating system. Minds operating from shared belief and commitment, (actions) operate a self-reinforcing mind-set, worldview, identity, or strategy of coping or surviving conflicts that are both outer and inner – and which in a sense come together to make a world – or perhaps the only way we can see the world – and in which no real choices remain – or are seemingly ineffectual, futile or waiting on everyone else to ‘wake up’. One way or another persisting the experience of being defined or set in subjection to the loveless or hateful will of others, as of the overall social beliefs and reactions that are the established order in… Read more »
A superb essay, Mr. Hopkins, nailing down so clearly the bigger picture with the precision of a grandmaster sharpshooter.
The Deep State is indeed not an American phenomenon, it’s a clique without borders, the bond of national belonging, vacuous of any human morality, it’s driven purely by their obsessive desire to accumulate wealth and control the plebs.
Where and how will it all end?
Love the way this snippet has been commandeered for countless videos.
Here’s an Australian one from the time when the Libs raised the pension age to 70.
Thanks flaxgirl. I needed a good laugh today. Hitler prediction about Turnbull turns out to be correct. Go figure. Even Holt at Portsea gets in the act.
I have to say that I find much of the hyper-globalist rhetoric somewhat overblown. We are not pace Thomas Friedman of the New York Times (aka Pravda on the Hudson) living in a flat world, we are living in a hierarchical world; always were, and probably always will be. It is amazing how the ‘progressive left’ has bought into the market ideology. It goes something like this: A combination of new and revolutionary technologies involving transport and communications and the increasing power and reach of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) has shifted control out of the power of nation-states to the all encompassing and powerful ‘market’. The neo-liberal, globalist agenda has reduced the presence of the state in economic policy making through the policies of privatisation, deregulation, and liberalisation. Lower direct taxation, unfettered trade, and financial movements became the mantra especially in the Anglosphere. Blah, blah blah. One would have expected this… Read more »
Perhaps you ought to look at the 2011 study by Glattfelder et al entitled “The Network of Global Corporate Control”. They described their method as follows: “We start from a list of 43060 TNCs [trans-national companies] identified according to the OECD definition, taken from a sample of about 30 million economic actors contained in the Orbis 2007 database (see SI Appendix, Sec. 2). We then apply a recursive search (Fig. S1 and SI Appendix, Sec. 2) which singles out, for the first time to our knowledge, the network of all the ownership pathways originating from and pointing to TNCs (Fig. S2). The resulting TNC network includes 600508 nodes and 1006987 ownership ties.” They note that “network control is much more unequally distributed than wealth. In particular, the top ranked actors hold a control ten times bigger than what could be expected based on their wealth.” And “nearly 4/10 of the… Read more »
Of the 43,060 corporations studied – just 1,318 control most of the global economy. Of the 147 TNC “super-entity”: 37 are among the world’s largest 100 economies. They control the world economy for the global supra-national super-society (of which many of the CEOs are leading members) …AND we pay an extra subsidy (around $700bn) for them to destroy the planet, ruining their own business model and any real hope of a sustainable future.
Paying twice to get fucked over: can there be a better definition of insanity? Maybe, we welcome and encourage them by voting for the “pro-business” agenda to join supra-national institutions to protect jobs and workers rights. Double jeopardy insanity?
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/externalities-and-subsidies-stumbling-blocks-on-the-road-to-regenerative-economies-d1e9bc93bbfd
(Contains a link to the Zurich study.)
John, someone pays the nation state’s policy mekkers….done they, So who wud thar be?
That guy realized soon what was expected of him:
“Trump on Track”: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2017/04/13/trump-on-track-trump-auf-linie/
Regards
‘Power’ grows by capture or undermining of rival power. The sense of self-specialness, as exceptionalism, a chosen people, embodies any mythic narrative that supports or serves it. The ‘right to rule’, the insiders, illuminati, bringers of a new world or protectors from the end of an old one. Survival is at the core but through a narrative identity that – like an Idol or false god, demands sacrifice of the true. And so power for power’s sake operates the dispossession of the capacity to have, be or share in life. It hollows out and lays waste, while making ‘special’ or isolating, within a pattern of thought and behaviour that is addictive, compulsive, driven, unfree. So I put power in ‘quotes’ because I question it as true. I don’t question that we most all and most all the time give it our truth or feel compelled or demanded to sacrifice truth… Read more »
Power has no intent.
It simply is.
The sun, gravity, wind, light, waves, fire and water all exert/exhude power.
Humans have no power, only force or authority.
Force and authority have intent. They are directed at someone or something. They are corruptible.
Love is the highest power.
“A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, Wisdom does.” because , “there is Knowledge. there is wisdom. the difference is compassion . . .” (The Tao of Pooh) “There isn’t time : so brief is life , for bickerings , apologies , heart burnings , callings to account : there is only time for loving and but an instant, so to speak, for that . . . ” (Mark Twain) The ‘Why’ ‘How’ & ‘What’ for evidence of intent , when exerting power over others … Back to the real world , FD and never forgetting >>> Mens Rea & James Comey , lol , how things revolve 360º, but with that lil’ something of extra added momentum, that clarifies “A Question of Honour” 😉 Forgive for sure, & meanwhile never forget & look up at the ‘Clouds’ … of ^^^ Geo-Engineering ^^^ “I’ve looked at… Read more »
Love and power. What cannot be revealed to a mind seeking and fighting for power is that ‘all power is (of) God’. This is not meaningful in the framing of a conflict of powers. And a conflict of powers is without love. Symbols of love? Yes – especially threatened or as victim. But recognition of oneself in the other. No. What CAN be learned is the meaninglessness of conflict and the willingness to choose not to use this temptation to ‘power’ – and thus be open to a direct expression of an integrated or unconflicted love as an expression of a shared integrity of being – regardless others current acceptance of their own integral worth or willingness to accept and align likewise. Because a sense of loss of love, and loss of power, underlies the struggle to survive a world of fear and threat, the self equates with its attempt… Read more »
“So how did Trump finally get the liberal corporate media to stop calling him a fascist? He did that by acting like a fascist (i.e., like a “normal” president). Which is to say he did the bidding of the deep state goons and corporate mandarins that manage the global capitalist empire … the smiley, happy, democracy-spreading, post-fascist version of fascism we live under.” – precisely, and so-called liberals cheer on fascists as soon as the fascists start attacking targets liberals have been conditioned to fear (Assad, Putin, Maduro, etc, etc) while demonstrating absolutely no insight into the conditioning process the MSM subjects them to.
Bizarrely the largest group supporting fascists nowadays are liberals even while they produce an endless litany of turgid identity politics – how the fuck did that happen?
I’ve been asking myself the same question for a while now, I’ve no idea how it happened. The same is true of “the Liberal left” voraciously defending the EU against lexiters. They’d be more comfortable with Macron as British PM and Anna Soubry leading the Labour Party.
the largest group supporting fascists nowadays are liberals even while they produce an endless litany of turgid identity politics – how the fuck did that happen?
“He who pays the piper, also calls the tune.”
There’s no great mystery about it, once you stop assuming that these assholes’ primary motivations are something other than status, careerism, and money. Try talking sense to some “liberal” 9/11 deniers; it’s a highly edifying experience.
The “Grassroots” Myth: “Liberal CIA” Network of “New Left” Foundations, Media and Activist Groups
You are probably right but I still find it utterly bizarre – liberals screaming fascist when an internet comedian produces a joke in bad taste (that led to him being criminalised) yet barely a murmer from them when death squads are being primed to once again unleash hell in latin America.
Its as if the likes of Chile, Guatemala, Panama and El Salvador never happened – who’s Oliver North I can hear them say!
Virtue signalling depends on hating the haters as if a caring act. People acting hatefully are easy to hate and provocation is part of their strategy of getting what they think they want, but of course without masking in forms of acceptability, they meet rejection excepting when used as a proxy by others – in which case they can seem to be popular as long as they behave in compliance with expectations and demands of others. Masked hate is not hard to find. A thousand seeming irritations every day cover a hate that is not socially acceptable unless expressing justified grievance. Complex and clever minds are able to repackage toxic debt into something worthy of real investment. And so the stealing of your investments in a false sense of worth operates under normal social structures of apparently credible and meaningful exchange. The right to judge others finds social reinforcement and… Read more »
I hate to hate that I hate to hate but what i hate is what I hate to hate as hateful as that sounds.Hope you understand.
Its as if the likes of Chile, Guatemala, Panama and El Salvador never happened – who’s Oliver North I can hear them say!
surely you meant, who is Elliott Abrams?
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
Or as Jackie Cogan memorably said; “I’m livin’ in America, and in America you are on your own. America is not a country – it’s just a business. Now fuckin’ pay me”
Sounds a bit like Arthur Jensen’s diatribe to Howard Beale in the film ‘Network’ 1976
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html
So how did Trump finally get the liberal corporate media to stop calling him a fascist?
He simply tweeted over their heads: Zuckerberg is not going to (shadow) ban a US president (yet).
Trump was called a fascist etc. most by the phony left(overs) who are short on argument and full of expletives like racist!, zionist! and of course fascist!
Goaded there? You bet.
This isn’t a new phenomenon, its just that its entered the final stage where there is no longer any pretense of nationalism. Empires, as many have already remarked over the centuries, are primarily economic, only showing the trappings of ultra-nationalism because that was the prevailing culture at the time. The British were ahead of the game which is probably why they were most successful at it; their Empire was a franchising operation with the State only stepping in when an operation like the East India Company, a company that was “too big to fail”, was in danger of collapse. I have always thought of Empire as supranational, its an abstraction that needed a physical host, one that could provide the most appropriate resources for its operations. For many years this was Britain but after WW1 the shift started to the US with it being complete after WW2. Obviously there were… Read more »
MAMMON RULE$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Always has.
Excellent again CJ: ‘slaving at bullshit jobs to buy things we don’t even need’. Making the bloodsuckers even more wealthy. Zonked out on a thousand distractions, relentlessly lied too, most don’t even know what’s happening. They don’t even know that they don’t even know. Oblivious. The whole system is like some surreal, dystopian nightmare. Fuck Globalism.
Fat boy slim said it best, Gezzah , back in 2001 >>> ‘Star 69′ says it all 😉
“They know what is wot’ , but they don’t know wot’ is what , they just strut , wot’ d’ fuk … ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPbGIUjZFp0
Funk soul brothers, right about now, might like to follow with a lil’ ‘Rockafeller Skank’ ,
enough to drive anybody to surrealism , even Salvador Dali with magic chequebook 🙂
I have to agree with CJ that hanging out with Uncle Sam your regular smiley faced corporate greed monger is pretty much a sign of the times.. the brain dead still walking. Rather like the UK’s minister for War with that Churchillian name… Gavin; blabbering on about Brexit making Britain Great again!?? Gavin and the Orange one are pretty much of the same ilk both are hucksters for the corporate capitalist cabal of rapacious asset strippers. While the OO might be in the top dollar seat [while the gravy train is still running] Gavin is pretty much in the tuppenny stalls. But it still doesn’t stop him yapping on with his “shut up and go away” strategy about Russia and China being a threat. While offering some old frigate to patrol the Black Sea to protect the Guardian’s Ukrainian touchy feely Femi-nazis of the Azov brigade. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/05/ukraine-women-fighting-frontline Yes it’s a… Read more »
Re: the boy Gavin – RT summed him up quite neatly as “a kid in a tank shop”. Only, a cursory look at the inventory of our military reveals his grand lies. For all his Biblical and pestilential metaphysical metaphor – swarms of drones, enhanced lethality etc – he is not talking of UK military capabilities. We don’t have any. He’s talking about the EU Empires militarised Frankenstein inter-operable capabilities. We can barely put a ship to sea, our carrier has no planes, and we couldn’t even invade Gibraltar. So the boy wonder must be talking of someone else.
https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/the-decline-of-the-royal-navy
@BigB >>> “a kid in a tank shop” , precisely , lol , but it’s not only RT that perceives ‘boy Gavin’ in this manner, in deed , did you not hear about his comment to shoot Spanish ships in Gibraltar, with PAINTBALL guns and how his military advisor’s eyes were rolling in disbelief ? ! ? I mean, I mean words alone fail comprehensively to do any form of justice to the accusations of incompetence, the sheer incredulity & incredibly low intellect of boy Gavin and even everybody at the British M.o.D. knows this and are ‘hugely’ embarrassed by the ugly face of politicians today. Add the Richard Maddely incident, who just cut him off, mid-sentence , for failure to address the question, 3 times consecutively &&& why doesn’t somebody just tell Gav d’Chav , to shut the Fuk up and go home, before he speaks ??? What is… Read more »
Tim
The thing is, the Deep State has put the intern in charge of the tank shop …that’s insult enough. It’s the audience that matters …RUSI. They are part of the anti-Russia psyop …part of the Think-Tank Deep State …that’s the “tank shop” we have to worry about (if you’ll excuse me using “enhanced lethality” on that analogy!)
It does not matter who speaks the words, RUSI are part of the state-ideological nexus that write the script.
I don’t think Nia “it was a Russian hit” Griffith will be saying any different. The only difference is that she has a few years on him.
Not to worry. Uncle Sam will invade for you. They just need some Gibraltar (or fill in the blank) ‘rebels’, said to be eating babies and drop broad hints they be tightly linked to Putin. One false flag op usually suffices. Import a few Kurds so they are at hand when you feel the need to be maudlin.
As for the Guardian, well, they supported international jihad in Syria for some 7+ years, refusing to call them anything other than ‘rebels’. In the UK, they supported the coup, revealing zero journalistic integrity over the whole event. Yemen barely gets a mention. Yes, they have covered the far-right elements in Ukraine to a degree, but they have largely ignored the scale of far-right ideology in west Ukraine and Ukrainian politics that resulted in their supposed ‘pro-EU’ stance. Instead, going along with the whole anti-Russian vibe central to the current narrative. As detailed in the above article, I also found it bizarre how, for example, The Guardian has spent Trump’s full term in office being strongly against him and everything he stands for yet the very moment The White House begins its regime change operation against Venezuela it immediately toes the line and becomes another element in the propaganda campaign… Read more »
Jay-Q: do you feel like you’re simultaneously living in Alice In Wonderland and 1984? Even 20 years ago seemed completely normal and sane compared to the present day madness. Sometimes I feel like I’m the bloody Mad Hatter such is the surreal nature of ‘our world’.
“do you feel like you’re simultaneously living in Alice In Wonderland and 1984”
Add to that The Matrix and that would sum up perfectly the place where I feel that I am living right now.
Just give me a beach, books and some nice coffee and that would be heaven! That’s all I ask for in this life 🙂
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works for me.
Brazil (1985) — directed byTerry Gilliam
They work for me too. Thanks. Great film.
Woops, just noticed a mistake in my main comment: “In the UK, they supported the coup…” should read Ukraine!
Lol, prescient!
In the UK they supported coups against Corbyn and are still doing so.
They will support a junta – coalition government without first holding a general election – to stop the Corbynites to upset their neocon applecart.
Yeah maybe my subconscious actually got it right the first time! 🙂
This will give some factual background info.:-
America as it used to exist is as dead as a dodo. It has been hollowed out, bled white, leeched off, and deindustrialised to feed and fatten the globalist corporate vampire and the Zionist ethnostate. “Finance” (pushing pieces of paper around Wall Street and pretending they are worth billions) makes up 40% of the US economy. In the 1970s, when America made things, it was 2%. “Healthcare” (charging $750 for a pill that costs a few cents to produce, and $5,000 for an ambulance journey) makes up another 18%. The war machine to protect the Ziocon empire costs another $1.1 trillion. Americans just pay the taxes and do the cheerleading to support this empire. The parasites feeding off the host couldn’t care less about it long term. “When we have sucked all we can out of America, it can dry up and blow away.” Netanyahu. The globalist elite has no… Read more »
When we read, “Ziono- ,” we know we’re hearing someone reciting meaningless phrases, but here more than usual, it is strikingly disconnected from the issues under discussion. Granted, it was probably just a knee-jerk reflex, that automatic demonizing of Israel/Russia for the evils done by the US, but I would suggest logically analyzing the legitimacy of the liberal bourgeois railing against that tiny country.
I see there has been desecration of some jewish graves in the UK while the Corbyn hysteria is being ramped up again….hmm, almost as if planned.
Just like when one of Macron’s dark-ops Gendarmerie sprayed “Juden” on a Parisian patisserie… almost as if it were planned?
Cue another 163 bomb threats to synagogues from another Jewish guy in Israel.
hmm, almost as if planned
automatic demonizing of Israel for the evils done by the US
Yes, let’s analyse it logically.
“That tiny country” rules over the US, Canada, UK, France, EU.
There you are.
All logically analysed.
@Mark: “The globalist _elite_ has no loyalty to any [other] country. All they care about are their own profit.”
Elite. From Latin elect, cf French elu — the Chosen People.
Everything you say is spot on, except the converging climate / energy crisis and the emergence of the Eurasian empire threatens our fascist deep state.
Word has it they are active in Russia though, despite all the rhetoric, so they may be fleeing to the Eastern Roman Empire already, leaving us westerners to get sacked by the visigoths
Cheers !
in gallows humour and sense of realpolitik, this certainly accords with my views. m\\
Michael, “gallows humour” is a Yankee speciality, an admission of defeat; and “realpolitik” led to Nazism. I prefer the Pickwickian humour of Dickens “that great Christian” (according to Chesterton and Dostoievsky) which leads to penitence, to positive reform and angry revolution.
“Our circumstances are too dire for the luxury of realism”. — Catherine Anne Fittz
Need we say more?