War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad
Arbitrase system has already stolen valuen of future work by debt and other financialised vehicls. Serfdom is established se facto.
AI triple use, keep narrative control sleeping mode, discover more effective financial arbitras discoveries and effective forcing power against any risks on financial operations of accumulation
"Capitalism" is the sanctification of human greed. It is socially and ecologically toxic without limits; it is a death cult. It's not surprising they have to try so hard to sell it.
Yes Jonathan, it is US led business that controls us; not Israel. These companies, owned by white, nominally christian men, want full spectrum global dominance. They know that this is under threat, particularly by the rise of Asia and China. They will stop at nothing to maintain primacy.
However, the public are still happily buying goods from these exploitative and destructive companies like Walmart, Amazon, Google, Exxon, BP, Pfizer, GSK and Cargill (thus maintaining inequality), because they've been fooled that the enemy is actually Israel, globalists, multipolarity, climate communism, renewables, Jews or digital IDs.
"War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires..."
It's more complicated. What they are doing is actually a last ditch operation to prevent the collapse of capitalism where the growth of capital goes into runaway mode. See
Good points, but I would that Fukuyama did not "forget" that capitalism isn’t socialism.
Fukuyama waa an early product of the thjnk tank narrative industry, such as RAND Corp. His job wasn't to think - it was to be a mouthpeice for propaganda in service of neoliberal hegmnony. And he built a career on serving up these lies and spin.
He knew he was lying. Even though he was educated enough to know better.He was paid to pretend to not know, as per the old quote from Upton Sinclair:
"it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Who could forget a consummated and self-satisfied Ronald Reagan almost mockingly urging a punch-drunk Gorbachev to self-humiliate: “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall”. This was, as you argue, one of the most pivotal moments in history. With the scales now entirely tipped in favour of the capitalist, the ordinary people have been left at the mercy of the corporations, the implications of which we are reeling today.
The billionaires have got us fighting big government, authoritarianism, 15 min cities, digital IDs and creating resistance to paying taxes (that support social programs). They've done this to distract us from the fact that the power to resist them is already in our hands and pockets.
They've addicted us to their products; cars, petrol, big houses, foreign holidays and travel (both research and journalism can be done by locals), meat and dairy, news, entertainment, narcotics and pharmaceuticals.
In the west we keep trying to frame ourselves as the poor beleaguered workers being oppressed in a similar way to how other nations are crushed. Yes, wars raise energy prices back home and the lowest incomes suffer- but we are the ones supporting the oppression.
It is our own lifestyles and our willingness to turn a blind eye to their impact on others and the planet that created the billionaires fortunes and power in the first place.
The billionaires cannot secure their profits without our complicity. They are not waging war against us! We're their addicts and bitches buying cheap goods and burning up the planet.
Fukayama shouldn't have been so grandiose as to imagine the end of history. It was really the end of Capitalism's history that he meant, but that won't sell any books. After the Great Crash of 1929, Capitalism was done in the west without the opposing force of the USSR. It alone sustained the great lie of unfettered Capitalism's moral supremacy. Well, that lie will shortly be renamed The Book of Job.
Yes, those of us in the west must resist the billionaires by ceasing to buy the products that made them rich and powerful in the first place.
Instead of getting our knickers in a knot about ULEZ and digital IDs we need to protest the increase in military spending that goes straight into their pockets. We need to refuse to fight in Ukraine. We need to break our addictions to fossil fuels, animal ag, Amazon, Netflix, gambling, gaming, tobacco, narcotics and pharmaceuticals.
We sure do, Jo. And we need to take all kinds of action. This historic moment demands so much from us, and I think many are rising to meet this challenge. Thanks for all you do.
CONCISE. That's how it is right now. Thanks again are due to JONATHAN COOK for spelling it out.
Current events in the UK are turbocharging the play of the accelerationists amongst the neo-feudalists weaponising the combined trillions of dollars/euros/pounds at their disposal.
Regime change. NIGEL FARAGE in No10 in 2019? Why not 2017 now?
Fear is the key. Rage is the medium. Money is the grease that keeps the cogs of the machine turning.
(CHARLIE CHAPLIN danced it for us all in his film THE GREAT DICTATOR.)
"Fukayama forgot that capitalism isn’t socialism. It doesn’t seek the best for everyone. It doesn’t want to share the wealth. It doesn’t prioritise dignity over profit. Its lifeblood is exploitation – of individuals and of entire peoples. He forgot that there would be resistance."
I really hope the capitalists' days are numbered... Our battered planet and its abused and murdered people can't take much more of this contemptuous abuse of the billionaires. It's us or them. I vote us. It's time to take the fight to them and save our world from greed.
A lot of things hung on the fall of the Wall. I remember how it was widely said a reunified Germany would be highly significant but it didn’t really happen did it?
Wonder why? The US led billionaires will broke no rivals, even in so-called allies. They offered tax breaks for businesses and industry to relocate to the US. They politically captured German politicians and the public. They scuppered nuclear energy that would offer independence and now have cut them off from affordable Russian gas- making Germany and the EU more dependent on LNG exported across an ocean.
China isn't planning a D-Day invasion of Taiwan; they’re executing a slow, systematic strangulation. While the U.S. waits for domestic chip fabs to come online in 2030, Beijing is tightening the noose today using the Russian playbook. Here is why a sliver of silicon is the most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint on earth.https://triggledger.substack.com/p/the-silicon-choke-point-why-the-next?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8gc1qf
Arbitrase system has already stolen valuen of future work by debt and other financialised vehicls. Serfdom is established se facto.
AI triple use, keep narrative control sleeping mode, discover more effective financial arbitras discoveries and effective forcing power against any risks on financial operations of accumulation
"Capitalism" is the sanctification of human greed. It is socially and ecologically toxic without limits; it is a death cult. It's not surprising they have to try so hard to sell it.
Another excellent critique from Jonathon Cook.
Yes Jonathan, it is US led business that controls us; not Israel. These companies, owned by white, nominally christian men, want full spectrum global dominance. They know that this is under threat, particularly by the rise of Asia and China. They will stop at nothing to maintain primacy.
However, the public are still happily buying goods from these exploitative and destructive companies like Walmart, Amazon, Google, Exxon, BP, Pfizer, GSK and Cargill (thus maintaining inequality), because they've been fooled that the enemy is actually Israel, globalists, multipolarity, climate communism, renewables, Jews or digital IDs.
"War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires..."
It's more complicated. What they are doing is actually a last ditch operation to prevent the collapse of capitalism where the growth of capital goes into runaway mode. See
https://peterwebster.substack.com/p/the-1-may-have-a-plan
This essay has had a couple of t thousand reads, so I may be on to something with this theory.
Once more, thank you Jonathan for your powerful writings - translated in French here : https://zanzibar.substack.com/p/a-linstar-de-midas-ceux-qui-nous
Thanks so much Zanzibar!
Always with pleasure.
Good points, but I would that Fukuyama did not "forget" that capitalism isn’t socialism.
Fukuyama waa an early product of the thjnk tank narrative industry, such as RAND Corp. His job wasn't to think - it was to be a mouthpeice for propaganda in service of neoliberal hegmnony. And he built a career on serving up these lies and spin.
He knew he was lying. Even though he was educated enough to know better.He was paid to pretend to not know, as per the old quote from Upton Sinclair:
"it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Another excellent article, Jonathan.
Who could forget a consummated and self-satisfied Ronald Reagan almost mockingly urging a punch-drunk Gorbachev to self-humiliate: “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall”. This was, as you argue, one of the most pivotal moments in history. With the scales now entirely tipped in favour of the capitalist, the ordinary people have been left at the mercy of the corporations, the implications of which we are reeling today.
Jonathan - your words are balm.
You see the world’s truth with such clarity , and convey so vividly both the grotesque reality and the growth of hope .
People are waking up, slowly 🌱
Thank you , and please know how valuable your work is .
The billionaires have got us fighting big government, authoritarianism, 15 min cities, digital IDs and creating resistance to paying taxes (that support social programs). They've done this to distract us from the fact that the power to resist them is already in our hands and pockets.
They've addicted us to their products; cars, petrol, big houses, foreign holidays and travel (both research and journalism can be done by locals), meat and dairy, news, entertainment, narcotics and pharmaceuticals.
We can break them.
In the west we keep trying to frame ourselves as the poor beleaguered workers being oppressed in a similar way to how other nations are crushed. Yes, wars raise energy prices back home and the lowest incomes suffer- but we are the ones supporting the oppression.
It is our own lifestyles and our willingness to turn a blind eye to their impact on others and the planet that created the billionaires fortunes and power in the first place.
The billionaires cannot secure their profits without our complicity. They are not waging war against us! We're their addicts and bitches buying cheap goods and burning up the planet.
Fukayama shouldn't have been so grandiose as to imagine the end of history. It was really the end of Capitalism's history that he meant, but that won't sell any books. After the Great Crash of 1929, Capitalism was done in the west without the opposing force of the USSR. It alone sustained the great lie of unfettered Capitalism's moral supremacy. Well, that lie will shortly be renamed The Book of Job.
We are all Palestinians now. And we all need to resist the billionaires.
Yes, those of us in the west must resist the billionaires by ceasing to buy the products that made them rich and powerful in the first place.
Instead of getting our knickers in a knot about ULEZ and digital IDs we need to protest the increase in military spending that goes straight into their pockets. We need to refuse to fight in Ukraine. We need to break our addictions to fossil fuels, animal ag, Amazon, Netflix, gambling, gaming, tobacco, narcotics and pharmaceuticals.
We sure do, Jo. And we need to take all kinds of action. This historic moment demands so much from us, and I think many are rising to meet this challenge. Thanks for all you do.
CONCISE. That's how it is right now. Thanks again are due to JONATHAN COOK for spelling it out.
Current events in the UK are turbocharging the play of the accelerationists amongst the neo-feudalists weaponising the combined trillions of dollars/euros/pounds at their disposal.
Regime change. NIGEL FARAGE in No10 in 2019? Why not 2017 now?
Fear is the key. Rage is the medium. Money is the grease that keeps the cogs of the machine turning.
(CHARLIE CHAPLIN danced it for us all in his film THE GREAT DICTATOR.)
For 2019 read 2029. For 2017 read 2027.
For me, a rest.
"Fukayama forgot that capitalism isn’t socialism. It doesn’t seek the best for everyone. It doesn’t want to share the wealth. It doesn’t prioritise dignity over profit. Its lifeblood is exploitation – of individuals and of entire peoples. He forgot that there would be resistance."
I really hope the capitalists' days are numbered... Our battered planet and its abused and murdered people can't take much more of this contemptuous abuse of the billionaires. It's us or them. I vote us. It's time to take the fight to them and save our world from greed.
A lot of things hung on the fall of the Wall. I remember how it was widely said a reunified Germany would be highly significant but it didn’t really happen did it?
Wonder why? The US led billionaires will broke no rivals, even in so-called allies. They offered tax breaks for businesses and industry to relocate to the US. They politically captured German politicians and the public. They scuppered nuclear energy that would offer independence and now have cut them off from affordable Russian gas- making Germany and the EU more dependent on LNG exported across an ocean.
…and who broke the pipeline again!?