🔴 THE WIDER CONTEXT

🔴 There's a tremendous struggle taking place between currently two sections (power blocs) of the ruling class, one currently represented by The Donald, and the other one up until recently symbolized by former President Sleepy Joe.

🔵 Sleepy Joe's side represents "Conventional" Imperialism, which is in essence a vast coalition of forces directed by US-based global Finance Capital, including that of the Trilateral Commission; plus the Western global Deep-state and its associated State-and-Corporate sponsored Terrorist operations; plus the Corporate "mainstream" (regime) Media engaged in brainwashing the population of the West via lies, propaganda, disinformation, and manipulation. A recent and very powerful addition to the power bloc is a blend or hybrid between Finance Capital and a special branch of Industrial Capital, ie. the Capital involved in the "Big Digital" world ("Big Data" corporations plus "Big Tech" {Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla}). All these are mutually dependent forms of Capital which can not exist without each other - and exert a tremendous power in the world.

This side has ruled over the US for the last several decades, at least since Gerald Ford and Carter's time (it had been on the ascending since the early 1900's). 

Since the year 2000 this power bloc has taken over several important ramparts or sections of the Left and of the US and global Liberation Movement. These are now being used to deliver the politics of Imperialism in "progressive", "liberal", fake-radical, fake-left wrapping, delivered with the appropriate "leftist" slogans. 

This power bloc's project for a New World Order /Globalization /Great Reset has forced the US Empire to stretch too thin and is now reaping severe military, financial and political defeats.

The constituent parts of this Conventional Imperialist bloc has NOT dissolved since Sleepy Joe lost the White House. It's already carrying out its counter-attack.

Associated with them is the Western European axis under the Anglo-Franco-German power bloc, who recently became politically "orphaned". They are now constituting themselves into a Coalition of the Willing (War Party of Europe), aiming to militarize Europe and drag us into war against Russia. Alongside that, those forces are already taking more and more authoritarian initiatives to curtail democracy and constitutional rights within the European Union, and to increase conflict with non-existent "enemies". 

This Europe-based axis, together with the US-based sections of the Conventional Imperialist power bloc, essentially constitute the main bulk of the almost global Western Empire.

🔵 The other Tower, Trump's, is trying to save US Imperialism from itself.

It's trying to save US Imperialism from the blatant military defeat it sufferred in its proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine; reduce its over-extension into the realm of trade deficit; increase US-based production; decrease Government spending and its loans; and "rationalize" (repackage, re-orient) its domestic and foreign policy so that the US can keep functioning as an Empire. 

In other words, this power bloc is attempting to utilize both old and new Imperial techniques in order to patch up an Empire that's crumbling due to the contradictions built into its own system of political economy which it can not contain; it exerts desperate efforts to delay the damage brought on by the ever-decreasing rate of profitability and the increasing rate of Capital's devaluation.

To this, it has relied on a popular base that's easily labelled as "right wing". But in a political climate where Conventional Imperialism is marketed as "the Left", what is the meaning of a "right wing"? 

It represents a section of the ruling class that's primarily composed of domestic US-based Manufacturing Capital, plus some import-export merchants, and domestic distribution chains. This power of section of Capital has been plunging for decades, because manufacturing efficiency is very high (and therefore profitability very low), and has led to many industries to run away to establish manufacturing in other countries. 

This power bloc's tactics to "save the Empire" include "Old Imperial" tactics such as trade tariffs (echoes of the "Nixon shock" [1]); more emphasis on the power of the State (echoes of late 19th century European Empires) in order to accomplish strikes against illegal immigration; strikes against the expression of internationalist and (truly) progressive solidarity such as with the Palestinians; and also "New Imperial" tactics such as total alignment with genocidal zionism (a continuation of Sleepy Joe's project of "bomb 'em all to hell"). Plus a number of steps which I would consider progressive (only because of the surrounding reactionary context). Such as:
o- Pulling the handbrake on certain activities of the Empire that were served under the guise of "progressive /leftist" (fake-left) slogans which enabled MEN WHO CLAIM TO BE WOMEN to enter women's toilets and to compete in women's sports, or get transferred from men's to women's prisons by issuing the magical phrase "I identify as a woman"; and have forced the medical profession to refer to women as "people with a uterus",
o- Reducing funding to universities and other institutions who instead of pursuing EDUCATION, LIBERATION, and EQUALITY for all, have installed a tyranny of pronouns, an official "language of mindfuck", and a mythology of fake numbers of sexes;
o- Reducing the dominance of the Carbon Dioxide demonization propaganda and (hopefully) returning to what Science really says about its value, ie, that Carbon Dioxide is a VALUABLE resource for the planet and that we need more of it [2];
o- Installing RFK Jr. at the Dept. of Health where hopefully he can give us a breathing spell from the domination of Big Pharma over lives; the enforcement of lethal vaccines on us and lies about them; or perhaps protect us from the next Hygienic Dictatorship or biological warfare attack that the Conventional Imperialist forces is preparing against humanity.

There's more, but I won't dwell on it.

🔵 Since the capture of some of the (former) Left's ramparts and entire sections of the Movement, the distinction between Left and Right make no sense any more. 
(On the global level of political discourse, these distinctions have become as ridiculous as "Right" and "Left" have been in Cyprus since the 1950's. Cyprus has been an advanced laboratory where the Western Empire has been testing and enforcing for decades many new actual technologies; marketing campaigns; and "social technologies" such as the "bail-in" rescue of the local banks by robbing people's savings; and inversion of the "Left /Right" designations on many important issues.)

But assuming the older designations of Left and Right have some meaning, the two power blocs might be seen more clearly through the eyes of deranged former members of those political wings.

Deranged Leftists, see the US Manufacturing Capital power bloc variously as "ultra right; nazi; fascist; dictatorical; anti-American; racist; misogynist; biased; stupid, anti-science", etc. At the crudest and most shallow, coarse level of discernment, they identify it with the Republican Party.

Deranged Leftists, see the Conventional Imperialist power bloc as "progressive; liberal; leftist; liberation-oriented; democratic; feminist; green; pro-labor; pro-peace", etc. At the crudest and most shallow, coarse level of discernment, they identify it with the Democratic Party.

Deranged Right-wingers, see the Manufacturing Imperialist power bloc as "righteous; christian; humanitarian; a vehicle for free speech; all-american; a shield from crime; a wall to stop immigrants", etc.

Deranged Right-wingers, see the Conventional Imperialist power bloc as "ultra-left; communist; radical left; sexually degenerate; dictatorial; globalist, a vehicle for the New World Order; a vehicle for the Great Reset; a cabal that is planning a new covidian-style dictatorship, enemies of Jesus", etc.

🔴 True liberals, progressives, Leftists, radicals and revolutionaries of all brands, including Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, Autonomists, radical Feminists, radical Greens, radical Sexual and Spiritual Liberationists have NO PLACE choosing sides in this conflict. 

Our aim must continue to be a total OVERTHROW the Western Empire, not just some section or faction of it, and to replace the entire system's power structures with a much better, people-oriented system of political economy founded on direct democracy; and on shared ownership and democratic control of all the means of production and natural resources, which are to be administered by people's councils at every level: neighborhood, town, city, state and country. 

The conflict between the Western Empire's factions must exploited to benefit the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world as much as possible, AND to build our Global Liberation Movement again with a true INDEPENDENCE and AUTONOMY from Conventional US Imperialism's loving and asphyxiating "liberal embrace".

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net

[1].
■ Will Liberation Day transform the world? The Nixon Shock set a radical precedent | Defend Democracy Press
https://www.defenddemocracy.press/will-liberation-day-transform-the-world-the-nixon-shock-set-a-radical-precedent

[2].
Curated Study Sources

■ Nobel Prize winner Dr. John F. Clauser signs the Clintel World Climate Declaration - Clintel
https://clintel.org/nobel-prize-winner-dr-john-f-clauser-signs-the-clintel-world-climate-declaration/

■ 1600 Scientists, Including Nobel Prize Winners, Declare 'Climate Emergency' a Hoax - Slay News
https://slaynews.com/news/1600-scientists-nobel-prize-winners-declare-climate-emergency-hoax/

■ Facts Archive - CO2 Coalition
https://co2coalition.org/facts/

■ Greenhouse gases cannot physically cause observed global warming
https://whyclimatechanges.com/impossible/

■ About: Peter L. Ward - Detailed Biography
https://whyclimatechanges.com/about/biography/

■ Author's alternative theory of climate change spurs discussion - Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/ct-ecn-elgin-library-climate-change-st-0226-20170225-story.html

■ Ivan Mikhnevich - Had to write the following letter to the... | Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ivan.mikhnevich.5/posts/pfbid0MThZkuf88yQ8buGjE8hgn1b6xLC5ECPWiotaueRh7QiHdcwbVpyCx7SgbpDTvKfql

■ CO2 Beneficial to Earth, Impact on Global Warming Vastly Exaggerated | By Alex Nicolson and Dr. Lars Schernikau
http://www.dialogi.su/storage/b/2017/06/05/2017-05-Nicolson-Schernikau-Benefits-of-CO2-Coal-Asia-mail.pdf

■ CARBON DIOXIDE | The good news 
Indur M. Goklany | With a foreword by Freeman Dyson
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2015/10/benefits1.pdf

■ Carbon Dioxide Benefits the World: See for Yourself
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/fc7c4946-11a3-4967-bf28-8d0386608d3e

■ Testimony of Professor William Happer on Kansas State Senate Bill No. 224, “An Act concerning environmental, social and governance standards” by the Committee on Federal and State Affairs
"...To help others judge my qualifications to testify, I provide a little biographical information here. In the summer of 2014 I retired from teaching at Princeton University, where I have been on the faculty since 1980. I left the University from 1990 to 1993 to serve as the Director of Energy Research at the United States Department of Energy in Washington, DC, and I also served for one year from 2018 to 2019 as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Emerging Technologies in the National Security Council of the White House. My DOE office supervised a research budget of some $3.5 billion, including environmental and climate science, along with physics, chemistry, biology, climate change and many other scientific areas. I have won a number of awards and I am an elected member of various scientific societies, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. I am a fellow of the American Physical Society. I have done research in nuclear physics, atomic, molecular and optical physics, atmospheric physics and other areas. I am probably best known for my invention of the “sodium guide star” concept, used in most modern ground-based telescopes to compensate for deleterious effects of atmospheric turbulence on astronomical observations. I know more than most scientists about the details of Earth’s climate."
https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/committees/ctte_s_fed_st_1/documents/testimony/20230307_01.pdf

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Greece Should Default

David Harvey: Greece should call Europe's bluff


A world-class academic gives his analysis of where Greece is headed, why, and what to do about it. Essentially, his advice is to default on the loans now, and to deal with the problems of reconstruction of the economy as soon as possible.

Please watch this short video interview (less than ten minutes) with Professor David Harvey, in which he explores the current phase of the crisis that Greece is facing, and the option to default on the loans.

Below the links to the video we present a short biographical note about the author, a summary of the positions he embraces in the video and a little his other significant work. There is also a short statement on the situation from the broader view, ie. outside of the parameters of Capitalism. Here is David Harvey:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6983

The interview is also available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fWlCJp95CE

In this interview, Professor David Harvey argues that Greece should default on the loans now, and proceeds on the idea that if there is no default at this present juncture, most likely the same dilemma will re-appear again as a necessity, ten or fifteen years from now.

He also touches on the fact the Germany is one of the two countries whose banks are involved in the loans owed by the Greek State (the other one is France). Germany is the European country that has already defaulted more times than any other on its own loans, and was financially and politically rescued by the United States - allowed to default, and then rebuilt (especially after World War II) with infusions of tremendous amounts of financial aid from the US.

Professor Harvey goes on to discuss the fact that the reasons for the "crisis" are artificially generated by a political agenda and NOT by financial or economic realities.

Economists know that when there is a real crisis within capitalism the usual cure is to increase employment and wages which leads to increased activity on the markets. This enables manufacturers to realize profits on the commodities that were previously left unsold. It also increases the Gross National Product and that leads to more solvency and also to more confidence for investments, all of which together in turn re-start the economic cycles (until the next crisis). Whereas economists know all this, the "cure" that is being pushed now by politicians and the banks is to squeeze more assets out of the working people of Greece, an agenda of expropriation by the capitalists aimed at amassing more riches for a section of the ruling class.

Austerity measures and increased loans to pay back other delayed loans is NOT a cure for an economic crisis; these are mass thievery on a large social scale. And so the suggestion to default on the loans instead of stealing money from the people is both scientifically valid, morally sound, and politically appropriate.

The only obstacle is that there is no one in power in Greece who has a conscience and a sense of patriotism or sense of justice strong enough to do the right thing. If the popular mobilizations against the austerity measures succeed, politicians might be forced to do the right thing. Or, if the mobilizations go even further and the movement actually seizes power, the historical moment may open up the possibility for even bolder steps: abolition of Capitalism and a Socialist reconstruction of the country's political economy.

A post-Capitalist economy based on collective public ownership and control of the means of production and natural resources based on people's power, plus direct democracy at the workplace, the neighbourhood, schools and services, will ensure that we can rebuild the country with an economy that will be immune to the kinds of crises that we are facing now.

All power to the people!

Cyprus IndyMedia Collective
http://CyprusIndyMedia.org

Many thanks to Paul Jay, of The Real News Network for conducting this interview.

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David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY). He holds honorary degrees from the universities of Buenos Aires, Roskilde in Denmark, Uppsala in Sweden, and Ohio State University.

He has published highly influential books that include The New Imperialism; Paris, Capital of Modernity; Social Justice and the City; Limits to Capital; The Urbanization of Capital; The Condition of Postmodernity; Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference; Spaces of Hope; and Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography.

Professor Harvey has been teaching for more than 40 years now the infamous book by Karl Marx titled Das Kapital (known in english as Capital), a fact that makes him uniquely qualified to speak with validity about the workings of Capitalism.

He has a graceful and dignified appearance in his presentations that makes for very pleasant discourse. His course on Capital is offered online for free in a series of thirteen video lectures under the title:
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey
http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital

Strongly recommended!

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