Guest Post by Hiroyuki Hamada
I remember chatting with a man from Iraq in 2016. He was driving a taxi in Germany. I wrote about him in one of my essays[1]:
Last month, I was chatting with an Iraqi taxi driver in Berlin. My 12 year old son and I took a cab from the Museum for Contemporary Art to our hotel. I couldn’t help but ask the cab driver why he ended up in Berlin. He said it was something to do with the availability of the visa. He stressed that he had to leave because he didn’t like Islam. He said Muslims were killing each other.
I felt very slightly sad because he sounded like he had to say that to prove that he wasn’t a “terrorist”. I told him that it was the US that supported Saddam when it was convenient. Then, the US flipped, changing its policy, as doing so became more convenient. I asked him, Taliban, al Qaeda, ISIS, same old story, no?
Then he said something unexpected. He said it was a “people’s revolution”. “We stood against Saddam”. He was referring to the first gulf war in 1991. He went on to describe how it didn’t go as people wished, and it brought about the devastating trade embargo, more war, ISIS and so on. His voice was passionate. I felt the anger and frustration against war and imperialism that I also feel myself, in his voice.
The imperial war against countries that defy the US hegemonic imperatives involves a few steps. The target population is deprived of their basic necessities by economic embargo, trade sanctions, travel restrictions and demonization of its leader.
The society is destabilized by the lack of resources and economic activities. The opposing forces in the country are generously funded by the empire to build a momentum against the defying “regime” in the name of “revolution,” “democracy,” “freedom” and etc.
The communities are divided. The institutions are compromised to serve capital, adding more confusions and predicaments to the population.
Quite often this is sufficient enough to silence those who defy such interventions and it results in an overthrow of the existing order. The society is transformed to suit the colonial policies concocted by western industries, which result in resource extraction, privatization, financialization, exploitation of cheap labor, construction of US military bases and so on.
Quite a few middle eastern countries have defied such interventions resulting in proxy wars and western military interventions.
That was the “war on terror” which continues to this day as the US forces are freely employed against the world according to its “war on terror legal framework,” while its measures are still in place as restrictions against our legal rights as well as restrictions at airports and so on.
Many of us raised our voices against the obvious crime of invading other countries, colonizing them and subjugating them. To my surprise there were people who objected to our assertion saying that if we didn’t invade them, they would have invaded us, they were “terrorists,” and so on.
Enormous profits were generated by this huge public project, war, at the expense of the people in the war torn countries as well as oppressed people in some of the richest countries of the world. No one was held accountable for deaths and destruction. The war to save people from terrorists was a huge capitalist project to expand the power and wealth of hardened criminals who call themselves politicians, philanthropists, businessmen, intellectuals, patriots, academics, and so on.
The underlining mentality of neocolonial violence is based on prejudice against the peoples of the targeted countries.
Those peoples, who reside within countries governed by “leaders” who have sworn to obey imperial policies, are subjected to tighter measures of exploitation and subjugation in order to serve the interests of the imperial institutions. The predicaments of the subject population—poverty, social unrest, and corruption, which stem from the economic subjugation, justifiy the mental superiority among westerners, falsely proving the inferiority of the “barbaric” population which must be “assisted” by westerners.
If the leader of a colonized country attempts to amend the unfair situation by implementing policies that serve that country’s own people, the western authority would mobilize policies to remove such an element. The policies are firmly backed by the prejudice amongst the imperial population.
Simple slogans and key words such as “he is killing his own people,” “save the children,” “regime,” “dictatorship” and “genocide” can trigger the colonial mentality as well as the white savior mentality in the imperial population.
Fast forward to 2021–the era of war on virus. We are experiencing a massive wealth transfer to the rich and powerful, which can be best described by Jeff Bezos thanking his workers and customers for his rocket ride[2].
The cynical exploitative violence inflicted against workers is found in all sectors across the country, creating destruction of small community businesses, massive homelessness, suicide surge, a spike in drug-related deaths. Lockdown measures are wreaking havoc in vital social relations, which must now be reorganized.
The virus event has turned the dwindling healthcare system into mask-wearing, social distancing and getting injected with extremely lucrative experimental GMO drugs — which are surrounded by unprecedented numbers of injuries and deaths, far surpassing all combined prior vaccine injury and death reports to the CDC reporting system VAERS.
The lockdown measures and profit-oriented measures against the virus further narrowed the capacity of the general healthcare system, resolution in huge numbers of patients without vital care for their urgent conditions. Destroying the healthcare system (as it quietly transitions to telehealth with zero dissent) for the sake of saving lives is only an aspect of the current mobilization.
The education system, which has been under attack for generations by corporate forces, has received a blank check to fire faculties, turn classes into online tutorials, and pursue a new mission to create obedient workers for the Forth Industrial Revolution.
The financial institution has accelerated its herding of the population into the digital realm where people are conditioned, commodified, and exploited as data. In every industry, a massive restructuring process for profit is occurring in the name of Covid measures.
Now, I understand that respiratory illnesses can be very dangerous. If you look up articles from pre-Covid time, you find desperate calls from healthcare professionals screaming about the risk of flu epidemics due to the lack of facilities and resources. This has become reality after Covid, as massive death tolls have resulted from nursing home lockdowns. Profit oriented treatment options have been promoted while effective options were restricted, resulting in yet even more deaths and hospitalizations.
But statistically, all these deaths in the US had not exceeded the range of year to year variation in death rate. This crucial fact has been observed in various countries.
The Covid situation, if anything, is very much a manmade event. It can not be described as a deadly pandemic comparable to the bubonic plague. This should shatter virus event narratives propped up by “cases“ concocted by unreliable PCR tests—its inaccuracy has been highly criticized by many scientists—including the inventor of the PCR test himself–due to its arbitrary results depending on the degree of amplification in search of the targeted DNA fragments[3][4].
The above observation is strictly based on the opinions of numerous healthcare professionals, doctors, and scientists across the globe. At the very least, it must be recognized that there are significant disagreements within the field of science on every aspect of Covid-19, its treatments, and lockdown measures.[5][6]
However, none of those are examined in a serious manner by the establishment. In fact there are many instances of healthcare professionals being disciplined for reporting cases of vaccine injury, speaking against the treatment policies, and questioning the prevelant assumptions regarding the virus. Healthcare professionals are actively forced to play along with the official Covid narrative.
For the general public the mixed emotions over the contradictions have turned to frustration, and the frustration has turned anger as if we are stuck in a pressure cooker made with official narratives and structural impediments of lockdowns and forced vaccine injection. The heat and pressure have broken down the social fabric as our daily routines are dictated by “new normal.”
So many things have happened since last year. But somehow things don’t seem to fit in right places in our heads.
We mark our sense of time and space with traditional events, daily routines and our common knowledge. When we lose those, we are left with a series of elements and dynamics without those markers.
But alternate markers have been provided by those who have deprived us of the markers. Our lives are marked with lockdowns, masks and social distancing–the “new normal”.
Now we mark our lives with it.
We are told that there is a deadly disease out there and the only solution is to vaccinate. Our life and death are determined by one of the largest corporate entities, the medical-industrial complex.
Just as the war on terror was described as a “crusade”—legitimizing the twisted religious and cultural superiority of the colonizers, disguising white man’s burden as humanitarian obligation — the war on virus crowns “science” as its guiding force. However, needless to say, the credibility of the “science” is proportional to the accompanying might of wealth and power — just as the facts of war are bought and sold as “journalism”.
Propaganda lies fill the air as those who oppose are marked as “others” who deserve to be castigated as being outside of the protection of the gated community.
This way of framing — the medical-industrial complex — is useful in understanding the dynamics within the capitalist hegemony. However, such an entity is also a part of the media industrial complex, non-profit industrial complex, political industrial complex, and of course military-industrial complex.
In short, our lives are dictated by multiple dynamic forces of oligarchs, orchestrating a “reality” which firmly manifests as a capitalist framework—a cage to condition our lives based on its imperatives.
As the current virus mobilization reframes our society, obliterating existing values, norms and beliefs, the corporate institutions and their owners are consecrated as absolute beings which determine our life and death. This is why decrees legitimated by the “emergency” are acceptable political means now. This is why large corporations have gained enormous wealth. This is why our lives are herded into the digital realm where we are commodified, conditioned to be exploited, and truncated to be stripped of the mystery of life and the unknown.
But where do the anger and frustration go?
The US establishment is well aware of the boiling anger and frustration over the situation. The momentum of anger is cultivated and it is being shaped to put the people against each other—an old corporate duopoly trick, which has grown steadily as a dynamic tool of social engineering in the US. The ghosts of the Civil War still determine the means of enslavement, while allowing the ruling class to preside over the theater of “democracy,” “freedom” and “humanity”—a manufactured “reality.”
Individualism, self-determination and a sense of freedom based on the sacrifices of many oppressed people are a privilege only allowed to people with economic security. This is a part of the reason why the resistance against the Covid lockdown measures encompasses a reactionary element. In particular, erroneously defining the trajectory as “socialism” or “communism”.
This ironic twist, the capitalist oppression being blamed on the enemy of capitalists, once again reveals the mechanism of the imperial duopoly as well as the expansion of the exploitive violence against a formerly economically secure segment of the population, which will require tighter measures of draconian restrictions.
It is not a coincidence that the red states have embraced the opposing positions while the blue states firmly adhere to the official narratives on vaccines and lockdown measures. The subject populations are allowed to choose the mode of enslavement, but the slight differences in the choice are big enough to activate colonial hatred toward each other. The unresolved historical pain, emotion and grudge have found urgent expression against “enemies” among us.
A fight between teeth-baring wolves and cunning foxes, as Malcolm X would call it, channels the anger and frustration safely within the capitalist framework. The media, politicians and major institutions carefully instigate conflicts among the people by demonizing opponents over vaccines and lockdown measures, while protecting “pandemic” narratives one way or the other.
Some people might think that things must get worse before it gets better. Things can certainly get worse but it looks like it only means more fragmentation of communities and destabilization of institutions, which allows further erosion of people’s interests by the capitalist domination along with justifications for its draconian measures. This probably gives a comfortable feeling for those privileged ones in gated communities.
This also accompanies the exacerbation of fascist momentum, which always justifies the forces of western imperial hegemony—remember how the Trump phenomenon pushed neoliberal policies, which are embraced by the both corporate parties, while justifying anything else to oppose Donald Trump, who was largely perceived as an obvious caricature of the narcissistic failing empire? The US capitalism moves forward while oscillating left and right within the acceptable spectrum of imperialism.
In short, everything is under control according to those who destroyed the middle eastern countries. The only difference is that now the target is us. We are under attack. Some of us are demonized by the establishment to play the role of scapegoats. Some of us are praised as heroes saving lives and sacrificing themselves. Our communities are being destroyed to be further consumed by the colonizers of humanity and nature.
The war on the virus is meant as a crucial background of destabilization and fear which helps extract huge amounts of public spending in the name of saving lives, saving the environment and saving people’s livelihoods—which are all under attack by the savagery of the very capitalist domination. Since the war on the virus is largely targeting public money, we are bombarded with an unprecedented amount of wholesale propaganda narratives, as if we are thrown into the process of corporate electoral process — we are supposed to vote yes to those lucrative capitalist fixes for the capitalist problems by going along with the narratives.
Public outcries against the policies are safely consumed among the populations as people are forced to fight among themselves.
Moreover, the war on the virus is meant to be a perpetual war. Inconceivable “mistakes” will be made, victories would be declared here and there, facts will be revealed when convenient, while much of the facts are distorted to prop up the pretence of this vast protection racket scheme by the oligarchs. One step forward, and one step backward, our lives swirl within the torturous theater of the “medical crisis,” but the real solution is never to be found within it.
The empire can not lose the war but the empire has no intention of winning the war either, for the winning can destroy the domesticated momentum of the in-fighting among the people, as well as an assortment of “activism” backed by the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, which effectively drives capitalist agendas in the name of “our democracy”.
After all, we are many. The oppressors are not.
The mechanism of domestication must be kept in place to tame the masses within the feudal hierarchy of money and violence. Meanwhile, fear, doubt and real threat against our livelihood in the form of economic strangulation continue to force us to swallow the protection racket deal with the criminal enterprise.
Ultimately, the trajectory points to a complete domestication of our species through management of all means of production, its products, and the distribution system. As the peoples become products themselves with biotech procedures, the social relations within the digital realm seamlessly merge with the fabricated reality, virtually cementing the feudal hierarchy of the absolute power.
As we operate within social media outlets, as we present our identities within their frameworks, and as we are injected with GMO drugs to modify our physical response to the natural world, we have already stepped into a dangerous stage that might very well spell the end of our species as we know it.
What could Iraqis do as they suffered the deadly embargo and invasions? The question is ours now. Unfortunately, many of those who stood with the empire are still insisting on fighting the imperial war as we have become the targets of the war, demonizing our community members as enemies, repeating slogans and talking points to justify the imperial restructuring, as our communities fall apart to be devoured by the colonizers.
It is no coincidence that those who oppose the current mobilization are accused of being racists, conspiracy theorists, or fascist worshippers—just as not agreeing with bombing brown people would be accused of letting brown children die by the hand of a “dictator.”
Our real enemy is not the “antivaxxers,” or the gullible people swallowing the corporate propaganda. The real enemy is the imperial oligarchs who are shaping our society in order to continue their ways of exploitation and subjugation. They are shaping the capitalist cage to squeeze the last remnants of our imagination and our connection to humanity and nature. How can we defy the colonization of humanity and nature?
How can we be a part of the resistance against the criminal pyramid scheme which is bound to implode with its destructive nature? How can we build our ways to be in harmony with ourselves, with each other and with nature? We are a part of the countless people who have held the dream of such harmony. We stand strong with them in solidarity.
We are many. The oppressors are not.
Hiroyuki Hamada is an artist. Exhibiting widely in gallery and non-commercial settings alike, Hamada has been the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, twice received New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in sculpture, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Alongside his career as an artist, his writing can be found at various outlets online.
NOTES:-
[1] Hiroyuki Hamada, How Do We Dream the Dream of Peace Together?, September 23, 2016 [back]
[2] Lauren Elizabeth, Jeff Bezos Made Some Revealing Comments After His Trip into Space. July 20, 2021M [back]
[3] Apoorva Mandavilli, Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be. August 29, 2020 [back]
[4] International Consortium of Scientists External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results. November 27, 2020 [back]
[5] Off-Guardian.org, 12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic March 24, 2020 [back]
[6] Dr. Mike Yeadon – Bitchute: MICHAEL YEADON – HELA INTERVJUN – [SVENSK UNDERTEXT] June 8, 2021 [back]
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We are the many, that alone scares the powers that be. Keep in your mind that truth will prevail. In the meantime, it will collapse into chaos, whoever keeps their eye on the truth will be rewarded in the end!
Money quote: “…the target is us.”. Absolutely right. And we are sitting around wishing desperately that the Eye of Sauron (sp?) will just pass over us, and leave us in peace to live. Not gonna happen. When we (the many) begin to eliminate the sociopath politicians, corporatists, establishmentarians and their minions (and I do mean eliminate. Not reform, not charge and try, not imprison, not fire, not pension off. Eliminate. All of them.) then real resistance will be joined. Until then, it is just an orderly march towards and into the gates of the camps.
War is when two parties struggle at arms. Slaughter is what happens when a strong party kills others who do not resist. Right now we (the many) are settling in to be slaughtered. Not today, and not tomorrow, but not too long. No voting is going to change a thing except, maybe, the color of the flag carried by the sociopath forces.
There is but one vote left open to the common man or woman that will be registered, counted, and matter. VOTE: 308 & FREEDOM
Foot…welcome to the Buy More Ammo Brigade .
Their ranks are growing every day.
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https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-governor-signs-new-law-allowing-students-to-graduate-without-proving-they-can-read-write-or-do-math/
What could be more “equitable” than everybody graduates.
Oregon would be better served by just mailing out high school diplomas to all 18 year olds, and only bother to run a school system for those who actually wanted to learn. Could save a lot of money.
The B3RG* and their tools are the enemy is 100% correct.
Auntie hopes we won’t have to “Wait until you see the whites of their eyes.” to begin to set things aright.
It starts tomorrow in Sioux Falls South Dakota at the Lindell Symposium. Reps from 46 states will be there as well as foreign countries. President Bolsonaro of Brazil will be there. Last week one of Biden’s henchmen threatened Brazil that they better not try to do anything “undemocratic” like dump their Dominion machines or else. Apparently the Dhimmicrats and the Zipperheads are targeting the big power of South America next.
I guess the dude from Iraq never read “Confessions Of An Economic Hitman” . If had that book alone would have given him the answers as to how and why Iraq was in the position it was in. That and Saddam’s use of the Euro for the payment of oil .
“That and Saddam’s use of the Euro for the payment of oil .”
That TPTB in the US use of a heavy dose of fear and finances for the payments of compliance are the same tools used in foreign acquisitions.
Up until the date of the Brenton Woods agreement (1944) was left in the early 1970’s oil was traded internationally for gold bullion.
Another would be how fast Libya became a problem when Qadaffi announced a Gold Standard for Africa and was preparing to mint a few Billion in Gold Dinars to kick it off. The blowback from that little stunt was epic.
How does .001% control everything? Dey gots ALL Da money….It’s good to be King/rich….
We may have the numbers but they have directed energy weapons, armies and lots of other deadly shit to throw at you. The really stupid part is WE are the ones that operate the directed energy weapons, join their armies and kill EACH OTHER with the other deadly shit. How incredibly DUMB is that?
This may come as a HUGE surprise but the simple act of not signing up for their armies would fuk them up BEYOND repair. You can not show for a draft en masse if they want to play that game too.
They don’t have the D.E.W.S. anymore that’s why Space Force was established. To track and direct everything above 40,000 ft.
Pretty strong articles today Admin. All true, too.
This next phase of human existence won’t last forever. I suspect that many alive today will see the denouement of the current civilization, as it has too many fragile dependencies built into it. Surviving to that point is the issue, and whether the required effort is personally worth it. I have referred to it as a plague of billionaires but it goes beyond that. My current thinking is that mankind has not evolved enough to sustain a civilization that provides opportunities for such concentrations of power. I also think that the next stage will be much poorer in every meaningful resource, due to our efficiency at collecting all the ‘low-hanging fruit’. At that level, only simpler societies can be sustained. History shows us that they are no less dysfunctional or violent, just less powerful in a world-conquering way.
Then again, maybe our UFO brothers will step in and enlighten us. You never know….
The things that keep me sane and peaceful are my wife, my kids, my grandkids and my great-grandkids. Should anything happen to them, then…
Tis why TN one cannot wait for things to happen to them,it is up to US to prevent that.
I at best with a sunny day and things going my way find children still mildly annoying.
That said,I know the little hellions are a necessary evil we must protect.
James, I spent the week with my great-granddaughters last week and had a blast playing hide and seek, chase me and even some time in the Barbie room. They loved the attention and I the time spent with these innocent little girls. The thought of someone hurting them makes my blood boil.
Wait till they reach 12 years of age. Insufferable
I hope not, but we will see. I will be an old man by then and not able to crawl around on the floor with them. I can barely do it now.
I’m in the same place. Good luck. I’m in MO btw.
W. TN, about 50 mi from Memphrica, so I guess that makes us neighbors.
The systems in place, with a little logical, empathetic reasoning, would allow for us to have a two tiered system that would probably work for the .01% and the ~10% that want nothing to do with the ‘Great Reset’, GRANDFATHERING.
At least for a generation or two. By then the little brats will have become part of the system willingly, and I’ll be dead. Sorry…
But, two systems, TPTB feudal iPeople (cities mostly) and ‘Leave Me (TF) Alone’ naturals. Call it two separate nations (it works, kind of, for the native peoples here). We naturals will die out soon enough. Why rush it?
Anyway, a brain fart for TPTB to consider.
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