Philosopher John McMurtry was asked to “co-operate with Ayatollah Khamenei in the Supreme Leader’s letter to the Youth in Europe and North America”....The questions posed by a designated US enemy opened a new world standpoint on the US-led world disorder and the taboo depths of shared crises as we enter 2016.
What in general do the Western media hide and not let
people know? In general, the mass media across cultures are propaganda
systems for those who own or control them. But the Western media lead the world
in silencing one ultimate issue confronting all peoples on Earth – the
despoliation of the world’s life support systems by transnational corporate
globalization. They talk only of climate warming’, not destabilization of
planetary life cycles at every level. They promote only market-growth solutions
which are known not to work. No-one talks of US-led ‘globalization’ itself as the
underlying disorder. No science or story defines the common cause of the
spasmic extinctions everywhere, the oceanic pollutions, the fish stock
collapses across all waters, and the ever larger-scale looting of resources
across borders. It is a deeper causal mechanism than even US empire.
Transnational money tides increasingly devour and poison all that exists with
even Communist-Party China destroying its own air to breathe and grounds of a
human life.
Western media are the lead PR vehicles for this limitlessly
life destructive invasion and growth – the nature of fascism in all forms.
Financial fascism is never named in the media, and so its world floods of
private money sequences, commodities and public waste grow and multiply beneath
detection. Throughout the corporate media present only isolated problems,
competitive spectacles and ads for the system. Humanity`s common life ground
and universal needs are screened out. ‘Reforms’ are only more corporate marketizations
and bank-driven dispossessions. The underlying law of corporate globalization its media
presentation is undeniable, but taboo to name. Whatever stands against the
transnational corporate market as the cosmic engine of humanity’s well-being is
anathematized and annihilated in one nation after another. The methods range
from bombing social infrastructures in Slavic and Arab societies to silencing
and reversing undeniable facts exposing the lies of the system. No
alternative to feeding resources into the life-blind growth juggernaut has
arisen at a productive level. The media repel any real economic reform as
unthinkable. In this borderless chaos of corporate globalization which
now strips even the social infrastructures of the European Union to pay big
banks and dispossess workers, the mass media select out whatever joins the dots
of the cumulative catastrophe unfolding on both social and ecological
planes. No real threat to collective life security computes except
constructed enemies who mutate from one Orwellian hate object to the next. The collective
life capital on which everyone’s continued breathing, water, nutrition,
biodiverse surroundings, social security and knowledge depend are not even
conceived.
Are the politics of European and US governments contrary
to the national interests of even their own nations? The meaning of ‘the national interest’ is the prior
question. It is the common life interest of citizens through generational
time. Yet you will never find this principle in the mass media, official
declarations, or even academic journals. Typically the meaning is reversed– for
example the US orchestrating society-destroying wars in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Libya, Ukraine, and Syria. All are claimed to be for the ‘US national interest’
and ‘global security’ at once, but these very big lies are only incantations of
unaccountable power. In fact, all societies involved keep being destroyed all
the way back to the lead invading state. Social life fabrics are divided,
bombed and torn apart in the Islamic world, and hollowed out at home at the
same time. One dark truth persists underneath all the lies – an
endless eco-genocide of poorer peoples and their life conditions across
continents that profit the transnational money party alone. Is there
exception?
This is the world-defining fact that no corporate state
or media report. They divert instead to “the terrorists threatening the
civilized world”. In fact this is merely the US and allies projecting the
terror onto the victims that fight back or on their own jihadi
constructions sowing civil wars to divide and rule from without.
Thus endless US-led bombing from one country to the next somehow avoids the
very oil-supply lines sustaining ISIL, the designated Evil One which has in
fact been financed, armed and directed by the CIA and allies like Saudi Arabia
and Turkey. That the ‘terrorists’ are a creation of the system warring upon
them is another Orwellian absurdity. But it is the reigning pretext for
armed lockdown and dispossession of US-EU societies too for transnational
corporate exploitation – the ultimate global terrorism at work across cultures
and borders. Consider the bizarre turns on the ground of the master
big lie of ‘protecting the Free World and its allies’. Turkey’s despotic state
under Erdogan, whose son is making millions out of running ISIL stolen oil,
shoots down a Russian plane tracking the Turkey-protected ISIL oil-truck
columns, and bombs only Kurds, the sole indigenous fighting force in the US-led
Syria-Iraq wars. It is all so confusing until one recognizes that it is the
same underlying pattern throughout. Names, cultures, even rulers make little
difference. The corporate rich always get richer while peoples and their
environments are ever more predated and looted in the name of their ‘security’
and ‘freedom’. At the same time, the connection between the Western rule
of armed force and financial terror – essentially NATO and big banks following
Wall Street – is never named however much it dispossesses and ruins the
citizens of the lead Western societies themselves.
Robotic despots called “technocrats” spread the terror of
money-control extortion, and liquidate all liveable social programs to force
the payments. NATO armed forces stand ready to be called as back-up
enforcers. Resistance is bombed within Europe itself, as in Yugoslavia and
Ukraine. War criminal facts disappear into blaming the designated enemy,
usually a former ally. The simultaneous hollowing out of US and EU
majorities by the same military-financial axis funded by the public treasury is
anathema to recognize. But the systemic financial extortion, corporate treaty
rights as absolute over nations, and NATO armed terror cannot succeed by
themselves. Pervasive toxic propaganda against resistance across borders,
special agents and forces on site at pleasure, and floods of US dollars to pay
local fascisti to scream abuse and threats all participate in enforcing the
final unseen objective –to transform all public wealth into transnational
financial control and multiplication of instruments of dispossession. This is
the nature of the global financial fascism advancing beneath the public radar.
Even the food and water futures of the world’s peoples are bought up by Wall
Street and company using US Federal Reserve cash. There is no end to the
carcinomic invasions of the public realm and people’s lives unless forced back
from without and risen up against from within.
Is the West divided against itself?: No matter what country you live in, perpetual war is
built into this system’s exponential money-sequence demands across all cultures
and borders. The staggering wastes of lives and public resources never end but
always rise in demands. They have ever since the Reagan-Thatcher turn which is
still absurdly masked as ‘neoliberal’ by the Left – a sign of the categorical
confusion that allows it to go on destroying across the world. This is the
division not yet comprehended. As with the Mafia in microcosm, financial fascism
commands citizens everywhere to pay up or suffer the consequences of life ruin.
In fact, there is no other way to keep a system of armed extortion at every
level going, even if you spin it as “globalization”. The key is to proclaim the
opposite of ‘freedom’ and ‘prosperity’ all the way. This is the mass public
relations function at which this system surpasses all others. This masking by
advanced public relations techniques is the only way it can keep on going. The deprivation, invasion, and looting of sovereign
nations for more transnational private profits without limit is called
‘growth’. It devours the developing and developed world at the same time. Every
wage, tax, access to life means is now at risk and the demands for more private
corporate rights never stop. This is the ultimate division within the West and
now the East – the life of societies against their transnational financial
predation.
How can it be believed in as ‘the free world’ by anyone
with a working mind? It is totalitarian in its reach – for example, the US
Executive, Legislature and Supreme Court all now directly or indirectly
controlled by the money party across parties. In functional terms, The US-led
military is joined at the hip to transnational bank-corporate rule along with
the mass media – the unseen global financial fascism operating across state and
private divisions. But the new PR twist of this global fascism is to condemn
violence not glorify it, while showing and using terror and violence more
pervasively all the while. ‘Neoliberal’ fits this public relations
mask like a glove. It conceals the absolute conflict between the people’s lives
and future and the system’s demands for continuous destruction to grow private
money demand and sequences without limit as a form of ‘liberalism’ – in
fact, the original philosophy of John Stuart Mill and John Dewey, both mild
socialists. Thus the most absolute conflict between society’s common life
interests and borderless financial-fascist rule is erased by an equivocal
slogan.
For example, it is certainly not remotely liberal or in
the interests of US taxpayers to pay out $2,000,000,000 dollars a day for
the US corporate war and terror machine, a peerlessly profitable
quasi-monopolist global business in its own right and enforcer of the limitlessly
life-destructive system across borders . Yet even dispossessed Greece
pays billions of public money to the transnational NATO enforcer standing over
it behind the foreign banks to annihilate any embodied social resistance to the
concealed invasion. With endless cuts to social spending “to reduce
government costs”, ever more people within Western borders have been pushed
into inhuman conditions at the same time as refugees flee in millions from the
bombed states and engineered civil wars. Together they overstress social life
support systems beyond any built capacity to manage by systematically
defunded social states. Again the absolute division between peoples’ common
life interests and the system’s DNA of consuming life organization and conditions
at every level cannot be denied. But no category yet recognizes it.
What do you see as the importance of youth in the future
of the West and the failure of policy-makers to provide for them? Perhaps the worst problem of this system has been the way
in which the lives of the younger generations have been sacrificed beneath
notice. There is no private profit in enabling the young to understand and
flourish as human beings. But there is ever more profit in exploiting the
young’s increasing market demand as well as cheap labor. The vast and growing
global businesses of junk foods, violence entertainment, and selfie-chatter
have one thing in common. They depend on the young as unthinking spenders.
In this way the next generations are made pervasively addictive
consumers degrading human life capacities the more corporate commodities are
consumed by them. Maximizing corporate sales and ‘investor’ profits is the sole
value criterion. Even infants in the crib are consciously conditioned into this
expanding addictive-junk cycle as “job-creating growth”.
Alarm arises in informed citizens with the latest
epidemic disorder like obesity, bullying, unfitness, and failing attention
spans. But the overall pattern is blocked out. Youth are conditioned to a
totalizing market of appetites and future insecurity without human meaning
left. Life-serving vocations are everywhere chopped to ‘save money’.
Students in higher education are treated as consumers of course packages by
corporate university managements who multiply themselves as students are forced
into debt slavery. With human livelihoods ever scarcer, youth depression
becomes epidemic. Long-term demoralization sets in beneath understanding of its
system cause. But banning Western ideas, clothing or music won’t solve
the problem. The disorder is far deeper and invades every level of life
organization. The only truth is what sells. The only competition is to lower
costs on life and increase money-value outputs faster. The Creation itself is
destroyed by the lock-stepping money sequences to more. Over 90% of resource
extractions become waste within weeks. Youth everywhere are threatened by this global disorder.
But prohibition of ‘Western ways’ is symptomatic. Yes, prohibit the
selling of what is scientifically known to attack life capacities from junk
food to extreme violence entertainment. But ethnic appearances are not the
issue. They are diversions. The need is to re-set to the lost life ground – the
universal life needs of humanity and its ecological host through generational
time. It is on this common life-ground that science and
religion meet, and East and West join across differences. The young long for
it.
Why is there Islamophobia in the West? Cultural differences provoke ignorance – the first level
of the problem. But false propaganda cultivates hate. Long before
Islamaphobia, US-led ‘anti-communism’ murdered millions in Vietnam,
Indonesia, and Latin America. Before that, European Nazism was assisted by US
transnational corporations against the ‘communist threat’ – which meant,
decoded, whatever stood in the way of the transnational corporate fascism
already building the perpetual war system on which it still thrives and grows
today. After fascist Germany and Japan were defeated, the now militarily
supreme US, led by corporate Nazi partners in the US never named or prosecuted,
carried on the global pogroms to holocaust proportions. So-called ‘communists’
were everywhere slandered, persecuted and warred upon even where they did not
exist – a global holocaust that killed tens of millions of people and ruined as
many lives. In short, the cornerstone of US ideology is its
designated Enemy – whatever opposes private corporate globalization. The
genocide of first peoples was its original stage. Islamaphobia is one
more variation on the theme. Ironically, ‘Islam’ as armed jihad –the main hate
object now – has been a creation and instrument of covert-state US policy. It
has been for decades an admitted US asset in advancing the bi-partisan project
of ‘full spectrum dominance’ of the world. Back in the 1980’s, jihadi mass
murder and mayhem were orchestrated and funded by the US to destroy a secular
Afghan state led by equality for women and social guarantees. It was destroyed to bleed the USSR coming to its defense
through the ‘Afghanistan War’. A fanatically sectarian Islam was led by foreign
Saudi corp-man and Wahabi Osama bin Laden, with US National Security Adviser
Pole Brzezinski cheer-leading the annihilation of secular socialism as the
means to destroy Russia, his instituted fixation. So from al Qaeda to D’aesh,
the terrorist monsters have been a Saudi-and-Sunni-based fanaticism led by the
US special-forces state – lately with ample support from Turkey’s Erdogan and
Gulf kings hating Shia Iran as well. But such distinctions are smeared out in the
Islamaophobia of today.
Yes, imperial colonization and destruction of the Islamic
world has bled its civilization dry on a far longer and larger scale. The main
modern driver has been money-oil exploitation, the fuel of world capitalism
until Wall Street sold its futures. The Greater Israel project has been the
permanent enforcer in situ. Through all this evil – meaning limitlessly
life-destructive self maximization – Islamic civilization has retreated into an
obscurantist and punitively authoritarian clerical rule without productive
base. An inward-looking mullah Islam has become the dominant line of collective
belief through the chaos. It has resulted in what is not recognizable in Islam’s
golden years as the world’s leading civilization. In Moorish Spain over
centuries, for example, Islamic order demonstrated peerless architecture, arts
and science that still capture the wonder of those who look today. None of the
violent in-looking practices sustaining Islamophobia in the Western mind are
evident. Life-and limb-destroying punishments for theft, heresy,
consensual sex and the face-elimination of women that provoke the anger of so
many in the West seem foreign to this earlier civilisation. Certainly the
death-to-non-believers fanaticism was alien to the Islamic civilisation that
saved the classical secular works of Plato and Aristotle from the dark ages of
the ‘Christian’ West. Today Islamophobia finds its rational kernel in the
dispossession, maiming, lashing torture and legal murder of individuals for
no violent offence. Persons found guilty of heresy, sexual non-conformity,
criticism of the theocracy, completely personal and peaceful offenses can be
legally tortured, maimed and murdered. All of this is anathema to the
reasonably caring mind. It does not matter who commits this inhuman violence –
whether the Spanish Inquisition, secular despots, US torturers, the Israeli
occupation, or a mullah hierarchy. It is hideous in principle. For evolved
humanity, life-enabling institutions and advancing knowledge form the pathway
of true civilisation. An end to paralyzing fear and extreme violence to
non-violent persons is a dividing line of human history.
Why the delay of awakening collective consciousness in
the West? ‘Awakening collective consciousness’ can have opposite
meanings. The US-EU today claim binding Western values for every invasion of
another society. So we need a criterion to rule out group-mind aggression
and destruction in any form. A deep core of our problem is that the US has in fact no
collective life interest or consciousness in its constitution, its dominant
social sciences, its actionable laws, or its white fundamentalist religions.
Western market and political doctrine repudiate collective consciousness in
principle. Only self-maximizing atomic individuals with no binding life
community alone exist to this ruling mind-set. Self-serving corporations and
consumers compete for survival according to market rules whose algebra is
life-blind. Endless “trade agreements” override any society’s collective laws
if they reduce expected profits to private transnational money sequences. The
Trans-Pacific Partnership is the latest extension of this sociopath metaphysics
built into the ruling market paradigm. “Delay of collective consciousness” is thus locked into what
is called ‘globalization’, East and West. Permanent war is waged to enforce and
extend it. The academy itself apes the atomic market model. Hidden in a
technocratic code few know, its transnational dogmas and corporate form have
claimed all our countries by secretly minted treaties whose defining principle
is the absolute right of borderless corporations over all rights of sovereign
nations, workers and environments that may conflict with foreign ‘investor’
demands. The predictable result is that an increasing majority of the world’s
people is without sufficient livelihoods or ecological security. Only market
solutions are allowed. Only self-maximizing greed counts as rational in the
model.
The only security that matters is of this ruling
system itself. “Who’s security gets protected by any means necessary?
Whose security is casually sacrificed in the process?” Naomi Klein aptly asks
before the long-planned mass meetings and demonstrations for climate justice in
Paris when a jihadist mass-murder stopped them all overnight. It
conveniently justified the state decision to ban all peaceful protests, marches
and other outdoor activities during the all-nations negotiations for a new
global regime. In such ways the perpetual war system and creeping police state
continue rolling over opposition by all means. The greatest irony is that all
this happens in the name of ‘collective security’ when, in fact, the collective
security of the living world is what is continuously destroyed by this a-priori
life-blind disorder. Collective life interests and decisions are already ruled
out by the punitive regulations of transnational corporate-market treaties
overriding the laws of once sovereign nations. Every one of these secretive
treaties is controlled and minted outside of any people’s vote,
participation or knowledge of proceedings, and is enforced by public
dispossession decided by closed lawyer tribunals without public records or any
right of appeal. Collective consciousness is precisely prohibited from any
social formation, policy or legislation limiting private corporate profit
opportunities across borders.
How could Western peoples allow it? The macro pattern is unnamed. Global financial fascism
advances by ignorance of it. Few recognize that humanity’s social evolution has
in fact been reversed by a life-blind global mechanism that rules beneath
knowledge of its meaning. Its slow-motion coup d’etat across nations and
cultures has silently reversed post-1945 history which had developed collective
life standards of human life and flourishing. Look, for example, at the UN
Declaration of Universal Rights, or the binding International Covenant of
Social, Economic and Cultural Rights. They remind us how far human rights were
being built into the order of the post-War world. Every article is a
collective requirement for the protection and enablement of human life across
classes and nations. Beneath these international ideals, various forms of
socialism and social democracy were the choice of virtually every society and
population. Racism, sexism, child abuse, ecocide –the great evils were
becoming consciously repudiated by a new reign of international law. Collective
institutions of education, health, pensions and worker rights and unions were
all advancing. There was even a competition between superpowers to
achieve them across the lines of the Cold War. Then it was all reversed from 1980 on led by the
corporate-fascist regimes of Reagan and Thatcher. From then on via global
currency and interest control, borderless corporate rights and armed-force
empire, the US-led private money party declared war on all collective
consciousness and institutions that did not serve the corporate market. Working
from the US’s advantageous post-War position of its nuclear bombs, sea-lane and
aerial military control across oceans, and private corporate rights in
technology and knowledge production, the US corporate class – fresh from
collaboration with the Nazis even during the War – imposed a long march
backwards to private money-party control as “freedom”.
Social consciousness became a taboo within the academy
itself. Beneath all the delusionary propaganda of “the free market and
democracy”, ever more uncontrolled private money sequences propelled
mass-murderous pogroms and wars against collectives of all kinds. Worker and
social-base strippings under ever more parroted euphemisms of “austerity”,
“deficit reduction”, “market reforms”, “technocratic government”, and
“efficiencies” became mechanical slogans mouthed by media and politicians.
Their common meaning became undeniable, but never named – reductions of
life means to citizens everywhere. Long-evolved regulations and
institutions for the common life interest continue today to be dismantled,
defunded and warred upon on every plane, almost in feeding frenzy. Yet people increasingly know the only collective
awakening that works is awakening to our shared life-ground through every
moment, our evolved natural and social life bases without which our next
breaths cannot be drawn. This is the demystified core of the world’s wisdom
traditions. In the lost bonds of meaning, the ultimate cause is to serve life’s
more inclusively compossible flourishing through time – our true human becoming
finding its way through the massacre and stupefaction of the global financial fascism
not yet named or bound.
John McMurtry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada whose work is translated from Latin America to Japan. He is the author
of the three-volume Philosophy and World Problems published by UNESCO’s
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), and his last book is The
Cancer Stage of Capitalism: from Crisis to Cure
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