We are all in the same struggle

I wanted to, if I can, just sort of try to connect some strands on the economic and geopolitical scene that I think are connected to or related to the Israel Palestine conflict and the impending demise of Zionism. You know, one thing that occurs to me that pertains to the increasing pro Palestinian sentiment in the West is that, you know, I was among a handful of writers and analysts back in the the late nineteen nineties and the early two thousands who predicted what was referred to then as the third worldization of the West and of The United States specifically. That being the natural trajectory of neoliberalism and austerity. What that referred to is, if it isn't obvious, is that the idea was that the trend of rising corporate power and the trend of neoliberalism would inevitably lead to conditions in the West that would be akin to the conditions in the so called developing world. Conditions akin to the conditions in countries that had been colonized, that had been exploited, that had been ravaged by the West for decades, if not for centuries.

That means poverty, hunger, unemployment, disease, violence, crime, general deterioration in the quality of life, lack of availability or access to amenities and services for the general public, crumbling infrastructure, deindustrialization, social turmoil, and so on. It also means increasingly authoritarian control and oppressive violent law enforcement, curtailment of civil liberties, and so on. Growing disparities in both wealth and power in the society with fewer and fewer people possessing more and more power, more and more control, more and more authority over society with less and less accountability of power. In other words, the West was gonna become, less like, what is known as the first world, stereotypically, and more like what is known stereotypically as the third world. Well, I think it's fairly obvious that this is in fact what has happened over the last twenty or thirty years.

The ascendancy of the owners and controllers of global financialized capital as the unsurpassed power in the society, The wholesale transfer of power to the private sector. As I've said many times, the creation of an a national sovereign authority with no stake, in the prosperity or the success or the stability of any given country. Essentially, you have created, an imperial power that is not anchored, to any geographically defined center. This has meant, that the western countries themselves and western populations themselves are now eligible for the same type of program of subjugation and, predatory domination as western imperial powers historically imposed upon the countries of the global South. You're turning your own populations in the West into neo colonized oppressed people.

You're treating your own people the way that you always treated the people of the global South. This now has created within those people, within your own people. It has created or it is creating in them a mindset and a mentality, and a world view that resembles the people of the global South. The mindset and the mentality, of the oppressed. The mindset and the mentality of the exploited, of the colonized.

And the colonized, the exploited, and the oppressed, the people of the global South are and always have been pro Palestinian. As I've said many times, everyone in the world, can recognize what Zionism is, and that it is just a thinly cloaked form of Western imperialism, colonization. They know because they have experienced it themselves. They've experienced Western colonization and imperialism. Well, now, even the populations in the West are learning what it feels like to be oppressed, to be exploited, and to be colonized because they are, in fact being colonized by corporate imperialism, by corporate power.

The imperialism of the owners and controllers of global financialized capital. And this is making them more and more like the people of the global South in their thinking and in their sentiments. And this is at least one factor, in my opinion, that's making more and more people in the West pro Palestinian. Because more and more people in the West can relate to the vicious disregard and dehumanization and dispossession that the Palestinians have suffered for decades. In other words, the masses in the West, are finding that they have increasingly more in common with the masses in the global South.

And this presents a serious problem for the OCGFC. But it's not a problem that they didn't anticipate. On the contrary, they have anticipated it. And they anticipated it for at least as long, as any of us anticipated the third worldization of the West. Which is why the third worldization of the West has included authoritarian control over society.

This is why you have had an increasing militarization of the police. You've had, stricter controls and restrictions on public gatherings and on demonstrations and so on. You have, greater and greater censorship in the media and social media. You have literally, you've literally had lockdowns during COVID. It's near martial law conditions, banning of protests, banning of, various types of dissident speech in the West, and so on.

What you're seeing in the West, in terms of these increasingly authoritarian measures is essentially, a preemptive counter revolution. They're trying to put down an insurgency before it happens because it's inevitable that it will happen. And they fully anticipate that it will happen if they don't preemptively suppress it. And so, a pro Palestinian protest to them is nothing but an, a precursor to an insurgency. It's a precursor, to an uprising against neo colonialism in the West.

Because the Palestinian cause is an exact and acute expression of anti imperialism. And it's an exact and and acute expression of solidarity with the spirit of anti imperialism and the spirit of anti colonialism in the global South. And again, it is highly significant, as I've said before, that the pro Palestinian movement in the West and globally is very precisely directed against Western corporations. Literally, it's directed against the specific institutions that represent and in fact are the institutions of modern imperialism. The way the owners and controllers of global financialized capital expected a protest and resistance to manifest, I believe, was for it to be directed against governments, was for it to be directed against the state, directed, in other words, against the facades of power, not against the real entities of power.

That has been their expectation because that's the way it always was. That was their expectation and that was their hope, that people would direct their grievances at the formal but fake institutions of power. When they direct their grievances against private sector power, This is exactly what the, OCGFC have always wanted to avoid. This is exactly what they always wanted to deflect. And they wanted to deflect, this type of protest and resistance and opposition by, maintaining the illusion of democratic processes and state authority.

They want you, to focus on the effigies and the puppets who hold political office because those people are powerless and, they're expendable. Politicians are disposable and replaceable. That's their function. They never wanted you to focus on, private sector power. They never wanted you to focus on the entities of the, empire of capital.

So this poses a serious challenge to their power and to their control and to their agenda. You know, no one was ever supposed to even know about BlackRock. No one was ever supposed to know about Vanguard and State Street and so on. But all of this is becoming common knowledge now. And the strategy, the pro Palestinian strategy of boycott and public pressure against western corporations, western companies that do support or are perceived to support Zionism, is I think permanently changing, the way that people all around the world, and in the West, how they confront power.

The Palestinian issue is refining the recognition that real power resides in the private sector. Now, this in my opinion, presents also, and most importantly, a really historic opportunity for actual solidarity between the masses of the West and the masses of the global South. And in fact, the masses of the West and in the Muslim world. You know, Muslims across the globe have always been or have always made a distinction between the common people of the West and those in power. Even though, the West has been responsible for tremendous destruction, tremendous violence, and tremendous suffering in the Muslim world.

Nevertheless, despite all of this, Muslims have maintained a feeling of goodwill towards the common people of the West. Now, this goodwill was not always reciprocated, if we're being honest, and it has often seemed to me anyway to be misplaced. However, the average American, the average British citizen, and the average European, as I said, is now feeling or starting to feel more and more like someone who's living under imperialism, who's living under colonization. And so now I think that there's a greater chance for a reciprocation of goodwill and the establishment of real solidarity between the the the average people of the Western and the Muslim world and in the global South. And this can manifest, in sha'Allah, through coordinated strategies.

I've said for a long time that westerners are misguided if they felt or if they feel any sense of loyalty or any sense of fealty or any sense of nationalism on the basis of being westerners. Because the truth is the West never cared about them. Most of them, generation after generation going back from today all the way back for centuries. Most of them and their ancestors were serfs, and they're serfs today. Most of them were poor.

Most of them were exploited, and most of them never had, any sort of power in their societies, and they're powerless now, and they're exploited today. Their so called civilization never respected them and it doesn't respect them now. So I think that they should align themselves with us. They should align themselves with the Muslims. They should align themselves with the global South.

They should align themselves with the global oppressed, with the global colonized. And they should align themselves with the global resistance, the global resistance to imperialism. The imperialism of the owners and controllers of global financialized capital. They should align themselves with the middle nation, the people of the Muslim world, and the people of the global South, who are trying to sculpt out a a different future, than what is being pursued by the new feudal masters of the private sector. The new feudal masters, of private sector power, the OCGFC.

The global economic and political order is pivoting right now, as I've talked about many times. And when something is pivoting, when something is turning or shifting, it means it's in a delicate state. It's not fixed. It's like that brief moment in a fight, when your opponent is shifting his balance from one foot to the other. That's your opportunity.

Things can turn in any direction right now, and the deciding factor is going to be what the people do, what the, what the masses do, what the populations do. And it's happening right now. It's happening right now at this moment with Gaza, with the Palestinian issue, and with the global response to the Palestinian issue. As I've said before, Gaza is symbolic. Palestine is symbolic.

It's symbolic of a larger, worldwide struggle, a worldwide resistance to western imperial domination. And that resistance is already helping local businesses in the global South and in the Muslim world to flourish. It's already having results as more and more people shun Western companies and brands. And it's already establishing a new approach to conflict in the region and internationally with a greater emphasis on diplomacy and international coordination, particularly among the BRICS nations and among the Muslim countries. And it's already accelerating the liberation of international trade from the US dollar, which has never been anything but a shakedown.

And it's already exposing, the hypocrisy of the colonizing powers and their institutions like the blatantly rigged system of the United Nations and the ICC. And it's already, destroying the lies and the propaganda of the, mainstream media narratives. And that global resistance movement is wrestling away control over public opinion, the control over public opinion of the mainstream media. And it's already delivering a powerful message to the owners and controllers of global financialized capital that unaccountable private sector power can be and will be and is being held accountable. It's sending a message that corporate power can no longer act like, amoral actors on the global stage, and that the people of the world are ultimately more powerful and more important than their shareholders whether they like it or not.

I'm telling you, we're living through a watershed moment, a transformative moment. I've said it many times. Western civilization never civilized. But if the common people of the West, align themselves with the civilized world, with the Muslims, and with the global South, and if they have solidarity with us in our resistance to Zionism and to Western imperialism, why the West may yet become civilized. And together, in sha Allah, we can bring an end to their long brutal reign of greed, subjugation, violence, and the mindset of profit before people, of profit before morality, and of profit before justice.