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Deep State Denial

For some reason, we like to associate denial with mavericks, outcasts, non-conformist extremists and hatemongers, but right now the biggest deniers are mainstream journalists, news anchors and fact checkers who refuse to countenance the existence of the Deep State or insist on dismissing it as a mere conspiracy theory.

How on earth could Donald Trump’s decision to follow Israel’s lead into a destabilising war with Iran be either in the best interests of most Americans or consistent with his earlier denunciation of never-ending regime-change wars? The current best estimates for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars together run from around $5 to $8 trillion and that’s not including the huge outlay on military operations over Libya and Syria, bases in the Gulf states and funding of the Israeli armed forces. The simple question is: who’s calling the shots? Alas, I suspect the answer is not simple as Bibi Netanyahu.

The last month has resulted in immense destruction of strategic infrastructure in Iran, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and, last but least, in Israel itself. On the first day, the USAF managed to destroy a girls’ elementary school killing around 180 girls and teachers in Minab in the Southern province of Hormozgan. The Iranian civilian death toll may range between 5000 and 8000 with many more military fatalities, with hundreds reported dead in the Gulf states and Israel because of retaliatory drone attacks. However, the economic fallout of much higher crude oil prices and supply chain disruption is likely to cause much greater human suffering over the coming months, exacerbating the cost-of-living crisis in Europe and Southern Asia, reliant on Middle Eastern oil. Perversely, higher oil prices have already boosted Russian exports and strengthened China’s economic and soft power on the world stage.

Rather than make America great again, Donald Trump’s exercise of Commander-in-Chief powers to join Israel’s war with Iran have alienated not only his European allies, but much of his base. Who would have guessed that neither higher gas prices nor an unwinnable war with the prospect of thousands of American body bags were popular with Trump’s MAGA base?

Back in Britain, Farage’s pro-Israel stance has seen a sudden drop in Reform’s popularity, with recent polls giving the challenger party around 25% closing the gap with other parties amid growing voter disillusionment with all the main options available. All of sudden, a Green-Labour-LibDem-SNP coalition, rather than a Reform landslide, seems a real possibility in 2029, such are the volatile mathematics of the first-past-the-post system. The point is, would a Green-themed administration change anything other than accelerate our demise? We only have to look to Germany to find the answer, where Green politicians not only supported covid authoritarianism and tech censorship, but also higher military spending to ward off the Russian threat.

Oddly Farage’s new belligerent foreign policy stance is perfectly aligned with Tony Blair’s and Kemi Badenoch’s, but apparently at odds with Keir Starmer’s who has strategically ruled out direct involvement in the conflict, possibly to appease pro-Palestinian Labour MPs and align himself more with Macron and Merz, while covertly letting American warplanes use British bases. The apparent rift in the transatlantic alliance could be a symptom of shifting power dynamics from west to east, but also a sign of engineered systemic collapse with the ruling elites running for the hills before their AI-driven drones can build back better over the wreckage of the outgoing Fordist model. In this context, the settled working classes are not only critical of rapid migratory flows, transgender ideology or restrictions on automotive freedom, but of any destabilising policies likely to undermine their livelihoods. Wanting a better life for your family, higher pay, affordable housing, safe neighbourhoods and better working conditions used to be leftwing talking points, until the corporate left adopted identity politics and started to blame the lumpenproletariat for the lack of progress towards their vision of a harmonious borderless utopia. Then the populist right exploited widespread opposition to globalism to take back control from remote supranational bodies like the EU and prioritise home grown workers, at least in rhetoric if not in practice. Now the pendulum has swung again, but the same puppeteers remain firmly in control.

In its first four weeks, the war triggered an exodus of 1 to 2 million foreigners from the GCC states, almost totally dependent on desalination plants that Iranian drones have already hit. Iranian reprisals on Israeli targets and fear of deadlier strikes to come have likewise accelerated the departure of young, secular, educated and affluent Israelis, significantly reducing the tax base. The Times of Israel reports that 27% of Israelis are considering emigrating. That’s around 2.5 million people in a country of 9.5 million.

We may have a temporary ceasefire over the Strait of Hormuz and the spectacle of peace talks in Islamabad, but the goalposts have moved in a matter of days from angry social media posts demanding the Iranians “Open the fuckin’ Strait” to a proposed US naval blockade of the Strait to force Iran to give up its uranium enrichments rights. How can this make any sense? Why would the US administration spend 100s of billions on destroying critical infrastructure in the Middle East, weaken its international standing and impoverish the Western working classes through inflation? Why would the likes of Donald Trump and his European acolytes like Farage and Orban risk losing votes to appease the Israel lobby and beat the drums of war? We are witnessing the planned demolition of Western civilisation, not by Islam or through cultural decadence, but rather by the emerging planet-wide technocracy who thrive on chaos.

The only logical conclusion is that our leaders are mere careerist actors who would never have been allowed to grace the corridors of illusory power if they had any principles and exposed the machinations of Deep State operatives posing as neutral civil servants, investment bankers, philanthropic billionaires or dispassionate scientific advisers. The covid scam showed us that the real decision makers work behind the scenes in close liaison with the wider Biotech-Military-Industrial complex. If a few technocrats decide the only way to slow the spread of a flu variant is to close down small businesses and print trillions of Euros, dollars, yen and pounds, then governments will just have to comply, if they want to access loans from the World Bank or IMF. The Israel-Iran war is every bit as much a manufactured crisis as the covid scam. The environmental, economic and human fallout is very real, but the causes have been deliberately misattributed. In both cases, the cure was worse than the purported disease. And yet some politicians will shrug their shoulders and claim they had to do something. Otherwise, covid would have wiped out humanity or the mad mullahs would have nuked European cities, unless we had let experts override common sense.

We can only regain hope if we learn the lessons of the recent past and stop placing our trust in talking  heads at the mercy of BlackRock, Palantir or Lockheed Martin.

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The End of the Pseudo-American Dream 

All we are saying .. is give war a chance.

All we are saying is ... Give war just one more chance 

Last weekend, a crowd of avid Guardian readers, former Trotskyists and BBC journalists took to the streets of London to demand continued Western military support for Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine. Their attire wouldn't have looked out of place at a 1980s student demo for nuclear disarmament and against American imperialism. Alas, their main disagreement with the current US administration is not that it is disengaging from the Eastern European theatre of war and scaling down its regime-change operations, but that it has allegedly surrendered to a power-hungry dictator hellbent on reversing the last three decades of woke progressivism, as advertised on TV. 

Over the last few days, we’ve witnessed the biggest outcry of collective cognitive dissonance in a kind of coordinated mass formation since the tumultuous fall of the former Soviet Union that disenfranchised millions of nachalniks or supervisors. Who would have guessed that by early 2025, the biggest cheerleaders for NATO expansion at all costs would be the European elites? Yet mainstream politicians and opinion leaders around Europe have acted almost in lockstep to oppose any peace deal between the US and Russia that would involve territorial concessions, whatever the cost may be in terms of human lives and higher energy prices. The war was never about Ukraine’s eastern borders, but NATO’s. Without the USA on board, European states would have to triple military expenditure to stand a chance of winning on the battlefield. The NeoCon lobbyists that once dominated the corridors of power in Washington DC have retreated to Brussels, Berlin, Paris and London 

Germany’s new Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, now in a coalition of the losers to keep out the allegedly pro-Putin AfD, announced a massive boost to military spending from 2% to 3% of GDP over the next five years in a period of economic stagnation and rising unemployment. In the UK, Sir Keir Starmer followed suit. More disturbingly, the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives doubled down on their unremitting support for Saint Zelensky. For once, the Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Mail were united in their fierce condemnation of President Trump and Vice President Vance for daring to question the Ukrainian gravy train that, at huge expense to American and European taxpayers, prolonged a war that has killed around a million young men and women. 

 Don’t get me wrong, I’m the first to condemn Trump’s plans to help Netanyahu complete the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and suggest annexing Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal. However, in their noisy exchange at the White House, it was Donald Trump and not Volodymyr Zelensky who wanted to avoid World War Three at all costs and file for peace before an escalation of the conflict plunges us into a new Dark Age. Zelensky’s acolytes, loyal to the former Biden administration, seem to think a nuclear showdown is a small price to pay for their concept of woke freedom. 

The reality on the ground is that the US can no longer afford to bankroll NATO expansion. Behind the scenes, Deep State operatives have reached the conclusion that they can no longer counter the Russia-China axis by military means. Indeed, that may be why corporate lobbyists let Donald Trump win the presidency again. Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg didn’t take long to cosy up to the new White House resident, with Mark even apologising publicly for Biden-era censorship. The America-First rhetoric was always a metaphor for a move to a multipolar world and an end to the New American Century. Economic sanctions have only strengthened Russia’s ties with its Asian neighbours. The US had to cut its losses and divert its attention to the defence of Israel, another battle they may lose. 

 USAID and international NGOs raised the hopes of millions of young Ukrainians that they could aspire to Western European living standards through the stage-managed EuroMaidan protests against Yanukovych’s policy of neutrality. The deposed leader had failed to sign an association agreement with the EU in favour of a free trade pact with Belarus, the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan, the fledgling Eurasian Economic Union as part of a larger realignment with China’s Belt-and-Road initiative. In the intervening decade, the BRICS bloc has grown stronger and the G7 weaker. Now, the collective West, as the Russians call it, is at war with itself as technological innovation moves east. One Western faction wants to pivot to macro-regional protectionism, which in the American context means putting the USA and Israel first and another wants to pursue woke globalism at all costs, even if that means destroying their countries. 

 The downfall of the US Empire was never going to be pretty because various lobbies behind the Global Deep State, allied with multinationals with little interest in the parochial concerns of ordinary citizens, have long compromised its politicians to pursue their grand chessboard strategy that would ultimately bring the whole world under the same surveillance grid. 

 There have always been at least two American dreams. For generations of Americans, this meant being the master of your own destiny in a land of boundless opportunities. Alas, with slavery and debt servitude, such opportunities have not always been available to all citizens in equal measure. The original American dream was not built on welfare largesse or entitlement but on self-reliance and open competition, rewarding both hard workers with a can-do attitude and devious entrepreneurs. It had losers as well as winners. Long gone are the days when Emma Lazarus could proclaim: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” 

The advent of AI-enhanced smart automation may soon see most citizens on UBI, at the mercy of tech giants. 

For the rest of the world, the American Dream has been a frenzy of consumer indulgence and commercialised entertainment in the era of carefree mass motoring and Hollywood movies projected onto TV screens everywhere electric power could reach. Many critics have accused the USA of spreading cultural decadence and depravity, but they mistake Hollywood for the real America, which is now, outside a few metropolitan bubbles, much more socially conservative than Western Europe with much higher church attendance across denominations. My travels through the backwaters of West Virginia and Tennessee took me to a bygone era of god-fearing rednecks, oblivious to the machinations of US-based multinationals around the globe. On the outside, we had the America of Britney Spears, McDonald's, Walmart and Richard Gere. On the inside, we had the America of the first and second amendments granting free speech and gun rights. Millions of Europeans fled to North America to escape religious persecution, censorship and corruption. Yet today’s large corporations are enforcing a new kind of woke dogma intolerant of traditional family values. 

 Whose Freedom and Democracy? 

The fallout over the US exit from the Ukrainian quagmire has once again pitted the based working classes against the vocal woke professional classes. The latter consider themselves the bastions of liberal democracy and fierce opponents of xenophobia and autocracy. This is a classic clash between us and them, i.e. the people vs the managerial classes. In 2020, we learned what they (the managerial classes) really meant by freedom of movement. They meant the freedom of NGOs and large corporations to move human resources around the globe and to re-engineer once cohesive communities with deep cultural roots into mere themed human habitation zones. They did not mean your freedom to walk the streets safely at night or even your freedom to visit your local park, pub or gym without a special permit, proving compliance with their latest edicts. If you feel insecure about your gender identity, you may now have the freedom to use facilities once reserved for members of the other biological sex, but if you want to pray silently within a few hundred yards from an abortion centre, you could be arrested. While I’ve traditionally supported a woman’s right to choose in the first 12 weeks of gestation, i.e. before a foetus becomes sentient, I’ve always respected pro-lifers and welcomed the provision of alternatives to abortion for women unable to care for their unborn babies. The last 30 years have seen two significant developments. First, neonatal care has enabled premature babies to survive as early as the 21st week of pregnancy. Second, fertility rates have plummeted with more and more women delaying motherhood into their 30s or even 40s. In the same period, we’ve also seen a decline in stable two-parent households and a significant rise in old people with dementia confined to care homes, paving the way for the proposed Assisted Dying Bill. The same legislation that bans praying near abortion clinics could soon prevent vigils outside assisted dying centres. Is that the freedom we are fighting for? 

As for democracy, the self-styled liberal elites are quite happy to rig or annul elections if people fail to vote for one of their preferred options. Only last week, at the behest of the EU Commission, the Romanian authorities arrested former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu, allegedly because he had accepted funds from foreign oligarchs. Millions of Romanians no longer buy the official narrative. They remember all too well Ceaușescu-era machinations. Meanwhile, the outcome of the German general elections saw the pro-NATO CDU/CSU gain the most votes in the former West and the Eurosceptic AfD sweeping the board in the former East outside Berlin (averaging around 35 to 38% of the vote). The establishment parties could only appeal to social conformity and war guilt, but are delivering the exact opposite, more destabilisation and more war. 

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Global Splintering

What’s going on? Are we seeing a divisive split among global technocrats that cuts into the heart of Western administrations? Only a few months ago, Sir Keir Starmer was the darling of the progressive mainstream media. The BBC salivated over him as he entered 10 Downing Street and laid down the new law of the land targeting far-right thuggery and outdoor smoking, while touring Europe and North America to pledge full alignment with the EU and NATO in the fight against Putin, climate change and the enemies of woke progressivism. However, on the Levantine conflict, Sir Keir had to tread a tricky path between the conflicting demands of Labour activists and the Zionist wing of the Military Industrial Complex, by backtracking on his earlier unconditional support for Israeli military incursions in Gaza. At the Labour Party Conference, Sir Keir showed signs of fatigue by calling both for a ceasefire and the release of the sausages (which rhymes with hostages in southern British English).

All of a sudden, media reports of sleaze and outright corruption within Labour's upper echelons are rife. The same media outlets that ousted Boris Johnson over two and a half years after his electoral success over Party-gate, because he did not comply with absurd covid regulations, are now gunning for Starmer and his cronies over Lord Alli’s lavish donations. To be honest, Lord Alli’s involvement with the new New Labour project was off my radar. My focus was on Sir Keir’s close ties to the Tony Blair Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and World Economic Forum and on his earlier actions as Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales between 2008 and 2013. He had obviously been groomed as a young global leader who could appeal to a key section of the wider managerial classes while somehow placating the working classes with promises of economic stability and progressive patriotism. The cracks in Labour’s happy family were all too apparent long before the General Election. While the red-tinted party may have regained votes in Scotland from the SNP and from some disaffected Tories in the English shires, it lost votes in many of its former strongholds.

Some alternative media influencers have intimated Sir Keir may have had a gay relationship with Lord Alli. That may have been a scandal 30 years ago, but why should anyone except Sir Keir’s wife care in a society that embraces all expressions of consensual sexuality? To top it all, many of the same pundits have highlighted Lord Alli’s meetings and apparent friendship with Syrian President, Bashar Al Assad, a prime target for US-led regime-change since at least 2010. Things have not always been that way. The Assad family have close links with the UK. Not only did Syrian first lady, Asma Al-Assad, grow up in London, Bashar did postgraduate studies at the city’s Western Eye Hospital in the early 1990s. Later the US and UK courted the new leader when he succeeded his father in 2000 as they attempted to build an alliance of pro-Western Arab leaders in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Alas Assad chose to build stronger ties with Lebanon and Iran to support the Palestinian cause against Israeli repression. That’s when Islamic fundamentalist sects started a six-year long civil war, with the covert support of Western agencies and mercenaries. In 2014 Russia surprised the world by intervening militarily in their first foreign mission since the fall of the Soviet Union to defeat ISIS and its allies and support Assad’s secular government, helping it to recapture most of Syria. The Western media framed Assad as a brutal dictator who gassed his own people with countless claims of war crimes inevitably discovered by Western-funded White Helmets intermingling with rebel Islamic militants. The same self-proclaimed liberal media outlets who would later lie to us about covid, entertained the gullible with their poster child, Bana, whose well-written blog fit the anti-Assad narrative to a T. Yet the BBC had been caught red-handed staging a documentary with crisis actors to implicate Assad in a gas attack. Four years later OPCW inspectors failed to find evidence to blame the Syrian government for the alleged 2017 Douma chemical attack and, unsurprisingly, the Mafia media has gone quiet on the specifics of its blanket accusations ever since, shifting its focus to Vladimir Putin.

Why does all this matter now, you may wonder? Starmer has staked his reputation on ideological conformity, sticking to the dominant fake-progressive narrative, while distancing himself from his more radical policy advisors and Deep State actors. While he could channel his efforts against the spectres of Putin, far-right thugs, smokers and climate change, he could still command the support of most Guardian-reading Labour loyalists and the wider bien-pensant upper-middle classes. Now the US Deep State has pivoted to the Middle East in support of Israel, aiding and abetting an undeniably large scale of death and destruction, Starmer can no longer play the good guy.

Far be it from me to come to Starmer’s defence, but his holier-than-thou demeanour may not be able to stave off the inevitable opposition to direct UK involvement in a war between Israel’s allies and Iran supported logistically by Russia and China. Alliances may shift fast too. GB News talking heads, except for Neil Oliver, and the Reform Party leadership are unashamedly pro-Israel as is the Trump team. The rumours about Keir Starmer’s private life have all the hallmarks of a hatchet job, inspired by the brain behind the Blair project, Peter Mandelson. We may be seeing a split between the one-world-love and Zionist wings of the global techno-cabal. Sir Keir has served his purpose, but there are few charismatic leaders available who will follow the orders of an increasingly unstable and disunited ruling class as the US Empire crumbles?