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Paul Cudenec's avatar

Good to drink some fresh water of optimism - from you and Graeber - in this contemporary desert of despair! I am convinced that you are right that 9/11 and the "War on Terror" was, in part at least, "a major counter-insurgency campaign designed to quell the swelling revolutionary movement that was challenging imperialism on its own turf". The anti-globalisation movement scared the criminocracy, because it targeted them directly in the way the "Left" generally doesn't - hence the efforts to steer the movement in another direction. The Trots of the SWP in the UK parachuted into the scene with their "Globalise Resistance" recuperation project and then we had all the identity politics and ridiculous ideological posturing obliterating the soul of the resistance. The US empire, in its current form, has no doubt passed its sell-by date, as the British one did before, and that wave of Zapatista-inspired revolt must have helped that along. But - and this is a point where I don't agree with you - there is also a deliberate plan to switch to a "multi-polar" BRICS-based world order, which will be the same empire in new clothing. I suspect the plan for this, and the whole Great Reset clamp-down, may have been brought forward because of popular resistance all over the place (such as the Gilets Jaunes here in France). That gives cause for hope. I do agree with you that their plans are not advancing as they would have hoped and that they are starting to panic with the realisation that too many people are on to them now - that the toothpaste of truth is out of the tube and it's not going back in again!

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Graham (baba gbb)'s avatar

I think you’re very close to being right over target - about everything, including maybe even the jubilee and the butt-kicking. Still, lotsa folk ain’t making it to the jubilee. And the timing of all this is uncertain. I’m guessing this grinds on for quite a while. The Beast Gang seen to think they’re five yrs in to a ten yr plan but they don’t have the manpower or tech to pull this off. So it’s gonna be regional, which will continue to drive upheaval and global migration, and there will be lotsa places that will be horrible and lotsa places that will be ok. Like now but more. We’ve got to wade through the complete collapse of this beast and that is going to take some time. It’s a very large beast.

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