Strategies for Economic Sovereignty

You know, there's something that BlackRock has been warning about for years since at least 2011. You know, they they put out this threat assessment or risk assessment for investors periodically, and one of the so called threats that they've been concerned about is what they call resource nationalism, which of course refers to the incredibly dangerous situation when a country starts to treat its own natural resources as their own. When countries commit the ideological crime or the ideological error of imagining that they should have sovereignty over their own resources, and that their own people should benefit from those resources, because of course the required understanding is that their resources do not belong to them, and belong by default to multinational corporations and Western investors. Now it is, noteworthy, that this sentiment was previously expressed by governments by like the State Department and so on back in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies. The US and the West in general regarded any form of economic nationalism in the global South, in the Muslim world, in the Arab world, and so on as a grave threat to American and Western interests.

Now this is being expressed directly by the private sector, by the OCGFC, by the new Empire of Capital, and this is indicative in my opinion of the evolution of power dynamics in the world. Power now is not that concerned, about American or Western interests. They're concerned about the interests of multinational corporations and the global financial elite, And it's unacceptable to them if countries in the global South, particularly in Africa, start believing that they have or should have control over their own natural resources. Now back in 2019, the country that had the highest rank, the highest risk of economic nationalism was the Democratic Republic Of Congo. Note that this pertains specifically to the mining sector and the extraction of minerals.

About a year later, the m 23 rebels reemerged after being more or less dormant since 2013. And I think we're all familiar with the violence and instability currently plaguing the DRC. Another country ranked as being an extreme risk of economic nationalism in 2019 was Venezuela. And since then, since 2019, there was an attempted coup, rigged elections, and sanctions against that country, creating an economic and humanitarian crisis. Russia was another country that was ranked as an extreme risk of economic nationalism, and I think we're all aware of the measures taken against Russia over the last couple of years.

Now there were there were a number of other countries back in 2019 that were ranked as high risk, not extreme risk, but high risk of so called economic nationalism, and these included Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Kazakhstan, and wait for it, Saudi Arabia. Other countries like Malaysia and Iraq were singled out for what they regarded as moves that they had made towards economic or resource nationalism, economic sovereignty. Moves that they thought put them on a trajectory towards a high risk status. Now, should be obvious that being ranked, as being at risk of exercising economic sovereignty is regarded by the OCGFC as not only a punishable offense, but it is something that they will move rapidly to preempt. And they have organizations like BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, they have at their disposal the powers of the state.

All of the powers that the state has at their disposal are at the disposal of the OCGFC because they are entirely captured by the OCGFC. So what that means is that confrontation, negotiation, conflict or diplomacy today is going to be primarily carried out between the governments of the global South and Western private sector power, not between their governments and the governments of the West. Because imperialism today operates differently. Imperialism today is carried out by an a national private sector. The owners and controllers of global financialized capital represent a collective emperor, a collective colonizing power that itself transcends any single state or grouping of states.

They don't need the money now. They don't need the money, and the resources that they extract from colonized countries to necessarily flow to this country or to that country. They just need it to flow into their corporate accounts, their profit margins, their dividends, and so on. They don't need The US to control anything or The UK to control anything or Europe to control anything. They just need their investors, their shareholders, their companies to control things.

These officials of the Empire of Capital are not particularly interested in the standard of living of America, or of The UK, or of Europe, and so on. They have taken the logic of neoliberalism, and they see no reason why Western countries should be exempt from that logic. Their societies can be bankrupted and exploited too. Their populations can be oppressed and enslaved too. Their countries can be sabotaged and destabilized too if it's profitable.

And the converse is also true. The countries of the Global South can improve their standard of living, they can be less exploited, they can be stable and so forth as long as the OCGFC, the Western based OCGFC are profiting. Economic nationalism however, resource nationalism, poses a threat to this new imperialism because it has the potential of cutting them out of the picture. And if they think they're gonna be cut out of the picture then they'll just burn the picture. They will mobilize state power which includes national militaries, intelligence agencies, and so called international institutions like the UN, the WTO, and so on.

They will mobilize those to terrorize the economies and the societies of any country that they think is trying to shut them out. So whenever you see military action being taken or whenever you see whatever what what appears to be subterfuge or subversion or covert destabilization in a country in the global South, and that indicates to me that that's a country whose government has diplomatically and strategically failed to negotiate its sovereignty with the OCGFC. Because just as in the past, American power, Western state power could not be ignored, could not be safely defied in a bold and unilateral uncompromising manner without it resulting in an invasion or a coup or an assassination. So to today, the owners and controllers of global financialized capital and entities like BlackRock and Vanguard cannot be ignored, they cannot be defied, and they cannot be entirely sidelined without disastrous results. Like it or not, these are the the power dynamics that exist in the world today.

This is the new shape of imperialism and the new shape of anti imperialism. You know historically, colonization in the Muslim world, The technique of colonization included recruiting or coercing the collaboration of local authorities, local elites, local officials. Anti colonization movements then tended to arise from the lower classes, the grassroots because elites were compromised. The elites were subordinated, but they were still the elites in the society. They were still the authorities, and the common people still respected that social order to one extent or another, and they still utilized and benefited from that social order, from that traditional authority structure in one way or another.

This combined with the with the fact that historically revolutions generally tend to be revolts by the lower classes, it fixed in our minds the idea that any sort of anti colonization, anti imperialist movement must be a grassroots uprising, or anyway that it should at least begin from there, even if intellectuals and middle class and upper class elements eventually integrate into those movements. The idea is set in our minds that the that that revolutions are undertaken by the peasants, you know, basically marching with their pitchforks against the rich. Now there's still an element of this thinking that's still true today, but the dynamics around that are different, and the strategy and the impact are different from the old days. Today, I would argue that for the global South, and certainly for the Muslim world, the most effective, the most efficient, the most impactful anti imperialist struggle is not being led by peasants storming the palace, but rather it's being led by the palace itself. But they're approaching it very tactfully, very diplomatically, not in an overtly confrontational way, but more through negotiation and compromise.

But not the kind of compromise, mind you, that reduces their sovereignty, rather it's the kind of compromise that increases their sovereignty without that sovereignty seem threatening for the OCGFC. Now this may seem like a weak or an unsatisfying approach for an independent struggle, but you have to understand that until now there never has been negotiation. Until now our countries had to just take dictation. They didn't get to negotiate. They couldn't negotiate concessions from Western power.

They just had to concede to Western power. But that's not what's happening now. That's not what's happening today. Now, our countries are setting terms and conditions, and they're making demands, and they're getting concessions. And this is only possible because countries like Malaysia, like Indonesia, like The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and BRICS are dealing with the OCGFC.

We're involved in the transition of the global economy, the pivot of the global economy to the global South. The nature of that pivot is not being dictated by the West. It's being negotiated between our governments and the owners and controllers of global financialized capital, and we are securing greater and greater degrees of economic sovereignty and political independence thereby. Because again, demographics are on our side, and time is on our side. And that's why this whole pivot is taking place in the first place, because the collective West have birth controlled themselves into irrelevance.

They divorced themselves into irrelevance. They two income householded themselves into irrelevance, and they materialism ed themselves into irrelevance. They prolonged adolescence, destroyed their families, and disincentivized procreation to the point that they're not even worth it anymore as a worker or a consumer pool for business, for business to to be interested in serving their interests. So the pivot to the Global South is happening by necessity, and this is a weak starting position for the OCJFC in terms of negotiating with the countries of the Global South because they're in a position of need. So when I said that colonization operated by coercing the collaboration of local authorities, local elites, local rulers, and so on, you should not lose sight of the fact that those authorities did not necessarily embrace or welcome their own subordination.

As I've said many times, no one wants to be a slave especially when your title is Sultan or Emir, or king, and you're used to being the boss. But they had to accept it, and very often they had to accept it as the only way, by accepting it, it was the only way that they could in fact retain their titles and and their relative authority. But that doesn't mean that they did not want at some point to regain their sovereignty. See again, this is a major difference between Western colonization and the spread of Islam. The moment a colonized country has the opportunity to free themselves from Western domination, they do it.

They do whatever they can to get out from under Western control. But that wasn't the case with the countries that Islam spread to because the spread of Islam was not colonization. I mean, when the West came to our lands and colonized us and took over, that would have been the perfect opportunity for them to renounce Islam, to declare themselves to be liberated from Muslim colonization. Well, obviously, that's not what the response was. The West subjugated and Islam uplifted, that's the difference.

So the leaders, the elites, the authorities, and so on in the Muslim world, have acted in the past. Yes, they have, as clients of the West, but in fact they were hostages. Colonization and western violence and the threat of violence made them hostages, but I'm telling you, they've been plotting their escape all along, and not only have there been rifts now developing between the hostage takers, but our side has become stronger too. See, there's always a mastermind, and then there's the henchmen. There's the one with the brains and the ones with the brawn.

The Americans thought that because they have the brawn that they were the leader of their criminal organization, but the mastermind has always been the owners and controllers of global financialized capital. Now that mastermind is making a new deal, and he's switching sides. He's discovering that it's more lucrative to partner with us than to ransom us. So the dynamics are changing. It's like that scene in the the movie King of New York when the young street thugs want to steal Frank Frank White's wallet on the subway, and he gives him some money and he offers him a job instead.

Well, this scenario, the thugs of the OCGFC and Christopher Walken's character, Saudi Arabia, and The UAE and Brix. It's better for you to work with us. That's what they're understanding, and the deals that they're making are leveling out the subordination aspect and are in fact, it's resulting in giving us the upper hand. But giving us the upper hand in a non threatening mutually beneficial way, and that's very savvy and it's very cunning, and it makes anti imperialist liberation actually sustainable. Because look, didn't have to go this way.

There were so many opportunities that have been seized that could have been lost. So many moves that could not and would not have been made if our countries were actually client states and not hostage states. And there are so many mistakes that were not made, that could have been made because the OCGFC did not initially want things to go this way. They wanted the pivot south to just be another wave of total colonization, total subjugation and pillage. Of course, that's what they wanted.

And their racism, their bigotry and their supremacism made them think that our people were stupid, that our people were lazy, that our people were uninformed and clueless. They thought we didn't know what's going on in the world. They really thought that we were all brainwashed. They thought just like a a a white slave owner in the American South, when a slave would smile at him, he actually thought that it meant he was happy content with his situation. They thought that we were satisfied being subordinate and being exploited.

They thought that we're all primitive and simple minded and just accepted our servitude to the West as just some some of a part of just some sort of a natural order. That's really how they think. They're so convinced of their own supremacy that they genuinely think that everyone else is inferior and deficient. They think we don't know how the world has changed, and they think that we are unaware of the fact the West is running on fumes at this point. But the oppressed know their oppressor better than the oppressor knows himself.

And the fact is, it's impossible for the oppressor to ever really understand those whom he is oppressing. Because from the outset, he has to lie to himself about, the oppressed anyway. He has to himself believe in a lie of his own creation about those whom he is oppressing just so he can justify oppressing them. But the oppressed know their oppressor very very well, intimately well, and we can see that you aren't what you used to be. We can smell it, we can sense it.

We know when you're acting, and we know when you're being real, and you're doing nothing but act at this point. You're doing nothing but try to evoke your heyday. But you're just a shadow of your former self and everybody knows it. And yes, even your old partners, your old gang, all your previous lackeys are turning away from you and they're coming to us to cut deals. The only one in the dark here is you.

The only one who doesn't really understand what's going on is you. I'm telling you, the next fifty years are going to be drastically different than the last fifty years, and no one is even going to believe fifty years from now that America and Europe were ever treated like the center of the world. People are gonna shake their heads in disbelief that something as repugnant and as stupid as Zionism was ever taken seriously and was ever allowed to wreak havoc on The Middle East. No one's gonna be able to wrap their heads around the fact that you people presided over such a deranged global order that it made the most resource rich and most important countries on the planet the poorest and most oppressed countries in the world. That's your system, and you have the gall to call it civilized, you have the gall to call yourselves advocates of justice and fairness and equality and human rights and so on.

I'm telling you in fifty years, your whole era is gonna be universally regarded as a disgrace of history, and the story of America is gonna be nothing but a cautionary tale for the nations of the world about how horrifically wrong a country can be. By your lack of integrity, your lack of morality, your lack of honesty, your lack of decency, your lack of humanity, you're gonna become nothing but the epitome. The comprehensive reference point for everything that a country must never be. And that ultimately, in my opinion, is what America is gonna actually contribute to the world. Nothing but the worst possible example that everyone will commit themselves to never repeat.