I believe it is the time for bold moves, politically. You have to perceive the momentum of the trends that are taking place, and be decisive about it. And I think people can have a role in shaping the political and economic landscape of the 21st Century. It is not going to look like the last century, and I think you can have a role in determining how it DOES look. I am talking about paradigmatic changes. This is absolutely not a time to be complacent, or defeatist, or pessimistic or timid. Not at all.

We are living through a period of tectonic transitions in global power dynamics. This isn’t the same old “we are at a crossroads” rhetoric that politicians always repeat. There are massive changes taking place in the international order, this transitional period is very real, and it opens up possibilities that were previously unthinkable. So, we need imagination, creativity, and boldness, in my opinion; combined with organisation and discipline and persistence, of course; but I truly believe that we are moving into an unshaped future that we have the power to shape for the first time in a very, very long time.

The West is eating itself. America has been functionally reduced to a regional power, not a global superpower. They are hollowing out the state, Europe is being economically colonized and dismantled. All of the powers that imposed the world order upon us that we have always known are either suffering imperial osteoporosis, anaemia, hemophilia, or dementia. None of the rules and paradigms they imposed need to be retained, none of them need to be maintained or preserved. More important than a power vacuum, there is a vacuum of organizing principles for the world order; and we can actually have a role in filling that vacuum, in my opinion. I am saying, we can actually organize the world differently. All those Western imperialist concepts can be jettisoned. Those concepts they used to divide and rule, to trap, to restrict, to dictate, to set the parameters to define, and so on; to tell us what reality had to look like, how it had to operate, and so forth. We do not have to be bound by any of that anymore.

I don’t know if people really grasp how momentous this is, how significant. Like, ok, you see Trump doing things and proposing things that seem completely out of left field. Buy Greenland. Turn Canada into the 51st state. Leave NATO. Gut the federal government. Defund USAID and the NED. On and on. But what I am telling you is that he is not the only one who can do this. There is no “inside the box” thinking when the box is being taken apart. You can propose and initiate and pursue previously unthinkable things too. And you should.

Prime example is Burkina Faso. The whole Sahel region, actually. But Burkina Faso is consistently taking the lead. Unprecedented steps are being taken. Ibrahim Traore is proposing ideas and policies that would have been things you only daydreamed about on your couch 10 years ago. And things are moving very rapidly. Faster than I have ever seen in my lifetime. And here’s the thing; that vacuum is going to get filled rapidly as well. So, again, now is the time for bold ideas and movements.

The Article 6 campaign is such a movement. It would have been impossible to imagine expelling the United States from the United Nations just a decade ago, but it is completely feasible today. We already have 100,000 signatures on the petition, and we are moving forward with that campaign.

But also, for instance, I mentioned the idea of using the logic of Trump’s Gold Card Visa program, which commoditizes American citizenship, he is selling US residency and citizenship for $5 million; which turns citizenship into a product, into an asset; so, you can use that same logic to push for Americans to have the right to sell their own citizenship for either a fixed price or a negotiated price, because why not? I’m not joking. Do it. Start a petition for that, start a movement for that. Organize. Demand that right. You should. There is no reason whatsoever why you shouldn’t push for that. There is no telling where that can go, and the kind of impact and outcome you can achieve from something like that. Don’t be timid. It is the wrong time to be timid.

You know, I also mentioned quite some time ago that African-Americans, if they constituted a country, well, they would probably apply to join BRICS. They would be a significant developing economy. Well, I think you should take that seriously too. Not just African-Americans, but all so-called minority groups in the United States. All members of the global majority living in America.

Bear with me here.

This is an idea that could fundamentally shift the economic and political landscape for so-called minority communities in the United States: the prospect of these communities gaining recognition within BRICS as economic extensions of their ancestral nations. This is not just a theoretical discussion; this is about real empowerment, real economic sovereignty, and real political leverage. But again, you have to be bold enough to imagine it and to bring it into reality.

Let’s just stick with African-Americans, Black Americans for the moment.

If we assessed the African American community as if it were a sovereign country using the BRICS admission criteria, the results would be compelling. One of the requirements, or part of the criteria for BRICS membership is that you have to be a Large and Growing Economy. OK, let’s look at that.

The total African American GDP (if considered as a separate economy) is estimated to be $1.8 to $2.0 trillion, making it roughly equivalent to the economy of Brazil — a founding member of BRICS — or South Korea.

Now, when we look at the Black American community, and think of it as a distinct nation, as if it is a country; well, we see that it looks very much like a colonized country. So, for instance, while as an economy, it is quite substantial, economic growth rates lag behind other BRICS nations due to systemic barriers like wage disparities, lack of wealth accumulation, and limited economic sovereignty. Just like a colonized nation. Think about that. You can literally think of the African-American community as if we are talking about a colonized African country that, rather than being invaded from without by colonizers, it was amputated from Africa and brought over to where the colonizers are. It is a colonized African country inside America. Just put that in your mind.

Now, another criteria for BRICS membership is that you should have a Diversified Economy.

Well, African Americans contribute to every economic sector in America — from media to technology, healthcare and finance, to entertainment and sports and so on.

But again, just like a colonized country, there is a lack of control over major industries and corporate ownership. Most economic participation is as consumers and employees rather than business owners or investors. And obviously, a great deal of that is due to systemic impediments — just like a country under colonization.

BRICS also looks at whether you have a Significant Trade Volume. Obviously, African Americans do not control international trade policies but have a high consumption power, estimated at around $1.6 trillion annually, or more. Meaning, they play a major role in America’s overall trade relationships globally.

I mean, think about it. Don’t think of the African American community as just a collection of consumers within the United States, but as a sovereign economic force — a nation with its own global trade relationships;

Like I said, If we took African Americans as a separate economy, it would be worth over $1.6 trillion in consumer spending — that’s larger than most countries. But the question is, are you just a market to be exploited, or will you assert your own interests in global trade? See? This is exactly one of the issues colonized countries have always struggled over.

Look: the only reason countries like China, India, Japan, and South Korea sell as much as they do in the United States is because of you. Your spending power fuels entire industries, yet you have no direct relationship with the nations you trade with. Instead, your role is reduced to being passive consumers, while corporate middlemen dictate the terms of trade on your behalf. On your behalf, but not in your interests.

Why are you allowing yourself to be a colony when you should be a nation?

I’m saying: Take Direct Control of Your Global Trade

Ask yourself this: if African Americans had a sovereign economy, would you let foreign nations extract your wealth without negotiating fair terms? Would you allow others to speak for you in trade deals? Or would you send trade ambassadors to China, to India, to Africa, to negotiate on your own behalf?

1. China: Your Biggest Supplier — So Why Are You Not at the Table?
African American spending drives massive imports from China — clothing, electronics, beauty products, appliances. Without your consumption, many of these industries would collapse. That’s a fact.

So why are you not negotiating with China directly? Why don’t you have African American trade delegations meeting with Chinese business leaders, setting up direct partnerships, bypassing the American corporate middlemen who mark up prices and control supply chains? If African Americans had their own independent economic councils, they could establish direct trade relationships, cutting costs, increasing ownership, and ensuring fair treatment. Do you see what I am saying?

The second largest foreign trading partner of the African American community is India: The Hair and Beauty Industry.
African Americans spend over $1.2 billion annually on hair products — a significant portion of which comes from India. But are you negotiating with Indian suppliers as an equal trading partner? Do you have African American trade ambassadors in India securing direct sourcing agreements? Why allow multinational corporations to be the gatekeepers when you are the ones sustaining this industry?

If you control the flow of capital, you control the industry. You should be setting the terms, not just being a customer. Because look, I know we always act like being a consumer is exclusively a weak position, but it’s not. There is no business without consumers.

Even The European Union: Do you know that you keep The Luxury Market Alive
African Americans spend billions on European brands — Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga. What if, instead of just buying, you demanded equity in these companies? What if you had a stake in the very industries you support? You can negotiate. You have leverage. You have the power of your spending. Use it.

And ok, if we think of African Americans as a country unto themselves, then obviously your biggest trading partner of all is The United States itself.

African Americans spend the bulk of their income on housing, healthcare, education, and entertainment, all controlled by American corporations. Right now, you don’t negotiate your role in this economy — you simply accept whatever is given to you. But why should African Americans allow their wealth to be extracted without any reinvestment? This is a dimension of corporate democratization.

You are not just workers or consumers in this system — you are the foundation of wealth for entire industries. So you should be negotiating like a sovereign entity.

Become a Nation Within a Nation — and that is for all so-called minority groups in America.

Eeconomic sovereignty does not mean isolating your community economically — it means control. It means that before a single dollar leaves your community, it circulates within your own networks. It means that you dictate the terms of your trade relationships, not corporations that just exploit your spending.

This is what every nation does — unless it is colonized.

So now, the question is: are you going to continue playing the role of a colony, or are you going to take your place as a sovereign economic power within the United States? Because until you do, you will remain what you have always been in America: a resource to be extracted, not a force to be reckoned with.

BRICS also looks at a potential member’s Investments and Infrastructure

Infrastructure (housing, education, healthcare facilities) is largely either corporate or state-controlled, and systemic issues have historically deprived African American communities of equitable investment.

There is an emerging trend of investment in real estate, tech startups, and financial institutions, but it remains relatively small. But this shouldn’t disqualify a nation from BRICS, rather it should be one of the motivations for joining, and for BRICS seeing the potential and promise of such a partnership.

The, what is it, fifth criteria? For BRICS is assessing Human Development

African Americans are highly educated (over 90% literacy rate) and have strong representation in various professions, arts, sciences, and politics. So there is no issue there. But then you have the colonization elements that undermine human development: disparities in healthcare, incarceration rates, and systemically engineered generational wealth gaps, and so on, all pull down overall human development indicators.

Then you have what BRICS calls Global Governance

There is little direct influence on global institutions like the UN, IMF, or World Bank, but African Americans have soft power through cultural influence, activism, and political engagement. So, there is something to be said in that regard.

And the last criteria for BRICS membership has to do with Regional Influence

Well, African Americans have strong political influence within the U.S. and are unarguably a cultural global superpower; they just do not act as a sovereign geopolitical entity.

But, through cultural exports (hip-hop, sports, film), activism (Black Lives Matter), and political influence within both parties, they shape policies domestically and indirectly influence international affairs.

If African Americans were assessed as a nation, they would likely partially qualify for BRICS but face key limitations in trade control, investment autonomy, and geopolitical influence. The economic scale is significant, but the lack of a sovereign state structure and control over resources would be major barriers to full inclusion.

But I am not really talking about full inclusion. Even by looking at BRICS membership criteria, you can see areas to focus on within any so-called minority community. Look at ways to address those key limitations, and so on. The point here is to liberate your thinking from the paradigms and concepts and self-serving rules that the colonizing nations imposed to create the world order of the 20th century, and start pouring in new ideas, new ways of thinking, new concepts and so on, to see what you can develop.

In my opinion, We need to reimagine the status of minority communities in the U.S. African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans — all of whom have historical and ancestral roots in the Global South — should not be seen as mere ethnic demographics within America. They are, in effect, diaspora nations that could function as economic and political entities within the BRICS framework, as extensions of the nations from which they originate. We are talking about an unofficial country within a country, one that maintains active economic ties to their ancestral homelands. The political strategic value of pursuing something like this is incalculable.

Think about Indians. It doesn’t matter how long an Indian has lived in America, or even if they were born in America — according to India, they are NRIs, non-resident Indians. They regard them as a part of their nation, a part of their economy. The ties are strong as steel.

Now, like, for African-Americans, many do not know which specific country, which land, their forefathers were taken from in Africa. They don’t know where their forefathers were when their feet stepped off the soil of Africa onto a slave ship. But, again, Burkina Faso is putting forward a solution to that issue by offering citizenship to any Western descendant of African heritage who was taken into bondage. Meaning, potentially, the African American community could choose to identify as Burkinabe, as part of the Burkinabe diaspora. So, let’s say we do away with the thinking of borders and whatnot, and just think about people. And any Global South nation could include in their population, and in their economy, all of the people in America who come from that nation in the Global South — no matter how long ago they came from there. Or, again, if you choose to take up Burkina Faso’s offer. Then, for instance, Burkina Faso becomes a population of not 22 million, but 63 million, living there and in America. Non Resident Burkinabes. And the same applies to every immigrant and so-called minority community in America. I mean, you know they talk about 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, and 3 million in the West Bank; but no, the Palestinian population on earth is around 15 million people, at least. There are over a billion Africans on earth, you understand? So-called citizenship is nothing but compartmentalization for the purposes of making domination and oppression more manageable. Stop thinking within this framework.

you are an extension of the land you came from, a member of the global majority living in America. And build cohesion, be one community, one community spanning both countries. The in-nation population and the diaspora. And then you can work on a framework for BRICS to recognize a country’s diaspora as an affiliate in its own right. As its own economic entity.

Now, obviously: this would not be a simple process. BRICS is a bloc of sovereign nations, so how do we fit diaspora communities into that structure? The answer is to redefine what it means to be part of BRICS — not necessarily as a country, but as a Diaspora Economic Zone (DEZ) or a recognized BRICS extension.

Of course, there are obvious problems or challenges, I mean, The U.S. government would perceive this as a challenge to its sovereignty, so you would have to emphasize that economic self-determination is not political separatism. Historical precedents exist, such as Native American tribal sovereignty, and so on. And, in fact, yes, Native Americans should seriously consider BRICS recognition and membership for themselves as a sovereign people.

And of course, there is fragmentation within so-called minority communities in America. Not every individual within these communities would immediately recognize the value of this movement, so mobilization is critical. And of course, a well-defined legal and economic structure is necessary to make something like this viable, to ensure compliance with both U.S. and international law. But there is no reason why this cannot be hammered out, in my opinion.

To make this vision a reality, minority communities in the U.S. must unify and develop an institutional framework that mirrors a national economic entity. So for instance:

1. Establish a Unified Organizational Structure

We need to form a Diaspora Economic Council (DEC) to serve as a governing body for this initiative. This council would:

• Represent African American, Latino, and Asian communities with ties to BRICS nations.
• Develop leadership roles, regional chapters, and advisory boards with economic, legal, and diplomatic experts.
• Establish a mission statement that aligns with BRICS principles of South-South cooperation, because that is how you have to think of yourselves: as part of the Global South who are incidentally in the North.

2. Build Economic Infrastructure

We must prove our economic viability to BRICS. This means:

• Creating a Diaspora Business and Trade Registry to unite minority-owned businesses.
• Developing Diaspora Investment Funds (DIFs) to pool financial resources.
• Partnering with BRICS-affiliated banks to negotiate investment and trade opportunities.

3. Mobilize Politically and Diplomatically

We must engage directly with BRICS embassies and policymakers. This requires:

• Hosting diaspora summits with BRICS ambassadors and economic leaders.
• Sending official delegations to BRICS forums to advocate for recognition.
• Building alliances with diaspora-friendly politicians within the U.S.

4. Define Legal and Institutional Frameworks

To avoid legal barriers, we must:

• Explore special economic status models similar to tribal sovereignty or Special Economic Zones (SEZs).
• Draft legal agreements outlining how BRICS nations can engage with U.S.-based diaspora groups.
• Assess international legal frameworks that support diaspora economic recognition.

5. Mass Mobilization and Public Awareness

This movement cannot succeed without grassroots support. We must:

• Launch BRICS Diaspora Information Centers to educate and engage minority communities.
• Utilize social media, podcasts, and newsletters to spread awareness.
• Organize town halls and public forums to involve local leaders, business owners, and activists.

6. Engage BRICS Nations Directly

Once we have established our internal structure, we must seek official engagement with BRICS leadership. This involves:

• Drafting a formal petition to BRICS leaders, outlining our proposal and its benefits.
• Securing endorsements from influential figures in BRICS nations.
• Hosting a BRICS-Diaspora Economic Summit to solidify partnerships.

Why This Matters

This is about more than just economic opportunities; this is about rewriting the rules of global engagement. For too long, minority communities in the U.S. have been marginalized within the Western economic order. Aligning with BRICS provides a pathway to bypass economic dependency, reclaim financial sovereignty, and connect with a global network that shares our interests and struggles.

Conclusion

The time has come to think beyond the confines of national borders. We are not merely minorities in America; we are economic and cultural extensions of the Global South, capable of leveraging our collective power for real economic transformation. If BRICS truly aims to challenge Western economic hegemony, it must recognize the strategic importance of engaging with its diaspora. The potential is there, and I think the time is right for pursuing these kinds of things.

Again, just move towards this, and you never know where you will end up. But in the process, you will build bridges, build connections, build networks, open lines of communication, and over the course of pursuing something like this, you will see that you become less and less marginalized, less and less treated as or perceived as minorities, you are part of the global majority,

A lot of people wanted me to respond to the obscene video Trump shared, the AI generated video that is supposed to show his vision of Gaza. Even though I have already said multiple times that you should never take anything he says literally, and I have already said that his whole so-called plan for Gaza was absurd, and nothing but a tactic for signalling to the GCC and Egypt and so on, that it is time to move forward with a workable plan for reconstruction — which was essentially confirmed by Steve Whitkoff a few days later when he said that Trump was just trying to get leaders in the region talking and putting together ideas for moving forward. But, of course, it was a disgusting video. I mean, it was disgusting and pathetic. Disgusting, pathetic, and it is the closest they will ever come to that scenario ever existing in reality. This is what they can do now. Create an AI virtual outcome, because creating a real outcome is no longer within their capability. It is like that crazy Egyptian a little while ago, in Syria, who made an AI vision of an uprising in Egypt. It’s the same. You are so disconnected from having real-world impact and influence, that your imaginary dream scenarios can only be realized through AI, CGI, animation and what have you. So, I was not going to respond, or anyway, I was deciding whether or not to respond to that grotesque video; and then there was that smack-a-thon in the White House with Trump and Zelensky and JD Vance. See what I mean? Shock and awe. Never leave time to process, to deliberate, to analyze. Just pummel the collective consciousness with spectacles and dumpster fires. To keep everyone not just distracted but literally bewildered. Paralysis through an overload of weird, shocking behaviour.

And, you know, within this stampede of outlandish, outrageous behaviour, you also have Musk’s shenanigans in Germany, the UK, and so on; the elections in Germany that took Scholz out of power and replaced him with a former BlackRock executive. People ask me to comment on all these things, but honestly, it is like asking me to comment on every step in a staircase that someone is falling down. Because all of this is just the playing out of what I have been saying all along.

The Anational OCGFC are throwing Europe under the bus, and in fact, they already threw it under the bus, so the headlines now are just about which part is currently getting crushed under the wheels. The US is subjugating Europe, distancing themselves from the conflict zone they want it to become. So, look at the reaction of the EU leadership to the Trump-Zelensky shouting match; pledging their undying support for Ukraine, doubling-down on animosity to Russia, and accepting that they are no longer American partners. OK, that is just Europe continuing to fall down the stairs. The effigy Scholz is removed, and BlackRock takes over direct control of Germany to ensure that the destabilization goes on. Every country is supposed to fend for itself, in terms of security and military preparedness — which will mean purchasing weapons systems from the US, domestic conscription, and so on. You understand, I find it hard to motivate myself to even comment on all this because I have been literally saying this for years already.

I mean, if you want me to comment on the train wreck of a press conference between Trump, Vance, and Zelensky; what is there to say? This is where it is appropriate to bring up the fact that Trump was a reality TV star. People mention that dismissively all the time, as if that is all Trump has ever been; which is dishonest; but in this case, it’s right. That was a reality TV catfight. And it makes me look at how well King Abdullah controlled himself in HIS press conference with Trump, that everyone criticized him for. But he didn’t allow himself to be provoked into the indignity of a shouting match, which you have to know at this point, Trump is always loaded up for. World leaders have to understand that any joint press conference with Trump is a trap, because he is absolutely, shamelessly ready to play for the cameras; and this, again, is just another way of alienating the rest of the world from the US and isolating America from the world stage. If your relationship with the US is sensitive in any way, the worst thing you could do is agree to appear at a joint press conference with Trump. You know, Teddy Roosevelt said “speak softly but carry a big stick”, so when you see an American president speaking loudly, you know he’s got no stick, so all he can do is try to beat you verbally, and if he does it on camera, in public, it can have the same effect as a physical beat-down; so leaders around the world should never give him the chance.

OK, so meanwhile, ACTUAL things are happening. And you should try to pay attention to these things. Like the gutting of the federal government. The Anational OCGFC are scraping out the insides of the government like a Halloween pumpkin.

What we are witnessing is not some unprecedented decline of Western power, but rather the natural conclusion of the imperial project: the anational OCGFC are simply doing to Europe and America what they have done to the Global South for ages. The machinery of empire was never built to serve the people of the imperial core; it was built to serve the private interests that controlled it. And now, with America retracting as an empire, those same private sector elites are cannibalizing the very system that sustained them.

For decades, the Global South has been systematically stripped of sovereignty, its governments reduced to administrators of corporate interests, its resources extracted, its populations controlled through debt, military intervention, and economic coercion. Now, that same process is being applied to the former imperial centers themselves. The U.S. is not just retreating from global hegemony — it is being devoured from within. The institutions that once managed empire abroad are now being dismantled at home, repurposed to facilitate the looting of the American economy and the subjugation of its own population under the same neoliberal order it imposed elsewhere.

Look at what Trump has done to the federal government. Agencies that were once responsible for regulating industry, protecting labor rights, ensuring environmental standards, or providing social services have been gutted, hollowed out, or handed over to private sector actors who have no interest in governance beyond how it can be exploited for profit. The Environmental Protection Agency? Turned into a tool for deregulation. The Department of Education? Pushed toward privatization. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Dismantled to make way for unchecked corporate predation. Even institutions like the State Department and Pentagon, traditionally instrumental in maintaining empire abroad, have been restructured to prioritize the profits of defense contractors and oil companies over any coherent strategic vision.

And then, of course, there is the push to shift military costs onto other nations. The idea that Europe must rearm itself, that NATO members must vastly increase their defense budgets — this is not about strengthening alliances. It is about shifting the cost burden of maintaining global security onto others while the U.S. sells them the weapons. It’s the same game they played with Third World militaries: create instability, manufacture demand for arms, and ensure that war itself remains a profitable industry. Europe is being positioned not as a partner but as a new frontier for security-based economic exploitation.

This is the inevitable trajectory of an empire in decline. America’s global footprint is shrinking, but not because it is making a strategic retreat — it is because the forces that once wielded the empire for their own gain no longer need the facade of national power. They have extracted what they could from the world, and now they are extracting from America itself. The country is being looted, asset-stripped, and sold off in pieces. And just as they did in the Global South, they will leave behind a population drowning in debt, a government incapable of addressing their needs, and a security apparatus that exists solely to suppress dissent.

So what does this mean for us? It means that America is not an exception. The people who controlled and profited from empire have never had national loyalties. The same corporate oligarchs, financial institutions, and military contractors that drained the Global South are now doing the same to the West. The same economic policies that left entire nations impoverished, the same mechanisms of debt enslavement, the same manufactured crises and wars of destabilization — these are now being turned inward.

You all over in America need to understand this, you need to understand that you are absolutely on your own. You know, you have a kind of bear that is only in America, the Black Bear, it is a predatory animal and a scavenger — appropriately so. And when it goes out to find prey or to find food, and can’t find it, well, it comes right back to its den and eats its own cubs. Forget about the chickens coming home to roost, this is a case of a hungry bear coming home to eat its young.

And you need to start thinking about your options. You need to start thinking about what resistance means for you. You have two choices, really; resistance or escape. In this case, it is important for you to understand that you are dealing with the literal programming of the system, the DNA. It is like the bear’s nature. You are not going to change the bear’s nature. It is programmed like that. This isn’t about Trump. This isn’t about Right or Left, about Republican or Democrat. This is about the nature of the system itself, and this is the only way the system can go. Please understand. You are not going to convince that bear to spare you. That’s not going to happen. You think you can reason with a hungry bear? You think you can say it’s unconstitutional for a bear to devour its offspring? That bear is going to do what bears do. What it has always done. What it was designed to do. So, right at the outstart, you have to discard any notion that you can turn that bear around, or persuade it to go hungry for moral or ethical reasons. That’s not going to happen. This is irreversible, so any strategy you have that includes “reversing” this process is just going to get you chewed up.

The dismantling of America, the hollowing out of the federal government, the isolation, the economic collapse, this is all happening, and has to happen, and nothing is going to stop it from happening. You can’t flap your arms to keep a sprialing plane from going down. This is the future you are facing, and you need to make your plans based on that reality. Don’t be like Trump and come up with some fantasy AI video of the future you wish could be, but won’t be. And don’t make your plans based on the way you think things should be, make your plans based on the way things actually are.

I’ll give you another evidence.

Trump’s so-called “Gold Card” visa program. Have you heard about this? Offering residency and a path to citizenship for $5 million. This is not an immigration policy — it is a fire sale. He is not offering opportunity to the deserving; he is auctioning off the country to the highest bidder. This is not about job creation, economic development, or national prosperity. It is about the final commodification of American sovereignty, the absolute monetization of citizenship, the selling off of America itself to the a-national Owners and Controllers of Global Financialized Capital.

This program allows any foreign billionaire — whether a Russian oligarch, a Gulf shaykh, or a Chinese tycoon — to purchase permanent U.S. residency, and eventually citizenship, for just $5 million. No jobs need to be created, no economic contributions have to be made beyond the payment itself. There is no requirement for these individuals to integrate, assimilate, or even live in the country. They are simply paying for a passport.

This is a policy that reveals a stark reality: The American government does not see the United States as a nation anymore — it sees it as real estate, an asset to be leveraged, a commodity to be liquidated. The country is not being governed; it is being sold.

Some might say, “Why would a foreign billionaire pay $5 million for this when they can already invest in the U.S.?” The answer is simple: The Gold Card offers something that mere investment cannot — unrestricted access, asset protection, political leverage, and legal immunity.

Billionaires who secure U.S. residency gain:

Unfettered access to the U.S. financial system — No longer will their transactions be subjected to the scrutiny that applies to foreign nationals. Their money can flow freely, their investments can be made effortlessly, and their financial dealings will enjoy the protections of U.S. regulatory frameworks.

Asset protection — Wealthy individuals from unstable or authoritarian regimes can safeguard their money, their businesses, and their families in the U.S., effectively insulating themselves from the risks of political upheaval in their home countries.

Tax advantages — By restructuring their wealth through U.S. entities, they can exploit legal loopholes, evade foreign tax authorities, and even take advantage of tax incentives meant for domestic entrepreneurs.

Political influence — U.S. residency allows these elites to fund political campaigns, lobby legislators, and shape policies in ways that serve their business interests.

Legal immunity & extradition protections — Holding U.S. residency can complicate attempts by other nations to prosecute or extradite them. For many corrupt billionaires, the Gold Card is not just a visa — it is a get-out-of-jail-free card.

A second passport & escape plan — The ultra-rich operate beyond borders, maintaining multiple nationalities to ensure they always have a safe haven. The U.S. passport is a prized asset, giving them the ability to move freely across the world and evade restrictions imposed on their home countries.

So, in reality, this is not a $5 million investment — it is a $5 million protection racket.

What Trump has done here is place a price tag on citizenship, and in doing so, he has revealed the true priorities of those who run the system.

Think about this: If a refugee fleeing war and persecution seeks asylum in the U.S., they are treated as a criminal. If a hardworking migrant worker crosses the border, they are hunted down like an animal. If a skilled professional wants to immigrate legally, they face years of bureaucratic obstacles. But if a billionaire wants to buy a Green Card? No problem — just write a check.

This policy strips away any illusion that America is a land of opportunity, that it values contribution, that it rewards merit. No. The only thing that matters is money. America is no longer a country — it is an asset class. It is a nation for sale.

This policy does not serve America. It does not serve the American people. It serves the a-national Owners and Controllers of Global Financialized Capital — the stateless plutocrats who already rule over economies and governments worldwide.

They do not see themselves as citizens of any nation. They operate beyond borders, beyond governments, beyond laws. Their allegiance is not to America — it is to capital itself. They extract wealth from every nation, but belong to none.

What does this tell us about the trajectory of global capitalism? It tells us that nations are obsolete. That governance has been replaced by transactions. That citizenship is no longer a birthright, nor an earned privilege — it is a commodity.

Trump’s Gold Card is not a visa program — it is a clearance sale. It is an admission that America has been reduced to a marketplace, its government nothing more than a brokerage firm, and its citizenship just another product on the shelf.

Why not tweak the programme, honestly. Allow Americans to sell their citizenship for $5 million. Now THAT makes sense. Let struggling Americans get paid and move out of that country with their newfound millions. That’s a programme I could get behind. Imagine if, for instance, just 10% of African-Americans could sell their citizenship for $5 million each. That’s roughly 5 million new millionaires, $25 trillion between them. And you can get Dominican citizenship for an investment of just $100,000. So, again just for instance; you could make the Dominican Republic $25 trillion richer over night. I am just saying African-Americans because they have the most obvious reasons for being interested in selling their citizenship, but if you offered a programme like that, why I think you would empty that country out. I mean, ask yourself: what would you rather have? American citizenship or $5 million, and the opportunity to get citizenship elsewhere, and all the safety and security that comes with being rich? I think for most Americans it’s a no-brainer. Retaining your citizenship is never going to secure that kind of wealth for you, it’s never going to give you that kind of freedom and security. Why, I think you ought to ask for this. Trump already opened the door for it. You ought to demand the right to sell your citizenship, since he is already treating it like a product, like an asset that can be bought and sold; so why can’t the people who already possess that asset, who already have that product; why can’t they sell it? Isn’t that capitalism? Isn’t that the free market? Why can’t each individual citizen become a seller? I mean, Trump started it, anyone in the world ought to be able to buy American citizenship on e-bay. In fact, forget about selling it. If American citizenship is worth $5 million, shouldn’t we be entitled to a refund? I don’t know about you, but I sure never got $5 million worth of value from my citizenship. I think the government ought to buy it back. Just like corporations do with share buy backs; you know? You can have it. Give me that $5 million and we’ll be on our way. Who wouldn’t go for that deal? Why you would see that whole country depopulated within days.

But seriously, you are going to have to think in terms of how you are going to ride this avalanche, and don’t fool yourself ever into thinking that you can stop it or reverse it. No. You are surfing on a landslide, and you are going to have to pay attention to the way it is moving, to adjust your position accordingly, to make sure you don’t fall and get swallowed into it. And the unfortunate reality is that the power structure has spent decades making sure that you are not equipped to deal with this. Making sure that you do not have the intellectual faculties, the material faculties, the social skills, the community-building skills, or any understanding of solidarity, to survive. The American people have become literally the fatted calf, ready for the slaughter.

Look around you. The American people have been fattened up — physically, intellectually, psychologically — like livestock being prepared for slaughter. This isn’t just about obesity rates, though those are skyrocketing. This is about a population being systematically weakened, softened, and made utterly dependent, to the point where they can’t even recognize their own captivity.

Let’s start with the most obvious indicator: the body. In 1999, about 30% of U.S. adults were obese. Now, it’s over 40%. And severe obesity, the kind that cripples mobility, that causes disease, that makes you incapable of basic physical autonomy — that’s doubled in the last two decades. Children are following the same trajectory, with childhood obesity rates tripling since the 1970s. What does this mean? It means the system has engineered a society where people are too, too sedentary, too sluggish, too unhealthy to resist, too dependent on medications, on processed food. You’re not being prepared for a future of strength and independence — you’re being prepared for culling.

And this isn’t just physical. Intellectually, the decline is just as dramatic. Global assessments rank the U.S. embarrassingly low in literacy, mathematics, and problem-solving skills. We’re talking about a country that prides itself on being the leader of the free world, yet its people are struggling to comprehend basic information, to apply logic, to critically assess what’s happening around them. Do you understand what that means? It means the majority of people are functionally incapable of defending themselves against manipulation. They don’t have the intellectual tools to resist. They have been deliberately rendered passive.

And it’s not just statistics; the people themselves feel it. Poll after poll shows that Americans believe they are experiencing moral and intellectual decline. And yet, here’s the trap: they also believe it’s always been getting worse, that this is just the way things are. This is psychological engineering at its finest — convincing a society that its decay is natural, inevitable, and beyond reversal.

You are being cultivated for profit. You are being groomed for consumption by the very corporations and elites who claim to serve you. Your food is poisoned, your education is hollowed out, your physical strength is eroded, your attention span is destroyed. You are not being prepared for leadership, for self-sufficiency, for resilience — you are being prepared to be used. And the worst part? You’ve been made to accept it.

So the question is: are you going to keep grazing in the pasture, growing softer, growing weaker, waiting for the inevitable? Or are you going to break free from this cycle, reclaim your strength, and refuse to be led to the slaughter? Because let me tell you something — nobody is coming to save you. It’s on you to wake up and resist. I don’t know if you are ready for the challenge, because, like I said, they have made sure you aren’t ready.

You are going to need to build communities, and I don’t mean just hosting block parties or going to neighbourhood cookouts. I am talking about building parallel, community level power structures; localized, independent economies. Your own supply chains, your own resources — I mean basic needs resources like food and water. Education networks and community policing, and so on. And you can learn some of this, a lot of this actually, from the Global South.

Do you know there are some parts of Pakistan that even the army won’t go because the local leaders have built such strong parallel power structures that they function almost as autonomous zones? Or like I have talked about before, some of those prisons where the guards don’t even go into the cell blocks because the inmates have seized full control. Well, that’s your situation. You’re prisoners. You are inmates, not citizens. Understand this. You are inmates of America. Not residents and not citizens. And if you can’t find your way out, you are going to have to find a way to consolidate some degree of autonomous control where you are. Now, I am just telling you how things are shaping up over there; you can do whatever you want with it. But realistically, this is what you are facing.

That American bear, that corporate bear went looking for prey in the Global South, because that’s where all the prey used to be; but now the Global South has got its own bears, so he is coming right back to you, and you are going to need to be ready.

I mean, I can guess. But for anyone who genuinely condemns and detests indiscriminate violence against innocent people, you are going to have to explain the selectivity of your horror. Because you don’t look like a people who are horrified by violence, frankly. I mean, that woman who was set on fire on the subway, you were just filming it. The man who set her on fire was just sitting on a bench watching her burn to death. People just walking past, security people walking past. The same nonchalance with which you have shrugged off the tens of thousands of innocent children, women, and men murdered on an industrial scale in Gaza.

So, yes, it is a bit confusing, how exactly you choose which acts of depraved violence you decide are bad and alarming.

Of course, we all know that you have said that the man who rammed his car into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, had pledged allegiance to ISIS. We haven’t seen any evidence of that at all, except an ISIS flag that was mounted upside-down, and can be seen in some pictures of his truck and not others. You said that there are videos of him on social media talking about joining ISIS, but no one has seen those. What we know is that he was born and bred in America, just like almost everyone else who commits violent crimes in your country; just like the gunmen in the 500 of mass shootings in America last year, the 40 school shootings.

He was a veteran of your military. You trained him, you created him; your society indoctrinated him, and then your military. It turns out, it’s the same with the Tesla bomber. That was also your guy, another American soldier. An active duty green beret, no less.

I saw some US senator tweeting about how something must be done about violent Muslims, and how Islam is this fundamentally broken and dangerous culture! That senator is from Florida, ok, you had nearly 1,200 murders in Florida in 2024. That’s over 7 per 100,000 people. Let’s compare that to a somewhat comparable Muslim country, say Tunisia. Well, the homicide rate in Tunisia is 2 per 100,000. Florida is nearly 4 times more violent. OK, Tunisia has a smaller population, so, what about Turkey? Turkey has a much larger population than Florida, is easily as, if not more developed, bigger cities, etc. So, what about Turkey? That’s 3 per 100,000. So, Senator Fine’s state is more than twice as violent as Turkey, which is about 4 times larger than Florida in terms of population. Or, let’s say Malaysia. Florida is about 23 million people, Malaysia is about 34 million. Similar climate, similar level of development. OK, again, Florida has a homicide rate of 7.4 per 100,000. Malaysia has a homicide rate of 0.7 per 100,000. Senator Fine’s state is over 7 times more violent than Malaysia. Homicide rates in the UAE and Saudi Arabia are similar. Florida even has a higher homicide rate than Afghanistan and Syria. Imagine! You are safer in Syria than in Florida. In fact, the only Muslim countries that have higher murder rates than Florida, are countries where Muslims are being killed by Americans and their proxies.

And yes, their proxies include groups like ISIS. So, when you say that your American veteran joined ISIS, well, we in the Muslim world just regard that as being the same as when a veteran leaves the army and joins a private military contractor. ISIS is America’s Wagner. That’s why you sent your Ukrainians to work with them in the Sahel. That’s why they are guarding Syria’s oil facilities for you.

I mean, I’m sorry, but after the last 24 years, we have all reached the point of regarding the official, at-face-value explanation for terrorist attacks as simply being a possible, if usually implausible, version of what happened. So, “A US Army veteran somehow became radicalized and was inspired by ISIS to drive his truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Eve, and then open fire on police” OK, maybe. Maybe it happened like that. But, You all created this skepticism in us by the non-stop lying and manipulation, and by never, ever actually demonstrating that you are above sacrificing your own citizens for political and economic agendas. And, because, as I have just been talking about; you have never, ever demonstrated that you care even slightly about the lives and safety of your own citizens. Your cities are more deadly than war zones in the rest of the world; and that’s a fact. It’s abnormal. It’s unnatural. The extent of the psychopathy of your government, your authorities, and your whole society.

And you know, I am not saying that the New Orleans attacker might not have been radicalized, might not have genuinely pledged allegiance to ISIS; that’s not unbelievable. But, I mean, what radicalized the rest of you?

Because look, before Christmas, you had a similar attack in Germany, right? You all thought it was a Muslim, but turns out it was just one of those crazed ex-Muslims, an apostate Atheist, who was a full-on believer in your so-called Western values, your Enlightenment, your secularism, and whatnot — that’s why you gave him asylum, because he was on your side, and he was subscribed to all your outlandish, dishonest propaganda about Islam, and he hated Muslims. OK, well, ex-Muslims and extremist Muslims have a lot in common. Both of them are Westernized. Both of them are ignorant about Islam, both of them reject genuine Islamic teachings; both of them are basically miseducated about Islam by you. They both believe what you tell them about Islam; which makes them more or less products of Western society. The ex-Muslims believe Islam is savage and violent, because you told them it is; and so they hate Islam savagely and violently, just like you. The extremists also believe Islam is savage and violent, because you told them it is, and so they act savagely and violently according to your teachings, and more often than not, they act savagely and violently against other Muslims — just like you.

Everybody in the world knows who the problem is, everyone knows who is the most violent society, the most violent culture, the most vicious terrorists on earth. And it most certainly is not the 2 billion Muslims of the world, who collectively have the lowest rate of violent crime, and who are collectively the most victimized by Western violence; and an American driving a car into a crowd of Americans in America, doesn’t change that reality.

So, you want us to condemn it, of course we condemn it, we condemn all of your violence; whether you call it terrorism or crime; whether you act alarmed about it or whether you treat it as mundane. We find all of it horrific and repugnant. It is all alarming to us, it is alarming to any civilized person, who comes from civilized societies that don’t act like that. And like I said, no one outside of your society, outside of your strange culture, no one understands how or why you apply different definitions and characterizations to your acts of brutality.

Like, remember the guy who blew up his van in Nashville in 2020? Somehow you just swept that under the rug. You said that was not terrorism. He blew up his van outside the AT&T building, shut down the internet, and you said he chose his time and place for maximum impact — but you said it was just a suicide, and not terrorism. OK, why? After that woman was burned to death on the New York Subway, they caught guys trying to get on the train with lit Molotov cocktails…also not terrorism. An elite, highly trained American soldier blew up his truck in Las Vegas in front of a hotel owned by the incoming president…not terrorism. A mob of people with clear political demands set fire to a police station in Portland, Oregon…not terrorism. But you bomb hospitals, schools, ambulances, and even United Nations staff, and not only is that NOT terrorism, but in fact, the victims you bomb are terrorists.

See? This kind of nonsensical, cynical approach to violence is absolutely sadistic to the cognition of your own people. To people outside your society, it is just a blatant lack of seriousness about violence — in other words, to everyone outside the West, we all understand that you never mean it, you never mean it at all, when you pretend to be horrified or outraged by violence, no matter who commits it. I don’t think you cared about any victim of violence in 2024 except for the United Healthcare CEO. You don’t care about the victims in New Orleans, just like you don’t care about the victims in Chicago, New York, Ohio, Mississippi, or Gaza.

Your music is violent, your movies are violent, your tv shows are violent, your games are violent, your children’s stories are violent, your policies are violent and your society is violent. And you don’t take any of that seriously. That means you live in a society, live in a culture that does not value life, that doesn’t value your life; and you have authorities and officials, leaders and politicians, you have a government that does not care about you at all. They don’t care about you any more than they care about people overseas who they bomb and kill every day. Your life is only valuable, I mean, your death is only valuable to them as a vehicle for justifying repression and on the pretext of security or some other political agenda. So, for instance, 500 mass shootings, rampant violent crime, people being burned alive on the subway — none of that, according to your government, constitutes a threat to your safety. None of that extreme violence is alarming, none of it needs any sort of response; but the attack in New Orleans — because allegedly there was an ISIS flag connected to it — THAT is somehow incredibly dangerous.

I mean, aren’t you tired of living in a society that holds you in such contempt? They don’t just insult your intelligence, they literally don’t value your lives; your government, your elites, have turned your society into a death cult, and they are cannibalizing you; even your children aren’t safe. There is no one more dangerous than these people, no one poses a greater threat to you and everyone else. Meanwhile they tell you that Muslims are the danger; Muslims who have a fraction of your society’s level of violence in our societies. Why it looks like what they really think is dangerous is peace itself, it looks like the thing they fear the most is real security, real stability, harmony and safety. The kind of security and stability and harmony and safety that we have in the Muslim world, or anyway, what we have in the Muslim world until you invade and attack and occupy our countries. Maybe that’s what you mean by spreading your values, spreading your way of life; you mean turn our countries into dystopian war zones like your society; and maybe that’s what you mean by Muslim immigration endangering your culture and way of life, because it might actually civilize your society at some point, maybe you’re afraid that if you get enough Muslims in your country, your homicide rate might drop to a fraction of what it is now. And who knows, if people in America, in the West, were actually secure in their lives, and didn’t have to worry about being shot or set on fire every time they walk outside or send their kids to school; maybe they would be able to concentrate on educating themselves about the world and about policy, and on holding their politicians and oligarchs accountable, and actually build a society on justice and economic fairness. Come to think of it, I guess I can see why Islam and Muslims are so scary for your power structure.

You had 200 murders outside your office in the capitol building in Washington DC in 2024. That’s 200 murders in a 70 square mile radius.

Now, again, this is Mangione quoting someone else, but he is quoting it because he agrees with it. There’s a lot to dissect there. A lot of conclusions that drive the opinions are themselves opinions, I mean, the conclusions are themselves opinions; such as the conclusion that peaceful protests have gotten us nowhere, that then leads to the opinion that violence is necessary. The conclusion or assumption that all other forms of peaceful communication have failed — that’s an opinion. Peaceful protest is ignored, and economic protest is not possible — ok, these are opinions, and I would suspect that they are actually afterthoughts being used as justifications for violence, rather than violence being something that has been determined necessary after thorough reflection. Because look, powerlessness is very seldom an actual state that exists, it is a mindset, a defeated mindset, a mentality that perceives the enemy as overpowering and almost omnipotent. This is a mental state, powerlessness, helplessness, is a psychological condition, not a real world condition in most cases.

Because look at Mangione himself. He is a rich kid, valedictorian, from a big influential wealthy family. He is from the elite class. Of course he isn’t powerless or helpless. Kaczynksi was from the same class. Mathematical prodigy, genius, what have you. Ivy League and whatnot. These are not working class, struggling people.

Like, violence is the resort of those who have no other resort, generally. So, I would not actually expect to see a rich kid from a rich family , who has all sorts of resources at his disposal, to resort to gunning someone down in the street as if he was someone with no resources and no options. He, by nature of his wealth, education, family, and so on, had options. The killer and the killed are both men from the same class and economic strata. I think that is interesting.

This is being received as vengeance for the working class, but the only working class player in this drama has been the McDonalds employee who called the cops; because a $10,000 reward promises to solve a lot of problems for anyone living paycheck to paycheck.

So, I think it is fascinating. There are theories going around that Mangione had back problems or that his mother had chronic health issues, and that therefore, this was a personal grievance for him. But again: he is rich. No one in his family is going to die because they can’t afford treatment or care. I mean, who knows, that McDonalds worker who snitched on him might have needed that 10K to pay for their own medical bills! But no one in the Mangione family is going to go without healthcare.

On one hand, this incident has the potential to help redirect public attention towards more appropriate targets of opposition. I have literally been saying for decades now that the proper focus of activism, opposition, and resistance, should be the corporate sector. And indeed, this action that was allegedly committed by Mangione, has been largely received by the working class in America as justified — which should terrify the ruling class.

And this is one of the most interesting aspects of this. Because I do not personally believe that peaceful protests, economic protests, and non-violent means of communication and engagement with power, are useless or ignored. I think that the idea that these efforts are futile is propagated precisely because power does NOT want people to engage in them, because they ARE useful, or can be useful and effective. They want you to feel powerless and helpless and to become radicalized so you commit actions that will put you in prison. In my opinion, the views expressed by Mangione and the Reddit post he quoted, actually reflect complete intellectual subjugation to power; because it is based on a perception that absolutely nothing can be done. A perception that the power structure is completely impervious and invulnerable and cannot be moved in any positive way whatsoever.

Well, ok, you transferred power from the public sector to the private sector. You made the private sector immune from public accountability, from any sort of so-called democratic mechanisms; and it is precisely because your so-called democracy only applies to government and not to the private sector, that you moved all power away from government and gave it all to business — precisely because you did not want to be democratic in the management of your society. So, now you do have tyrannical power in your country. You have dictatorship in your country. You are ruled by autocratic oligarchs and corporations. And yes, you do need to do something about that. You do need to resist and oppose that.

Because look, United Health Care, HMOs, insurance companies and so on — these are among the most powerful industry lobbies and campaign contributors in America — but these companies only even exist, and only have the power to oppress and harm you because you don’t have socialized healthcare. And you don’t have socialized healthcare because those companies that have commodified public health and who profit from your sickness and death, have captured your government — along with the rest of the private sector. Your government is completely owned. I do not personally see that whacking a CEO of a health insurance company is going to lead to socialized medicine in the United States.

I think there are any number of more effective and more productive efforts could be made in this regard; but that is exactly what I am talking about — you have been indoctrinated, apparently even at the highest levels of academia — to believe that nothing can be done. That’s why Mangione’s class status is significant. Because, as I said, in theory, his privileged position in the society puts him within the power structure, but he took the action of someone who is outside the power structure, beneath the power structure. Which means that even he has been made to believe that the power structure is invincible.

And he is not the only one. Wasn’t it just a few months ago that we saw the sons and daughters of the elite protesting on Ivy League campuses over Gaza? The upcoming generation of the ruling class are rebelling against the power they are on track to inherit. But they have not figured out any ways to reform the system. This is a very serious problem for America.

The fact is, people turn to violence when non-violent methods require too much effort, patience, time, and energy. That is the case most of the time. In a country like the US, and in many others, it comes down to their money and our masses. In other words, the only equalizer in terms of power between us and the elites is collective action, organizing, solidarity, and patient, disciplined, focused, persistence. And that takes a great deal of effort. And most people don’t have that kind of time or energy. So, someone like Mangione, theoretically, had resources, had time, had energy, and could have pursued organizing, could have funded organising, he would have had the tools available to him to do that. But instead, he did what he did. Allegedly.

He killed a ceo who will be immediately replaced. Now, maybe, his hope — again, if he is in fact the culprit — he might have hoped that his action would ignite a countrywide movement, a revolution against corporate domination. Maybe. But we can probably put his action in the same category as what Ted Kaczynski did, and even what Timothy McVeigh did. McVeigh believed that blowing up the federal building in Oklahoma would start a revolution. To one extent or another, Kaczynski also thought that his bombing campaign would start a movement that would cause the collapse of the power structure. None of these actions led to copycats. Compare that with the mother of all school shootings at columbine high school in Colorado, there have been literally thousands of copycat crimes since then. Over 600 school shootings so far this year. So, are we actually going to see an avalanche of CEOs getting whacked? Not very likely.

Because you don’t actually get to outsource the heavy lifting when it comes to grassroots popular movements you know? You don’t get to just be the guy who does some dramatic action that then inspires a mass movement to emerge fully formed because of your heroism, martyrdom, or what have you. That’s why probably you have school shooter copycats but not copycats of so-called revolutionary violence, generally. Because ultimately, both are just acts of extreme rage, despair, hopelessness, frustration, and an inability to address grievances with any sort of wisdom or maturity. Well, none of this can inspire a movement.

This is a very American, a very Western approach to problem-solving: violence. You know? Eat the rich. When that CEO got killed, the next scene in the movie is supposed to be all the peasants marching out with their torches and pitchforks to storm the penthouses and gated communities. Set up the guillotines and start eliminating all the corrupt, greedy, super-rich by the dozens. That’s the movie script, but it’s not the real world. And you have completely disabled your own people’s ability to know how to address problems in the real world — even the children of your elites.

Because Mangione is basically the tiktok generation, the social media generation. He is from the generation of young people who barely consume mainstream media. Which means, he has grown up on a less controlled narrative, and been exposed to perspectives of people outside his class strata, and perspectives about his class strata. Meaning, people subject to the power structure he is a part of. So, he is exposed to the experiences and views and attitudes and opinions of people he is not supposed to be exposed to; while also growing up within the power structure. OK, that is an infiltration. That amounts to an infiltration. Because you can no longer control the narratives that the children of the elite consume, you can no longer ensure that they will have been successfully educated and indoctrinated to carry on with the preservation of your system. That is a very serious problem.

And then, you see from the quote Mangione used in his review of the Kaczynski book, how much more serious your problem is. Your obscene Darwinian narrative about humanity. That we are all just animals, fundamentally and naturally guided by the law of the jungle. You have predation and victimization and violence embedded in your whole so-called civilization. It is carved into your cultural DNA the same way Mangione carved into his shell casings the words Defend Deny and Depose. And you have created a power structure, a system of control, that is undemocratic, that is authoritarian, and that is supposed to be self-reinforcing; but the campus Gaza protests and the CEO killing makes it look like you can’t count on it being self-reinforcing anymore. Because the next generation is estranged.

So, you have an oppressive system that has made everyone believe it cannot be held accountable, cannot be changed, cannot be modified, is completely contemptuous of the population, and completely rejects any externally demanded discipline or ethical reform; a system that has very deliberately made people feel powerless to change — even the people within the system, within the power structure, even they have been made to feel that the power structure is unchangeable and it is impossible to hold it to account. And you have all of that in a society where you believe that human beings are adversarial beasts in a zero-sum contest for survival and dominance, well, how do you think that is going to play out?

See, you did what you did because you have this mentality, this predator-prey mentality. You don’t have democratic instincts. You don’t believe for a second that the people are supposed to hold power accountable. You only ever said that because you know you come from a so-called civilization that abuses power as a function OF power, so you have deep paranoia and suspicions about those in power, because you know how you are. You know that you can never resist abusing power, because fundamentally, you believe in the law of the jungle. So, you came up with this democratic theory, this artificial model of public accountability for the government — and then almost immediately shifted real power away FROM government and transferred it to the undemocratic private sector, because again, you can’t help yourselves. Once any of you have power, you reject accountability. So yes, you moved power into the private sector and declared that business must be untouchable, business should be free to operate however it likes, and the so-called invisible hand of the market can wrap its grip around the throat of the government.

Well, you created this dynamic, this law of the jungle, dog eat dog, winner takes all dynamic in your society. The one at the top of the hill won’t let anybody else up, so you have it designed so that the only way for anyone else to be on the top of the hill is to knock the other guy down.

Do you understand me? Because you have insisted on the unaccountability of power in your so-called democratic society, you have literally barred any civilized approach to redress of grievances, you have told your society that power will never bend, so the only thing that can be done is to break it.

Like I said, I do not believe that peaceful protest or economic protest or non-violent methods are ineffective or useless; but you have actually deliberately convinced people of that, as part and parcel of trying to make sure the power structure can be unaccountable; because you know that you have to deny the effectiveness of what is effective, you never want people to think they have viable options of resistance and change — because the fact is, almost every successful social movement in America that has improved people’s lives has BEEN achieved by non-violent methods, by diligent long term strategies and so on. So, no, you don’t want people to believe that what works, works. Because you have an uncivilized predatory mentality, because your power structure is tyrannical, you need everyone to feel overpowered and helpless. But when you have such an adversarial relationship with your own people, and at the same time, have implanted the Darwinian concept of human animals into their heads, eventually, with no other options being regarded as plausible, you make violence inevitable. It is not inevitable because it has to be, it’s not inevitable because there are not other options in reality; but because you have insisted to make people believe there are no other options; and you have done that because you would rather turn your society into a bloody conflict zone than accept changing or accept power being held accountable. You would rather there be a violent confrontation between power and the people, because you feel certain you will win that confrontation, or else that the people will back down when faced with all the violent power at your disposal. Because, again, you are just like that: adversarial, predatory, animalistic; and you think any time power is challenged or even asked to behave with a modicum of human decency; it is a threat that has to be crushed.

Oh it’s a bloodthirsty system, that so-called health care system you have is the most bloodthirsty of them all. Literally the most inhumane, anti-human, psychopathic, systematic death machine imaginable. A system that is supposed to be about saving lives, that deliberately, knowingly, and cold-heartedly just lets people die. That’s the American healthcare system.

And as long as the lower classes are the only ones who are outraged by this reality, well, that’s fine. But now you have your own elite class outraged about it to the point of violence. This is a total system meltdown in America.

I told you that there were going to be all sorts of terrorist attacks in the West, in America, in Europe; all sorts of violence, because your societies are breaking down. There is going to be political violence, there’s going to be racial violence, there’s going to be class violence, and there’s going to be random criminal violence; because you can’t create conditions of desperation in your society, and not expect people to do desperate things.

Luigi Mangione is from that demographic that is supposed to be invested in the system, he is from that class that is supposed to protect the system, because they benefit from it; but you are losing control of even the stakeholders in your own power structure! Why, I don’t think you can even comprehend how dangerous that is! Because Luigi Mangione is also from that demographic and from that class in your society that was raised to feel entitled to take matters into their own hands. Furthermore, he is from that class and demographic in your society that, as I said, is part of the power structure, which means he comes from the most ruthless, most calculating, and the most capable demographic in America for efficient and targeted violence. That is the class he comes from, he has the qualities of that class, the predatory class; the dominating class; and he is just one of many from that class, who are turning on their own.

I think it is very important sometimes to wait before you open your mouth about something, or at least to not react to every headline or incident or event that takes place and extrapolate from that singular incident or event all sorts of hypotheses about what is happening or what is going to happen. This is just a general rule, and I try to adhere to it. If you don’t do that, it would be like a weather forecaster telling you that we are in the beginning of a new ice age because it happens to be snowing at that moment. You know? If the snow continues at this pace, the whole world will be buried within 6 months. That is obviously not analysis, but that kind of thing can spread very quickly and then it just becomes harder and harder to locate in the noise what is true and what matters. It is like trying to listen to a single instrument in a symphony orchestra when everyone is playing at the same time. I am trying to hear the fife but I’ve got three tubas and a kettle drum in my ear.

And then the other thing, similarly, is that you should not talk about a topic just because people want you to talk about it, if you aren’t actually qualified to talk about it.

I have always tried in my life, and on this channel, to only discuss things I can discuss confidently and with reasonable certainty. I can only discuss anything with confidence and reasonable certainty if I have valid information and knowledge about it. If I don’t have that, I generally will not discuss it.

Many people have requested that I talk about a number of things I am not comfortable talking about, simply because I don’t know enough about them. I think people get used to everyone having an opinion on everything, especially online, and a lot of channels just want to produce content, so they will talk about anything that is currently in the headlines, because they know it will get views, because it is trending. I think that is irresponsible, and just adds to the confusion.

Now, as for the situation in Syria, I have generally avoided talking about it, from 2011 until now; because I think the whole situation is incredibly unclear. Back in the mid 2010s, I was involved in proposing strategies of resistance in Egypt after the takeover of the government by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; and exploring tactics of system disruption targeting the interests of neoliberal Western predatory investors. At that time, many people wanted my input on the Syrian war, but I honestly did not see anything useful that could be done, certainly nothing useful that I could contribute to the situation. I have not trusted anything happening in Syria since the economic reform protests rather abruptly turned into armed militias demanding the overthrow of the government, particularly since I knew that the US had been trying to stir an uprising in Syria for years. In my opinion, everyone is lying in Syria and about Syria, and they have been for 14 years. Everything about the situation is a lie except for the destruction; that’s the only thing that is not ambiguous.

So, when I do look at the situation in Syria, the situation right now, with the HTS advances in Aleppo and Hama, and the apparent collapse of any discipline or commitment by the Syrian army; I am not following, or closely monitoring the hourly updates coming in. To me that is mostly noise. In my opinion, all of the domestic players are like boats with no motors, no rudders, no oars and no sails; having a race; when all of them are just being moved by the currents of the sea they’re in. None of them are moving themselves. Not the government and not the rebels. So, watch the water not the boats.

In other words, for a situation like Syria, I have to look at the macro dynamics to make sense of the micro dynamics, not the other way around. And the macro dynamics, to make it simple, are that the GCC, BRICS, and the anational OCGFC are interested in the region stabilizing, prospering, and the Gulf states have a vision to extend their sphere of influence across the coast of Mediterranean from Egypt to Turkey. The primary necessities for achieving this are the end of the Palestinian conflict and the elimination of militant groups; but it also requires ending the conflict in Syria — by one way or another. Pursuing the achievement of these necessities can include a variety of strategies that will have to be adaptable and flexible, depending on circumstances and conditions.

I think that the Gulf has long felt that regional stability overall requires the isolation of Iran and a thorough reduction of Iran’s influence. They want Iranian interference in Lebanon and Syria to end. Part of that is because Iranian interference in those countries is inherently destabilizing, and part of it is because they do not want to compete with Iran for influence in the region. By Iran joining BRICS, restoring ties with Saudi Arabia, and so on; they can get Iran to cooperate in voluntarily abandoning, withdrawing from, or otherwise neutralizing their own proxy militias, to prove that they are team players. But, I do not believe that the Gulf countries will be satisfied with having Iran, under the current regime, continue operating outside its borders in any significant way. They don’t just want their militias gone, they want Iran to recede entirely. Iran has only really invested in militias as their main strategy for gaining influence, so if they go along with abandoning armed proxies, they will have to play catch up in terms of gaining influence through soft power and money, and it is unlikely that they could compete with the cash and influence of the Gulf. Now, giving up the militias is something they really are going to have to do, and I think they are doing; simply because if they don’t, they risk being targeted seriously for regime change. Truth be told, I think everyone who matters is ultimately going to work for regime change in Iran anyway, because the regime just has too much baggage and its orientation generally does not lend itself to cooperation and integration.

So, ok, this is sort of the context, and all of this being the case, Syria is up for grabs. Iranian influence in Syria has to recede, and the Gulf wants to acquire Syria into their sphere of influence, but that trespasses Turkey’s sphere of influence, so there is tension over that, and I think Turkey wants to assert their dominion. I believe that the Gulf and Turkey have some degree of understanding about the regional vision, and they are willing to cooperate with each other, but there is a long-standing history of rivalry over leadership between the Gulf and Turkey, and Turkey doesn’t want to be taken advantage of or under-estimated; they want to preserve the territorial integrity of their historical regional power. And Syria is within that virtual territory, particularly if Iran is sidelined. It makes more sense to the Turks that Syria would be their vassal state, not Saudi Arabia’s or what have you. So, I think Turkey is willing to cooperate, but they are not willing to cede space that they believe for a variety of reasons belongs within their dominion of influence.

So, what about the rebel groups, the resistance, or whatever you want to call the various externally backed armed factions in Syria? Where does that leave Bashar al-Assad? Well, you have to understand, any non-state armed group is only ever — their function is only ever to improve the negotiating position of whoever is backing them. They don’t take over. They are just an element, just a kind of leverage, that will bolster their bosses when the conflict they are perpetuating inevitably gets resolved through negotiations. That is the only political function of non-state armed groups. Anyone who thinks this or that armed group is going to take over this or that country, you are fooling yourself. Even if some figure from such a group gets installed as a ruler, he won’t be the ruler, the ones who backed the group all along will be the ruler. The pieces on a chessboard do not decide the gambit, and that is all these groups are: pieces on the board.

So what about Assad? Well, the whole Syrian civil war illustrated that the GCC wanted to remove him from power, and I don’t think there is any reason to believe they feel any differently now. If someone has already shown their hand by being aggressively hostile, you should know that if they take a different approach to you later on, they are still seeking the same thing they were seeking when they were being aggressive. They just learned new methods.

Assad’s position is not really any different than any other player in Syria, in other words, what will happen to him depends on decisions and or agreements made between external players. And, of course, the relationship between the external players, the external decision-makers, has changed considerably since the war began. So, a consensus might be, or might have already been, determined, that Assad is no longer viable. That Assad remaining interferes with the overall regional plan. This is what I mean about the flexibility and adaptability of strategies. None of the elements are stable; in other words, none of the pawns are secure, any of them can be sacrificed, and whether they are sacrificed or not will only have to do with the circumstances. As circumstances change, the fate of the pawn changes.

So yes, potentially Bashar will be let go, and HTS or whoever else will take Damascus; but the battle in Syria is only between the external players jockeying for control and influence over Syria; regardless of what is happening at the moment, it still remains to be seen how it will all play out; but what appears to me to be the objective is, as I said, an end of conflict and militancy, containment of Iranian influence, and then just determining the balance of power and influence between the Gulf and Turkey. It is actually still possible that Bashar can save himself, if he genuflects to Erdogan; but I don’t think the Khaleej want him there at all.

See, there are so many ways that it can play out, there is just no point predicting, except to just understand the ultimate objective regionally. If you know that, then you can better understand the motives, and the options available to all the players. There are ways it can play out that would be very smooth and organized, but there are actions that some of the players could take that would make it very messy; but I think even the messy options would only be temporary obstacles. The anational OCGFC and the Gulf, appear to be proceeding full pace with regional stabilization.

Now, in my personal opinion, Assad should go, and I completely agree with the containment and isolation of Iran as a practical necessity — and I think Iran actually understands this too. Turkey has considerable leverage, and has every right to secure their interests. The only real danger is for the historical tension and rivalry for leadership between the Gulf and Turkey to spoil things. In my view, the Gulf should bankroll and Turkey should lead, and they should operate as equal partners in the establishment and development of this soft empire being put together in the region.

I know a lot of people get mad about the idea of their countries being dominated by other countries; like by the Gulf or by Turkey; because they want national sovereignty, and independence and so forth. But the real world does not function like that. And, historically, this has been the model of Islamic territorial empire: limited autonomy within a province, with loosely centralized control from the capital; so it is very much the same. Palestine/ Israel will be subordinate, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, will be subordinate; Egypt, Sudan, and so on; all will be subordinate, but that subordination will not be tyrannical and exploitative, in my opinion. Each will have a role, each will prosper and develop in the long term; and there will be collective sovereignty.

I think everyone would like to see a different regime in Iran, and that is probably inevitable, but I also don’t think anyone wants that to be accomplished through war and violence. The regime in Iran has been a beneficiary of strife and conflict in the region, and they have a symbiotic relationship with Israel, and have not had a vested interest in stability. They have tried and are trying to demonstrate that they can change, that they can be a team player, but I don’t think it is going to work. The regime’s instincts are unlikely to change. Frankly, and I know the official narrative makes this sound bizarre, but it is true: If the Palestinian conflict is resolved, the regime in Iran is on borrowed time. They actually need Israel in order to survive, at least in their current form; so either the regime in Iran will fall, or change to such an extent that they will have fallen by other means. In other words, they have to become drastically different than they have been; and I am doubtful that they can do it.

But, at the end of the day, everything we are seeing all point to the achievement of the regional vision I have been talking about. And it is quite remarkable. The level of commitment to transforming the region, the pragmatism, the real politik, the assertion of collective sovereignty and leadership to take charge over the affairs of the region, is truly impressive and, even though we are going through tremendous upheaval and turmoil, I think there is every reason for optimism. All of the radical, fanatic, extremist elements in the region — which have always been sponsored by, backed by, and largely created and implanted in the region by the West, are being dismantled; and it is gradually returning to its natural state.

As I have said many times, we need to look at current events as if in retrospect from the position of the inevitable point of victory. From that perspective, I think that what is happening now in Syria can be seen as a significant step to the gradual establishment of regional cohesion and cooperation. Even if Bashar remains, or even if he is removed; Syria appears to be increasingly under the influence of players that can secure its stability, as opposed to Western influence, Iranian influence, and extremist elements. Personally, I see things coming together, even if the exact path things are taking cannot be fully discerned in terms of whatever obstacles, twists and turns, there may be; I think the direction is clear. And al-Hamdulillah, I think it is a positive direction.

The more Western and American influence withdraws — and I include Iranian influence as Western influence, insofar as it typically serves the same goals as Western influence, ie, instability and division — as these negative influences withdraw, insha’Allah we will see the region go from strength to strength. This is also one of the reasons I have not rushed to talk about Syria, because, as I see it, things are simply following the overall trajectory of the regional plan. It was not implausible at the beginning of the rebel offensive that it was going to just be a gambit to then decimate the rebels in a counter-offensive, which would have been an alternative approach to stabilizing the situation; but as things stand now, it does appear that either Assad will be removed, or else, he will be subjugated and subordinated more securely by weakening his regime and reducing his ability to act independently. My only real concern and my hope, is that we will not see Syria partitioned in any way, I don’t think that would be a positive measure. And I think they will try to avoid that. Either way, I think it is important, again, to remember that the rebel groups, no matter who they are, are not the ones who are going to determine the ultimate outcome, the ultimate outcome is being determined by the external players partially by means of the rebels. Turkey, the GCC, Iran, and the anational OCGFC are the waters that are moving the boats in Syria, and they are the main ones, not America or Israel, in my opinion; they are involved to one degree or another, but with very diminished power. Control is being taken back over the region by the region itself, and I think five or ten years from now, insha’Allah bi idhnillah, we will see a more stable and thriving Middle East than any of us have seen in our lifetimes.

You scammed the whole world. It’s like identity theft. Like a con man who takes the name and social security number of a dead person, and goes around pretending to be them. Well, the idea of America is dead, and the ones who killed it are walking around here calling themselves America. It’s identity theft; the only difference is that the idea was killed in the womb, and never took one breath of oxygen. America the idea never lived; and all you actually ever gave birth to — ideologically, intellectually, morally, philosophically, politically, economically, and culturally — was just more of the same corrupt and wicked bloodline of Western pirates and marauders; classists, racists, bigots, and psychopaths; who give nothing to the world, to humanity, but only take and devour and destroy. Even everything that you make, your technology and what have you; because I know you will point to that as your great contribution to the world — technology…even that, was and is only achieved through bloodshed. You can’t even figure out how to make something useful without having to enslave or massacre people in order to do it. Your whole tech sector was created for the purposes of war and carnage, your technology came from your military industrial complex; all your innovations were in the killing sector before they were ever in the commercial sector. Why, you can’t even make one smartphone without tearing through six continents, enslaving workers in Africa, choking Asia’s air, draining South America’s water, and burying the Global South in toxic waste. If immorality was radiation, we’d all drop dead the moment we use any of your technology. Sure, you made it, but you never bothered to figure out how to make it without killing, colonization, slavery, brutality and environmental catastrophe. You have never solved a single problem without your solution creating worse problems.

Because this is just the genetics, and I am talking about the civilizational genetics, the cultural genetics, the intellectual and ideological genetics of the West. I am not talking about so-called race or ethnicity. Being fixated on those incidental characteristics is exactly part of the inferior cultural and moral and intellectual genetics of Western so-called civilization. Because they are addicted to mislabeling the source of our problems, they are adamant about it; they are relentless about misidentifying the source of our problems; because they never want those problems to be solved — because just like I said about aborting the beautiful idea of America; they know that their whole so-called civilization IS the source of the problems, and you can’t get rid of the problems without getting rid of the source; you can’t solve the problems without getting rid of the problem-maker. So, they want you to always think that the problems are different than they are, that the source is different than it is; and that way, they can protect themselves, their culture, their heritage, and their so-called civilization. And, again, this runs through every aspect of their society. It runs through their economy, their advertising and marketing, and all the fake solutions their businesses claim to provide. In fact, the main thing they are good at manufacturing aside from problems, is distraction, deflection, misdirection, and phoney solutions for the problems they have created. Not only will they tell you fake solutions to real problems, they will even distract you from the real problems by making you panic about fake problems. Everything and anything just to keep you away from the truth, anything and everything to keep you away from reality, from understanding reality, meanwhile, they are making reality more and more miserable for you. When your stomach hurts because you’re hungry, they’ll tell you it’s for some reason, any reason, but that you don’t have food to eat. It’s because the oil price is high, or there was a drought somewhere, or what have you; meanwhile he’s eating while he’s telling you. Food stains on his shirt while he’s telling you all the reasons you’re hungry. They think you’re a fool. But you go along with it, so it’s hard to say they’re wrong.

And that’s why I am telling you. There is no such thing as America, not the one they put in your mind. You need to get that illusion out of your head, and start seeing reality for what it is. You think of yourself as an American, and that whole identity is a false construction built to delude and control you, and to keep you at bay. It is designed to keep you divided from everyone else in the world who are the victims of that monster that is carrying on the ideological bloodline of feudalism, tyranny, and oppression. Because they don’t want you to see yourselves as belonging to that same category of humanity as the victims of Western so-called civilization. Because you ARE part of that same category of humanity. You’re victims of the West, just like the rest of us.

Your oligarchs don’t believe you’re American, your politicians don’t believe you’re American; your elite don’t believe you’re American, your ruling class, your super rich, nobody thinks of you like that. They see you exactly the same way that they see their victims around the world. Just because they use different methods doesn’t mean they think of you differently. They just modify their tactics, but the objective is the same: Subjugation, exploitation, using you and abusing you, and discarding you. And I mean that literally. Over 20% of homeless people, internally displaced people in America, people with no shelter, no refuge in what is supposedly their own country; over 20% are elderly. People who lived their whole lives serving that ruthless system, just get spat out into the gutter. And that’s not something new, back in Europe they used to throw them off a cliff. This is cultural, moral, civilizational bloodline. It’s vicious. The average age of a homeless person is 50 in the United States; but they’ll tell you you are supposed to have security financially by that age. Isn’t that what they say? In the first part of your life you learn, in the second you earn, and in the third you return; isn’t that the Instagram wisdom they tell you? No, in the first part of your life in America, you yearn, in the second part of your life you churn, and in the third part of your life in America, you burn. And I am telling that what you need to do is unlearn, discern, and overturn.

Because don’t think that you in America don’t need to decolonize your psyche the same as people in the Muslim world and the Global South, because you do. Whether you are a Muslim in the Western Diaspora, or someone from the global majority categorized in the West as a minority; or whether you are someone from Western heritage. You need to decolonize your psyche the same as anyone else in the Global South, in the former colonized countries, the neo-colonized countries. Because you’re just as psychologically colonized as the rest of us. In fact, you have to do even more, because not only do you have to psychologically de-colonize, you have to psychologically de-colonizerize. Again, whether your heritage is from the Global South or from the West, this applies. Because, like I said before, you are slaves in Pharoah’s palace, but you think you are part of the royal family, and you’re not. I see this with diaspora Muslims in the West a lot. They will have that colonized immigrant mentality, the inferiority complex in relation to Westerners, but simultaneously a Western superiority complex in relation to the Muslim world and the Global South. And both sides of this split personality, this fractured psyche, both sides do not recognize the West for what it is, America for what it is. It is precisely because they believe in the illusion that they have an inferiority complex in relation to Westerners — because they have internalized Western supremacy as legitimate; and for the same reason, they look down on their brothers and sisters outside the West. You have let yourselves be tricked into thinking that proximity means being on the same side, that just because you photobomb the great American selfie, you are part of the friend group. That’s like a soccer ball thinking it’s a member of the team, and not just something that both teams just kick around to win the game. Because that’s what you are to them, and that’s how they see you, and that’s how they treat you.

Only about 5 to 10 percent of the people in the United States of America are enjoying the supposedly unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and it’s at the expense of the other 90 to 95 percent; and that same ratio is played out on the world stage. Only about 10% of the global population come from the colonizing nations of the world, and the rest of the 90% are under their boots; so in fact, the overwhelming majority of you in America, and across the West; the overwhelming majority of you are in the same position in your own countries as the colonized countries are in on earth. You’re under the same boots we’re under. 5 to 10 percent of the people in just 10% of the countries in the world are dominating 90 to 95 percent of the rest of the population on this earth, in the Global South and in the Global North; in the East and in the West.

And before you misunderstand me; I am not saying that the few ruling the many is a bad thing, in and of itself. That sort of ratio has always been the case and always will be. That’s the nature of authority and power. There’s always going to be fewer people who rule than there are people who are ruled. But how are they ruling? That’s the issue. What’s their qualification? The qualification is supposed to be wisdom, decency, loyalty to the people, concern for the people, insight and understanding, honesty, conviction, moral uprightness, consistency in their principles, virtue and dedication to serve the greater good. Can you name even one leader in the Western world who has these qualifications? Forget about having all of them, is there any leader in America or the West who has even ONE of these qualities? You and I know they embody the opposite of each and every one of these qualifications for leadership. Their unwise, indecent, disloyal, with contempt for the people — not concern. They’re dishonest, uncommitted, amoral, and blatantly hypocritical; they are unvirtuous and couldn’t care less about the greater good of their societies. They’re selfish, not selfless. They are public servants who have made the public servants.

And as long as you play along with them playing you for a fool, then you are a fool. You’re a fool if you identify with being an American, unless you are part of that 5 to 10 of the population who have over a seven figure income. You need to stop identifying yourself according to your fake nation, and start identifying yourself according to your real situation. Because look, there’s all sorts of ways to group identify people, to organise people, and one of the most meaningless ways to do it is by location. And that is what citizenship or nationality comes down to; all the people in this room are the same, even when that room is a jail cell and some of the people are prisoners and some are prison guards. The people in that room are not the same, they are not in the same situation; and they would have to be out of their minds to think they are. Well, that’s you. You’re prisoners in a cell, and the guards are in the cell with you, beating you with their clubs; and you’re in there thinking you’re all the same because you are all in the same room.

So, if you have any sense, if you are intelligent; you will identify yourself according to your situation, according to your condition, not according to your location. A country is nothing but a usually very diverse population who have all agreed to a territorial national identity. Meaning, this is just an agreement, to one degree or another; it is an agreement by all those people to define themselves according to this completely insubstantial criterion. And that criterion then divides them from people who are in the exact same situation as them, but who are in that same situation in a different territory. Please understand. So, you can choose to define yourself according to other, more intelligent criteria. So, if you are hungry in one room, and I am hungry in another room, and the same person is taking food from both of us, but that person happens to also stay in your room — are you going to be on his side or mine? Is the fact that he stays in your room going to make you think that you and him have more in common than you and me? That’s not intelligent. But that’s the way they have got you thinking.

So, think about BRICS. BRICS is organised according to countries, but also according to other shared criteria, economic criteria, development criteria, and so on. And it is based on some degree of shared experience, whether they say it explicitly or not, there is a shared experience of all BRICS members being historical targets of Western aggression. And I am saying, why can’t you organise in the same way, according to the same types of criteria, except just minus the country part. Organise as populations, not as countries. As populations who share the same situations, the same circumstances, the same conditions; even if not the same locations. But first, you have to start identifying yourself like this, identifying yourself according to a set of criteria that actually means something, and then feeling and pursuing solidarity with others who fit that same set of criteria. You share economic circumstances similar to people in the Global South. You share similar struggles with development issues as people in the Global South — just look at the state of your cities, your inner cities, your infrastructure, your water supply, your sanitation, even your power grids and your internet, your public health services and so on. Why, there so many places in the Global South that have it better off than you. And you share being a targ et of Western aggression and subjugation. For millions of Americans, the only thing you DON’T have in common with the people of the Global South is your location.

Think about it. This is what the colonizers did in our lands. They carved up territory, sliced communities up between newly drawn borders, divided people with common characteristics — tribes, heritage, language, culture and so on — and left some of them on this side of the national boundary and some on that side, and then told them they were now this or that nationality, had this or that citizenship. So, for example, you are Kenyan or Tanzanian, even though you are Masai, or you are Pakistani or Afghani, even though you are Pathan or Pashun. You are Lebanese or Syrian or Palestinian, even though you are the people of Bilad ash-Sham. Or you are Kurdish, but now you are either Iraqi or Turkish or Iranian or Syrian. On and on. The Tuareg are now Libyan, or Malian, or Nigerien or Algerian, or Burkinabe. So, this is what they do. And this applies to you in the West, in America. You are divided from the people with whom you actually have the most in common; because instead of defining yourselves, as a group, defining and identifying yourselves according to your situation and conditions, you define yourselves and identify by your so-called nationality. Which does nothing but isolate and weaken you.

Because believe me, the rich don’t do that. And the rich are the only ones in America who get to enjoy the so-called rights and privileges of American citizenship — but THEY don’t identify that way or define themselves that way, and they and their group transcend the borders they keep you locked in. Just like how a prison guard is not locked in the prison with the inmates. They go where they want, the float above borders. And they constitute a nation unto themselves. Their loyalty is to their class, not to their country, they know perfectly well how artificial and arbitrary and fake that is. Nationalities and national boundaries and borders are only for the poor. You have heard of Doctors without Borders, or Reporters without Borders? Well the rich are rulers without borders, and one of the ways they rule you is by keeping YOU within the borders they themselves transcend. I am talking about mentally, psychologically, and in terms of your identity. They keep you within those borders. While they operate without borders. They know they have more in common with a billionaire in South Africa than they have in common with you, even though you may live only a few streets away from them.

So, you need a vision — a vision that transcends borders, a vision that unites us not by the lines drawn on a map, but by the shared struggles we face as people. We have seen the power of organizations like BRICS, which gather nations under the banner of common interests. But I am saying, why should we limit ourselves to the confines of countries? Why can’t we organize as populations — populations that share the same conditions, the same circumstances, the same fight for dignity and justice?

Look around you! We are living in a time where economic disparity is rampant. Many of us are grappling with poverty, unemployment, and a lack of opportunity. We find ourselves in communities where the infrastructure crumbles, where our schools are underfunded, and where healthcare is a luxury rather than a right. These are not just issues of one nation; they are the struggles of most people on earth. We must recognize that millions of us, regardless of where we live, share these same economic conditions.

We have all been targets of Western aggression, and we have felt the misery of subjugation. Whether you are in the inner cities of America or the rural villages of the Global South, the chains of exploitation bind us together. We should acknowledge this shared experience and use it as a foundation for our unity.

It is time to build networks that connect us. We should create coalitions that bring together individuals and groups who share our struggles, regardless of where they are located. We have the technology, the means, and the spirit to reach out to one another, to communicate, to collaborate, and to stand in solidarity.

We can build a platform that amplifies our voices and advocates for our rights. Develop a unified voice that speaks for the marginalized, the disenfranchised, and the oppressed. Strategize for policies that address our shared challenges and demand the respect and dignity we deserve.

Our struggles are interconnected, and our liberation is bound together; and that is exactly why they want you to think of yourselves according to these divisive and restrictive and reductive identities.

But you have to be ready to identify yourselves not just as citizens of a country, but as part of a global population that shares the same fight. You have to be ready to pursue solidarity with those who face the same conditions, the same struggles, and the same dreams for a better future.

This is what Middle Nation is committed to. Our priority, of course, is with the Muslims — in the Muslim world and in the diaspora. We are committed to the economic sovereignty, political independence, and psychological decolonization of our people and of all the people of the Global South more broadly; but that also includes all the subjugated, exploited, and used and abused 90% of the people of the West.

This doesn’t represent a revolution, but a restoration; a restoration of balance, of proportion, of fairness. It’s not militancy but moderation, because no one is more militant than the Western elites, who literally command and wield the militaries of their countries against the rest of us, and who militarize the police and security forces against their own populations. We are not aiming to overthrow anything or anyone, but to lift up the global majority who have themselves been thrown down, thrown under, and run over. And as for that fanatic and psychopathic 10% elite minority from that Western 10% of the global population…you have no credibility, no respectability, and no qualifications. We know that every word you say is a lie, and every action you take is against us. You have never achieved anything except at our expense, you never created anything except that you destroyed more in the process, and everything you have, you have by means of deception, exploitation, expropriation, colonization and violent subjugation. You may be at the top of the class hierarchy, but the bottom of the moral hierarchy; you’re classists with no class, you have power but no authority. You’re billionaires held up by billions of hands, crowd surfing on top of the 90% for a long time now, so don’t be surprised when we decide to drop you.

There are more lessons to be drawn from this incident than I can list, to be honest; and maybe I will actually try to do a series of talks exploring some of the things we can learn from it — because, as with any event in the Seerah, you can unfold a tremendous amount knowledge and guidance, if you really think about it deeply.

But maybe the starting point here is to just talk about how important the starting point is. Where you start from, where you begin; where you set up your base camp; what vantage point you come from, and so on. This was crucial at Badr, and it is crucial as a fundamental principle in any sort of engagement, in any sort of interaction, and of course, in any sort of conflict or confrontation. Where you set up your base camp will be decisive in determining how well that engagement goes, how successful that interaction will be, and whether you enter that conflict or confrontation from an advantageous position or a disadvantageous position.

Now, I am talking about this in terms of intellectual engagement or conflict; if you are operating from a base that is already compromised, that is in a compromised position intellectually; you’ll fail. And I think that too many of us are doing just that. We enter into our engagements with the West from an intellectual base that, in and of itself, represents surrendered territory. In other words, we are not actually even selecting our own location — intellectually — of where we set up our base camp, but rather, we — from the beginning — allow them to decide where our base will be. And that means, for example, when we get into discussions or debates about Western Liberalism, democracy, and so forth, Capitalism, or what have you; we start from a base of accepting that any of these things are truly Western values, and that they truly exist in the West. And then we argue against them, like they are even real — when they’re not. So, in fact, we have already conceded ground, we have already given them the victory they want — which is to affirm that the West IS liberal, democratic, and so on; and that Capitalism is what they say it is; we affirm that they are what they say they are — and that means we have already lost the battle; because the whole battle is nothing but a battle between truth and falsehood; so when we affirm that their false claims are factual, well, we have already lost, and we have let the truth down. We have not performed our duty.

If we are going to deal with the West, it cannot be from within their own paradigm. We have to approach them from the position of objective truth, unbiased truth, we have to rise above their paradigms and propaganda, and set up our base camp on higher ground, to where we can look down on all the facts from an elevated position of intellectual autonomy and detached objective judgement. So, for example, you should always start by rejecting whatever they claim about themselves, claim about their so-called civilization; because they have been able to get away with everyone going along with their claims for far too long, to where they have never had to prove anything; they have never had to prove anything because no one even asks for proof. They just say something like it’s a fact, and then we deal with it like it’s a fact; which means you already lost that argument, because all they are really trying to do is establish their claims as facts, and you just helped them do it.

So, take any claim they make, for example Capitalism lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. You hear that all the time. Well, don’t treat that as a fact. There are so many things in that claim that need to be challenged, challenged and corrected. If you start doing this with all their claims, I think you will find very quickly that they are pathological liars.

First, let’s break down so-called Capitalism. What is it anyway? Trade and transactions and markets have existed from time immemorial. Adam Smith didn’t invent markets and trade. But they act like the West invented trade under the philosophy of Capitalism. Obviously, this is incredibly misleading.

Because, let’s not confuse trade, which has existed in every society, with the economic machine we know as capitalism. Trading goods and services, even across continents, was once about mutual exchange, about meeting real needs and strengthening communities. But capitalism isn’t just organized trade; it’s a system that converts everything — resources, labor, even human dignity — into commodities for profit. It’s a form of economic control that reshapes society around one simple rule: maximize gains for those at the top, regardless of the cost.

Capitalism operates on a set of values that distort what trade was ever intended to be. This will sound bizarre to Westerners, but profit was only one aspect of trade at some point. Trade was also about community! It was about relationships! When our ancestors exchanged goods, they were not just swapping items; they were strengthening the ties that held their communities together. They were building trust, forging alliances, and nurturing kinship. Every transaction was a testament to the social fabric that weaves us all together!

Not to mention the cultural exchange that flowed through these trade routes! The Silk Road wasn’t just a path for silk; it was a highway of ideas, a bridge between East and West, where cultures met, mingled, and flourished. In many societies, trade was grounded in the principle of giving and receiving. An expression of mutual respect. It wasn’t predatory in nature, it wasn’t parasitic, it wasn’t mercenary.

This has all been cast aside in Capitalism. This system doesn’t empower communities; it preys on them and keeps them dependent. It turns workers into a resource to be exploited, just like any other raw material. It implants the idea of inadequacy in people, so that they will try to validate themselves through consumerism. And no one cares anymore about whether a product is even worthwhile, if it has any quality standard whatsoever; the only thing that matters is getting people to buy it, make your profit, at any cost. It doesn’t matter if you make your profit by over-charging for goods or under-paying for labour. You can cut corners, and cut salaries, and price gouge, and sell faulty merchandise, even dangerous merchandise; who cares? All that matters is the money. How this impacts the society is irrelevant.

Then, we’re told capitalism is about competition, that it drives innovation, but let’s look at what that really means. Competition, in this context, doesn’t create opportunity; it pits people against each other in a rigged game where only the wealthiest corporations win. As soon as someone manages to dominate a market, they shut down the competition. It’s no accident that capitalism leads to monopolies, to economic empires controlling entire industries and wielding enormous political power. It’s engineered that way.

And who told you that people cannot innovate when they come together and cooperate? Why do you think that innovation can only ever come about through rivalry and competition? There is so much wrong with this thinking, and so much that is distinct to the experience and background of Western Europeans, who developed over the centuries this very predatory mindset. Everybody isn’t like that. There are people in the world who survive and thrive and innovate as communities, through comradery and solidarity and cooperation.

And they want us to believe capitalism brings freedom and opportunity, but this system operates on compulsion. When you’re commodified, when your time, skills, and even your privacy are bought and sold, are you free? When the basic necessities of life are conditional upon your ability to generate profit for someone else, where is the choice in that?

What capitalism has actually done is expand poverty, widen inequality, and create a permanent underclass to fuel its endless demand for growth. They redefine poverty to cover up the damage and point to rising GDP as if it’s proof that everyone benefits. But that’s the sleight of hand: capitalism’s success story is about growth, not well-being. In truth, the system only thrives by keeping masses dependent on low wages, high debt, and unsustainable jobs.

This isn’t just about economics; it’s about control. Capitalism didn’t “lift” anyone from poverty. It created a new form of poverty, a kind that locks people into a cycle of survival rather than empowerment. So let’s not mistake trade and mutual exchange, which have existed in every culture, for the exploitative machinery of capitalism that’s turned basic human needs into billion-dollar industries. In fact, the whole system is built around creating needs, creating problems, creating deficiencies, even creating illnesses, because that is nothing but creating markets for the so-called solutions and remedies they want to sell you. It’s absolutely ruthless.

Let’s address this narrative about capitalism — that it’s supposedly lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and brought a better quality of life to people worldwide. This claim is one of the most common defenses of capitalism, and, as you might expect, it is a very deliberate misdirection. Even if we concede, for the sake of argument, that Capitalism has saved hundreds of millions of people from poverty (which, is actually something that they have only started to say recently, because they want to give Capitalism credit for how many people have been saved from poverty in China), even if we concede that; it is nothing but a deflection from the literal billions of victims of Capitalism. Because Capitalism was a driving factor in colonialism, slavery, modern slavery, famine, ecological devastation, deadly working conditions, and so on.

So, for example, European colonization is estimated to have caused over 50 million deaths. British colonialist rule in India killed 1.8 billion Indians. Capitalist-driven wars have resulted in 158 million deaths. Upwards of 20 million Africans died during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. That’s all part of the Capitalist impact, historically.

Today, at least 8 million people die every year because they can’t afford medicine. About 9 million die every year because they can’t afford food, half of those are children under the age of 5. 3 million people die every year because of unsafe working conditions. So, that’s roughly 20 million per year, or about 500 million since the year 2000. That’s specifically deaths. But you also have at least 50 million people living in conditions of modern slavery right now. Around 15 million people are forcibly displaced for large economic projects like dams and mining and so on, every year. A billion people are living in extreme poverty right now — that means extreme poverty, as in, BELOW the official World Bank poverty threshold of $2 a day. So, if you make $3 a day, this doesn’t include you. 854 million people are under nourished today, because food prices are too high. Over 2 billion people lack access to essential medicine due to high costs. I mean, I could go on. All of this is directly or indirectly causally connected to Western Capitalism.

And, like I said, the World Bank set the international poverty line at around $2 a day, and anyone earning above that is technically considered to have been “lifted out of poverty.” So, yes, if you make 2 bucks fifty per day, Capitalism has rescued you. By this metric, even people who can barely afford the basics are considered “non-poor.” It’s a deliberately low standard, designed to make the numbers look better. It doesn’t reflect any meaningful improvement in their lives; it simply changes the way poverty is measured to make capitalism look like it’s doing more than it is. You eliminate poverty by redefining it as not poverty.

So, if people are working under horrendous conditions in sweatshops, living in overcrowded slums, breathing polluted air, drinking unsafe water, and barely surviving paycheck to paycheck. They should thank Capitalism for “uplifting” them. No, you brought them into the system as low-cost labor and gave them just enough to survive — because the system needs them as workers and consumers. It’s a setup that ensures a constant supply of cheap labor while maintaining the illusion of progress.

And let’s talk about the so-called “improvements” in quality of life. Yes, we have more technology, more access to information, more goods and services — but at what cost? The environment is being decimated. Communities are being displaced for corporate interests. Traditional ways of life are being erased. The pursuit of profit has brought short-term gains, sure, but we’re paying for it with rising inequality, instability, and a planet suffering ecological disaster. Capitalism creates a race to the bottom, where corporations cut costs, exploit labor, and deplete resources, all to keep their profits up. So, what does “improvement” mean if it’s not sustainable, if it’s undermining the future for the generations that follow?

They say capitalism creates opportunity and social mobility, but look around. Wealth is becoming more concentrated than ever before. Billionaires and multinational corporations are hoarding resources, manipulating economies, and avoiding accountability. The so-called “free market” is anything but free; it’s dominated by a few massive players who pull the strings and rig the game in their favor. For the majority, the system is designed to keep them where they are — on the treadmill, just trying to make ends meet, while a small elite reaps the rewards. Where’s the “opportunity” in a system like that? Do you know that 93% of the people in America born in the lowest 20% of the economy will never get any higher in their life?

If we really want to talk about lifting people out of poverty and improving quality of life, we need to start looking beyond this model. We need an economic system that isn’t about maximizing profit but about meeting human needs, protecting the environment, and creating real opportunity for all. Capitalism’s record is one of exploitation, environmental destruction, and deepening inequality.

Now, if I am criticizing Capitalism, they’ll say I’m a communist or a Marxist or a socialist — as if the only thing anyone can ever be is one of their ideologies. It’s like you go to a clothing store and they show you one suit, and you don’t like it, so they say oh you must want this other suit, they think you have to like something they’re selling; never mind the fact that you are wearing your own suit already. I just came in here to see if you had something better than what I already have, I don’t have to choose one or the other, I can just stick with what I’ve got. And being against Western capitalism doesn’t mean being against trade, private property, and markets and so on. No. That’s the trick they try to pull. Like, if you don’t like the way they make a dish it means you don’t like that dish — no, I just don’t like the way YOU make it. I don’t like your recipe. You’re a terrible cook. When you make the food, you put razor blades and cyanide in it. That’s not how I prefer my meal. Like if you don’t like McDonald’s it means you don’t like hamburgers. When what McDonald’s makes barely qualifies AS a hamburger. The same way, trade and markets in Western Capitalism barely qualify as trade and markets. It’s a feudal system. It’s serfdom. It’s oligarchy. It’s predation.

We don’t have to choose from between the available Western ideologies, the Western approaches. As I say, trade and markets and exchange have always existed, economies have always existed; and we have had our own way of approaching them.

We start with what Islam teaches about wealth, resources, and the marketplace. Islam doesn’t reject private ownership, nor does it demonize profit or trade. But there’s a fundamental difference between Islam’s approach to economics and the capitalist model: in Islam, wealth is seen as a trust from Allah. You don’t have an absolute right to do whatever you wish with your property if it harms others or undermines the welfare of the community. This isn’t some abstract concept; it’s a concrete reminder that our wealth comes with responsibility.

In a true Islamic market, there’s a balance — a *middle ground* — where the rights of individuals to own, trade, and profit are intact, but they’re regulated by principles that prevent exploitation, hoarding, and monopolistic practices. For example, hoarding essential goods to drive up prices is prohibited in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) explicitly forbade monopolistic practices and exploitation because these undermine the natural flow of resources to those in need.

In an Islamic economy, the role of the state isn’t to dictate or centralize control but to enforce ethical standards in the market, preventing exploitation and ensuring that wealth doesn’t accumulate solely among the elite. The role of the market is to operate freely within these moral boundaries, where businesses compete not only on the basis of profit but on how well they serve the community. This isn’t “socialism” or “capitalism” — it’s a middle way, a balance that prioritizes justice over greed, community over monopoly, and service over selfishness. This is the *Middle Nation* approach: a model where trade and ownership serve a higher purpose, rooted in accountability to both Allah and society.

See, the West gets Free Markets wrong, the same way that they get Freedom wrong. In Islam, no one is free to act immorally in the public sphere. People have a right to live in a society where their values are not assaulted. You say everyone has a right to act any kind of way in public, say anything they want to say in public, behave in all kinds of immoral ways, indecent ways, all in the name of personal liberty — never mind how much tension, misery, division, and animosity that causes. You will let a fringe group of people oppress the general pub’s lic by violating the values and morals of the majority, in the name of freedom. To you freedom means freedom from responsibility and accountability, freedom from morality and decency. And you apply this same understanding to the business sector and so-called free markets.

Well, that’s not our way. Now, I am not going to get into what an Islamic economic model looks like, that’s a topic for another time.

But the point is, always set your base camp on your own territory, and don’t take them at their word about anything; scrutinize it, analyze it, from a vantage point that does not already concede ground to them. You’re not liberal, you’re not democratic, you’re not free, you don’t have a healthy economic system; you don’t have a healthy political system, you don’t have a healthy society. You have done everything wrong; And there is no reason whatsoever why anyone should be scared to tell you so.

I was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion on Western misconceptions about Islam. I was promptly disinvited, because apparently, I am controversial. I did hesitate to accept the invitation in the first place, and told the host that I am not, strictly speaking, a religious speaker. He had a number of da’ees and comparative religion debaters on the panel, and I figured they would be sufficient for their discussion. But anyway, I accepted the momentary invitation, because, frankly, I wanted to redirect the whole inquiry.

Because, in my opinion, this whole proposition is misguided. I don’t see any point in correcting Western misconceptions of Islam, generally, when, in fact, their misconceptions about their own so-called civilization are much more debilitating for them. If you can correct THESE misconceptions, I think Islam pretty well speaks for itself. And the whole idea of explaining Islam to these people, while they are living in a state of abject confusion and ignorance about their own society, just doesn’t make sense to me; and in fact, I think it just contributes to their delusions about the West. Because it presupposes that they are in some sort of position to judge another civilization, another belief system, and we are supposed to explain it to them in a way that aligns with their completely inaccurate understanding of who they are and what kind of society they live in.

Like, for example, we are supposed to convince them that Islam respects women’s rights — as if they respect women’s rights. We are supposed to assure them that Islam does not oppose liberty, as if their society does not oppose liberty. We are supposed to tell them that Islam is not violent, while they are the most violent so-called civilization that has ever plagued the earth. So, it has always seemed to me that step one is getting Westerners to actually understand what the West is and what it isn’t. I don’t think you should ever take an approach that affirms their delusions in any way whatsoever. How are you going to get someone to understand the truth about your civilization when they are completely immersed in falsehood about their own? Like, am I supposed to convince you about the moral rectitude of Islam, while you are the least moral so-called civilization in history? No, you need to know yourselves.

You can talk to each other about women’s rights, but you can’t say anything about that to anyone in the Global South. When you talk about respecting women, it’s like Diddy talking to his mother or something; talking to someone who doesn’t KNOW what he does and how he behaves. The Global South knows what you did and what you do. Yes, you don’t get to know what the BTK killer was like by talking to his wife and family, his coworkers, or the people at his church — I am sure they would all tell you how wonderful and mild-mannered, and decent and respectful he was. No, you need to talk to the people he tortured, talk to the victims who survived his attacks. If you want to know how the West respects women, or how they believe in human rights and dignity, you need to talk to their victims.

Did you believe in women’s rights and equality when you were raping Congolese women in public? When you were committing mass rapes in Algeria as a counter-insurgency tactic? Did you believe in women’s freedom and equality when you locked women in Namibia in concentration camps and raped them? When you decriminalized raping African women because you thought they weren’t actually human? When you raped Angolan women in refugee camps, or forced Indonesian women into sexual slavery, or committed widespread and entirely routine and approved of sexual violence across Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and in Burma? What was that, Feminism? And when you raped Filipinas, where were your sophisticated values then? And no, I am not talking about ancient history. You did it in colonial times, and you have kept doing it ever since. You never stopped enslaving, raping and murdering women in the Global South; and you were doing it in Iraq and you were doing in Afghanistan, and in Haiti, and in Bosnia, and in Syria.

Yes, when you all calculate your rape statistics, as bad as they are, you fail to include what you do overseas. When you put together how many of your own women get raped and assaulted, you should add to that all of the women you rape and assault in other countries. You talk about immigrants coming to the West being criminals, but you never sent anyone BUT criminals to the Global South; all your Western Enlightenment colonizers, all your praise the lord and pass the ammunition missionaries, all your God bless America soldiers, all your degenerate businessmen, your so-called best and brightest, who came to our countries to civilize us and Christianize us, to save our women from oppression and misogyny and our backwards cultures — they were all rapists and torturers and murderers. Why, I don’t know how you can have the gall to pretend you EVER cared about women’s rights, when all you ever showed us is that you think you have a right to our women.

Not to mention the misery of the woman over there. You raise her from childhood to be an object, a mere decoration to be enjoyed by all and sundry.

You teach her to conform to the ever-more degrading societal standards, to wear revealing clothing, to be a sex object. And then you have the audacity to claim that you believe in women’s rights and equality. Even your female Olympic athletes, who are the best at what they do, you require them to dress like pole dancers, and all you do is ogle them instead of appreciate their discipline, hard work, training, and skills.

You created OnlyFans, and taught your women that what you truly value is degeneracy; she could go to school, get degrees, become a doctor or an engineer or a lawyer, a CEO; but she will never get rich faster than if she gets naked on camera and defiles herself for strangers. That is what your society rewards women for. Why, a stripper can make more money than an executive. You are teaching them what you want them to do, because your whole system denotes value exclusively by pay packages; so you are implanting in women’s minds, imposing on women’s psyches that THIS is what makes them valuable in your society.

Do you know that more than half the women in your society feel pressured into performing sexual acts they are not comfortable with just because their partners have warped their brains on pornography? So now they expect their wives and girlfriends to act like pornstars. Meanwhile most of those pornstars are out of their minds on drugs and numb from childhood trauma. But you want normal women to act like that, and you’re mad if they don’t. 87% of college age women report being compelled to do abnormal things sexually that they did not want to do, because of your great feminist society. Girls as young as 13 said they feel pressured to look and behave like women in pornographic videos.

And because you dismissed the necessity of marriage, promiscuity has been normalized in your culture; making women feel compelled to become sexually intimate much earlier than they are comfortable with; and they are made to feel like something is wrong with them if they don’t. And you gaslight them into thinking that this is freedom. You are psychologically abusing the women in your society on every level.

69% of girls in 5th-12th grade report that magazine pictures influenced their idea of the perfect body shape. 45% of women report feeling pressure to achieve a certain body shape or size. And 1 in 5 women report experiencing body dysmorphic disorder, wherein they think something is wrong with how they look if they don’t look like a supermodel.

You claim to believe in women’s equality, but the data shows that women are still objectified and marginalized. 60% of women report feeling pressure to dress in a way that is considered “sexy” or “attractive” by societal standards, which just means showing men more of their bodies. 45% of women report feeling like they need to show more skin than they are comfortable with in order to be considered attractive. Look at what you are doing to her!

The media perpetuates a culture of objectification, with women being depicted in revealing clothing in 70% of advertisements. Women are exposed to an average of 5,000 advertisements per day, 70% of which feature women in revealing clothing. Constantly messaging to women that they have to be as undressed as possible if they want to be socially acceptable.

So, of course your women are suffering from the psychological consequences of these pressures. 1 in 5 women report experiencing anxiety or depression due to pressure to wear revealing clothing. And they are more likely to develop body dissatisfaction and low self-esteem. And you pressure them into looking and acting like pornstars, pressure them to have sex before they are ready, and pressure them to do things in the bedroom they don’t want to do; not to mention the real physiological detrimental repercussions of promiscuity on a woman. No wonder your women are the most depressed, the most neurotic, the most medicated, have the most anxiety and stress, the most mental and psychological illnesses — they live in the most woman-hating society in the world! And you still have the nerve to expect us to assure you that we care about women! Everything about your so-called civilization declares your utter contempt for women.

I’m telling you, you don’t know who you are, what you are, what kind of a society you live in. You live in a world of lies. Forget about trying to correct your misconceptions about Islam; you have nothing BUT misconceptions about your own so-called civilization. It’s not a civilization, it’s a hallucination.

It is absolutely comical , the extent of your lack of self-awareness about your culture, your society. When I lived in the Middle East, I had Americans back home worried for my safety, because they thought every place in the Arab world was non-stop bombs going off and violence and bloodshed; meanwhile, you had over 650 mass shootings in America last year. Not to mention the fact that most of the bombs going off in the Middle East are American bombs being dropped by American warplanes. America’s number one export is violence, it is one of the only things you still manufacture over there. One of the only things you still excel at better than anyone else. Is Islam a religion of peace, you must be joking. You have dropped 500,000 bombs on us in just the last 25 years, and killed over a million Muslims. That’s not even including the genocide in Gaza that you are committing. Again, that is like the BTK killer wanting someone to assure him they don’t subscribe to violence. What are you even talking about? Your whole society, your whole so-called civilization is violently extremist. You love to threaten your enemies with bombing them back to the stone age, without ever registering that this is a stone age mentality. The only difference between you and cavemen is that you have gadgets.

And land of the free, right? Islam is so strict, so rigid, we don’t have freedom. Meanwhile, America has more laws and regulations than any country on earth. More than Saudi Arabia, more than Afghanistan, more than any Muslim country. You can’t even remodel your kitchen — if you are a homeowner, which you probably aren’t — you can’t even remodel your kitchen without getting permits. Your government decides what food you are allowed to eat, meanwhile, they allow genetically modified foods, fake foods, all sorts of chemicals, additives and what have you — and a farmer can’t sell you food right off his farm without FDA approval. The government even decides how hot your shower is allowed to be. It is absurd. But of course, you will defend all these laws as being there to protect you. OK, if you say so. But you don’t have a choice do you? We have a comparatively miniscule set of laws, most of which are self-imposed, with no external monitoring or enforcement; we follow them by our own conscience. But what you mean by how strict and rigid we are, you are talking about basically all the sins and debauchery that your government DOES allow — so that is actually the freedom you are talking about. The freedom to be uncivilized and primitive and hedonistic, and that is what makes you more civilized than us. The freedom to be UN-civilized. And somehow that makes sense to you. I’m telling you, your society, your so-called civilization is playing you for a fool.

They are even fooling you about your prosperity. I mean, take the United States, the richest country in the world, right? But just look at different states in America, take a state in America and look at it as if it was a country — its GDP, its standard of living, its quality of life, its infrastructure and so on. Say, if Mississippi was a country, or Idaho, or Montana, or New Mexico, or Kentucky; if those were countries, they would be equivalent economies to Argentina or Columbia or Thailand. They would be low to middle income countries. That is the reality of your life. Most Americans live in conditions, in economies, that are exactly the same as countries you would regard as third world countries, developing countries. That is how you are living in real life. Unless you are among the so-called coastal elites, your state is basically a third world country. And even in those coastal elite states, you know perfectly well that there are cities and neighborhoods that are just as poor as any poor city in the Global South. But they’ve got you thinking you are better off than people in the developing world. Why, if most of the states in America were countries, they’d probably be trying to join BRICS. The same goes for the UK. If you are not in London, if you are in the North of England, for example — you are third world.

You are deeply and comprehensively misled about your societies. And you still expect Muslims to answer to you about anything? You are standing there butt naked in a cowboy hat telling us our suit is out of fashion. No, there is no point in trying to make you understand us when you do not even remotely understand yourselves. The whole world has been indulging you far too long. It is time for you to start justifying yourself to us, we are not going to pretend that you are in any position to demand us to justify ourselves to you; when the reality is that no one is, or has ever been, as violent, as oppressive, as misogynistic, as restrictive and as opposed to liberty and human dignity as Western so-called civilization.

Look, I don’t care who you vote for in November, because power doesn’t care who you vote for either. I have said it before, if you imagine that unelected power of the private sector is going to entrust the public with deciding how things are going to be run, and who is going to run things, you are living in a fantasy. It is absurd. America has subverted, sabotaged, and strangled democracy all around the world. They have been interfering and tampering with, and rigging elections across the globe for decades; from Haiti to Honduras, from Italy to Iran, and from South Africa to Syria. They have toppled governments, assassinated elected officials, fixed elections, bribed, bullied, and bulldozed democracies on every continent for a century. They don’t think the population of any country in the world can be trusted to elect leaders who will safeguard the interests of the American elite, what on earth makes you think they are going to trust YOU with that power?

The rig elections and install who they want in country after country, but somehow you think they are not going to do that in their own country? Why, how naïve can you be?

Listen, the election cycle in America is nothing but a mechanism of what you can call the campaign industrial complex, whereby billions upon billions of dollars of contributions are funnelled into the private sector. I mean, when you donate to a politician, to a candidate; where do you think that money goes? It goes directly to business. You’re not doing anything but increase the revenue streams of consultancies, Ad agencies, analytics firms, PR firms, media companies, social media and digital marketing agencies, events coordinators, and so on. This is nothing but the public basically providing an economic stimulus package to unproductive industries. It is a wealth transfer that you yourselves are participating in. You are literally just donating money to the private sector, and getting nothing in return, except that you get to watch the most expensive fan-fiction movie about democracy ever produced.

I mean, look at the Democrats. Kamala Harris was just appointed as the nominee, she wasn’t voted for. This is straight up succession, not election. There were no primaries. She hasn’t had to outline her policy platform. No one needs her to do that. All she has to do is not be Donald Trump. This is the logic of demonization versus policy debate as a campaign strategy. No candidate has to win your approval as long as the whole election is framed in the “lesser of two evils” scenario. And what is the point of that? To make the preprogrammed win seem plausible, that’s all; and to not leave any opening for dissent to manifest that might make the win seem implausible. Because, for instance, if voters actually have demands of this candidate or that candidate, and the candidate fails to address those demands, it could cast doubt upon their eventual victory. And inevitably, if a candidate DOES address voter demands, well, that will always end up alienating some other faction of voters. So, we don’t talk about issues, and we don’t talk about how to deal with issues. We just rally behind our party’s candidate in lock-step because the other party’s candidate is literally the devil incarnate. When you are operating in the lesser of two evils framework, you will always have decidedly low expectations of your chosen candidate, and that’s perfect when the election is already fraudulent in the first place.

So, this uncomplicates the rigging process. And don’t even imagine that it is a conspiracy theory that the US rigs elections. Between 1946 and 2000, America is documented to have interfered with, tampered with, influenced, or outright rigged at least 88 elections from Europe to Latin America to Asia and Africa. Again, if you think they will do this everywhere else, but YOUR so-called democracy is pristine, I would ask you why you think so. Why would it be more important to the power structure to control the outcome of an election in, say, Guyana, than it would be for them to control the outcome of an election in the US? Because yes, Guyana is one of the countries where America rigged elections in the past.

I am telling you I don’t care who you vote for because power doesn’t care who you vote for, because the outcome is not determined by you. Biden stepped aside because his preprogrammed victory could never be convincing. But look, Biden himself, the fact of Biden — a man who is literally in late stage senility, a man who is visibly disintegrating before our eyes — the fact that he was not only president, but was absolutely going to be run again for another term despite being a cadaver on strings; SHOULD let you know that power does not reside in that office. These politicians serve two main functions; the first is to distract you with the performance of democratic government, and the second is to be effigies that can be burned to satisfy public anger when the policies dictated by the private sector impose misery on the population.

So, when an American asks me who they should vote for, or when they say this one is better than that one, or at least not as bad as that one, and what do I think and so on…you may as well be asking me which marvel superhero is better than the other. Because you are not talking to me about figures who have any real significance with regard to policy. You are not talking about figures who exert control over anything, you are not talking about the real existing power structure. You are asking me to give you an opinion about a fictional scenario in which your government wields independent power. As long as you are fixated on this charade, there is no danger whatsoever of you ever having an impact on policy. You are just facilitating and collaborating with the divide and conquer tactics of the owners and controllers of global financialised capital.

And I don’t know how you can be so propagandized that you cannot even notice that your own media actually tells you every day that the government is not in charge. I mean how many times have you heard or read “the market will decide” or, “we will have to see what the Market does”, and so on? Well, when they say the Market, they don’t mean you and I. They mean big business, multinational corporations, asset managers, and stock market whales — not voters. Not citizens. Not Democrats and not republicans. You live in an oligarchy, and your so-called democracy is only performed as a distraction to keep you from noticing that fact.

Now, for this election in the US, as I have said, Harris and Trump are mascots representing two different factions of the OCGFC, and it is going to be like what just happened in Venezuela, the only way Trump can win is by trying to out rig the election rigging of the democrats, but the democrats are the incumbents, like Maduro. So, they have the advantage in overseeing the succession, and Harris is likely to win. The only thing Trump can do is try to boost his popularity to the point that Harris’s preprogrammed victory looks less plausible. But like I said before, this is not musical chairs, where both candidates are walking in circles until the music stops and they have to race for the seat; Kamala is already in the chair, like Maduro, and it is harder to get someone out of that seat than it is to sit in it. So, it looks like the Neocons will stay in the White House, and that just means that the real battle between the military industrial complex OCGFC and the global-oriented OCGFC is going to go on a while longer.

But if you are fool enough to think that you have to drop everything in order to ensure that Kamala Harris will win and Trump will lose, then you are literally like someone who can watch the Roadrunner cartoons, and still get worried and anxious about whether or not the coyote is going to catch him. I know it is important for you to think so, but the reality is, you are not writing how this story goes. And as long as you think you are, you will always be nothing but spectators.

Unless and until you redirect your activism towards the private sector, and I mean organise and mobilise with the understanding that, for example, corporations are political entities, and treat them as such, deal with them as such, and impose expectations and demands upon them as such; all your get-out-the vote initiatives, all your campaigning, all your voting, will never do anything for social or political change except help to ensure that it won’t happen.

Boeing, for example, just used your government to make about $20 billion dollars; Boeing, Raytheon, and all the other merchants of death and destruction. They just got $20 billion of your money to keep the genocide going in Gaza. That’s their policy. Zionism is their policy. Genocide is their policy. And they’re doing it for money. They give almost evenly to the Democrats as they do to the Republicans, slightly more to the Democrats. And it is almost even between Kamala Harris and Trump, though they contributed more to Harris. I shouldn’t say “contribute” I should say “invest”, because they give that money as an investment from which they expect astronomical returns. These are the entities that control your policy. Not your ballot, but their billions. Your government is captured, and your country has been captured; and power and decision-making has been transferred from the public sector to the private sector. Your laws and your policies are written by corporate lawyers not congressmen.

Your democracy has become like the British monarchy, it’s just an empty tradition. You go out to vote the same way British people line the streets to watch the king pass by in a horse and carriage; it is just a nod to the lore and heritage of your society. It’s a ritual that has no significance beyond the psychological and emotional. It is a collective society-wide self-soothing gesture. America is a corporate authoritarian system cosplaying as a democracy.

And everybody around the world sees you, you know, you people who are campaigning for Trump or campaigning for Harris, everybody sees you like someone at a Cosplay event who has dressed up like iron man and actually thinks that the buttons on his costume work. We have to elect Trump or that meteor is going to destroy the earth! We have to elect Harris, or the multi-dimensional aliens will kill us all! You are really invested in the fantasy storyline. Nobody thinks your democracy exists except you. Because we know too well what your democracy looks like when you export it to us. You have the same one you sent us, and that means you don’t have one either.

You are not constituents of politicians, you are constituents of companies, and you need to organise yourselves along these lines. Democratize private sector power. Your activism and your strategy has to, at some point, be informed by the actually existing power dynamics in your society, not just by the official version of the power structure they taught in civics class.

Until you do that, I’m telling you, the harder you work for this party or that party, you’re doing nothing but fortify and reinforce your own disenfranchisement and irrelevance.

In 1900, London was the center of the world, there was no Communism, no Soviet Union, there was the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hugarian empire, the Americans mostly stayed on their side of the Atlantic; and it seemed like this is how things would be indefinitely. Just a short 40 or so years later, everything changed. England was demolished, the Ottomans were gone, the Soviets emerged, Germany took over France, on and on. Really radical, unthinkable changes. Then go ahead another few decades, to the 1980s, and again, it seems like a completely different world. On ahead to the 2000s. It is remarkable.

And when you think about that, when you think about how many huge paradigmatic pendulum swings have taken place, or do take place, in a matter of decades; it makes certain continuities even more astonishing. When you are able to maintain a constant amidst the radical changes that sweep over every other element of international relations, global power, relationships between nations, and so on; when you are able to keep something unchanged, it lets you know just how important, how paramount it is, that this status quo remains intact, how important it is to those who are keeping it intact.

I am talking about the West’s relationship with Africa. The West’s economic relationship with Africa has not fundamentally changed in over 800 years. This is absolutely stunning. If the drastic and rapid changes that can occur, and have occurred, within the West over one or two decades is breathtaking, well, what about the fact that NOTHING has changed between the West and Africa in basically a millennium?

The relationship was ruthlessly extractive 800 years ago, and it is ruthlessly extractive now. And you can’t help but recognize that keeping things this way simply must be not only important, but literally THE most important thing for the West. It is so important to them, that they have always maintained this status quo no matter what else changes in the world. Wallahi, they are dedicated to the subjugation and exploitation of Africa more than they are dedicated to anything else. Everything is allowed to change except for this. This must never change. And it is not difficult to see why.

It is the subjugation and exploitation of Africa that has enabled the West to impersonate a superior civilization. It’s like a con man, a drifter, who tries to convince people he is an aristocrat or a monarch or something; well, he needs to be able to display a monarch’s wealth. And that has been the whole basis for the West’s claims about itself being superior; the whole basis has always been that they are materially successful. So, today, they have iPhones and technology, a high standard of living, and what have you, so they must be better, more intelligent, more evolved, more civilized, more advanced, than the rest of us. Look how nice their places look, see how much better their stuff is. Well, this is all reliant upon the vicious pillage and plunder of Africa.

Without the subjugation of Africa, Europe and the West would be nothing but crude, emaciated, serfs, barely producing enough to survive. Their wealth was primarily derived from theft and plunder, from piracy and slavery, mass murder and crime. That is just an historical reality. Because of the subjugation of Africa, first through chattel slavery — the extraction of Africa’s human resources — and now through the extraction of natural resources; the West is able to maintain this artificial, unearned status as a so-called civilization. Keeping Africa subject, subordinate, suppressed, and impoverished, is an existential need for the West. It is the only way they can keep up the pretence of their supremacy. Because, again, their pretence of supremacy has never been based upon any actual advancement, any actual sophistication, any actual moral or intellectual development. It has been based on the violent accumulation of wealth and resources. Upon brute power, deceit, and conniving. And Africa, the subjugation of Africa, is the most vital necessity for keeping this con going.

Right now, the trade relationship between the West and Africa is that something like 70% of exports to Africa are manufactured goods, and imports from Africa are raw materials used to make those manufactured goods. So, they are taking from Africa what is needed in order to produce goods, and then Africa buys the goods Westerners made with their raw materials. And the West has done everything possible to impede Africa’s ability to build its own manufacturing base so that they could use their own raw materials, their own raw minerals, to produce their own goods. The whole process should be done in house, it should all be done in Africa. That’s what makes sense. You have the materials, you can make the products. Rather than giving your raw natural resources to the West for them to manufacture and refine and process, Africa can do all of that themselves. Imagine the impact that would have. Where would that leave the West then? Well, they know that, they are acutely aware of their total dependence upon Africa. If Africa manufactured, if they used their own resources, their own minerals, their own materials, for their own industries; the entire economy of the West would collapse, and with the collapse of their economy, their whole so-called civilization would collapse. Africa is the foundation upon which they have built their house.

So, they know this, and like I said, this is why, no matter what else changes in the world, no matter how power dynamics shift, and so on; the subjugation of Africa has been maintained for over 800 years. There is literally nothing more important to them than this.

And this is why there are very powerful factions in the West that want to destroy BRICS, and why they fear-monger about Chinese investment in Africa, and why America specifically is engaged in non-stop interference, covert operations, regime change and regime infiltration projects all across the continent.

I mean, look at South Africa. The ANC, either out of naivete or corruption, or naivete that devolved into corruption, or out of coercion, or some combination of all of these factors; they collaborated with neoliberal programs to one degree or another for 30 years. But as global power dynamics have been shifting, and the creation and ascendancy of BRICS has been taking place, people have started to have aspirations; and more importantly, they have started to have options, and those options have made their aspirations actually achievable. I am talking about aspirations of political independence and economic sovereignty; aspirations of getting out from under the yoke of the West.

So, the ANC was facing, and is facing, severe criticism and opposition. They were being challenged by parties that do not accept neoliberalism, neoliberal colonialism, corporate colonization; and the US knew that eventually, they were going to lose power, they were going to face the consequences of capitulation and collaboration, and be removed and replaced. And if the US didn’t do something, the replacement for the ANC was not going to be an obedient client — because again, South Africa has the option now to NOT be an obedient client of the West. As long as there were no options, it wasn’t that risky. Even if the ANC lost popularity, no matter who replaced them, they would have no choice but to capitulate to neoliberalism. But there are options now. So, you have the United States backing the so-called Democratic Alliance. An overtly neoliberal, Western-aligned, elitist, political party of colonizer collaborators. So, the unpopularity and opposition to the ANC opened a space for the DA to move in in the last election. So, now, you have the so-called GNU, the government of national unity, which is nothing but neoliberalism-lite, and neoliberalism hardcore. It is a coalition of one party that was aligned with the West out of coercion, naivete or corruption, but which could also be potentially influenced by anti-neoliberal popular sentiments; joined together now with a party that is intensely committed to colonization, to neoliberalism. They want to privatize everything, they want everything to be sold off to the private sector, hollow out the government completely, and you need this radical neoliberal, colonizer faction there because, as options have emerged, radical anti-neoliberal positions are becoming viable. Literally the opposite of what the West wants, what the IMF wants, what corporate colonization wants. Calls for the nationalization of industries, rather than the privatization of state enterprises. Well, the West can’t have that, so they needed something like the DA to move in to avert the threat of South Africa actually becoming politically independent and economically sovereign.

They call it the GNU, but the N shouldn’t stand for National, it is the Government of Neoliberal Unity. It is a coalition united against the people of South Africa, in service to the interests of the elite private sector of South Africa, and to the global, Western private sector. The DA is a racist, Zionist, anti-BRICS, pro-Western, colonizer political party; funded at least in part by the National Endowment for Democracy, which is nothing but a wing of the CIA, whose sole mission is to advance American interests. So, in South Africa, this was a regime infiltration project that was undertaken to actually avert regime change in South Africa, organic regime change. And of course, South Africa isn’t the only place where they are doing that.

Because look, you can nationalize the mining sector in South Africa, you can nationalize the banking sector. You can nationalize the reserve bank. You can do all these things, and everyone knows it. It is not a mystery that these types of measures would immensely empower South Africa. These aren’t measures we don’t know whether they are useful and beneficial or not. Obviously they are. And tremendously so. And that is precisely why they have to be subverted. It is absolutely ludicrous for anyone in South Africa today to advocate neoliberal policies, when we have in front of our eyes the catastrophic failure of those policies. Nearly half the population is unemployed, over half is unemployed among the youth. 75% of South Africans earn just $350 a month or less; in fact, roughly half earn only about $75 — in a MONTH. And you are still going to advocate for the policies that got you here?

No, obviously, if you nationalize it is better for you. Empower the government with abundant revenues, instead of letting foreign companies seize those profits and transfer them out of the country. If those revenues are going to the state, the government will have the resources to better address the needs of the society, to invest in SMEs, provide education, skills training, fund R&D, and so on. It’s a no-brainer.

But you are scared of what the West will do. They tell you, if you nationalize, there will be massive capital flight, investors will run away, and so on. Well think about that for a second. They scare you with consequences that THEY are the ones imposing. They are warning you that if you do something that is in your country’s best interests, they will punish you. That is very different from telling you that the policy in and of itself is actually bad, they are telling you that they will MAKE it a bad policy because of what they will do to you for implementing it. These people are threatening you, and then you are supposed to trust their advice, the advice of these neoliberal predators, you are supposed to listen to them and trust their advice, when they are blatantly telling you that they will punish you if you do something to try to make things better? I mean, they couldn’t make their malice any more obvious. They couldn’t make it any more obvious how against your best interests they are, how much they put their own private interests above the interests of the country. They are openly identifying themselves as your enemy. Do you understand me? They are not saying nationalization doesn’t work and isn’t beneficial, they are saying, they will do everything in their power to make sure it doesn’t work, they are saying they will sabotage nationalization for the sake of their own profit interests — and still you let these types of people have a say in policy discourse? Why, that’s humiliating. They hold you in contempt, and they don’t hide it.

I’m telling you, everyone knows what should be done in a country like South Africa, and it is the same thing that many Global South countries should do. Everyone knows the obvious economic benefits of these policies, and everyone knows that the only reason anyone doesn’t implement these policies is because parasitic, predatory Western, colonizing private sector powers will try to punish them if they do.

For instance: The nationalization of key sectors such as mining, energy, and finance. This is essential to break the stranglehold of foreign capital and to ensure that the country’s resources are used for the benefit of the people, and the domestic economy. Land reform. The land question is a critical issue in South Africa. The should be a comprehensive land reform program that prioritizes the redistribution of land to the historically disadvantaged, this is basic and incredibly obvious. Once you have boosted the state’s resources through nationalization, there should be a comprehensive social welfare system that provides for the basic needs of all citizens, including healthcare, education, and housing. And finally, the government needs to pursue a policy of industrialization and job creation that prioritizes the development of the domestic economy; and like I said before, the manufacturing of goods from their own raw minerals and resources, rather than the export of those minerals for Western companies to use in their manufacturing.

Honestly, none of this requires any brilliance to understand. These are not actually radical policies, and they are only made to seem radical because everyone is living in fear of private sector tyrants who completely control the discourse, and you are not allowed to talk about anything that is not a policy genuflection to shareholders and Western supremacy. But everyone knows these are good polices that will help South Africa, and that the only reason anyone would think they might NOT be good for South Africa is because they would prompt a hostile, retaliatory response from the West. Well, like I said, that should show you what kind of friend the West is.

But look, South Africa, and all of the countries in Africa, all the countries in the Global South, they are in a position to dictate terms now. If Westerners want to pull out their capital, withdraw their investments, ok, go ahead. Dig around in your own lands for the minerals you need to make your stuff, and good luck to you. We have other investors who can take your place anyway. We have other companies that we can partner with. So, the only question is, how much are you interested in boosting the economies of China, Russia, and the Gulf? How much do you want to see the BRICS countries surpass you economically? You know BRICS already accounts for more of global GDP than the G7. So, if you want to pull out your investments, pull them out. You can only harm yourselves.

No, South Africa, and the Muslim lands, and all the Global South countries, it is time for them to just break away from this paradigm, break away from Western domination, and start implementing all those policies they know perfectly well will benefit them, whether America likes it or not. Can you imagine if the Gulf countries didn’t put the oil sector under government control? Look at them now, look at the amount of capital they have now. South Africa could have and should have a comparable sovereign wealth fund, there is no reason for them not to.

No, that millennium-long system of subjugation needs to come to an end, and it really doesn’t matter if the road to liberation is a little bit rocky, I’d rather be traversing a rocky road than be buried under the rubble, which is where the West has kept Africa for centuries. This is the richest and most important continent on the planet, and the West stole your riches and stole your importance, and has been an imposter on the throne for far too long. It doesn’t make any sense to be afraid of someone whose power is actually dependent upon you. That is psychological power, not actual power. They have a psychological power over you, but every element of their real power is completely derived from you yourselves. Your hand is on the tap that the hose is attached to that they use to waterboard you, and all you have to do is turn it off.