NEOCONS & NEOLIBERALS

EDITOR—The panel discusses the various ways the ruling elites in the US and the West manipulate ideas and concepts to control mass consciousness about sensitive topics, especially in foreign policy, while hiding the true face of capitalism and imperialism, and the horrific costs it imposes around the globe and at home, as Americans are finally beginning to understand. Discussed: Syrian history and recent developments, nature of the “Syrian regime”; the West’s losing competition with China due to her superiority in socioeconomic and political organization (central planning, etc.); ditto for Russia, and how well applied Marxism is not dogmatic but pragmatic (allowing for capitalist firms to operate under party control); ideological concepts used opportunistically by the US ruling class to control the narrative (“branding”—like who gets called “dictator”, “authoritarian”, “ally”, etc.); mythology of US exceptionalism to justify supremacism/hegemonism; moral superiority; informational confusion and work pressures hindering mass awakening by ordinary citizens, etc. 

BRIAN BERLETIC and ANGELO GIULIANO discuss all the difficult to sort out and discern historical vectors that led to this point of Syrian collapse, a tragedy carefully planned for and scripted by US/NATO thinktanks, whose sponsors are now busily trying to implement the next part of their schemes to provoke and bring down Iran. How will Russia (and China) react to THAT domino is now the big question facing the world, and especially the BRICS alliance.

BRUCE LERRO—At the same time, the Eurocentrists had no problem imagining war with the East if it was profitable. But when it came to the civilized states of Europe, war was seen as unprofitable. Also, as we shall see later, racist theories bemoaned Europeans fighting because this would result in the depletion of the white race. Colonial annexation was entirely appropriate when it came to Europe’s relation with the East. The East has  conditional agency, such as Japan during World War II. However, the East cannot take the lead in historical development without being predator (as in the Yellow Peril).

As for the Global South, (Africa) for it  to be a respectable civilized state, Western core countries took a page out of Calvinism and insisted that these “savage societies” have a duty to develop their land productivity (meaning agriculturally) and abandon their primitivism (hunting and gathering). Non-Western politics, whether they be monarchies without constitutions or the egalitarian political consensus societies of hunting and gathering, are not recognized as sovereign.