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The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant profit-generating machine for corporations. Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders. That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live. It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless. Music is made to be as profitable as possible, which means giving it the broadest possible appeal using formulaic song structure calculated to cause a chemical response in the largest number of human brains. Movies are designed to draw the largest possible box office revenue at the lowest possible risk to studios and investors, often by just rehashing a movie that’s already proven successful in the past or by slapping together a story about an IP with pre-existing mass appeal. Food is made to be fast and addictive rather than nourishing. Healthy human connection has been commodified as social media intertwines with friendships and dating apps insert themselves into the development of romantic relationships. Human sexuality is being warped and twisted as internet porn normalizes violence and degradation for the maximum number of clicks. Attention and engagement have been monetized, creating an information ecosystem dominated by conflict and gossip designed to appeal to our baser instincts. Advertisement is injected into every possible corner of our waking sensory experience, with any available space where the eye might rest or the ear might listen being flooded with psychological manipulation compelling us to consume. They’ll start running commercials in our dreams the instant they have the technology to do so. You spend eight hours at the office working to generate corporate profits, then you come home and consume products to profit other corporations. You need your beer and snacks to unwind, your streaming services and social media to distract your mind from the stress of it all, your online clothing purchase to try to feel good about yourself, and your prescription drugs to get to sleep at night. People live their entire lives like this. And that’s those of us who are lucky enough to be living in the global north. In the global south you get wage slavery and exploitation with far more toil, far less relaxation time, and no cheap products made by impoverished workers on other continents with which to comfort yourself. All of humanity has been roped into this mess. And for what? To make the numbers in some bank accounts increase. To get some green arrows pointing upward on the stock exchange. To enable a few billionaires to buy islands and elections. All while destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival. This, we are told, is the best possible system we could possibly be living under. I personally do not believe this is true. I personally believe we can have better. Those who benefit from this current arrangement are going to assure us it’s impossible and do everything they can to stop us from changing it, but we do have the means to reclaim the wealth, dignity and happiness that they have stolen from us. They built this whole machine on our backs. All we need to do is stand up.

Let’s stop calling it settler violence. It is settler TERROR. These criminals roam the West Bank with impunity, and the world stays silent.

This is extraordinarily rare. In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented. An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor. The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts. In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination. Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light... I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (arnaudbertrand.substack.com/…) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it. Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period. In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want. In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again. Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

You want to know what imperial conditioning looks like from the inside? It looks like a person who knows that the United States has the largest prison population in the history of human civilization, and still describes other countries as "unfree." It looks like a person who knows their healthcare system allows people to die from rationed insulin, and still describes other countries' economics as "failed." It looks like a person who watched their government spend $2.3 trillion over twenty years building a state in Afghanistan that collapsed in just 10 days, and still trusts that same government's assessment of which other countries are "stable" or "democratic" or "ready for self-governance." It is not stupidity. It is something more structurally interesting than stupidity. It is what happens when the story a person needs to believe about themselves is in direct conflict with the evidence their own eyes can see, and the story wins. Not because the evidence is unclear. But because the cost of following the evidence to its conclusion is too high. Better a comfortable contradiction than an uncomfortable clarity. The empire is built on that choice, made daily, by millions of people.

A massive global survey of nearly 100 countries found that most people see the United States as the biggest threat to the world, and they prefer China over the US. I summarized the findings here: geopoliticaleconomy.report/p…

When the US can’t defend or use its foreign bases, the entire architecture of its power projection is over.

The easiest way to tell if the USA is planning a color-revolution in another nation? NYT starts publishing propaganda about that nation. 👇

Seeing Western oligarchs like Johnson demand that we keep sending more Ukrainians to the slaughter against their will in order to satisfy their deranged geopolitical fantasies, or simply to line their pockets — and all while presenting themselves as friends of Ukraine — is beyond sickening.

⁨The Man Who Shattered A Nuclear Lie He told the truth, so they kidnapped him. Mordecai Vanunu not only exposed Israel’s illegal nuclear arsenal, in 1986, he also revealed that Dimona was mass-producing advanced third-generation neutron bombs (this is unfortunately mostly forgotten now). The Israeli state replied with abduction, secrecy and decades of punishment. Democracies don’t bury whistleblowers in solitary confinement, regimes do.⁩

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Eric X. Li’s exchange with John Pilger lays it out plainly: voting in the United States is mostly political theater, a bullshit show. Parties rotate, slogans change, new faces come and go,but the core policies stay tied to money. Why? Because in the US wealth runs the system. Billionaires, lobbyists, and financial elites shape the rules, while voters are given the illusion of choice. Real power isn’t in elections,it’s in the boardrooms. The pattern is obvious. Donald Trump filled his circle with billionaires, cut corporate taxes, and blurred the line between policy and business. Meanwhile Democrats do the same thing with cleaner messaging. Obama’s Wall Street bailout didn’t punish anyone,it protected the same financial interests that caused the whole crisis. Different branding, same structure. The system in the United States isn’t failing, it’s doing exactly what it was built to do: protect the top tier. China runs a total different model. The Communist Party doesn’t rely on campaign money or pretend elections control wealth. Leadership stays consistent, policies shift when needed, and long-term planning actually happens. That stability helped drive rapid industrial growth and lift massive numbers out of poverty. And China isn’t “capitalist” in the Western sense. Markets exist, but they don’t run the state. Wealth is managed, not obeyed. Billionaires don’t set national direction. So the contrast is very simple: one system claims democracy while serving wealth, the other openly prioritizes state control and focuses on outcomes.....

A detailed record of the CIA-NED-MI6 operation in Beijing 1989 is at this link, sources provided. The mainstream media's most quoted "student leader", Wu’er Kaixi, was really a US-allied Uyghur named Örkesh Dölet, denounced by the real student leaders fridayeveryday.com/new-docs-…

UK, EU, Japan, and South Korea are in decades long decline because every time we use our R&D to develop a breakthrough technology we are coerced, sometimes blackmailed, into selling it to US rentier owners by IPO or M&A so the profits of our innovation and R&D flow to US (Nokia, Skype, Alstom, etc). US bleeds its vassals whenever they excel. John Bolton tried this on Huawei (cooperatively owned by employees) which refused US IPO listing by ordering the 2018 arrest of COO Meng Wanzhou. China stood up to the blackmail. Huawei remains employee owned and has massively expanded its range of operations to eliminate all US dependency in the Chinese tech stack. It is refusal to be subjugated that distinguishes China’s rise to challenge US primacy and hegemony.

A logical inference from 👇 is that 🇺🇦 so called friends & allies objective is the depopulation of 🇺🇦 The policy being to fight on until the last 🇺🇦 The question then becomes for what purpose?

"A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones" — Nelson Mandela

Interviews of Tiananmen Square protest participants Taiwanese singer Hou Dejian and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo refuting the claim that a massacre took place on Tiananmen Square:

I am more open to criticism of China coming from other developing countries than from Western ones, because I do not trust that the West has any intention of creating an equitable international order. The West built a liberal international order with rules that asymmetrically benefited itself. When China managed to defy this order and compete with the West on *Western* terms, the West abandoned it, suddenly embracing economic nationalism and protectionism. All nation-states act in their own self-interest. But the West has the clearest track record of imperialism — from the colonial era, through the liberal international order, to its now unapologetic embrace of nationalism. That history matters.

The Atlantic is hysterical because China refused to become the economy the West wanted: cheap labor forever, low-end factories forever, a consumer market for Western brands forever, and never a serious industrial competitor. Now China makes EVs, solar panels, steel, machinery, robots, and advanced manufacturing products at scale — and suddenly affordable goods are a “global threat.” Please. The West subsidizes banks and calls it stability. Subsidizes weapons and calls it security. Subsidizes farmers and calls it protection. Subsidizes chips and calls it strategy. But when China supports real industries that produce real goods for real people, it becomes “distortion.” So no. China is not taking everyone down. China is exposing how little the West has left once cheap moral lectures stop working.