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  • “And the Billionaires Are Laughing Somewhere in America”/ By Felicity Arbuthnot

    “And the Billionaires Are Laughing Somewhere in America”/ By Felicity Arbuthnot

    Original Link Here: “And the Billionaires Are Laughing Somewhere in America” – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

    Global Research, January 14, 2026

    This article by veteran war correspondent and GR associate editor Felicity Arbuthnot was first published in 2015. 

    While the world trembles under the crescendo of bombs, “billionaires are laughing somewhere in America.”

    —Global Research, January 14, 2026

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    “If I could shed a tear for every home that bombs destroy, 

    I’d never stop crying

    “If I could hold each shattered body, each baby stilled at birth, 

    I’d have no time for loneliness, 

    I’d spend all my days embracing the people of this savaged earth, 

    “And the billionaires are laughing somewhere in America.”

    (Song for Basra, David Rovics.)

    If you have ever mentally yelled at the screen, radio or hard copy when looking for truth, fact and balance in the news and wondered how much of the mainstream media is bought or biased, the answer is simple.

    Just two examples, the US and UK. In the US six corporations own 90% of the media – but these corporations in turn must satisfy their shareholders – each one who holds them financial hostage to the tune of million of dollars.

    The list of investors is long (1) but a few examples (2013 figures):

    • Oppenheimer funds Inc  $67,258,000
    • BlackRock Institutional  $89,631,000
    • World’s largest asset manager; also owns 4.7 million shares NY Times
    • Mellon Capital Management Corp. $50,205,000
    • JPMorgan Private Bank $47,750,000

    Gannett owns USA Today and local newspapers & TV stations in 37 US states including the Detroit Free Press, Indianapolis Star and Cincinnati Inquirer. Just one of many mega investors is JP Morgan Asset Management  who hold  21,915,328 shares at a 2013 value of $330,702,000.

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    In the UK there are twelve major newspaper groups:

    “Over a quarter (27.3 per cent) of the press is owned by Lord Rothermere and 24.9 per cent by Rupert Murdoch  – between them these two men have over 50 per cent of the printed press.” (2) Figures are also from 2013.

    Nine of these groups are supporters of David Cameron’s Tory Party which enjoined in murdering Libya’s Leader, near all his family and small grandchildren, reducing the formerly flourishing country to a ruined, failed state – with large swathes of the British public buying into the murderous carnage thanks to the war fever drummed up by the Cameron backing media.

    This pattern of ownership is broadly replicated throughout the West where now the same misrepresentation of Syria is in journalistic overdrive.

    The BBC is vying to be leader of the pack talking of “civil war” with one Middle East correspondent even dropping the last vestige of “impartiality” and declaring “Assad must go.” The entire organization long abandoned any pretense of professionalism and impartiality even ditching his status and title of “President.”

    In contrast to the Mainstream media, Global Research has no $multi-million donors, but as the world again reaches yet another manufactured and most dangerous crisis, truly independent analysis is the vital weapon for the non-partisan truth, knowledge and a tool for prevention from repeating the tragedies of the past. It is, as Dr Binoy Kampmark, distinguished GR contributor and lecturer at RMIT University, Melbourne has said: “a vital democratic forum.”

    Of course, as Global Research writers pointed out (3) there is no “civil war” in Syria, the country’s nightmare was plotted from inside the US Embassy in Damascus in 2006 with terrorists from over ninety countries committing unspeakable atrocities, then returning to their own countries with impunity, as recent events in Paris demonstrated.

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    Recent Developments in Syria and Turkey

    Global Research has provided extensive coverage of the US-led war against Iraq and Syria. Obama’s fake humanitarian campaign consists in protecting the “moderate terrorists” while going after the ISIS “bad guys” who happen to be supported covertly by the CIA.

    Now a further excuse for another illegal onslaught against Syria is being plotted after a Russian fighter jet was shot down on Tuesday, allegedly having strayed into Turkish air space which Russia emphatically denies; moreover, the two pilots who ejected both landed in Syria. Further, as Global Research published last month (4) Turkey, incredibly, unilaterally redrew it’s border declaring five miles of Syria it’s very own “buffer zone.”

    The “international community” and NATO might do well to remember, that even if there were a few seconds of Russia’s aircraft in Turkish air space, a US-led “coalition” has been illegally invading Syrian air space and bombing murderously and mercilessly for the last fifteen months. Russia of course has been invited but is bombing terrorists supplied and protected by the US and their allies.

    In the UK David Cameron is morphing in to his pal, alleged war criminal Tony Blair and is attempting to persuade Parliament that Britain must join those illegally in Syrian air space and equally illegally drop it’s own bombs with no UN mandate for such action. The Cameron backing media is beating the war drums along with America’s partisan hacks as above.

    By the end of yesterday, incisive commentary was already questioning the official rhetoric – but as the year ends, the funds for this ground breaking site need replenishing.

    As the excellent “Ants and Grasshoppers” (see 1) points out:

    “Just like a politician is likely to push laws onto the books that represent his/her biggest campaign donors, newspapers will push ideologies that are the most friendly and agreeable to their shareholders.”

    Global Research does it in unwavering passion and commitment to a saner world.

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    Felicity Arbuthnot is a distinguished author, veteran war correspondent and Global Research contributor

    Notes

    1.    http://ants-and-grasshoppers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/who-owns-major-newspapers-detailed-list.html

    2.    http://leftfootforward.org/2013/06/everyone-should-know-who-owns-the-press-for-the-sake-of-our-democracy/

    3.    http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-and-conspiracy-theories-it-is-a-conspiracy/29596

    4.    http://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-violated-turkish-airspace-because-turkey-moved-its-border/5480430


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  • The Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Cartel/By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

    The Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Cartel/By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

    Original Link Here: The Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Cartel – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

    Global Research, January 10, 2026

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    Versión en español de este artículo (IA).

    Por Michel Chossudovsky

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    This article was first published in 2015

     

     

    Introduction 

    Jeb Bush is a presidential candidate.  [was in 2015] But Jeb is not only the brother of George W. and the son of George H. W. Bush. 

    Jeb Bush also had close personal ties to Raul Salinas de Gortari, brother of Mexico’s former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. In the 1990sRaul the “drug kingpin”, according to Switzerland’s  federal prosecutor Carla del Pontewas one of the main figures of the Mexican Drug Cartel.  

    Jeb Bush  –before becoming Governor of the Sunshine State– was a close friend of Raul Salinas de Gortiari (image right):

    “There has also been a great deal of speculation in Mexico about the exact nature of Raul Salinas’ close friendship with former President George Bush’s son, Jeb. It is well known here that for many years the two families spent vacations together — the Salinases at Jeb Bush’s home in Miami, the Bushes at Raul’s ranch, Las Mendocinas, under the volcano in Puebla.

    There are many in Mexico who believe that the relationship became a back channel for delicate and crucial negotiations between the two governments, leading up to President Bush’s sponsorship of NAFTA.” (Prominent intellectual and former foreign Minister of Mexico Jorge G. Castañeda, The Los Angeles Times. and Houston Chronicle, 9 March 1995, emphasis added)

    The personal relationship between the Bush and Salinas families was a matter of public record. Former President George H. W. Bush  had developed close personal ties with Carlos Salinas and his father, Raul Salinas Lozano. (left)

    Raul Salinas Lozano was the family patriarch, father of Carlos and Raul Junior. According to the former private secretary to Raul Salinas Lozano (in as statement to US authorities):

    “… Mr. Salinas Lozano was a leading figure in narcotics dealings that also involved his son, Raul Salinas de Gortari, his son-in-law, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the No. 2 official in the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and other leading politicians, according to the documents. Mr. Ruiz Massieu was assassinated in 1994.” (Dallas Morning News, 26 February 1997, emphasis added).

    Former president George H. W. Bush and Raul Salinas Lozano were “intimo amigos”.

    The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug WarAccording to former DEA official Michael Levine, the Mexican drug Cartel was a “family affair”. Both Carlos and Raul were prominent members of the Cartel. And this was known to then US Attorney General Edward Meese in 1987 one year prior to Carlos Salinas’ inauguration as the country’s president.

    When Carlos Salinas was inaugurated as President, the entire Mexican State apparatus became criminalised with key government positions occupied by members of the Cartel. The Minister of Commerce in charge of trade negotiations leading up to the signing of NAFTA was Raul Salinas Lozano, father of Raul Junior the Drug kingpin and of Carlos the president.

    And it is precisely during this period that the Salinas government launched a sweeping privatisation program under advice from the IMF.

    The privatisation program subsequently evolved into a multibillion dollar money laundering operation. Narco-dollars were channelled towards the acquisition of State property and public utilities.

    Richard Barnet of the Institute for Policy Studies, testified to the US Congress (April 14, 1994) that

    “billions of dollars in state assets have gone to supporters and cronies” (Dallas Morning News, 11 August 1994).

    These included the sale of Telefonos de Mexico, valued at $ 3.9 billion and purchased by a Salinas crony for $ 400 million.(Ibid).

    Raul Salinas was behind the privatisation programme. He was known as ”El Señor 10 por Ciento” [Mr. 10 Percent] “for the slice of bid money he allegedly demanded in exchange for helping acquaintances acquire companies, concessions and contracts [under the IMF sponsored privatisation program]”(The News, InfoLatina, .Mexico, October 10, 1997).

    The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

    Raul Salinas de Gortari is the brother of  former president Carlos Salinas de Gortiari, who signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in December 1992 alongside US President George H. W. Bush and Canada’s Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.(image left)

    In a bitter irony, it was only after this historical event, that Carlos Salinas’ family links to the drug trade through his brother Raul were revealed.

    The George H. W. Bush Senior administration was fully aware of the links of the Salinas presidency to organized crime. Public opinion in the US and Canada was never informed so as not to jeopardize the signing of NAFTA:

    “Other former officials say they were pressured to keep mum because Washington was obsessed with approving NAFTA”.

    “The intelligence on corruption, especially by drug traffickers, has always been there,” said Phil Jordan, who headed DEA’s Dallas office from 1984 to 1994. But “we were under instructions not to say anything negative about Mexico. It was a no-no since NAFTA was a hot political football.” (Dallas Morning News, 26 February 1997)

    In other words, at the time the NAFTA Agreement was signed, both Bush Senior and Mulroney were aware that one of the signatories of NAFTA, namely president Salinas de Gortiari  had links to the Mexican Drug Cartel.

    In 1995 in the wake of the scandal and the arrest of his brother Raul for murder, Carlos Salinas left Mexico to take up residence in Dublin. His alleged links to the Drug Cartel did not prevent him from being appointed to the Board of the Dow Jones Company on Wall Street, a position which he held until 1997:

    Salinas, who left Mexico in March 1995 after his brother, Raul, was charged with masterminding the murder of a political opponent, has served on the company’s board for two years. He was questioned last year in Dublin by a Mexican prosecutor investigating the murder in March 1994 of Luis Donaldo Colosio, who wanted to succeed Salinas as president. A Dow Jones spokesman last week denied that Salinas had been forced out of an election for the new board, which will take place at the company’s annual meeting on April 16… Salinas, who negotiated Mexico’s entry into the free trade agreement with the United States and Canada, was appointed to the board because of his international experience. He was unavailable for comment at his Dublin home last week.” (Sunday Times, London, 30 March 1997).

    Washington has consistently denied Carlos Salinas’ involvement. “it was his brother Raul”, Carlos Salinas “did not know”, the American media continued to uphold Salinas as a model statesman, architect of free trade in the Americas and a friend of the Bush family.

    In October 1998, The Swiss government confirmed that the brother of the former Mexican president had deposited some 100 million dollars in drug money in Swiss banks:

    “They [Swiss authorities] are confiscating the money, which they believe was part of a much larger amount paid to Raul Salinas for helping Mexican and Colombian drugs cartels during his brother’s six-year term ending in 1994. Mr Salinas’ lawyers have maintained he was legally heading an investment fund for Mexican businessmen but the Swiss federal prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, described Salinas’ business dealings as unsound, incomprehensible and contrary to customary business usage. (BBC Report)

     A few months later in January 1999, after a four-year trial, Raúl Salinas de Gortari (left) was convicted of ordering the murder of his brother-in-law, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu:

    “After [Carlos] Salinas left office in 1994, the Salinas family fell from grace in a swirl of drug-related corruption and crime scandals. Raúl was jailed and convicted on charges of money laundering and of masterminding the assassination of his brother-in-law; after spending 10 years in jail, Raúl was acquitted of both crimes.  …

    With the scandal unraveling, Jeb’s friendship with Raúl did not go unnoticed. Jeb has never denied his friendship with Raúl, who [now] keeps a low profile in Mexico.

    Kristy Campbell, spokesperson for Bush, did not respond a request for comment. The Salinas family’s demise caught the Bushes by surprise. “I have been very disappointed by the allegations about him and his family. I never had the slightest hint of information that President Salinas was anything but totally honest,” Bush senior  told me in the 1997 interview. (Dolia Estevez, Jeb Bush’s Mexican Connections, Forbes, April 7, 2015, emphasis added)

    “The Salinas family’s demise caught the Bushes by surprise”? (Forbes, April 2015) The Bushes knew who they were all along.

    Former DEA official Michael Levine confirmed that Carlos Salinas’ role in the Mexican drug cartel was known to US officials.

    US President George H. W. Bush was  regularly briefed by officials from the Department of Justice, the CIA and the DEA.

    Did Jeb Bush –who is now [2015] a candidate for the White House under a Republican ticket– know about Raul’s links to the Drug Cartel?.

    Was the Bush family in any way complicit?

    These are issues which must be addressed and debated by the American public across the land prior to the 2016 presidential primary elections.

    According to Andres Openheimer writing in the Miami Herald (February 17 1997):

    witnesses say former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, his imprisoned brother Raul and other members of country’s ruling elite met with drug lord Juan Garcia Abrego at a Salinas family ranch; Jeb Bush admits he met with Raul Salinas several times but has never done any business with him.”

    US authorities waited until after Carlos Salinas finished his presidential term to arrest Mexican drug lord Juan Garcia Abrego, who was a close collaborator of the president’s brother Raul. In turn, Raul Salinas was an “intimo amigo” of Jeb Bush :

    Juan Garcia Abrego, a fugitive on the FBI’s most-wanted list, was flown to Houston late Monday, following his arrest by Mexican police …  Garcia Abrego, the reputed head of Mexico’s second most powerful drug cartel, had eluded authorities on both sides of the border for years. His arrest is an enormous victory for the U.S. and Mexican governments. CNN, January 16, 2015

    But there is more than meets the eye: while the Bushes and the Salinas have longstanding ties, Wall Street was also involved in the laundering of drug money:

    A U.S. official said the Justice Department has made significant advances in its money-laundering investigation against Raul Salinas de Gortari and has identified several people who can testify that the former first brother received protection money from a major narcotics cartel.

    If the U.S. were to indict Mr. Salinas, it could have implications for a Justice Department investigation into possible money laundering by Citibank, where Mr. Salinas had some of his accounts. Citibank, a unit of Citicorp , has denied wrongdoing. (WSW, April 23, 2015)

    The involvement of Citbank in the money laundering operation is documented by a Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Report (US General Accounting Office  “Private Banking: Raul Salinas, Citibank, and Alleged Money Laundering” Washington, 1998).
    .

    The End Game

    Raul Salinas de Gortiari was set free  in 2005. All charges were dropped.

    The matter involving the Bushes and the Salinas has largely been forgotten.

    Meanwhile, American political history has been rewritten…

    Not to mention the 1992 “Free Trade” Agreement (NAFTA),  which was signed by a head of State [Salinas de Gortiari] with links to organized crime. Does that make it an illegal agreement? The legitimacy of NAFTA has so far not been the object of a legal procedure of judicial inquiry.

    An “illegal NAFTA” sets the stage for the TPP and TTIP “agreements” negotiated behind closed doors.

    All is well in the American Republic.

    At least until the forthcoming 2016 presidential elections.

    Versión en español: (IA) .


    La familia Bush y el cártel de la droga mexicano

    Michel Chossudovsky

    Mayo de 2015  

     

    Jeb Bush es candidato presidencial. [Lo fue en 2015]  Pero Jeb no es sólo el hermano de George W. y el hijo de George H.W. Bush. 

    Jeb Bush también tenía estrechos vínculos personales con Raúl Salinas de Gortari , hermano del expresidente mexicano Carlos Salinas de Gortari. En la década de 1990,  Raúl, el “capo de la droga”, según la  fiscal federal suiza  Carla del Ponte , fue una de las figuras principales del Cártel Mexicano de la Droga.  

    Jeb Bush –antes de convertirse en gobernador del Estado del Sol– era amigo cercano de Raúl Salinas de Gortiari (imagen derecha):

    En México también se ha especulado mucho sobre la  estrecha amistad de Raúl Salinas con Jeb Bush, hijo del expresidente George Bush. Es bien sabido que durante muchos años las dos familias pasaron vacaciones juntas: los Salinas en la casa de Jeb Bush en Miami, los Bush en el rancho de Raúl, Las Mendocinas,  a los pies del volcán de Puebla.

    Muchos en México creen que la relación se convirtió en un canal secundario para negociaciones delicadas y cruciales entre ambos gobiernos, que culminaron en el patrocinio del TLCAN por parte del presidente Bush. (El destacado intelectual y exministro de Relaciones Exteriores de México, Jorge G. Castañeda, The Los Angeles Times  y Houston Chronicle, 9 de marzo de 1995, énfasis añadido)

    La relación personal entre las familias Bush y Salinas era de dominio público. El expresidente George H. W. Bush había desarrollado estrechos vínculos personales con Carlos Salinas y su padre, Raúl Salinas Lozano.(izquierda)

    Raúl Salinas Lozano era el patriarca de la familia, padre de Carlos y Raúl Junior. Según el exsecretario privado de Raúl Salinas Lozano (en declaraciones a las autoridades estadounidenses):

    El Sr. Salinas Lozano fue una figura destacada en el tráfico de drogas que también involucraba a su hijo, Raúl Salinas de Gortari, a su yerno, José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, el segundo al mando del gobernante Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), y a otros políticos destacados, según los documentos. El Sr. Ruiz Massieu fue asesinado en 1994. (Dallas Morning News, 26 de febrero de 1997, cursiva añadida).

    El ex presidente George HW Bush y Raúl Salinas Lozano eran “íntimos amigos”.

    La gran mentira piadosa: La operación encubierta que expuso el sabotaje de la CIA a la guerra contra las drogasSegún el exfuncionario de la DEA Michael Levine , el Cártel de la droga mexicano era un asunto de familia. Tanto Carlos como Raúl eran miembros destacados del Cártel. Esto lo sabía el entonces fiscal general de Estados Unidos, Edward Meese, en 1987, un año antes de la toma de posesión de Carlos Salinas como presidente del país.

    Cuando Carlos Salinas asumió la presidencia, todo el aparato estatal mexicano se vio criminalizado, con puestos clave del gobierno ocupados por miembros del Cártel. El secretario de Comercio a cargo de las negociaciones comerciales previas a la firma del TLCAN fue Raúl Salinas Lozano, padre de Raúl Junior, el capo de la droga, y de Carlos, el presidente.

    Y fue precisamente durante este período que el gobierno de Salinas lanzó un amplio programa de privatizaciones bajo el asesoramiento del FMI.

    El programa de privatización se convirtió posteriormente en una operación multimillonaria de lavado de dinero. Los narcodólares se canalizaron hacia la adquisición de bienes estatales y servicios públicos.

    Richard Barnet, del Instituto de Estudios Políticos, testificó ante el Congreso de los Estados Unidos (14 de abril de 1994) que

    “Miles de millones de dólares en activos estatales han ido a parar a manos de partidarios y compinches” (Dallas Morning News, 11 de agosto de 1994).

    Entre ellas se encuentra la venta de Teléfonos de México, valorada en 3.900 millones de dólares y comprada por un compinche de Salinas por 400 millones de dólares (ibíd.).

    Raúl Salinas estuvo detrás del programa de privatización. Era conocido como “El Señor 10 por Ciento” “por la porción del dinero de la licitación que supuestamente exigía a cambio de ayudar a conocidos a adquirir empresas, concesiones y contratos [bajo el programa de privatización patrocinado por el FMI]” (The News, InfoLatina, México, 10 de octubre de 1997).

    El Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN)

    Raúl Salinas de Gortari es hermano del expresidente Carlos Salinas de Gortari, quien firmó el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) en diciembre de 1992 junto con el presidente estadounidense George H.W. Bush y el primer ministro de Canadá Brian Mulroney. (imagen izquierda)

    En una amarga ironía, fue sólo después de este acontecimiento histórico que se revelaron los vínculos de la familia de Carlos Salinas con el narcotráfico a través de su hermano Raúl.

    La administración de George H. W. Bush padre era plenamente consciente de los vínculos de la presidencia de Salinas con el crimen organizado. La opinión pública de Estados Unidos y Canadá nunca fue informada para no poner en peligro la firma del TLCAN.

    “Otros ex funcionarios dicen que fueron presionados para guardar silencio porque Washington estaba obsesionado con aprobar el TLCAN”.

    “La información sobre corrupción, especialmente por parte de narcotraficantes, siempre ha estado ahí”, dijo Phil Jordan, quien dirigió la oficina de la DEA en Dallas de 1984 a 1994. Pero “teníamos instrucciones de no decir nada negativo sobre México. Era inaceptable, ya que el TLCAN era un tema político candente”. (Dallas Morning News, 26 de febrero de 1997)

    En otras palabras, en el momento en que se firmó el TLCAN, tanto Bush padre como Mulroney sabían que uno de los firmantes del TLCAN, es decir, el presidente Salinas de Gortari, tenía vínculos con el Cártel de la Droga Mexicano.

    En 1995, tras el escándalo y la detención de su hermano Raúl por asesinato, Carlos Salinas abandonó México para establecerse en Dublín. Sus presuntos vínculos con el cártel de la droga no le impidieron ser nombrado miembro del consejo de administración de Dow Jones Company en Wall Street, cargo que ocupó hasta 1997.

    Salinas, quien abandonó México en marzo de 1995 después de que su hermano, Raúl, fuera acusado de planear el asesinato de un opositor político, ha sido miembro del consejo de administración de la compañía durante dos años. El año pasado, fue interrogado en Dublín por un fiscal mexicano que investigaba el asesinato, en marzo de 1994, de Luis Donaldo Colosio, quien pretendía suceder a Salinas como presidente. Un portavoz de Dow Jones negó la semana pasada que Salinas hubiera sido forzado a renunciar a las elecciones para el nuevo consejo, que se celebrarán en la junta anual de la compañía el 16 de abril. Salinas, quien negoció la adhesión de México al tratado de libre comercio con Estados Unidos y Canadá, fue nombrado miembro del consejo debido a su experiencia internacional. No estuvo disponible para hacer comentarios en su domicilio de Dublín la semana pasada. (Sunday Times, Londres, 30 de marzo de 1997).

    Washington ha negado consistentemente la implicación de Carlos Salinas. “Fue su hermano Raúl”, Carlos Salinas “no lo sabía”, los medios estadounidenses siguieron sosteniendo que Salinas era un estadista modelo, arquitecto del libre comercio en las Américas y amigo de la familia Bush.

    En octubre de 1998, el gobierno suizo confirmó que el hermano del ex presidente mexicano había depositado unos 100 millones de dólares de dinero del narcotráfico en bancos suizos:

    Las autoridades suizas están confiscando el dinero, que creen que formaba parte de una cantidad mucho mayor pagada a Raúl Salinas por ayudar a los cárteles de la droga mexicanos y colombianos durante el sexenio de su hermano, que concluyó en 1994. Los abogados del Sr. Salinas han sostenido que dirigía legalmente un fondo de inversión para empresarios mexicanos, pero la fiscal federal suiza, Carla del Ponte, calificó los negocios de Salinas de ilícitos, incomprensibles y contrarios a los usos comerciales habituales. ( Informe de la BBC )

     Unos meses después, en enero de 1999, tras un juicio que duró cuatro años, Raúl Salinas de Gortari (izquierda) fue condenado por ordenar el asesinato de su cuñado, José Francisco Ruiz Massieu:

    Tras la salida de Carlos Salinas del cargo en 1994, la familia Salinas cayó en desgracia en medio de una espiral de corrupción y escándalos relacionados con el narcotráfico . Raúl fue encarcelado y condenado por lavado de dinero y por planear el asesinato de su cuñado; tras pasar 10 años en prisión, Raúl fue absuelto de ambos delitos.

    Con el escándalo desatado, la amistad de Jeb con Raúl no pasó desapercibida. Jeb nunca ha negado su amistad con Raúl, quien [ahora] mantiene un perfil bajo en México.

    Kristy Campbell, portavoz de Bush, no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios. El fallecimiento de la familia Salinas tomó a los Bush por sorpresa. “Me han decepcionado mucho las acusaciones contra él y su familia. Nunca tuve la menor idea de que el presidente Salinas fuera algo que no fuera totalmente honesto”, me dijo Bush padre en la entrevista de 1997. (Dolia Estevez, Jeb Bush’s Mexican Connections, Forbes, 7 de abril de 2015, cursiva añadida)

    “¿La muerte de la familia Salinas tomó a los Bush por sorpresa?” (Forbes, abril de 2015). Los Bush sabían quiénes eran desde el principio.

    El ex funcionario de la DEA Michael Levine confirmó que los funcionarios estadounidenses conocían el papel de Carlos Salinas en el cártel de la droga mexicano.

    El presidente de Estados Unidos, George H. W. Bush, recibió información periódica de funcionarios del Departamento de Justicia, la CIA y la DEA.

    ¿Sabía Jeb Bush –quien ahora [2015] es candidato a la Casa Blanca por el Partido Republicano– sobre los vínculos de Raúl con el Cártel de la Droga?

    ¿La familia Bush fue de alguna manera cómplice?

    Se trata de cuestiones que el público estadounidense en todo el país debe abordar y debatir antes de las elecciones primarias presidenciales de 2016.

    Según Andrés Openheimer, en un artículo publicado en el Miami Herald (17 de febrero de 1997):

     Testigos dicen que el expresidente mexicano Carlos Salinas de Gortari, su hermano encarcelado Raúl y otros miembros de la élite gobernante del país se reunieron  con el capo de la droga Juan García Abrego en un rancho de la familia Salinas; Jeb Bush admite que se reunió con Raúl Salinas varias veces, pero nunca ha hecho negocios con él ”.

    Las autoridades estadounidenses esperaron hasta que Carlos Salinas terminó su mandato presidencial para arrestar al narcotraficante mexicano Juan García Ábrego, quien era un estrecho colaborador de Raúl, hermano del presidente. A su vez, Raúl Salinas era un “amigo íntimo” de Jeb Bush.

    Juan García Ábrego, fugitivo incluido en la lista de los más buscados del FBI, fue trasladado a Houston la noche del lunes tras su arresto por la policía mexicana. García Ábrego, presunto líder del segundo cártel de la droga más poderoso de México, había eludido a las autoridades de ambos lados de la frontera durante años. Su arresto representa una enorme victoria para los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y México. CNN , 16 de enero de 2015.

    Pero hay más de lo que parece: si bien los Bush y los Salina tienen vínculos de larga data, Wall Street también estuvo involucrado en el lavado de dinero del narcotráfico:

    Un funcionario estadounidense dijo que el Departamento de Justicia ha logrado avances significativos en su investigación de lavado de dinero contra Raúl Salinas de Gortari y ha identificado a varias personas que pueden testificar que el ex primer hermano recibió dinero de protección de un importante cártel de narcóticos.

    Si Estados Unidos acusara formalmente al Sr. Salinas, esto podría tener implicaciones para una investigación del Departamento de Justicia sobre posible lavado de dinero por parte de Citibank, donde el Sr. Salinas tenía algunas de sus cuentas . Citibank, una unidad de  Citicorp  , ha negado cualquier irregularidad. (WSW, 23 de abril de 2015)

    La participación de Citbank en la operación de lavado de dinero está documentada por un Informe del Comité de Asuntos Gubernamentales del Senado (Oficina General de Contabilidad de EE.UU.   “Banca Privada: Raúl Salinas, Citibank y el presunto lavado de dinero”,  Washington, 1998).
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    El juego final

    Raúl Salinas de Gortiari fue puesto en libertad en 2005. Todos los cargos fueron retirados.

    El asunto de los Bush y los Salina ha sido prácticamente olvidado.

    Mientras tanto, la historia política estadounidense ha sido reescrita…

    Sin mencionar el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLCAN) de 1992, firmado por un jefe de Estado [Salinas de Gortiari] con vínculos con el crimen organizado. ¿Acaso eso lo convierte en un acuerdo ilegal? La legitimidad del TLCAN no ha sido objeto de un procedimiento judicial de investigación hasta la fecha.

    Un “TLCAN ilegal” prepara el terreno para los “acuerdos” TPP y TTIP negociados a puertas cerradas.

    Todo está bien en la República Americana.

    Al menos hasta las próximas elecciones presidenciales de 2016.



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  • The Oligarchy Study They Don’t Want You to Remember/By Eric Buesing

    The Oligarchy Study They Don’t Want You to Remember/By Eric Buesing

    In 2014, two professors proved America is an oligarchy. Then everyone forgot.

    Original Link Here: The Oligarchy Study They Don’t Want You to Remember – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

    Global Research, December 16, 2025

    In the spring of 2014, Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern did something that should have changed everything. They took the most sacred promise of American democracy; that your vote matters, that the people have a say, and actually tested it.

    What they found was an OLIGARCHY.

    Not metaphorically. They proved it with numbers. With 1,779 policy issues tracked across two decades. They proved the United States is dominated by economic elites and business interests. That what average citizens want has basically zero impact on what the government actually does.

    Your vote doesn’t matter when it conflicts with what the wealthy want. The paper came out in Perspectives on Politics. Peer-reviewed. Rigorous as hell. It should have sparked a national reckoning. Instead? A few weeks of headlines and then… nothing. We just forgot about it. They proved we live in an oligarchy. We shrugged and moved on.

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    What They Set Out to Test

    For decades, political scientists argued about how American democracy really works. There were four main theories.

    Majoritarian Electoral Democracy. The textbook version. Average people determine policy through elections.

    Economic-Elite Domination. Rich people have way more influence than everyone else.

    Majoritarian Pluralism. Different interest groups compete and the majority usually wins.

    Biased Pluralism. Business groups have outsized power.

    Nobody had actually tested all these theories against each other with real data. Gilens and Page decided to finally do it.

    The Dataset Nobody Could Ignore

    Here’s what they did. They compiled data on 1,779 different policy issues between 1982 and 2002. For each one, they looked at what three groups wanted: average citizens (middle-income folks), economic elites (the top 10%), and organized interest groups (both regular advocacy groups and business lobbies).

    Then they tracked what actually happened. Which policies became law. Which ones died. They ran the numbers to see whose preferences actually mattered. The results were brutal.

    The Numbers That Destroy the Illusion

    Here’s the kicker. When rich people support a policy, it has about a 45% chance of becoming law. When average citizens support that same policy? Also 45%. Looks equal, right? That’s the trick. Because when you dig into the math and control for what the wealthy want, something disturbing shows up. What average Americans want has virtually zero independent effect on policy outcomes. Zero. You are statistically irrelevant.

    Your opinion carries no more weight than a coin flip unless you happen to want exactly what rich people want. They used fancy academic language: “near-zero, statistically non-significant impact.” But here’s what that actually means. The government doesn’t represent you. It represents wealth.

    Rich people? They have “substantial and significant effects on policy.” Business groups? Real influence. Regular advocacy groups representing normal people? Basically nothing. This is what oligarchy looks like when you measure it.

    When the Mask Falls Off

    The really devastating part? What happens when rich people and average people want different things. This is where you find out if democracy actually works. The answer is no.

    When interests conflict, the wealthy win. Every time. So consistently you could set your watch by it. This isn’t about the easy stuff where everyone agrees. This is about real policy fights where somebody has to lose. Guess who loses.

    When push comes to shove, policy follows what rich people want. What the majority wants becomes window dressing. Something politicians mention in speeches before doing what the money tells them to do. Gilens and Page could measure this. They could chart it. The pattern was undeniable. This is oligarchy without the mask.

    What This Actually Means

    Gilens and Page used careful academic language. They called it “economic-elite domination.” But let’s just say it. They proved America is an oligarchy. Rule by the wealthy. Yeah, we still vote. We have free speech. You can tweet about it. Call your congressman. March in the street if you want. None of it changes anything when your interests clash with rich people’s interests. The researchers said America’s claims to democracy are “seriously threatened.” What restraint.

    Here’s the real translation: We don’t live in a democracy. We live in an oligarchy that looks like a democracy. We have all the theater; elections, speeches, flags, the whole show. We just don’t have the actual power. When the media covered this, they called it what it is. Oligarchy. The researchers didn’t argue. The math was too clear.

    The Sound of Silence

    When this study came out in April 2014, it exploded. For a minute, people actually confronted the evidence that they don’t matter politically. Charts got shared everywhere. People got angry. The kind of angry you get when someone proves something you’ve suspected all along.

    Then… silence. The news cycle moved on. Nothing changed. No congressional hearings. No new laws. No mass movement demanding actual democracy. No billionaires funding reforms that would limit their own power. (Shocking, I know.) The oligarchy just kept oligarching.

    Sure, some academics picked apart the methodology. There were debates. That’s fine. That’s how science works. But those technical arguments became a convenient way to avoid the main point. The basic pattern is undeniable: When regular people’s interests clash with rich people’s interests, regular people lose. The oligarchy proved it was an oligarchy. And then decided not to care.

    The Forgetting

    Maybe the truth was too technical. Regression analyses don’t make good TV. Maybe it was too depressing. Being told your political opinions literally don’t matter? That cuts deep. Maybe we’re just numb to this stuff by now. Even mathematical proof of powerlessness can’t shock us anymore. Or maybe, and here’s where it gets interesting, the people who control policy also control the megaphones.

    Think about it. They own the media companies. They fund the campaigns. They bankroll the think tanks. They decide which conferences matter and which ideas become “serious” and which get dismissed as fringe.

    The same people whose oligarchic power Gilens and Page exposed have every advantage to make sure that exposure doesn’t lead anywhere. Not through some conspiracy. Just through power doing what power does. Protecting itself. When the people deciding what stays in the news, what gets taken seriously, what reforms are “realistic” all benefit from the current system, well… the result is predictable.

    The study proving oligarchy got buried by the oligarchy. Not censored. Just allowed to fade. Acknowledged, discussed briefly, then filed away.

    When Numbers Speak Truth to Power

    The methodology has been picked apart from every angle. The core finding still stands. When average people want something different from what rich people want, rich people get their way. Every time. Measurably. This isn’t opinion. It’s math. Some researchers found nuances the original missed. Fine. That’s how science works. But the refinements don’t change the big picture.

    America’s political system responds to rich people. It ignores everyone else. That’s not democracy. That’s oligarchy. You can call it “economic-elite domination” if that makes you feel better. You can say “biased pluralism” if that sounds less scary. Use whatever euphemism helps you sleep.

    But here’s what the data actually shows: The United States is an oligarchy wearing a democracy costume. We do all the democracy stuff; elections, institutions, flags, inspiring speeches. But when it comes to actual policy? That gets decided by a tiny slice of the population at the top. The rest of us? We matter only when we happen to want the same thing rich people want.

    We’re spectators. Watching a show where the ending is already written.

    The Tightening Grip

    The data ended in 2002. So has anything gotten better in the 20+ years since? Are you kidding? It’s gotten worse. Income inequality exploded. Between 2009 and 2012, the top 1% captured 95% of all income gains. Wealth concentration hit levels we haven’t seen since the Gilded Age.

    Then in 2010, Citizens United happened. The Supreme Court basically said unlimited corporate money in politics is fine. Actually, it’s freedom. Money is speech. Corporations are people. The whole thing. Super PACs sprouted up everywhere. Dark money flooded in; money you can’t even trace.

    If Gilens and Page took a snapshot of oligarchy in 2002, the last two decades are like watching that oligarchy get more brazen, more comfortable, more open about it. The system keeps getting less responsive to regular people. The elite capture of policy isn’t stable; it’s accelerating. Run this study today and the numbers would probably be even more extreme. The gap even wider. Regular Americans even more irrelevant. We didn’t fix the problem. We made it worse.

    The Question That Breaks Everything

    So here’s the question we need to ask. If policy systematically ignores what average people want whenever it conflicts with what rich people want, in what sense do we actually live in a democracy? Not as some ideal we’re working toward. As reality. Right now. Sure, we can argue about definitions. Point to the Constitution. Talk about the founders. But if your vote doesn’t translate into actual policy when your interests diverge from the wealthy, what exactly are we protecting?

    Gilens and Page didn’t say America is a dictatorship. We’re not. We have freedoms. The system isn’t authoritarian. But you also can’t change the government’s direction when your interests conflict with rich people’s interests. Your freedom extends to everything except actual power over the decisions that shape your life.

    You’re free to speak. The government is free to ignore you. You’re free to vote. Your vote is free to not matter. You’re free to organize and protest and demand change. And policy will change exactly when your demands align with what rich people were already willing to accept. That’s oligarchy with better marketing. Democracy as theater.

    A Study We Choose to Forget

    This research exists in a weird limbo. Too solid to dismiss. Too uncomfortable to accept. You can’t debunk it. The work is sound. The findings held up under scrutiny. This is real political science. But you also can’t really accept it. Not if you want to keep believing the story about democracy we tell ourselves. Not if you want to think your vote actually matters. So we did something else. We just… forgot.

    The study came out. Smart people talked about it. Data got shared around. People got mad. And then we all moved on. Not because it was wrong. Because it was right. And the truth is too destabilizing to actually deal with. We’d rather believe in the fiction than face the evidence. Rather pretend we have a say than admit we don’t. Rather keep playing a rigged game than acknowledge we’re being played.

    Because what else are you supposed to do? What do you do when research proves your government doesn’t represent you? When the numbers show your opinions are irrelevant? You could try to organize. Push for reforms. But the study itself proves that without rich people backing you, you’re wasting your time. They’ve already captured the system that would need to change the system. So we forgot. It was easier.

    But maybe we’re asking the wrong question. Maybe it’s not about whether we’ll look at the evidence. Maybe it’s about understanding how we got to a place where this kind of evidence even exists.

    Oligarchy didn’t just appear in 2014 when Gilens and Page published their findings. It didn’t start in 1982 when their dataset begins. This concentration of power they documented? It’s part of a much older story. One that stretches back centuries, across civilizations, following patterns that keep repeating.

    The structures that let 147 corporations control 40% of global wealth (discussed in my previous Substack article), that let rich people dominate policy while regular citizens become irrelevant. These didn’t just pop up overnight. They evolved. They learned from every previous version of concentrated power that came before.

    Understanding how we got here means looking way further back than most people are willing to go. Back to how pharaohs controlled the Nile Valley. How Roman elites maintained power through republic and empire. How wealth has always, quietly, consistently, translated itself into political control. The patterns are there. They’ve always been there.

    That’s what I dig into in The Hidden Hand: Wealth, Power, and Control from Pharaohs to Corporations. How power concentrates. How it perpetuates itself across centuries. How the same basic dynamics that built ancient pyramids are shaping modern policy today. The book traces these patterns from antiquity to now, showing that oligarchy isn’t some weird aberration. It’s the default setting. And we keep rediscovering it.

    The Hidden Hand comes out from Trineday in June 2026.

    Pre-order now, click here.

    READ MORE:

    Mainstream Cartel Media is not your friend. It serves the parasitic oligarchy and “Mr. Global” – Mark Taliano

    Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid, “Global Financial Giant” – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

    Canadian politicians controlled by the transnational oligarchy? | Intrepid Report.com

    The Rich Get Richer. The Rest Of Us Pay For Their Economic Mess/May 2, 2012. – Mark Taliano

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  • Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid, “Global Financial Giant”/ By Ellen Brown

    Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid, “Global Financial Giant”/ By Ellen Brown

    Original Link Here: Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid, “Global Financial Giant” – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

    Global Research, June 25, 2023

    First published by Global Research on January 23, 2020

     

    BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve. The fate of a large portion of the country’s corporations has been put in the hands of a megalithic private entity with the private capitalist mandate to make as much money as possible for its owners and investors; and that is what it has proceeded to do.

    To most people, if they are familiar with it at all, BlackRock is an asset manager that helps pension funds and retirees manage their savings through “passive” investments that track the stock market. But working behind the scenes, it is much more than that. BlackRock has been called “the most powerful institution in the financial system,” “the most powerful company in the world” and the “secret power.” It is the world’s largest asset manager and “shadow bank,” larger than the world’s largest bank (which is in China), with over $7 trillion in assets under direct management  and another $20 trillion managed through its Aladdin risk-monitoring software.

    BlackRock has also been called “the fourth branch of government” and “almost a shadow government”, but no part of it actually belongs to the government. Despite its size and global power, BlackRock is not even regulated as a “Systemically Important Financial Institution” under the Dodd-Frank Act, thanks to pressure from its CEO Larry Fink, who has long had “cozy” relationships with government officials.

    BlackRock’s strategic importance and political weight were evident when four BlackRock executives, led by former Swiss National Bank head Philipp Hildebrand, presented a proposal at the annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in August 2019 for an economic reset that was actually put into effect in March 2020. Acknowledging that central bankers were running out of ammunition for controlling the money supply and the economy, the BlackRock group argued that it was time for the central bank to abandon its long-vaunted independence and join monetary policy (the usual province of the central bank) with fiscal policy (the usual province of the legislature). They proposed that the central bank maintain a “Standing Emergency Fiscal Facility” that would be activated when interest rate manipulation was no longer working to avoid deflation. The Facility would be deployed by an “independent expert” appointed by the central bank.

    The COVID-19 crisis presented the perfect opportunity to execute this proposal in the US, with BlackRock itself appointed to administer it. In March 2020, it was awarded a no-bid contract under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to deploy a $454 billion slush fund established by the Treasury in partnership with the Federal Reserve. This fund in turn could be leveraged to provide over $4 trillion in Federal Reserve credit. While the public was distracted with protests, riots and lockdowns, BlackRock suddenly emerged from the shadows to become the “fourth branch of government,” managing the controls to the central bank’s print-on-demand fiat money. How did that happen and what are the implications?

    Rising from the Shadows

    BlackRock was founded in 1988 in partnership with the Blackstone Group, a multinational private equity management firm that would become notorious after the 2008-09 banking crisis for snatching up foreclosed homes at firesale prices and renting them at inflated prices. BlackRock first grew its balance sheet in the 1990s and 2000s by promoting the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that brought down the economy in 2008. Knowing the MBS business from the inside, it was then put in charge of the Federal Reserve’s “Maiden Lane” facilities. Called “special purpose vehicles,” these were used to buy “toxic” assets (largely unmarketable MBS) from Bear Stearns and American Insurance Group (AIG), something the Fed was not legally allowed to do itself.

    BlackRock really made its fortunes, however, in “exchange traded funds” (ETFs). It gained trillions in investable assets after it acquired the iShares series of ETFs in a takeover of Barclays Global Investors in 2009. By 2020, the wildly successful iShares series included over 800 funds and $1.9 trillion in assets under management.

    READ MORE: Canadian Cities Hit by Pandemic Lockdown. Vulnerable to BlackRock’s Privatization Agenda

    Exchange traded funds are bought and sold like shares but operate as index-tracking funds, passively following specific indices such as the S&P 500, the benchmark index of America’s largest corporations and the index in which most people invest. Today the fast-growing ETF sector controls nearly half of all investments in US stocks, and it is highly concentrated. The sector is dominated by just three giant American asset managers – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, the “Big Three” – with BlackRock the clear global leader. By 2017, the Big Three together had become the largest shareholder in almost 90% of S&P 500 firms, including Apple, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, General Electric and Coca-Cola. BlackRock also owns major interests in nearly every mega-bank and in major media.

    In March 2020, based on its expertise with the Maiden Lane facilities and its sophisticated Aladdin risk-monitoring software, BlackRock got the job of dispensing Federal Reserve funds through eleven “special purpose vehicles” authorized under the CARES Act. Like the Maiden Lane facilities, these vehicles were designed to allow the Fed, which is legally limited to purchasing safe federally-guaranteed assets, to finance the purchase of riskier assets in the market.

    Blackrock Bails Itself Out

    The national lockdown left states, cities and local businesses in desperate need of federal government aid. But according to David Dayen in The American Prospect, as of May 30 (the Fed’s last monthly report), the only purchases made under the Fed’s new BlackRock-administered SPVs were ETFs, mainly owned by BlackRock itself. Between May 14 and May 20, about $1.58 billion in ETFs were bought through the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), of which $746 million or about 47% came from BlackRock ETFs. The Fed continued to buy more ETFs after May 20, and investors piled in behind, resulting in huge inflows into BlackRock’s corporate bond ETFs.

    In fact, these ETFs needed a bailout; and BlackRock used its very favorable position with the government to get one. The complicated mechanisms and risks underlying ETFs are explained in an April 3 article by business law professor Ryan Clements, who begins his post:

    “Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are at the heart of the COVID-19 financial crisisOver forty percent of the trading volume during the mid-March selloff was in ETFs ….”

    The ETFs were trading well below the value of their underlying bonds, which were dropping like a rock. Some ETFs were failing altogether. The problem was something critics had long warned of: while ETFs are very liquid, trading on demand like stocks, the assets that make up their portfolios are not. When the market drops and investors flee, the ETFs can have trouble coming up with the funds to settle up without trading at a deep discount; and that is what was happening in March.

    According to a May 3 article in The National, “The sector was ultimately saved by the US Federal Reserve’s pledge on March 23 to buy investment-grade credit and certain ETFs. This provided the liquidity needed to rescue bonds that had been floundering in a market with no buyers.”

    Prof. Clements states that if the Fed had not stepped in, “a ‘doom loop’ could have materialized where continued selling pressure in the ETF market exacerbated a fire-sale in the underlying [bonds], and again vice-versa, in a procyclical pile-on with devastating consequences.” He observes:

    “There’s an unsettling form of market alchemy that takes place when illiquid, over-the-counter bonds are transformed into instantly liquid ETFs. ETF ‘liquidity transformation’ is now being supported by the government, just like liquidity transformation in mortgage backed securities and shadow banking was supported in 2008.”

    Working for Whom?

    BlackRock got a bailout with no debate in Congress, no “penalty” interest rate of the sort imposed on states and cities borrowing in the Fed’s Municipal Liquidity Facility, no complicated paperwork or waiting in line for scarce Small Business Administration loans, no strings attached. It just quietly bailed itself out.

    It might be argued that this bailout was good and necessary, since the market was saved from a disastrous “doom loop,” and so were the pension funds and the savings of millions of investors. Although BlackRock has a controlling interest in all the major corporations in the S&P 500, it professes not to “own” the funds. It just acts as a kind of “custodian” for its investors — or so it claims. But BlackRock and the other Big 3 ETFs vote the corporations’ shares; so from the point of view of management, they are the owners. And as observed in a 2017 article from the University of Amsterdam titled “These Three Firms Own Corporate America,” they vote 90% of the time in favor of management. That means they tend to vote against shareholder initiatives, against labor, and against the public interest. BlackRock is not actually working for us, although we the American people have now become its largest client base.

    In a 2018 review titled “Blackrock – The Company That Owns the World”, a multinational research group called Investigate Europe concluded that BlackRock “undermines competition through owning shares in competing companies, blurs boundaries between private capital and government affairs by working closely with regulators, and advocates for privatization of pension schemes in order to channel savings capital into its own funds.”

    Daniela Gabor, Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Western England in Bristol, concluded after following a number of regulatory debates in Brussels that it was no longer the banks that wielded the financial power; it was the asset managers. She said:

    We are often told that a manager is there to invest our money for our old age. But it’s much more than that. In my opinion, BlackRock reflects the renunciation of the welfare state. Its rise in power goes hand-in-hand with ongoing structural changes; in finance, but also in the nature of the social contract that unites the citizen and the state.

    That these structural changes are planned and deliberate is evident in BlackRock’s August 2019 white paper laying out an economic reset that has now been implemented with BlackRock at the helm.

    Public policy is made today in ways that favor the stock market, which is considered the barometer of the economy, although it has little to do with the strength of the real, productive economy. Giant pension and other investment funds largely control the stock market, and the asset managers control the funds. That effectively puts BlackRock, the largest and most influential asset manager, in the driver’s seat in controlling the economy.

    As Peter Ewart notes in a May 14 article on BlackRock titled “Foxes in the Henhouse,” today the economic system “is not classical capitalism but rather state monopoly capitalism, where giant enterprises are regularly backstopped with public funds and the boundaries between the state and the financial oligarchy are virtually non-existent.”

    If the corporate oligarchs are too big and strategically important to be broken up under the antitrust laws, rather than bailing them out they should be nationalized and put directly into the service of the public. At the very least, BlackRock should be regulated as a too-big-to-fail Systemically Important Financial Institution. Better yet would be to regulate it as a public utility. No private, unelected entity should have the power over the economy that BlackRock has, without a legally enforceable fiduciary duty to wield it in the public interest.

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  • Video: War against Humanity/By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Peter Koenig, and Drago Bosnic

    Video: War against Humanity/By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Peter Koenig, and Drago Bosnic

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    Global Research, November 19, 2025

    This  GRTV video production addresses the complexity and diversity of modern warfare. 

    Digital control over a World population of more than 8 Billion People is an instrument of modern warfare, in liason with NATO and the Pentagon.

    It’s the “smartphonization” of humanity which repeals fundamental human rights Worldwide. 

    “Economic Warfare” is carried out in coordination with the conduct of military operations. Its objective is to destabilize national economies, resulting in unemployment,  poverty and despair. 

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    Our objective is to reach out to people worldwide: In the Middle East, Africa,  The Americas, Western Europe, Russia, China, India, East and South East Asia

    Our longstanding commitment is to world peace and “true democracy.” 

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  • Syria’s Grand Mufti’s Forced Exile from al Qaeda’s Al-Sharaa Regime in Syria

    Syria’s Grand Mufti’s Forced Exile from al Qaeda’s Al-Sharaa Regime in Syria

     

    Our thoughts are with Syria’s Grand Mufti, Dr. Ahmad Badr Al-Din Hassoun, a man of peace and humility, whose house was recently attacked in Aleppo, but who is now safe outside of Syria.

    Hassoun is emblematic of an anti-sectarian, pluralist, unified Syria, explaining to investigative reporter Eva Bartlett in 2018 that ‘In Syria, there are 23 million Christians, and 23 million Muslims. My title is Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic, not the Mufti of a particular denomination.’” (1)

    His statement reflects those of most Syrians who do not define themselves in terms of religious labels and associations, who reject sectarian hatred, extremism and terrorism — all products and instruments of Western Regime Change operations.

    I remember meeting Syria’s Grand Mufti Hassoun years ago, in 2016, as Syria was being besieged by Western-supported sectarian terrorists, the same ones who now claim to govern Syria. He said then that profiting from arms manufacturing should be illegal.

    Meeting with Syria’s Grand Mufti Hassoun in Damascus Syria, 2016

    He was right. War profiteering has been a significant driver behind the war on Syria, as it is with NATO expansionism.

    What Dr. Hassoun may have over-looked at the time is the pernicious role of International Finance as leading war profiteers.

    International Financial Institutions helped set the stage for the war on Syria in the first place.  Prof. Michel Chossudovsky notes in “SYRIA: NATO’s Next “Humanitarian” War?”   that IMF guidance in 2006 included austerity measures, a freeze on wages, the deregulation of the financial system, trade reform and privatization … leading to unemployment, “social unrest and mass protest.” (2)

    Syrians were (by design) ripe for productive change, but not the fake “revolution” and Western-imposed sectarian carnage that would soon dismantle their country.

    Now that the elected government has fallen, with al Qaeda posing as the new government, International Financial Institutions are again circling Syria like vultures, keen to profit from Syria’s Western-imposed misery.

    According to SANA news, “a roadmap for the economic vision” was discussed at a recent conference in Saudi Arabia, where the conference addressed “reintegration of the Central Bank of Syria into the international system, and the representation of Syria in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.”

    Importantly, prior to the Western-imposed Regime Change War, Syria reportedly had NO EXTERNAL DEBT. (3)

    International Financial Institutions, seemingly far-removed from the mass death and misery that they helped to orchestrate, are in fact some of the key (though largely hidden) villains that will profit from the demise of Syria as a sovereign, pluralist, anti-sectarian nation. Big Finance loans and  conditionalities will dictate much of Syria’s political-economy, largely hidden from view.

    Tolerance and pluralism are increasingly unwelcome in the “New Syria” fronted by al Qaeda/HTS’ Al-Sharaa. Largely unseen bad actors have played an important role in this well-planned catastrophe.

     

    Notes:

    (1) Eva Bartlett, “Syria’s Grand Mufti Hassoun Discusses Peaceful Coexistence, Love, and an Inclusive, Nonsectarian Syria.” IN GAZA and beyond, December 6, 2018. (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/12/06/syrias-grand-mufti-hassoun-discusses-peaceful-coexistence-love-and-an-inclusive-nonsectarian-syria/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIhzlNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfSqWxahog__C5GjnbWDKDAL9isaQ8bN_FUWQau8v7BYE0OZUZJFb20iDw_aem_PmAIBFyliKhJRPBqz-Ug4g) Accessed 19 February, 2025.

    See also: https://mintpressnews.cn/interview-grand-mufti-ahmad-badr-al-din-hassoun-syria/252590/

    (2) Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, “SYRIA: NATO’s Next ‘Humanitarian’ War?” Global Research, 11 February, 2012. (https://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-nato-s-next-humanitarian-war/29234) Accessed 19 February, 2025.

    (3) Mark Taliano, “Syria Expresses Its Freedom Through Resistance.” Global Research, September 20, 2019.( https://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-expresses-freedom-resistance/5689718) Accessed 19 February, 2025.

     

  • From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia/By Colin Todhunter

    From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia/By Colin Todhunter

    Global Research, August 18, 2024

    Original Link Here: From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

    “A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthetic.” — Silvia Guerini, radical ecologist, in ‘From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology’ (2023)

    We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain. The big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model of food and agriculture on the world. [1]

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    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and big financial institutions, like BlackRock and Vanguard, are also involved, whether through buying up huge tracts of farmland,  pushing biosynthetic (fake) food and genetic engineering technologies or more generally facilitating and financing the aims of the mega agri-food corporations. [2]

    The billionaire interests behind this try to portray their techno-solutionism as some kind of humanitarian endeavour: saving the planet with ‘climate-friendly solutions’, ‘helping farmers’ or ‘feeding the world’. But what it really amounts to is repackaging and greenwashing the dispossessive strategies of imperialism.

    It involves a shift towards a ‘one world agriculture’ under the control of agritech and the data giants, which is to be based on genetically engineered seeds, laboratory created products that resemble food, ‘precision’ and ‘data-driven’ agriculture and farming without farmers, with the entire agrifood chain, from field (or lab) to retail, being governed by monopolistic e-commerce platforms determined by artificial intelligence systems and algorithms.

    Those who are pushing this agenda have a vision not only for farmers but also for humanity in general.

    The elites through their military-digital-financial (Pentagon/Silicon Valley/Big Finance) complex want to use their technologies to reshape the world and redefine what it means to be human. They regard humans, their cultures and their practices, like nature itself, as a problem and deficient.

    Farmers are to be displaced and replaced with drones, machines and cloud-based computing. Food is to be redefined and people are to be fed synthetic, genetically engineered products. Cultures are to be eradicated, and humanity is to be fully urbanised, subservient and disconnected from the natural world.

    What it means to be human is to be radically transformed. But what has it meant to be human until now or at least prior to the (relatively recent) Industrial Revolution and associated mass urbanisation?

    To answer this question, we need to discuss our connection to nature and what most of humanity was involved in prior to industrialisation — cultivating food.

    Many of the ancient rituals and celebrations of our forebears were built around stories, myths and rituals that helped them come to terms with some of the most fundamental issues of existence, from death to rebirth and fertility. These culturally embedded beliefs and practices served to sanctify their practical relationship with nature and its role in sustaining human life.

    As agriculture became key to human survival, the planting and harvesting of crops and other seasonal activities associated with food production were central to these customs.

    Humans celebrated nature and the life it gave birth to. Ancient beliefs and rituals were imbued with hope and renewal and people had a necessary and immediate relationship with the sun, seeds, animals, wind, fire, soil and rain and the changing seasons that nourished and brought life. Our cultural and social relationships with agrarian production and associated deities had a sound practical base.

    People’s lives have been tied to planting, harvesting, seeds, soil and the seasons for thousands of years.

    Silvia Guerini, whose quote introduces this article, notes the importance of deep-rooted relationships and the rituals that re-affirm them. She says that through rituals a community recognises itself and its place in the world. They create the spirit of a rooted community by contributing to rooting and making a single existence endure in a time, in a territory, in a community.

    Professor Robert W Nicholls explains that the cults of Woden and Thor were superimposed on far older and better-rooted beliefs related to the sun and the earth, the crops and the animals and the rotation of the seasons between the light and warmth of summer and the cold and dark of winter.

    Humanity’s relationship with farming and food and our connections to land, nature and community has for millennia defined what it means to be human.

    Take India, for example. Environmental scientist Viva Kermani says that Hinduism is the world’s largest nature-based religion that:

    “… recognises and seeks the Divine in nature and acknowledges everything as sacred. It views the earth as our Mother and hence advocates that it should not be exploited. A loss of this understanding that earth is our mother, or rather a deliberate ignorance of this, has resulted in the abuse and the exploitation of the earth and its resources.”

    Kermani notes that ancient scriptures instructed people that the animals and plants found in India are sacred and, therefore, all aspects of nature are to be revered. She adds that this understanding of and reverence towards the environment is common to all Indic religious and spiritual systems: Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

    According to Kermani, the Vedic deities have deep symbolism and many layers of existence. One such association is with ecology. Surya is associated with the sun, the source of heat and light that nourishes everyone; Indra is associated with rain, crops, and abundance; and Agni is the deity of fire and transformation and controls all changes.

    She notes that the Vrikshayurveda, an ancient Sanskrit text on the science of plants and trees, contains details about soil conservation, planting, sowing, treatment, propagating, how to deal with pests and diseases and a lot more.

    Like Nicholls, Kermani provides insight into some of the profound cultural, philosophical and practical aspects of humanity’s connection to nature and food production.

    This connection resonates with agrarianism, a philosophy based on cooperative labour and fellowship, which stands in stark contrast to the values and impacts of urban life, capitalism and technology that are seen as detrimental to independence and dignity. Agrarianism, too, emphasises a spiritual dimension as well as the value of rural society, small farms, widespread property ownership and political decentralisation.

    The prominent proponent of agrarianism Wedell Berry says:

    “The revolution which began with machines and chemicals now continues with automation, computers and biotechnology.”

    For Berry, agrarianism is not a sentimental longing for a time past. Colonial attitudes, domestic, foreign and now global, have resisted true agrarianism almost from the beginning — there has never been fully sustainable, stable, locally adapted, land-based economies.

    However, Berry provides many examples of small (and larger) farms that have similar output as industrial agriculture with one third of the energy.

    In his poem ‘A Spiritual Journey’, Berry writes the following:

    “And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles,
    no matter how long,
    but only by a spiritual journey,
    a journey of one inch,
    very arduous and humbling and joyful,
    by which we arrive at the ground at our feet,
    and learn to be at home.”

    But in the cold, centralised, technocratic dystopia that is planned, humanity’s spiritual connection to the countryside, food and agrarian production are to be cast into the dustbin of history.

    Silvia Guerini says [3]:

    “The past becomes something to be erased in order to break the thread that binds us to a history, to a tradition, to a belonging, for the transition towards a new uprooted humanity, without past, without memory… a new humanity dehumanised in its essence, totally in the hands of the manipulators of reality and truth”.

    This dehumanised humanity severed from the past is part of the wider agenda of transhumanism. For instance, we are not just seeing a push towards a world without farmers and everything that has connected us to the soil but, according to Guerini, also a world without mothers.

    She argues that those behind test-tube babies and surrogate motherhood now have their sights on genetic engineering and artificial wombs, which would cut women out of the reproductive process. Guerini predicts that artificial wombs could eventually be demanded, or rather marketed, as a right for everyone, including transgender people. It is interesting that the language around pregnancy is already contested with the omission of ‘women’ from statements like ‘persons who can get pregnant’.

    Of course, there has long been a blurring of lines between biotechnology, eugenics and genetic engineering. Genetically engineered crops, gene drives and gene editing are now a reality, but the ultimate goal is marrying artificial intelligence, bionanotechnology and genetic engineering to produce the one-world transhuman.

    This is being pushed by powerful interests, who, according to Guerini, are using a rainbow, transgenic left and LGBTQ+ organisations to promote a new synthetic identity and claim to new rights. She says this is an attack on life, on nature, on “what is born, as opposed to artificial” and adds that all ties to the real, natural world must be severed.

    It is interesting that in its report Future of Food, the UK supermarket giant Sainsburys celebrates a future where we are microchipped and tracked and neural laces have the potential to see all of our genetic, health and situational data recorded, stored and analysed by algorithms that could work out exactly what food (delivered by drone) we need to support us at a particular time in our life. All sold as ‘personal optimisation’.

    Moreover, it is likely, according to the report, that we will be getting key nutrients through implants. Part of these nutrients will come in the form of lab-grown food and insects.

    A neural lace is an ultra-thin mesh that can be implanted in the skull, forming a collection of electrodes capable of monitoring brain function. It creates an interface between the brain and the machine.

    Sainsburys does a pretty good job of trying to promote a dystopian future where AI has taken your job, but, according to the report, you have lots of time to celebrate the wonderful, warped world of ‘food culture’ created by the supermarket and your digital overlords.

    Technofeudalism meets transhumanism — all for your convenience, of course.

    But none of this will happen overnight. And whether the technology will deliver remains to be seen. Those who are promoting this brave new world might have overplayed their hand but will spend the following decades trying to drive their vision forward.

    But arrogance is their Achilles heel.

    There is still time to educate, to organise, to resist and to agitate against this hubris, not least by challenging the industrial food giants and the system that sustains them and by advocating for and creating grass-root food movements and local economies that strengthen food sovereignty.

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    Notes

    [1] See Food, Dispossession and Dependency: Resisting the New World Order.

    [2] See Sickening Profits: The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth

    [3] A debt of gratitude is owed to Paul Cudenec and his article Truth, reality, tradition and freedom: our resistance to the great uprooting on the Winter Oak website, which provides quotes from and insight into the work of Silvia Guerini.


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  • Misinformed Westerners and the Demise of Ukraine

    Misinformed Westerners and the Demise of Ukraine

    Misinformed Westerners are led to believe that their governments support Ukraine.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

    In fact, the West supports the destruction of Ukraine and its peoples. Amply documented, the West never wanted peace for Ukraine (1). Instead, Western policymakers seek to “fight to the last Ukrainian” in order to bleed Russia.  Ukraine and Ukrainians are being sacrificed, not for “democracy and freedom” which are nothing more than war propaganda slogans, but for nazism, for impoverishment, for economic enslavement, and for colonial status. People in what was formerly Eastern Ukraine will be the lucky ones.

    If/when the war ends, the remnants of Ukraine will be pillaged.  As Prof. Chossudovsky notes in The NeoCons’ Proxy War “Against Ukraine”: Nuclear War is On the Table. The Privatization of Ukraine, “It is a profit-driven agenda: ‘Destruction’ leads to ‘Reconstruction’. What is at stake is the engineered economic and social destruction of sovereign nation states. The creditors are there to ‘pick up the pieces’ and ‘appropriate real wealth’ “. (2) The diabolical process is already underway.

    The weapons being delivered to Ukraine are not free. Not only do they extend the duration of a war which Ukraine can not win, not only do they increase the mass slaughter of Ukrainians, but they also increase Ukraine’s fiscal indebtedness for the foreseeable future. Scott Ritter, in his video “A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2” (3) explains that Washington has a Lend/Lease program with Ukraine, signed in May 2022, that  will contribute to a form of debt slavery for (many) years to come.

    A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2(Video: 42:51)
    A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2(Video: 41:52 )

     

    Additionally, and contrary to the Ukrainian constitution (see below), moratoriums were lifted ( a condition of IMF loans) and lands are being privatized by companies such as Cargill and Monsanto. The privatization of Ukraine’s rich farmland will not only undermine Ukraine’s food sovereignty, but it will also undermine the European Union’s food security.

    A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2(Video: 36:04)

     

     

    A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2(Video: 36:08)

                                                        

    Reconstruction contracts will also benefit global corporations as they profit from the destruction caused largely by Western warmongering policymakers. BlackRock stands to make huge profits from Ukraine’s misery.

    A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2(Video: 39:56)

                                                        

    So again, if you support Ukraine, you should basically support Russia’s conditions: no NATO membership, denazification, demilitarization.

    The Western trajectories of weapons deliveries and privatization schemes will do nothing but enslave and destroy what remains of Ukraine.

    Notes:

    (1) Mark Taliano, The West Seeks War, not Peace.” Global Research, 30 November, 2022. (The West Seeks War, Not Peace – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization) Accessed 22 July, 2023.

    (2) Prof Michel Chosudovsky, “The NeoCons’ Proxy War “Against Ukraine”: Nuclear War is On the Table. The Privatization of Ukraine” Global Research, 20 JUly, 2023. (The NeoCons’ Proxy War “Against Ukraine”: Nuclear War is On the Table. The Privatization of Ukraine – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization) Accessed 22 July, 2023.

    (3) Scott Ritter, A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2, Accessed 22 July, 2023.

    READ MORE: The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette – CounterPunch.org

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat – CovertAction Magazine

     

  • The Plan. WHO’s Ten Years of Infectious Diseases (2020 to 2030), Leading to World Tyranny/ By Peter Koenig

    The Plan. WHO’s Ten Years of Infectious Diseases (2020 to 2030), Leading to World Tyranny/ By Peter Koenig

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    Excess mortality is reported from Norway – and all over the western world or Global North. Excesses never heard before. In the ranges of between 15% and 25%. In some countries even higher. Worrisome. No clear causes can be detected.

    See this.

    Already more than a year ago Dr. Michael Yeadon, former VP Pfizer and Chief of Science at Pfizer, warned that excess deaths will appear in the next 3-5 and even up to ten years, because of the false and criminal, untested mRNA vaxxes.

    He elaborates. After all the boosters – 3 to 4 shots – the immune system has lost up to 80% of its defenses. Thus, people are more vulnerable to catching any kind of disease. Plus, myocarditis and sudden deaths are on the rise – even in young people, especially those who practice sport or are sports professionals.

    In addition, graphene oxide injection and other concoctions being injected, cause all sorts of cancers, mostly in reproductive systems of men and women, as well as several types of cancers of the blood, of the eyes causing blindness… liver and kidney diseases… and much more.

    In addition, these injections, called vaccines, also cause massive infertility. In some countries life-childbirth was down by up to 40% in 2022.

    Dr. Yeadon warned that the diseases will be very difficult to trace back to the vaxxes, but that’s where the origin is.

    A clear eugenics agenda, mass depopulation, unprecedented.

    Genocide is a word that doesn’t meet the extent of the atrocity that’s behind what we are living through — what the cabal is carrying out.

    The UN Agenda 2030alias Klaus Schwab’s (WEF) Great Reset and the nefarious, all-digitizing 4th Industrial Revolution, also includes an asset-stripping plan never seen and experienced before in human history. Assets of covid mandates-caused bankruptcies are sucked upwards into the vaults of the financial oligarchs and the Dark Invisible Financial Cabal – which is funding and orchestrating the WEF and which is in control of over 90% of the world’s mainstream media. See this.

    The Agenda 2030 (originally called Agenda 21) was prepared by a very long hand, dating back 60 to a hundred years. Be aware, the Dark Invisible Financial Cabal acts as a cult. In order to be successful, it has to tell the people what it is up to.

    Indeed, over the past several decades we have received many warnings of what to expect – namely a Health Tyranny, enhanced by a fake Global Warming and Biodiversity Green agenda.

    The New Green is a fascist neoliberal, make-believe environmental protection farse. In reality – far from environmental protection. To the contrary. Yet, people throughout the world fall for it. Propaganda is deadly. We have to stop it.

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    The Plan’s execution started in January 2020. First with a fake disease called Covid-19 – the mortality of which is about the same or less than that of the common flu, some 0.03% to 0.07%. And unbelievably – the Covid-19 pandemic, or rather the Plandemic – hit all 193 UN member countries at once, on the same day. The vast majority of the people believed it.

    However, an intense media-driven fear-campaign, with strictly totalitarian-enforced mandates of lockdowns and face masking, distancing people from each other, lowering their moral even further, i.e. their self-esteem, their defenses, insecurity, dictatorial measures, led to world tyranny.

    It sounds like a project collaborated by the Tavistock Institute on Social Engineering of the Masses. (See also Daniel Estulin’s book of the same title (Copyright 2015)). Tavistock in close collaboration with DARPA, the secretive Pentagon thinktank, specializing in mind-control, MK-Ultra and societal manipulation through the mass-media and often deadly false flag events.

    The Global West has quietly suspended in most countries their Constitutions, either by silent decree, or by Parliamentary votes, where Parliamentarians were co-opted to be part of the crime. But the vast majority of populations have no idea. They still refer to democracy — when “democracy” we never had in the last 2000 years and beyond.

    And just to be sure that we all understand what the Greek term of “democracy” really meant – supposedly born in Delphi, Greece, some 800 years BC and first practiced in ancient Athens 507 years BC by Athenian leader Cleisthenes. It meant one person one vote – but only for educated male, who were qualified for sociopolitical decisions.

    Just a word on our sloganized and vastly over-used term democracy. This is what google has to say:

    Athenian democracy was a system of government where all male citizens [age 20 and above] could attend and participate in the assembly which governed the city-state. This was a democratic form of government where the people or ‘demos’ had real political power. Athens, therefore, had a direct democracy.

    You may want to make a note of it before using the misleading term “democracy” freely again. Let’s first see what we mean by “democracy” and how we have learned to manipulate it for the service of the powerful.

    This brief observation on democracy may be important, if ever we get back to “democracy” in a new society. Let’s make sure that the term is defined clearly in every Constitution of every sovereign country.

    Back to excess deaths.

    What can we do?

    For most of the vaxxed population it’s too late. They can just hope that their shot was not deadly, or that it may have been a placebo. In every trial – which this entire vaxx crime was and is – there are placebos.

    We should inform as many people as we can of these horrendous circumstances – of the excess deaths and of the whys – so that people wake up and do not get drawn into vaxxing anymore, and so that they help others waking up.

    We should initiate criminal procedures against all governments who knowingly participated in this crime, especially the Health Ministers and the management of WHO, the UN system, the WEF — and the eugenist oligarch suspects we all know. And indeed, get to the bottom of the Cabal.

    A Grand Jury trial has already determined the guilty – with evidence statements by witnesses from the key organizations behind this magnum crime. See all the sub-links in the “Stop World Control” video below.

    We must immediately stop and resist any activity linked to the infamous UN Agenda 2030 and the WEF’s Great Reset; derail with all means we have at disposal the 4th Industrial Revolution’s digitization process, starting with undoing any advances that have been made with digital money, body-implanted chips – whose purpose it is to enslave humanity – and on a wider score to transhumanize humanity.

    We must stop this monstrous crime of biblical proportions NOW.

    In short, we should prepare for a massive Nuremberg 2.0.

    Without delay.

    See this Must-See 31-min video on THE PLAN with several links to related videos, including the one of the Grand Jury and its results – plus large-print easily understandable, down-to-earth text, explaining what we are living and how we can get out of it. See this.

    Here, some key quotes from the Stop World Control text:

    “The Tyranny is 100% dependent on the ignorance of the public. The solution is, therefore, to inform the people around us.”

    “Once People know what is really happening, they will stop complying and will start resisting.”

    “We offer you a powerful tool to open the eyes of your friends, family and community.”

    “High level experts from the WHO, United Nations, US & UK Military, British Secret Services, CDC, Pfizer and the UK Government reveal the evidence that the pandemic is used to install a world dictatorship.”

    “They presented their evidence to the world during Grand Jury proceedings with 11 international lawyers and a judge.”

    “The experts identify the powerful entities that are able to install this powerful dictatorship. They explain how they orchestrate and implement it, and what their ultimate agenda is for humanity.”

    “The supreme level of brainwashing is when an entire population calls human history a conspiracy theory.”

    “All this information is revealed in the Grand Jury Evidence.  You can download it here: StopWorldControl.com/jury

    “This powerful document can wake up the world. Please share it far and wide.”

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    Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).

    Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.


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