global war of the privileged few against the excluded many.

  You should know that I do not answer to any corporate sponsor; no political party; no intelligence agency; no academic body; no think tank. And I got nothing to spin

world out there is like wayang theatre—we see the shadows, but we never see the puppeteer.

Revered Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh prays that we may all escape the wheel of samsara—our addiction to nefarious vicious circles.    If only we could accumulate enough compassion—instead of designer weapons: “touched by the Dharma,” we would have an instrument to cut through the wheel of samsara, we would not legate so much bad karma for future generations, we would escape this demented war logic.  

We have to come up with a different real time perspective for virtual space, learn how to deal with the telecity, the metacity, telesex, telepolitics, telewar.

“the Judeo‐Christian genesis takes place within the Buddhist nirvana, all the time”)

Now suppose you are the world’s only superpower with a foreign policy hijacked by neocons of the armchair warrior kind. What you’re gonna do? You’re gonna declare that you want regime change in Iran—betraying your dream scenario of relieving a puppet in power just like that former tortured soul, the Shah Reza Pahlavi.

The neocons profited immensely from 9/11 and the subsequent, nonsensical “war on terror” (which basically—literally?—means war on war). 

The U.S. ruling class gets paid in tax money by the lower classes; that could not have been a more cunning mechanism of wealth distribution (1% of Americans control 40% of the country’s wealth).

by 2010 the U.S. “will be spending more money than the rest of the world on defense.”

Israel, the sixth nuclear power in the world with more than 600 nuclear warheads.

Brzezinski refined his new worldview—but up to a point—in a September 2006 interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel. He admitted we were now in a historic stage Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike NIMBLE BOOKS LLC 14 of “global political awakening” in which “people in China and India, but also in Nepal, in Bolivia or Venezuela will no longer tolerate the enormous disparities in the human condition.” But he framed this upheaval not in terms of a global struggle for a more equitable system, but in terms of a collective danger, a “challenge to global stability.” Irrepressibly the hegemonic, he still viewed “the American leader‐ ship role vulnerable, but irreplaceable in the foreseeable future.” Well, let’s plunge into liquid modernity—or “space‐velocity,” as French cross‐cultural analyst Paul Virilio put it—and see for ourselves

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Pepe Escobar

Globalistan