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Ever since large parts of the world were placed in lockdown in March 2020 in the name of public health, there has been a growing public suspicion that some sort of global seizure of power and social transformation is being implemented under guise of the extraordinary suspension of democracy and unprecedented restrictions of basic freedoms occurring in so many countries at the same time.
This book contends that since the financial collapse of 2008, populations in many countries have become restive in the face of extreme inequality and diminishing life chances. In a digital economy, one to two billion people will soon be superfluous, but they are not likely to remain sitting on their hands; in many parts of the world their resistance has begun. The Western capitalist elites have lost the capacity to engage their respective peoples in an equitable social contract and have resorted to stoking fear -- from the terrorism scare and the Russian threat to the COVID infliction, with more variants coming on line -- as a formula for curtailing protest and maintaining power.
It analyses the social forces driving this process: the US national security state and its intelligence apparatus, the IT giants spun off from it, and the large media conglomerates that have joined forces to create a comprehensive surveillance system of Orwellian dimensions The production of disease threats is amplified by the Gates Foundation and other public international organizations including the WHO, along with the pharmaceutical industries, foresee unprecedented profit in plans to inoculate the world population with experimental gene therapies sold as vaccines. Ideas on using a pandemic to initiate a worldwide state of siege have matured until the need for collective intervention -- the threat of a new financial meltdown and the need to remove Trump -- prompted global elites to seize the day.
The virus threat may not be an idle one, given the Pentagon's biowarfare infrastructure which for decades has been producing gain-of-function viruses in laboratories the world over, as have a wide range of countries.
The book is the first to offer an extensively documented, comprehensive analysis of all aspects of this real and embellished threat that is already ushering in a global transformation. Yet it ends on a note of hope, arguing that the very IT revolution that enabled the siege holds out the promise of a deepening democracy as the global public surges past the gatekeepers, online and off.
This book contends that since the financial collapse of 2008, populations in many countries have become restive in the face of extreme inequality and diminishing life chances. In a digital economy, one to two billion people will soon be superfluous, but they are not likely to remain sitting on their hands; in many parts of the world their resistance has begun. The Western capitalist elites have lost the capacity to engage their respective peoples in an equitable social contract and have resorted to stoking fear -- from the terrorism scare and the Russian threat to the COVID infliction, with more variants coming on line -- as a formula for curtailing protest and maintaining power.
It analyses the social forces driving this process: the US national security state and its intelligence apparatus, the IT giants spun off from it, and the large media conglomerates that have joined forces to create a comprehensive surveillance system of Orwellian dimensions The production of disease threats is amplified by the Gates Foundation and other public international organizations including the WHO, along with the pharmaceutical industries, foresee unprecedented profit in plans to inoculate the world population with experimental gene therapies sold as vaccines. Ideas on using a pandemic to initiate a worldwide state of siege have matured until the need for collective intervention -- the threat of a new financial meltdown and the need to remove Trump -- prompted global elites to seize the day.
The virus threat may not be an idle one, given the Pentagon's biowarfare infrastructure which for decades has been producing gain-of-function viruses in laboratories the world over, as have a wide range of countries.
The book is the first to offer an extensively documented, comprehensive analysis of all aspects of this real and embellished threat that is already ushering in a global transformation. Yet it ends on a note of hope, arguing that the very IT revolution that enabled the siege holds out the promise of a deepening democracy as the global public surges past the gatekeepers, online and off.
Product Details
| Publisher | Clarity Press |
| Publish Date | February 01, 2022 |
| Pages | 348 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781949762488 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.9 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Kees van der Pijl (1947) taught at the University of Amsterdam and was professor at the University of Sussex, UK, from 2000. He made his name with The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class (1984, reprint 2012) and was awarded with the 2008 Deutscher Prize 2008 for Nomads, Empires, State, Vol. I of a trilogy on Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy (2007-2014). He also wrote novels and edited a number of works, most recently The Militarization of the European Union (2021). His previous monograph, Flight MH17, Ukraine and the New Cold War (2018) has been translated into 4 other languages
Reviews
"While Van der Pijl sailes close to a wind that sober academics might find implausible, or even fantastic, the bibliographic backdrop to this book should pause that immediate response. Similarly, the somewhat immoderate modulations in his prose ought not to give us an excuse to dismiss any unpleasant implications in what turns out to be a sustained analytical expose." JOHN WELSH, Population Studies
"Brilliantly researched, impeccably sourced, the story is told in an engaging style and with great analytical acuity. Here is a dire warning against the slide into authoritarianism..." -- WILLIAM I. ROBINSON, Distinguished Prof. of Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara
"Derailing these nefarious agendas is without doubt the most urgent task facing humanity today and States of Emergency provides a powerful, thought provoking and critical starting point on the road to awareness and resistance." -- DR. PIERS ROBINSON, Organisation for Propaganda Studies
"Kees van der Pijl, an author of distinction, writes that the global ruling class or oligarchy used Covid-19 to seize power by declaring a state of global emergency. He explains that the Information Technology revolution, by creating a global information and communication system, was ushering in a social transformation inimical to the oligarchy's hegemony over society. In order to stop this transformation, the global elite used lockdowns, mandates, censorship and controlled narratives to seize control over populations... Van der Pijl makes a cogent argument. He shows that the 'pandemic' is a political emergency, not a medical one. Its purpose was to suppress populations and transition to an authoritarian state and social structure..." -- PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
"This book is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the Covid-19 crisis and the worldwide states of siege instituted under its cover. Reading it, one cannot help but
shake one's head in outrage at the longplanned nature of the wealthy global elite's
seizure of power under the guise of a germ
emergency and the revolutionary crisis it has
created... Meticulously sourced and noted, this is a work of genuine scholarship of the highest order." Paradigm Explorer
"This is a work of genuine scholarship of the highest order, and to read it closely and with an open mind one can't help but be convinced of its essential truth... This book should be read by anyone who cares about our world. It is brilliant and extremely timely." --EDWARD CURTIN, author of Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies
"Brilliantly researched, impeccably sourced, the story is told in an engaging style and with great analytical acuity. Here is a dire warning against the slide into authoritarianism..." -- WILLIAM I. ROBINSON, Distinguished Prof. of Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara
"Derailing these nefarious agendas is without doubt the most urgent task facing humanity today and States of Emergency provides a powerful, thought provoking and critical starting point on the road to awareness and resistance." -- DR. PIERS ROBINSON, Organisation for Propaganda Studies
"Kees van der Pijl, an author of distinction, writes that the global ruling class or oligarchy used Covid-19 to seize power by declaring a state of global emergency. He explains that the Information Technology revolution, by creating a global information and communication system, was ushering in a social transformation inimical to the oligarchy's hegemony over society. In order to stop this transformation, the global elite used lockdowns, mandates, censorship and controlled narratives to seize control over populations... Van der Pijl makes a cogent argument. He shows that the 'pandemic' is a political emergency, not a medical one. Its purpose was to suppress populations and transition to an authoritarian state and social structure..." -- PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
"This book is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the Covid-19 crisis and the worldwide states of siege instituted under its cover. Reading it, one cannot help but
shake one's head in outrage at the longplanned nature of the wealthy global elite's
seizure of power under the guise of a germ
emergency and the revolutionary crisis it has
created... Meticulously sourced and noted, this is a work of genuine scholarship of the highest order." Paradigm Explorer
"This is a work of genuine scholarship of the highest order, and to read it closely and with an open mind one can't help but be convinced of its essential truth... This book should be read by anyone who cares about our world. It is brilliant and extremely timely." --EDWARD CURTIN, author of Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies
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