The primeval criminal-

gang structure is not tracked for two reasons.

   The first is that saturating conditioning

            disconnects people from reality.

ãIt is easy.

 All you have to do

is tell the people

 they are being attacked,

and denounce the the peacemakers

for lack of patriotism and

 exposing the country to danger.ä5

These are Herman Goeringâs words,

 and they transmit the code of this the gang form of rule.

 Concealed under the most ludicrous lies,

 its coercion reigns supreme.

Already university employees and a talk-show host

have been unconstitutionally suspended

 in the U.S. for pointing out the most undeniable truths.

The disorder goes to the heart of the ruling corporate psyche.

The New Totalitarianism

The deep pattern of the male corporate gang

in its global form is, as David Rockefeller put it

at the June 1991 Bilderbergâs meeting in Baden Germany,

a ãsupranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite

 world bankers which is surely preferable

to the national autodetermination

practiced in past centuries.ä

As such a structure of world rule, it is accomplished

by the same financial and media system deciders

 as put Tony Blair into office in Britain

and George Bush Jr. into the White House

against majority vote.

Transnational corporations have marketed

and financed these political leaders

to ensure that captive states serve them

rather than the peoples governments

they are elected by,

guaranteeing through state plenipotentiaries

and transnational trade edicts that governments

can no longer govern them in common interest

 without infringing the new trade and investment laws

in which transnational corporations alone are granted rights.

 All along the corporate media have,

as Rockefeller again advises, co-operated with this

ãplan for the world ã

 by a ãdiscretionä of public secrecy

for which he thanks them.

ãIt would have been impossible for us

 to develop a plan for the world

if we had been subjected to

the lights of publicity during those yearsä.

With financial and media selectors

ensuring compliant party government leaders,

 all the requirements for this ãplan for the worldä

  have been set in place for a totality of control

of world societies by a centralised global system

which is by law not accountable to any electorate.

Rule By Insecurity

and Constructed Crises

To sustain acquiescence in the sacrifices it requires,

 a totalitarian movement must keep all its subjects

   off-balance by a nonstop succession

of disruptive changes and demands.

 Private fear for oneâs own security

is a necessary condition across communicatively

 isolated citizens for their submission to such a regime.

 The  violation of long-accepted norms presented

as fait accomplis, and the loss of life-

bearings by permanent threat to secure livelihood

are the psychological operations which are at work

in any totalitarian movement.

To keep the majority in a continual state

of inner anxiety works because people

are made too busy securing or competing

for their own survival to co-operate

in mounting an effective response.

In the past decade, the entire population of the globe

has been kept permanently off-balance

with one financial meltdown and transnational

 trade fiat after another emptying national coffers

and overriding rights of domestic self-determination.

Populations have been so overwhelmed by the moving

juggernaut of economic and environmental crises

that a rule of universal insecurity has rendered

social majorities paralysed by a low-intensity terror -

 the necessary condition for any totalitarian movement

 to continue its advance, for keeping its subjects

perpetually off balance is its modus operandi.

 That is why in the Afghanistan case,

 the war no sooner seems over

than the cry goes up,

   ãWho is next?ä

ÊCentre for Research on Globalisation

 The New Totalitarianism  ~

 Why is there a War

In Afghanistan?

by John McMurtry, Professor of Philosophy,

 Guelph University ~ 9 December 2001

 Science for Peace,

 

  Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG),

 Opening Address, Science for Peace Forum and Teach-In,

"How Should Canada Respond to War and Terrorism".

University of Toronto,

December 9, 2001

 I have been asked to speak on the topic

ãWhy Is There A War in Afghanistan?ä

I could focus on the innumerable suspicious circumstances

of this latest U.S. aerial war on a poverty-stricken country -

its typical overriding of international law,

its strategic fit with U.S. corporat strategic support

of the very Enemy said to be targeted -

like Noriega, Saddam, & Milosevic in the past.

 But instead I am going to situate this latest U.S.-led war

 on a third-world region within a much wider global process.

I am going to consider ãAmericaâs New Warä

as the latest expression of a much deeper

 and wider terrorist campaign of an

emergent totalitarian pattern

of instituting world corporate rule

with no limit of occupation or accountability beyond itself.

Unhappily, it is not easy to see Canadaâs

foreign policy role in all this as anything other

than obedient subjugation to this

transnational corporate agenda

at every senior level of decision-making.

 The Unseen Terrorist Pattern

 The gravest problem with corporate market

fundamentalism is that it is decoupled

from societyâs life conditions.

 It is, in fact, incapable of recognizing

any value to anything except corporate ãvalue addingä

which, it is assumed, should regulate all peoples and conditions

of life on earth for ãefficiencyä and ãmaximum growthä.

 To this point, there has been no outside margin

 to this total doctrineâs demands,

 or government subservience to them.

Since the commitments of a society to safeguard

the lives of its members and to ensure they are

able to express themselves as human

is the measure of its civilization,

This global corporate program

is not merely uncivilized.

 It is, beneath recognition,

of terrorist in its meaning.

For if we recognize the real meaning

of ãterrorismä

 - to instill in innocent people fear

for their life security to coerce their compliance

to an armed factionâs demands - we see its pattern

increasingly at work across world life organization.

 Under the financial dictates of the corporate market

backed by rising extremes of armed force,

 citizens everywhere are subjected to a

low-intensity campaign of destabilization

and fear that leaves no aspect of their lives secure.

  Even in Canada, one of the worldâs most

well-off societies, the silent terror grows.

 Its vast water heritage is so in peril

that people unprecedentedly die from for its pollution,

 while our governments sign its future away to

U.S.-engineered trade-and-investment dictates.

The minds of our young are so shackled

by a culture of violence and demands to buy

that their capacity to think is stunted,

while their public education is increasingly structured

as a marketing site to reproduce students

as compliant servo-mechanisms.

The rule of law is cumulatively overridden

by transnational trade edicts to subjugate

all that exists for corporate profit.

Riot squads club and gas unarmed opponents,

and civil liberties are stripped by

Orwellian ãsecurityä machinations.

 Always the threat is against life

and life means to comprehend

compliance to corporate demands.

 Our countryâs national symbol for the hemisphere,

healthcare for all, is degraded and privatized for profit

 as citizens are deprived of family physicians by the

 hundreds of thousands (30,000 in my own small city).

Corporate motor commodities and schemes

now so lay waste to Canadaâs land, water and public ways

that it may be unsafe to breathe the air, walk freely,

or count on a forest or aquatic habitat being there in a year.

The vocation of serving fellow human & planetary life

 by oneâs daily service of work, our humanity itself,

 is slashed in every life function.

Always the command is to turn

money into more money

for corporate investors, or ãnot surviveä.

The pattern cannot be plausibly denied once it is exposed.

There are two major forms of attack on peoplesâ

  means of life to coerce them to conform

 to global financial and corporate demands.

 The first is to defund societiesâ

non-profit social infrastructures everywhere

until peoples have no choice but to privatize

their management for profit.

The second front of attack is more directly violent -

 to wage one financial and military war after another

on the poorest peoples of the world to control

their states & expropriate their regional resources.

Both these wars on humanity

are driven by a fanatic fundamentalism -

to produce ever more money for those

with most money, with no limit,

 regulation or higher goal permitted

 to ãobstructä these transnational money sequences.

 The shape of this Beastâs

ever grosser lines dwarfs the monster

beheld by St. John of the Apocalypse,

or the boundless greed of Duryodhana

told by the Mahabharatta.

We live under an increasingly global reign of terror,

 but our disconnection from the meaning is its triumph.

Instead we are made to believe that the terror comes

 from pre-industrial fanatics in poor countries.

The Shape of the Beast ~

The world has been usurped by a pattern

familiar in the microcosm,

 but not yet decoded at the macro level

 a revolt against human society itself.

The historical maturation of nations

after the worldâs greatest Depression and War

was called ãthe Great Transformationä

 by Karl Polanyi, but the Great Reversal

has not yet been publicly understood.

Its meaning is primeval.

It is the atavistic return of society

 to an unaccountable male gang

seeking to dominate the world.

 We see this pattern in the 9-11 War.

Its public phase began when thousands of people

 of mixed nationalities,most American civilians,

were killed by suicide bombers of a foreign

male gang of Islamic fundamentalists.

Each side then duly proclaimed

 the other the embodiment of evil,

 each repudiated the rule of law from start to finish,

and both killed as many innocent people

as got in the way of their war to rule other countries.

 While the gang leaders throughout stayed

unscathed behind walls of armed protectors,

both called each other ãcowardsä.

  There is little difference in moral substance

between these atavistic gangs.

A megalomaniac rhetoric of each side

proclaims direct backing from God.

Both sides are mass killers,

& both systematically destroy civilians

and their means of life with sanctimonious

 justification overriding all accountability

to truth or due legal process.

 Both proclaim their mission

as the working of divine Justice,

and both destroy the lives and human conditions

of innocent others with a pathological abandon

that takes the breath away.

This is, in fact, the function

of the demonstration killings and destructions -

 to command by terror, and seize whatever is wanted.

With complicit governments like Britainâs

and Canadaâs barking and crouching behind,

the real deal is struck beneath public notice -

incalculably more innocent people in terror

in exchange for incalculably more oil supplies

for U.S-led oil corporations and, as a side deal,

 $200,000,000,000.

in giveaways of public revenues

to corporations and the very rich.

 

But the primeval criminal-gang structure

 is not tracked for two reasons.

The first is that saturating conditioning

disconnects people from reality.

ãIt is easy. All you have to do is tell the people

 they are being attacked,

& denounce the peacemakers

for lack of patriotism

& exposing the country to danger.ä

These are Herman Goeringâs words,

and they transmit the code of this the gang form of rule.

Concealed under the most ludicrous lies,

 its coercion reigns supreme.

 Already university employees and a talk-show host

have been unconstitutionally suspended in the U.S.

 for pointing out the most undeniable truths.

The disorder goes to the heart

of the ruling corporate psyche.

 Images of Manliness Decoding the Global Market

as Corporate Gang Occupation Consider the pattern.

 The adolescent group-mind plots in secret

behind the closed doors of secluded forts

for control of the rest of society

to maximise the gangâs private take.

Privately multiplied debt issuances are the

  currency of the global corporate gangâs control.

Sex and violence are the ruling images

of its kingdom of ever bigger deals

 and attacks on designated out-groups

.

The gangâs ethos of power and control

pervades the larger society with a barbaric code

of acquisitive stratagem, takeover of othersâ territories,

continuous extraction of gang tribute,

and indiscriminate violence

 and armed force at will.

 

   Throughout, group slogans and tough-talk

re-enforce the bonds of male

and servant-female bravado in the face

of ever greater extremes of life-depredation,