Emanuel Pastreich discusses the ills of U.S. Empire, the sham of American elections, and how academia has been utterly corrupted. In reality, politics is determined via false flag operations which cause mass trauma (e.g. 9/11). The goal of Operation COVID-19 was the totalitarian takeover of local and central governments around the world by the power elite, IT companies, and private intelligence firms. The technocrats have been learning how to modify behavior through experiments at DARPA, RAND, and Guantanamo Bay. Israel was the pioneer in developing these technologies for social control. He explains how nations states seem to have conflicts while simultaneously cooperating symbiotically via multinational corporations. Finally, he talks solutions.
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Geopolitics & Empire · Emanuel Pastreich: COVID-19 Was a Global Coup by Private Finance, IT, & Intelligence Complexes #334
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Geopolitics & Empire:
Geopolitics & Empire is joined by Emanuel Pastreich, who serves as the president of The Asia Institute and as director general of the Institute for Future Urban Environments. He declared his candidacy for president of the US as an independent in February of 2020. Welcome to Geopolitics & Empire, Mr. Pastreich.
Emanuel Pastreich:
It's an honor to be here.
Geopolitics & Empire:
I came across your work recently, your writing and your interviews, and I thought I had to have you on the show because you have many unique insights and you've got a fascinating life experience. It is hard to peg who you are because of your interesting background. If you could just briefly maybe tell us, who is Emanuel Pastreich?
Emanuel Pastreich:
Right. Well, that's a tough one and I'm maybe not the most qualified to explain myself. I came from a relatively establishment background in the United States. I'm still wearing a tie, and I was a professor of Asian studies, so I spent a good part of my life in Korea and Japan, and I studied Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. When I was at the University of Illinois back in 2000, 2001, I became quite committed to opposing the totalitarian rule in the United States, which continues to the day. And as a result of my efforts with others, I ended up being basically unable to work in the United States and living in Korea from 2007. Tried to come back to the United States once in 2019, which was not successful.
I'm back in the United States after three years away; just arrived a week ago. I am trying my best to address real issues in the United States and to puncture a hole in the blanket of hypocrisy and fraud that has wrapped around every aspect of American society, and, by extension, around the world. I want to talk about real things.
I had declared in February, 2020, when I saw what was happening with this so-called Biden-Trump election, that I would run as an independent candidate for president and address real issues, not with any particular leftist or rightist perspective. I tried to just scientifically address what were the problems in the United States. And that caused a lot of problems, but it did give me the chance to get in the habit of giving talks, speeches, which has now become my primary means of expressing myself.
I hope we can return to politics based on intellectual inquiry, on a moral commitment, and on real engagement with citizens, as opposed to a fraudulent “feel good” approach to blanket marketing.
Geopolitics & Empire:
I purchased your book “I Shall Fear No Evil.” I think people can download it for free. You touch on most of your points in that book.
I agree with much of what you say. And maybe we can start with what you touched on: what's wrong with the US?
I'm from Illinois, I'm from Chicago, and 20 years ago I saw a lot wrong. I'm a history major, former teacher, former professor of history, I could just see the cycle of history.
Emanuel Pastreich:
Where were you teaching?
Geopolitics & Empire:
Well, I taught abroad in Kazakhstan and in Mexico. That's part of the story. I decided to leave the United States. When you're born as an American, you never imagine we were an empire. I thought we were just a country, the United States, and then you realize there is stuff we get into like 9/11, and other things. The reality is we're an empire, and we're the biggest empire in the history of the world. So we are starting all these wars, killing millions of people.
There's a lot of good that America has done, but a lot of bad too. We have to be fair. There's the militarism. And we're bankrupt financially--you talk about that. I also think that spiritually we're bankrupt.
Emanuel Pastreich:
Intellectually too.
Geopolitics & Empire:
We're at each other's throats. Then there's the techno-authoritarianism. I might get you in into trouble. In April, I believe the Department of Homeland Security told PayPal to shut off my account. I'm banned from using PayPal.
Emanuel Pastreich:
Well, congratulations.
Geopolitics & Empire:
And so if you could tell us basically, what's wrong with America as you see it?
Emanuel Pastreich:
Well, to some degree it's a cyclical process. If you have any institution, any government or empire and it runs 250 years, you start to have these institutional contradictions and collapse. To some degree it's because of the institutions that were originally set up no longer correspond with the reality of how decisions are made, or how the economy works. I happen to like the US Constitution and I refer to it. It's not a perfect document, but it gives some basic principles for governance, which I think are quite unique.
It was a unique, successful experiment in history. It doesn't mean the United States was successful, it just means that concept of constitutional government where they took some of the essence of what was discussed in Greece and Rome and tried to take the empire out of it. That was the concept behind the United States. It was a noble experiment that offers much for us.
However, it was flawed from the beginning. Obviously slavery, the destruction of the native peoples, also the idea of real estate and how it was imported here and enclosure, all that part of the project was obviously flawed. But we did have some good aspects to the United States, which sometimes were positive for the world.
But over the last 50 years, we saw the militarization of the economy and then this move towards a radical expansion of financialization and privatization. And in that process, I think, we also have to take note of the end of the Cold War, which has been celebrated in what we're force fed in media and in academics. But the end of the Cold War was essentially the end of an opposing perspective in the world. Basically during the Cold War (I'm not saying Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China got it all right) socialist nations at least offered a different perspective, were able to suggest that things like class struggle, the concentration of capital, and ideology were topics to talk about. These were things that were important in their newspapers and universities. And when the Soviet Union and China basically went over to a modified neo-capitalism, with a little bit of socialist characteristics mixed in the drink, then we lost that other perspective in the world.
And as a result from the 1990s on increasingly these ridiculous ideas about economics spread. In the United States, or in Japan, or in Germany in the 1970s—through the 80s even, there were professors of economics who took Marxist economics as a major part of their approach to economic theory. There are zero people like that now, except for bloggers.
We've lost this potential for other perspectives. It's not saying that Marxism is perfect. I'm not a Marxist by the way, but I'm sympathetic to Marxist analysis. I think that addressing class issues and finance and ideology is critical. And so we now are in this position in which consumption, growth, exports are assumed by basically everybody to be essential for the wellbeing of people, or that the stock market has a relationship (other than parasitic) to the lives of ordinary citizens.
These things are accepted as truths, right? They're talking about a rise in the stock market as good for you.
And we have in the United States now these cardboard messiahs, whether it's Bernie Sanders, or AOL, or Donald Trump who come up with these quirky ideas about what economics is, or how we can be more progressive, concerned with working people.
But essentially they buy into the entire economic money system and they're not interested in saying, “Why don't we make people independent from money?” They're not trying to say, we can support ourselves.
We don't have to spend money....
