States of Emergency: Keeping the Global Population in Check

by Kees van der Pijl

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"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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949762495
Publisher:	Clarity Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	306
File size:	1 MB

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

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Society as we know it—global capitalism with its home base in the West—has entered a revolutionary crisis. After years of preparation, the ruling oligarchy, which today exercises power across the globe, has seized on the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the respiratory disease attributed to it, Covid-19, to declare a global state of emergency in early 2020. This seizure of power is intended to prevent the Information Technology revolution (hereafter: IT revolution), the impact of which can be compared to that of the coming of the printing press at the end of the Middle Ages, from ushering in a democratic transformation.
In 2008 the capitalist speculation machine unleashed twenty years earlier came to a crashing halt. The casino was reopened after a short time with mainly water damage, or so it seemed; yet in the meantime, unprecedented unrest has arisen among the global population. Unlike the eve of World War I, the mass discontent this time has no clear-cut political orientation, as the IT revolution did not bring forth, as the Industrial Revolution had done, an organized revolutionary force such as the socialist labor movement, drawing its power from an industrial working class. With the decline of industrial production in the West, and concomitantly of unions, the unrest that arose after 2008 went in all directions—the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the Yellow Vests in France, and so on. Strikes, riots and anti-government demonstrations, as well as mass migration and drug abuse since then have broken all existing records—until the World Health Organization proclaimed the Covid outbeak a pandemic. Governments across the globe swiftly followed by imposing states of emergency, which paradoxically were then tightened as the virus subsided and henceforth followed an obviously political calendar.
This book aims to address and dispel the psychosis of fear into which the world has been plunged. In the process of research and writing, I found that the 'pandemic' is not a simple, one-off fraud, or a grand scheme cooked up by Klaus Schwab, the oracle of Davos, and obediently executed by national governments. Rather, it is a complex, historical crisis, giving rise to a seizure of power by the global ruling class that has been initiated from different starting positions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

Introduction 1

1 The Covid Crisis as a State of Siege 9

2 Can the World Population Still Be Kept Under Control? 34

3 Restructuring the Ruling Class in the IT Revolution 71

4 The Virus Scenario as the Basis for a Seizure of Power 129

5 Biological Warfare With or Against China? 165

6 The 'Pandemic' as Disaster Capitalism 206

7 Radical Democracy and Digital Planning 268

Index 290

Editorial Reviews

"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

“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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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