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Why would Australia want to align with the US against China?

Below is the text of my submission to the Australian Senate to register my grave concerns about the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines deal.

Re: The Defence Legislation Amendment (Naval Nuclear Propulsion) Bill 2023 [Provisions]

I am writing as a concerned, and I would like to think, well-informed, Australian citizen. I study current affairs in great detail and have also made a deep study of the relevant history – especially the history and of the US-dominated NATO alliance and foreign-policy alignment of Australia with the US since WW2.

I have to say that I am a little horrified at the lack of democratic process and appropriate reflective consideration that has so far gone into the AUKUS nuclear powered submarines deal. There is a lot of very important geopolitical information (and practical information related to military strategy and technology) that should be providing context for this decision, that is being excluded from the discussion – apparently in an irrational and fearful concern on the part of the Australian government, to be seen by the US as showing absolutely un-questioning allegiance, and an absolute willingness to follow their lead. It is clear that there is also a great deal of deliberate misinformation informing this decision-making.

The pervasive assumption that Australian national security is best served by this unquestioning alliance with the US is just deeply untrue and is extremely dangerous. This is not just my view as an informed citizen in my mid-60s – it is also the view of older and wiser and even better-informed Australians. The older Australian statesmen like Paul Keating and John Lander, whose grasp on these issues comes from many decades of hand-on engagement, and of devoted service to the national interest, are of the same view. These men have really studied the economic, historical, geopolitical and national security issues that the AUKUS subs deal is supposed to be a response to, and these men have been so concerned that they have come out of retirement specifically in order to challenge to bogus assumptions to have been established in the Australian public mind – and in Australian governments of both Liberal and Labour persuasions.

Even without the benefit of seeing the horrific outcomes of the irresponsibility and lack of foresight in US foreign policy that are currently playing out so badly in Ukraine, well-informed Australians know that the US has not shown itself to be a true friend of Australia in the post WW2 period – or of any other nation for that matter. Indeed, looking back over the last 30 years, it is clear that the US has engaged in a series of truly terrible, unnecessary, foolish, and extremely expensive military adventures that have not even served the security interests of their own populations, let alone those of their allies. And what we see of US foreign policy is always just the tip of the iceberg. US funding of covert operations to achieve dominance through destabilisation and regime-change operations and other subversive activities in service of US economic interests, has always been vast in the post WW2 period – a long-established part of modus operandi of US foreign policy.

World geopolitics is rapidly changing, and now is not the time for Australia to be locking itself into an extremely expensive long-term alliance with the US. US politics is becoming increasingly irrational. As the debt-fuelled economic dominance that has been achieved due to the US dollar’s status as the world reserve currency is unravelling, this irrationality can be expected to increase. Informed Australian citizens have been watching in horror as the Australian government pulled out of its submarines collaboration with the French – a truly defensive military choice using smaller subs designed for the protection of Australian waters. In place of that more modest and appropriate naval defence strategy, we are now presented with the fait accompli of the AUKUS deal, in which we are investing massively in a long-term offensive capability against our most important economic partner – China. Nothing could be more provocative and reckless – and more profoundly undermining to the trust and collaboration with China that is so fundamental to Australian prosperity. There are over $700 million people living in the costal cities of China. All of them will be directly threatened by the presence of these submarines. Australia is better than this – morally better, and hopefully more intelligent than this also.

This is not a situation where our economic interests must be sacrificed because of an overriding national security concern – that it not what it happening. The fact of the matter is that the China threat is just a propaganda construct promoted by the US government for whom China is an economic threat – but not a military one. It is not China that is engaged in reckless military activities and the establishment of 800 military bases around the globe – it is the US that is acting in a threatening and provocative way. The irrational and dangerous US decision to arm Taiwan against China, and the US aspiration to establish Taiwan as a US base off the coast of China shows the same absurd lack of any common-sense respect for spheres of influence and for the legitimate security needs of other nations that we saw at the end of 2022 – which caused the Ukraine civil war to became a full proxy-war between NATO and the Russian Federation.

China is not a military threat to anyone because it just wants to trade and to recycle its profits into infrastructure projects around the world (not into war, geopolitical control, and military conquest around the world – as in the US model). It has developed a banking system and a national governance model that is designed to support manufacturing, technological development, and infrastructure development – and to raise the living standard, education, and health, of the whole population. Observers around the world are noticing that this ‘mixed’ and pragmatic economic model creates wealth much more effectively than does the more ideological ‘financial’ capitalism of Wall Street and the City of London. So, China is certainly presenting a challenge to US-style banking and neoliberal economics – but the idea that it is a military threat is just a much-repeated lie put about by the powerful and well-funded lobbyists, propagandists and public relations organisations that support US economic and military hegemony and the US military-industrial complex.

Most significant among these lobby organisations in the Australian foreign policy arena is ASPI, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Although ASPI claims to be an “independent, non-partisan think tank”, in reality it is a dangerous and deeply dishonest organisation in the view of most of the Australian citizens who have looked closely into the organisation’s actions, motivations and sources of funding. An organisation like this, far from acting in the best interests of the Australian people, allows a tiny handful of people with very base and even delusional motivations to subvert and control the Australian foreign policy narrative within the Australian parliament, the Department of Defence, and within the wider Australian population.

The creation of the Uighur ‘genocide’ narrative is just one of a series of unevidenced propaganda attacks that have been used to establish dehumanising ‘enemy images’ of the Chinese people and their government in the Australian public mind. The ‘detention centres’ identified in ASPI’s report turned out to be educational centres, and the segregated trains were also a fictionalised distortion of Chinese government support to its Uighur communities. Those who have looked objectively into the Chinese government’s response to the many hundreds (800+) of horrific Islamic jihadist bomb attacks, and the militant Islamist sentiment that has been introduced into Chinese Moslem culture from outside – from the Arab world with the covert support of malevolent US actors, as was achieved in Afghanistan (in the 80s) and Syria (since 2011) – are actually impressed by the care and restraint with which the Chinese government has approached the problem. The word ‘genocide’ in this context is just so far from the truth as to be completely ridiculous – and betrays the irresponsible and propagandistic intentions of ASPI as an organisation. It needs to be pointed out, to provide some context, that the indiscriminate slaughter that our US and UK allies have brought to the Moslem populations of Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria could indeed however, be characterised as a form of genocide.

There is a great deal more that could be said. The members of the Senate are charged with a very important decision that will affect Australia for many decades and possibly for ever. I hope an appropriate degree of care is taken in the decision-making process. The purchase of these nuclear submarines throws the Australian people into a dangerous future that is full of unknowns, but there are several very obvious negative indicators – the most important being the almost complete loss of sovereignty for the Australian nation through this deal and the extremely dangerous nature of any strategic alliance with the US and the UK.

In conclusion, I would recommend a delay regarding this decision, at the very least. If, in the process of the economic unravelling that both the US and the UK are entering, those nations end up in a reckless military conflict with a second nuclear armed nation (i.e. China as well as Russia) in the next few of years, our long-term commitment to alignment with the US will only increase our chances of our becoming a target of Chinese retaliation or defensive military action – but our economy will be the first to suffer. There is neither a short-term benefit, nor a long-term benefit for us in this deal, but there is enormous danger in giving unqualified support to the US at this time. This is a time in history where nation-states should be collaborating to rein in US imperial ambitions and working to facilitate the creation of a peaceful, just, and prosperous multipolar world – not giving up their sovereignty in unquestioning support of an empire that is in decline.

I have not dwelt, in this submission, on the technical and environmental problems that are inherent in this shift to nuclear propulsion technology, but I regard the dangers and vast ongoing expense associated with nuclear waste processing and its long-term management as reason enough to reject this proposal. To adopt this technology is, by definition, short-sighted – since the current government would, out of narrow short-term self-interest be committing hundreds if not thousands of future generations to the dangerous and expensive task of containing the radioactive poisons that would result from the operation of these submarines. If there was a benefit in operating these submarines, I would still say the environmental costs and future financial costs were too much to pay. I fear that future generations will view this choice of technology as reckless and absurd.

The geopolitical landscape of planet Earth is changing rapidly, and Australia needs to keep its options open and steer its own ship. Geographically, it is well located to benefit from the economic shift of the world’s economic centre of gravity to Southeast Asia. Rather than being a lapdog, minion, lacky and passive instrument of the cynically self-serving and value-free foreign-policy of the US, Australia should be standing up tall and punching above its weight as a moral agent on the world stage – and standing against the US. We have seen a procession of fools and monsters in the halls of power in Washington – reckless men and women who would turn over the geopolitical chessboard like petulant children rather than accept the economic and geopolitical rearrangement that is currently happening. The violent three-decade period of unipolar US hegemony since the fall of the Soviet Union is coming to an end, and the world needs clear-headed diplomatic thinkers if we are to survive the transition to a just multipolar world.

While I see it as a tragic loss of sovereignty for Australia, our membership of AUKUS, has a certain un-thinking logic to it. Australia was originally part of the British empire and is still linked to the UK through its constitution; and as that empire faded after WW2, we attached ourselves to the US empire instead, and contributed with the lives of our servicemen to its horrible wars. This moment in history is calling for deeper reflection, however. It is time for Australia to be stepping up and playing its part in the creation of the new multipolar world – not enabling the addictive and psychopathic impulses of its idiot older brothers in the UK and the US.

William Roy Parker 2023

May 17, 2023

A History Lesson from Dr Martin Luther King

I am publishing the short article and embedded YouTube video below, in my ‘Anti-War’ category. For some time now, I have felt a need to supplement my engagement with the problem of the egoic mind – which has been primarily through meditation and self-enquiry – with some engagement with the disturbing reflection of that egoic violence and hatred that we can see when we look in a penetrating way at the values, systems, and structures (and individuals), that govern our outer world. While most of us in the modern West have a complacent sense of safety and stability, those around the world in less fortunate countries are finding themselves in the cross-hairs – the object of regime change operations funded by our governments, and supported by various well-funded pro-war propaganda agencies. This war has two enemies – because the propaganda war is always being simultaneously waged against ourselves, by these same agencies, who desperately need to cover up or justify what is being done in our name.

We live in extraordinary times; dark times in which great crimes are being committed both covertly and in plain sight; times in which the economic and political culture of the liberal democracies of the West has degraded to such an extent that both government and media are frequently propagating misinformation and acting in a way that is not only not at all in the interests of their populations, but very dangerous for the future of our planet. In a modern world where both nation states and international institutions are failing to maintain their integrity in the face of corporate and oligarchic forces and the march of new technologies, we need to create a culture of non-violence and wisdom – and as part of this we need to support those embattled independant voices for peace, truth and justice that are trying to push back against these dangerous collective manifestations of the egoic mind.

Please forgive my forthright and unqualified style in these short anti-war articles. My research is very deep and thorough however – certainly not confined to the mainstream media channels. I wish I had time to write longer, more detailed articles with references and sources.

I have wanted to post this video for some time. This speech by Dr Martin Luther King against the Vietnam War, is a moving example for me of how those who would uplift humanity are often drawn to face into the evil of war – and to study its historical roots and oppose the political, cultural and economic forces that foster it.

The anti-war sentiment and intention that Dr King is expressing here, has been very effectively sidelined in our current world. This is because the pro-war propaganda operations against us are now very much more sophisticated, comprehensive and effective. The voices of dissent in our media and in our parliaments are now very quickly crushed – there is not so much need to assassinate people as they did with Dr King. It could be argued that democratic restraint of the war machine is now largely absent – that our mainstream media commentators do not seem able to perform their function as educators of our populations, and of our elected representatives in government. In academia, the same process is evident – the removal the truth-telling trouble-makers.

The last four decades have increasingly shown us that if those in power want a war (either those in elected government, or those in the unelected government agencies that are really in control), they will find a way of creating a justification for it – frequently by generating allegations and provocations that later turn out to be just lies, or even false flag operations. In a strange, ‘Orwellian’ development since the events of September 11th, 2001, it has became acceptable for the foreign policy and defence establishment agencies of the so-called liberal-democratic nation states, to employ numerous specialist public relations firms and covert psychological operations agencies to propagandise their own populations, and to ensure a steady flow of favourable misinformation into all media channels – even training Islamic terrorists to create propaganda videos to present themselves as victims or as liberating heroes (as was achieved in Syria).

This propaganda war against us all was particularly evident in the case of the secret proxy-war to bring down the secular state of Syria using Islamic jihadist armies. Given the incredible success of the similar secret proxy-war in Afghanistan in the 80s against the Soviet Russians, the strategy is an understandable one for the Pentagon. One might think it would make no sense, given the concurrent ‘War on Terror’, for the US, the UK, France, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to be funding, supplying, and in various ways supporting, Islamic terrorists – hence the need for the massive propaganda operation (an estimated billion dollars a year out of the CIA budget). The operation to support the various Islamic terrorist groups who were intent on destroying the secular state of Syria, and on slaughtering its many non-Muslim populations, would certainly have been successful if it had not been for the Russian Federation coming to the aid of the people of Syria. The Russians have there own problems at home with Islamic terrorism and did not want to see it flourish. Because it took this principled stand in relationship to Syria, Russia has found itself increasingly vilified, especially by the US-UK propaganda machine.

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Prior to June 1965, Dr. King had occasionally expressed concern about the war in Vietnam, but he had done so publicly only in a tentative and extremely cautious manner. Dr King was acutely aware of the risk that direct criticism of President Lyndon Johnson on his Vietnam policy risked jeopardising the strong and critically important relationship he had developed with President Johnson in support of his civil rights efforts. However, various factors began to shift Dr. King’s understanding of the vast human suffering being caused by the US in Vietnam and, as a result, his opposition to the war slowly began to intensify, eventually leading to an unequivocal moral condemnation of US war policy, and a fundamental break in his relationship with Johnson.

The late Thich Nhat Hanh, now know to the world as a great Buddhist leader and writer, was at that time known only as the immensely courageous young Buddhist monk from Vietnam, who played the key role of educating Dr. King about the reality of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective and inspiring his transformation into a leader in the US anti-war movement.

The video below is of the speech, or “sermon”, that Dr King gave at the culmination of his soul-searching. He delivered it on April 30th, 1967 in New York, expressing a clear stand, not only for civil rights, but against the war in Vietnam. In it he spoke about the “triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism”. Just over two years later, after a period of increased police persecution he was assassinated.

William Roy Parker 2020

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March 20, 2022

The US-Facilitated Coup in Ukraine in 2014

I am publishing the short article and embedded YouTube video below, in my ‘Anti-War’ category. For some time now, I have felt a need to supplement my engagement with the problem of the egoic mind – which has been primarily through meditation and self-enquiry – with some engagement with the disturbing reflection of that egoic violence and hatred that we can see when we look in a penetrating way at the values, systems, and structures (and individuals), that govern our outer world. While most of us in the modern West have a complacent sense of safety and stability, those around the world in less fortunate countries are finding themselves in the cross-hairs – the object of regime change operations funded by our governments, and supported by our various well-funded pro-war propaganda agencies. This war has two enemies – because the propaganda war is always being simultaneously waged against ourselves, by these same agencies, who desperately need to cover up or justify what is being done in our name.

We live in extraordinary times; dark times in which great crimes are being committed both covertly and in plain sight; times in which the economic and political culture of the liberal democracies of the West has degraded to such an extent that both government and media are frequently acting in a way that is not only not at all in the interests of their populations, but very dangerous for the future of our planet. In a modern world where both nation states and international institutions are failing to maintain their integrity in the face of corporate and oligarchic forces and the march of new technologies, we need to create a culture of non-violence and wisdom – and as part of this we need to support those embattled independant voices for peace, truth and justice that are trying to push back against these dangerous collective manifestations of the egoic mind.

As the Ukraine crisis deepens, we are witnessing a major flaw in Western democracy, which is that our news media do not provide context and historical reflection on current events – and because of this, their output is almost devoid of real value or truth. Instead, the mainstream news channels give us soundbites and belligerent, jingoistic rhetoric that lurches towards war and necessity of arms sales and inhumane sanctions seemingly without a moment’s reflection. There is a rush to judgement, condemnation and violent punishment, without even an attempt to present evidence or to ascertain the motive of the accused.

This is a complex systemic phenomena, with many different government and non-government agencies and cultural and psychological factors contributing to the mix of misinformation – as well as the UK Foreign Office and the US State Department. The truth, it seems, is nowhere to be seen or heard. So, we have to seek out that truth – we need to look carefully at the faces of our journalists and examine the motivations of these important people who are giving us our news, and we must fully acknowledge the constraints against truth in the mainstream channels. If we do watch the major channels we need to observe them as a cultural and political phenomena – as a dysfunctional self-serving mess and a charade – not as providing witness to reality.

This is why the Russia Today news channel is perceived as such a threat by the governments of the NATO countries. RT is one of only a very few places where journalists who wish to report on international affairs, can do so with real honesty and integrity – and without pressure to keep to the bogus ‘Russian aggression’ narrative despite all the evidence of the contrary. Please find time to watch the short history documentary below, from a tiny independent media channel called Breakthrough News. It provides just a glimpse of the vast and systematic assault on their national security and sovereignty that the Russians have suffered from the actions of the US since the fall of the Soviet Union. From Russia’s point of view, NATO is absolutely not a defensive alliance, and the US manipulation of Ukrainian politics in 2014 represents a truly terrifying threat to the very existence of Russia as an independent nation state. Those who cannot see this are either simply ill-informed – which is most of us – or tragically and dangerously blinded by national self-interest.

We are looking at an escalating confrontation between nuclear armed powers – one which is quite as dangerous for the world as was the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. It is an inherently unstable standoff in which the legitimate security needs of Russia, and of the Russian-speaking people of Crimea and eastern Ukraine are not being acknowledged by the NATO countries. We are also seeing the huge flaw in the logic of the NATO security alliance – that it only serves the strategic needs of the US, and cannot create security for the European states. It cannot create security because its very existence – relentlessly expanding and aggressive as it is – is an existential threat to Russia. The future of the humanity could be at stake here. We all need to be paying attention.

February 11, 2022

Reflections on NATO and the Tragic Irrationality of the Ukraine Crisis

I am publishing the short article and embedded YouTube video below, in my new ‘Anti-War’ category. For some time now, I have felt a need to supplement my engagement with the problem of the egoic mind – which has been primarily through meditation and self-enquiry – with some engagement with the disturbing reflection of that egoic violence and hatred that we can see when we look in a penetrating way at the values, systems, and structures (and individuals), that govern our outer world. While most of us in the modern West have a complacent sense of safety and stability, those around the world in less fortunate countries are finding themselves in the cross-hairs – the object of regime change operations funded by our governments, and supported by various well-funded pro-war propaganda agencies. This war has two enemies – because the propaganda war is always being simultaneously waged against ourselves, by these same agencies, who desperately need to cover up or justify what is being done in our name.

We live in extraordinary times; dark times in which great crimes are being committed both covertly and in plain sight; times in which the economic and political culture of the liberal democracies of the West has degraded to such an extent that both government and media are frequently acting in a way that is not only not at all in the interests of their populations, but very dangerous for the future of our planet. In a modern world where both nation states and international institutions are failing to maintain their integrity in the face of corporate and oligarchic forces and the march of new technologies, we need to create a culture of non-violence and wisdom – and as part of this we need to support those embattled independant voices for peace, truth and justice that are trying to push back against these dangerous collective manifestations of the egoic mind.

In the liberal democracies of the West, we are mostly unaware of how heavily propagandised we are. We trust our governments and we trust our mainstream media outlets. This is an extremely dangerous state of affairs, because in actuality both our foreign policy decision-making and our reporting of foreign policy issues has been subverted, and is in effect outside of democratic control and beyond reason. Foreign policy decision-making has been handed over to government ‘experts’, arms industry lobbyists and military intelligence personnel, many of whom have an extremely irrational bias towards war, if not a direct financial interest in its promotion. The government and arms industry operatives both covertly provide massive funding to pro-war think-tanks, specialist public relations firms and sponsored academics – and to far-right groups (in both South America and Ukraine) and Islamic terrorist groups (e.g. in Syria, Libya and Western China). Not only is this whole peace-time propaganda process out of democratic control on the government side, but the journalists and the documentary makers in both state-funded and commercial TV and newspaper channels are not pushing back with any factual reporting or demands for common-sense and accountability. War, and the creation of enemy images that lead to war, has unfortunately, always been good for the news industry – but this is especially the case in the modern US.

Far from providing any critique, our news media generally now merely provide cover, and have become used to acting as mouthpieces for the perverse and dishonest pro-war narratives being generated by the military-industrial complex and our un-thinking government ‘defence’ and foreign policy staff, who appear to have lost any sense of the value of peace and diplomacy in the modern world. The predominant frame of reference is actually not freedom, democracy, humanitarianism and ethics, but neoliberalism and US hegemony – the very antithesis of these values. Peace and diplomacy have no value in this frame of reference because they do not make money for the armaments industry, and they do not provide distraction from the disastrous effects of neoliberalism’s failure at home. We cannot assume that if we live in a liberal democracy and watch the TV news regularly, we are well-informed on foreign affairs. In the modern world the reverse is true – far from being informed, the general population in the West are being propagandised, manipulated, and ‘played’ by the dishonest rhetoric of freedom and democracy, while actually being prepared for war. It really seems as if the Western moral order has actually already collapsed, and all those who study the situation closely can see that most of the reporting in the foreign policy arena is already characterised by the worst forms of Orwellian Doublespeak.

All this being the case, we need media channels that provide journalism that has integrity and can provide the historical context and truly humanitarian perspective that is missing elsewhere. I thoroughly recommend ‘The GrayZone’, an independent channel on YouTube. We are closer to the full horror of a modern war between Russia and the West, than at any other time since the second world war, and this situation has been created not by Russian aggression, as the propagandists would have us believe, but by the belligerent stupidity of the US and the aggression of NATO expansion to Russia’s borders. The horrible and extremely dangerous crisis in Ukraine, and the massive propaganda attack on Russia for acting to protect the Russian speaking communities of eastern Ukraine, is a dishonest mess that has been 30 years in the making. In reality NATO had no legitimate purpose after the fall of the Warsaw Pact – except as a vehicle for US hegemony and US arms sales. I thoroughly recommend this video (below) of an English academic, Richard Sakwa (Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent), being interviewed by Aaron Mate several weeks ago, when the warmongering rhetoric was beginning to ramp up. This is a truly superb piece of journalism – honest well-informed commentary pushing back against a sea of misinformation.

Aaron Mate, whose instinctive sympathies are with the left rather than the right of US politics, is nevertheless one of the best informed journalists in the world on the whole insane ‘Russiagate’ misinformation mess that was created by the US Democratic Party in the wake of the election of Trump. He is someone who understands that the current Ukrainian crisis goes back not just to the US-facilitated coup in Kiev in 2014 during the Obama years; he knows that Biden, and Victoria Nuland, who is now US Under Secretary of State, were actively involved in that process of establishing the domination of right-wing anti-Russian sentiment in Ukrainian politics, which led to the promotion of the Ukrainian nationalists (literal pro-Nazi fascists!) in its army, which are terrorising the Russian speaking people of Eastern Ukraine. To understand the Russian protective actions, we need to be aware of the history of Ukraine-Nazi collaboration against the Russians in World War Two – and we need to be aware that Ukraine, far from being a model democracy is a rather crazy country with vast extremes of wealth and poverty, and with a deep-rooted fascist past, that has been pushed towards extreme anti-Russian sentiment by US and NATO interference.

The reason that we are being bombarded, in the mainstream media, with news that Russia is preparing for war, is precisely because the opposite is true. Russia is responding to provocation. Witnessing the military buildup on the Ukrainian side threatening the Russian-speaking break-away republics of the Donbas in Eastern Ukraine, it is preparing to defend those people if it has to, and is simply asking the US for a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east. This has put the US on the spot, because the US foreign policy system is used to functioning as the world hegemon and they are not interested in peace and diplomacy – they do not do multilateralism and mutual respect. Domination, it seems, is their modus operandi, and the only language they understand. Hence the need for a massive anti-Russian propaganda campaign to distract the world from recognising the aggression and hostility of the US-NATO position.

William Roy Parker 2020

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February 4, 2022

The Uyghur ‘Genocide’ Narrative and the Propaganda War against China

I am publishing this embedded YouTube video in my new Anti-War category. For some time now, I have felt a need to supplement my engagement with the problem of the egoic mind – which has been primarily through meditation and self-enquiry – with some engagement with the disturbing reflection of that egoic violence and hatred that we can see when we look in a penetrating way at the values, systems, and structures (and individuals), that govern our outer world. While most of us in the modern West have a complacent sense of safety and stability, those around the world in less fortunate countries are finding themselves in the cross-hairs – the object of regime change operations funded by our governments, and supported by various well-funded pro-war propaganda agencies. This war has two enemies – because the propaganda war is always being simultaneously waged against ourselves, by these same agencies, who desperately need to cover up or justify what is being done in our name.

We live in extraordinary times; dark times in which great crimes are being committed both covertly and in plain sight; times in which the economic and political culture of the liberal democracies of the West has degraded to such an extent that both government and media are frequently acting in a way that is not only not at all in the interests of their populations, but very dangerous for the future of our planet. In a modern world where both nation states and international institutions are failing to maintain their integrity in the face of corporate and oligarchic forces and the march of new technologies, we need to create a culture of non-violence and wisdom – and as part of this we need to support those embattled independant voices for peace, truth and justice that are trying to push back against these dangerous collective manifestations of the egoic mind.

In this video, Max Blumenthal, an anti-war journalist for whom I have enormous admiration, is participating in a panel discussion held on March 19, 2021, hosted on Daniel Dumbrill’s YouTube channel. With extraordinary diligence and persistence he has been documenting the deceptions behind the US government’s allegation that China is committing “genocide” against Uyghur Muslims in its Xinjiang region, challenging the dishonesty of the studies funded by the US government’s ‘National Endowment for Democracy’ (NED). He especially exposes the error-filled research of Christian fundamentalist and fanatical anti-Communist Adrian Zenz, the man who most of this anti-China disinformation can be traced back to. It is an astonishing reflection of the state of our world that Zenz is taken by the NATO governments (and the Australian government), and by the whole of the mainstream media around the world, to be a genuine expert on China. The principles of diplomacy and international law are no longer being applied – China is being arbitrarily declared guilty, with almost no chance of proving its innocence, but for the handful of voices like those of Max Blumenthal and Daniel Dumbrill.

William Roy Parker 2021

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May 10, 2021