The concept of surplus humanity is endemic to the logic of Zi*nism. Palestinians that are not Jewish are “surplus humanity” and they have to be warehoused if they’re not going to be killed through genocide. And so there are human warehouses throughout what’s left of Palestine…Diplomats from across the West that have traditionally provided the residents of the Gaza Strip with food and clothing and provided Israel with bombs to kill them gathered in Cairo in October to raise $5.3 billion for rebuilding. They oversaw two plans. The first was called The Initiative for the Palestinian Economy, which was introduced by John Kerry, the Secretary of State in the US, presided over and conceived by former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The blueprint of this plan was not presented, but I got a version leaked to me by a Palestinian businessman, and it was produced by McKinsey, which is an international consulting firm. It called for heightened tourism to the Gaza Strip. It doesn’t mention the siege or the occupation once in this bizarre document but concluded that Gaza underperforms on key tourism metrics. That is the actual language in a document that is the economic plan that John Kerry claimed at this donor conference would reduce unemployment in Palestine, West Bank and Gaza, to 8%. It is ridiculous but also disturbing because we watched over 400 factories being destroyed in Operation: Protective Edge and this calls for sweatshops to be built in Gaza. In other words, textiles in mills that will produce zippers and buttons for high-end fashion producers in Tel Aviv. That’s what this was, a shock document of neoliberal disaster capitalism.1 —Max Blumenthal, American journalist and author of The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
Saying to African millions,
Socialism is opportunistically reckless,
deflects Capitalists’ opportunistic,
get-rich fecklessness.
It minimises the horror-show damage,
on ordinary (South) African lives,
lower classes dependent,
on more than myopic spending,
pep talks or mismanagement,
decades of corporate colonialism* defended.
Grabby foreign hands,
elites double-clicking African elites,
while tens of millions,
our Africans crawl about their feet,
repeat over and over,
old crimes of colonial control.
egotistically believing they’re entitled,
to any say at all.
Only old colonisers,
believe they’re entitled to interfere,
in a foreign land, not theirs,
cloaked behind a moral figment veneer,
save your “moral” obligation,
or “holy” duty to civilise,
many Africans, not elites,
are just plain sick of all the lies.
Informed consent is a thing,
rapey vibes are not cute,
when you fail to mention global financing structures,
trade deal conditions or military bases,
our elites working in cahoots.
It is time to stay in your lane,
get your own house in order,
stop spending citizen money,
on foreign influence wars.
Learn from your treachery,
confront your conceit.
Africans will take charge of Africa,
it is our homeland,
not a Handmaid to reseed.
*After the Second World War, the imperialist trends of the eighteenth and nineteenth century began to decline. Through collective struggles, the Africans achieved independence from the whites. But though they attained freedom, they could not imagine the fact that it was just a treacherous exchange of power between the out-going masters and few of their faithful heirs. In the colonial period, the European rulers propagated that as the Africans had no culture and history of their own, it was their holy duty to civilize the native Africans. Thus, they regarded themselves superior to Africans whose culture they considered inferior, uncivilized, and savage. In the name of spreading civilization, they dominated, oppressed, tyrannized and persecuted the native Africans not only economically and politically, but also culturally. When the Europeans left, the Africans got political freedom, but the foul practice of imperialism did not end. It appeared in a new form namely neocolonialism which the scholars had branded as the worst form of imperialism…Neocolonialism is a process by which colonial mother country exposed exploiting rules and regulations to her newly independent underdeveloped countries or less developing countries for indirect dominating.2
The examples of Zimbabwe, Sudan, Mali, and the Central African Republic serve as stark reminders of the consequences of Russian influence. The international community must unite to counter this troubling trend. It is our moral obligation to ensure that history does not repeat itself and that African nations have the autonomy and prosperity they rightfully deserve. We should stand against the new form of neo-colonialism and safeguard the future of Africa, as well as the world.3
To assume anti-imperialism,
is anti wholly western,
is to confess your countries’ sins.
It means you know what countries have done,
and you’re looking to mitigate,
a damage control from within,
using abusive framing,
to unfairly label,
critics as hateful,
knowing full well,
the system, the processes,
are chains reining-in our will.
Africans are not barbarous or stupid pets.
We were and are equally human.
We want to be free of foreign domination,
neocolonial control,
including those elites,
who betray us back home.
I am not blindly pro-socialist,
I am anti-hypocrisy,
I am not avidly anti-capitalist,
I am anti-manipulatory.
I am anti-colonialism,
hiding behind liberal economics,
I am anti-elite enrichment,
hiding behind privatise national assets.
Many analysts have accepted that South Africa’s “political miracle” was purchased at the price of ensuring the survival of one of the world’s most unequal capitalist systems. Liberals—with enthusiasm—have argued that South Africa has accepted the inevitability of the market and that it has pragmatically adapted to the new international economic order: it has removed exchange controls, embraced an export-oriented development strategy, practiced strict fiscal discipline, and committed itself to privatization…The Australian political commentator John Pilger captures the sense of disillusionment on the left when he recently lamented that a “historic compromise” between the African National Congress (ANC) and the apartheid government left economic power in the hands of the corporate white elite; all that has changed is “the inclusion of a small group of blacks into this masonry.”4
Vested interests,
vested African comforts,
upper-middle classes,
prove they can’t be trusted,
to give full truth uncovered.
Our elites presuppose capitalism’s virtues,
a manipulative, elite charade,
Africans mimicking or pretending,
part of their clingy bousculade.
Framing is deliberate,
skewed toward upper-middle class,
their comforts, desires or pains.
The majority of the majority,
their desires or opposing critiques,
are labelled as insane.
I do not care about the social democratic principles among the rats and mice (‘rats and mice’: irrelevant people). I am referring to the red (Socialist) threat articulated by the ANC, the EFF and MK. The EFF is a self-described ‘Marxist-Leninist-Fanonian’ party. The ANC has long been in a close alliance with one of the oldest communist parties, and today several SACP members hold ministerial positions. The MK—well—just reproduced the socialist wet dream of complete nationalisation of private land.5 —Martin van Staden (his online response to Khululekile Mkhandi’s comment on Martin’s BizNews opinion article), Martin is the Head of Policy at the Free Market Foundation, former Deputy Head of Policy Research at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Editor of RaceLaw.co.za, Editor in Chief of the Rational Standard, and a columnist at the Daily Friend
We know this,
We see it,
trusted voices, grotesque elitism,
from fancy schools doing their bit,
to create a set view,
of socialism across Africa,
Socialists branded as dangerous caliphates.
We don’t produce television(s). Because this (ANC) government has gone into trade agreements with other countries. Let’s take Germany for instance, our trade agreements with Germany say we cannot manufacture a car, we will assemble the cars from Germany. And we don’t just assemble (it), we put money into assembling German cars. Why should we do that? Why shouldn’t we produce, manufacture our own (African) car? Where is the market? Africa loves everything South African. They will buy from us. We produce a fighter jet. If we produce a flying machine, it shouldn’t be difficult to produce a car. Denel has demonstrated that we have the capacity to do this. Denel is manufacturing army vehicles but why are we not doing it? It is trade agreements with Europe, America, with (the) UK that (say) you (Africans) will not get involved in this.6 —Julius Malema, leader of southern Africa’s Economic Freedom Front party
They’re exorbitantly wealthy,
while people starve,
a video on upper Korea,
socialist hell, they remark.
And here’s what I don’t get,
why is inequity “hell”,
when socialism is mentioned,
but somehow less disgusting,
in a capitalist pàiduì century.
South Africa,
a capitalist country,
liberal for decades,
has a Gini index of 0.63,
the most income unequal,
our companies’ dividend shindig.
In 2011, South Africa produced diamonds whose uncut, or rough, value was (US)$1.73 billion, or 12 percent of global production, according to the most recent government data available. Yet from 2010 to 2011, diamond-producing companies paid South Africa’s government just (US)$11 million in mining royalties, according to the latest Tax Statistics report, produced by the South African Treasury and the South African Revenue Service. A 100Reporters investigation of the diamond trade in South Africa has found that companies here pay a royalty rate far lower than that of other African states. Companies can also reduce or cancel out export taxes if they offer locally-mined diamonds to the state for purchase—even if the South African government never buys the gems, often due to formidably high prices…
In an apparent conflict of interest, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., the dominant player until 2010, ‘donates’ paid staff to the State Diamond Trader, charged with assessing diamonds offered by De Beers and other companies to the State for purchase. Provided 10 percent of domestic diamonds are offered, these companies may then receive export tax exemptions…From 2005 to 2012, diamond exporters, primarily De Beers, appear to have downplayed the market value of their rough diamond exports by (US)$3 billion, according to an analysis* of declarations in corporate filings under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, the rough diamond tracking system used to keep conflict gems off the world market. The same undervalued gems were then sold at market prices around the world.7
The US free-market,
liberal capitalists extraordinaire,
has twenty million people,
living in deep poverty,
an American despair.
Half of those in deep poverty,
are under the age,
of twenty-five,
young Americans are barely alive.
The number of households,
living on two dollars per person,
increased in fifteen years,
in 2011 was 1.4 million, their (not my) assertion.
India’s top five percent,
own over half of the country’s wealth,
Credit Suisse did not mention,
liberal capitalist policies,
affecting bhaiya’s health.
How many working Indians,
are exploited serfs, living to eat,
or is some getting rich mass justice,
when racialised capitalist colonialism,
killed almost 150 million Indians real quick,
to some, this was incredibly slick,
Indian elites dare not say then,
why complain, jaan, just try to be rich.
Socialism is the devil,
Capitalism is an angel dishevelled.
Mixed economies,
leaning toward capitalist liberals,
those are the good guys,
our true friends,
even when our millions starve to no end.
Socialist economies are deemed cruel,
if leaders eat a wrap for lunch,
while economic crises worsened by US sanctions,
removed their shelved products before brunch.
Socialist economies are called names,
anti-freedom, anti-people,
but it was capitalist economies,
invading Iraq, bombing land of the Slavs,
our UN laws hidden while human lives were halved.
The Israel military declared the town a closed military zone and refused to allow the International Red Cross in. And the Red Cross, the ICRC (and this is scandalous in my opinion) they would not do anything without coordinating with the Israeli military. And in my communication with the ICRC (the International Committee of the Red Cross), they refused to discuss atrocities that their paramedics had witnessed without first clearing it with the Israeli military. They even did a conference during the war with the Israeli military think tank that conceived (of) the Dahiya doctrine I just mentioned.8 —Max Blumenthal, American journalist and author of The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
DRC’s seven million displaced,
six million dead,
connected to capitalist extraction schools,
our African minerals,
forced onto the foreign wealth cruise,
but no, it is socialism killing,
Africa’s ultimate hidden enemy,
upper-middle class farcical drool,
when liberal capitalism’s Africa’s frenemy.
But what about socialist China?
“Tell us how terrible they are,”
Okay…
with around thirty US sites,
AfriCom is a saint,
in 2022, China had one base,
so desperate, so desperate,
to make China look like a military threat,
maps on “likely considered” spaces,
for military bases is used by media internet.
Sabri Al-Qurashi’s native language is Arabic. He was dumped in Kazakhstan nine years ago where they speak Kazakh and Russian. A lot of these men, there were 770 of them, a lot of these stories never got told. Sabri spent twelve years (detained without charge) at Guantanamo (detention site). He was not one of the ‘black site’ prisoners…
He was deemed low intelligence value because he was picked up in Pakistan. He was there in a perfume factory, buying wholesale things, trying to make money. He happened to be there when 9/11 just happened and there were leaflets offering bounty money up to US$5000. Warlords in Pakistan and Afghanistan were selling people to the United States government. This happened to up to 86% of the men that were at Guantanamo Bay…
He was told there would be some restrictions for the first two years but essentially he was going there as a free man. He would have the same rights as a Kazakh citizen. For the last eight years, he has found himself without the most basic needs met…Now he is essentially living in an open-air prison. His movements are monitored. People are actively discouraged from becoming friends with him. They become monitored. He’s kept mostly in isolation because of the stigma of being branded a ‘terrorist’ in Kazakhstan. He does not have an ID. He does not have asylum. He is stateless. He is unable to receive money or mail. He can’t drive. He cannot travel. The International Committee of the Red Cross is the one that pays for him have an apartment and live there. There is no support from the Kazakh government. All of these ‘resettlement deals’ are run out of an office of the (US) State Department.9—Elise Swain, Former photo editor and multimedia journalist at The Intercept now freelance reporting/photography
Why the fuck would anyone go to war for you? I’m 100% disabled fucking (US) veteran and guess what they do when you get out? First, they break you down and they brainwash you. And then they tell you, hey, you’re a soldier now, you’re an airman now, you’re a Marine now, you’re a sailor now, stand with pride in your uniform that cost like 800 (US) dollars that you have to pay for with your own paycheck. They don’t just give it to you, you got to pay for it. And after they brainwash you, they throw you in the fucking trash. Nobody wants to go to war for you. You don’t take care of the American people, you don’t take care of the service members and by God dammit you don’t fucking take care of the veterans.10—American Veteran frustration over post war treatment Jeff_081211 (Tik Tok)
The astounding sheer gall,
to sit on neocolonialist thrones,
and lecture us Africans on foreign threats.
Lumumba warned us,
about normalised military,
slews of corporate backed wars.
Africa has never been truly free,
your liberal democratic vote is a joke,
we vote for askaris, pro-neocolonisers,
who hand-over resources,
before building our globally competitive shores.
We will deal with China,
Saudi and Russia,
India or UAE,
but first, Africa must ban all foreign bases,
and then we can talk,
if we want to,
about your socialism fear.
Morena (the National Regeneration Movement of Mexico) didn’t just win. They won with a super majority in both houses of Congress and in the state house, which means that Morena and their allies can pass constitutional reforms on their own, without consulting the opposition that had blocked a series of reforms before this election. AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) laid out about twenty constitutional reforms and said we are running (our election campaign) on this, it includes reforms to give indigenous and Afro-Mexican people greater rights and greater autonomy, to ban fracking, to ban open-pit mining, to peg the minimum wage to inflation, to increase workers pensions and create a fund so workers can retire on their last salary up to a certain limit.11—Kurt Hackbarth, writer, playwright and host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
AMLO laid out, saying give us the super majority to pass these (reforms) and the public did…The one reform getting the most media attention is the judicial reform and you see a lot of blow back from the US press, you see Bloomberg, Mary Anastasia O’Grady saying we are going to have to short the Mexican Peso. All kinds of financial coup kind of things…
The sneering from the New York Times, saying Mexico is going to shift (and I am quoting here), ‘from a judiciary based on an appointment system based on specialised training and qualifications to one where just about anyone can become a judge with a law degree and a few years experience’. Sneering elitism dripping from the New York Times. Heaven forbid, ‘just about anyone’ could become a judge in Mexico rather than the coterie of elite judges we have now in Mexico, that cater absolutely to corporate interests and the interests of the wealthy both national and international. And this is what the United States is worried about, they won’t have the judiciary in their pocket anymore for multinationals, multinational mining companies, multinational energy companies to get injunctions to block legislation, block progressive reforms that prevent them from doing whatever they want in Mexican territory.12 —Kurt Hackbarth, writer, playwright and host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
Our minerals are ours,
Africa is our motherland,
not anyone’s enslaved cash cow,
nationalising resources labelled contraband,
none of you elites are our master,
do not over extend your hand.
But since you bring it up,
why were criticisms,
by Empire Files,
on John Oliver’s run down,
targetting Venezuela with distorted truths mired,
barred under a forced login round.
Sounds like creative blinkers,
forced on by a global network,
trying to ensure westerners
let alone Africans,
never question media bent.
If you understand how Western propaganda operates, we live in an ostensible liberal democracy or we have the veneer of liberal democracy. And so the government, the State and its various tentacles can’t just outlaw a media outlet or jail us, although if we become enough of a nuisance they might do so as they did with Julian Assange for example. The best way to deal with an outlet like The Grayzone is to constantly attack us. Filter out attack pieces in mainstream publications where much of the public (including the liberal public that might even sympathise with the Palestinians) trust. So the Washington Post ran a phony smear piece on us claiming that we are paid by Iran. No evidence at all to support that, all innuendo…
And that gets fed into Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a bulletin board for the national security elite. And we have been placed, blacklisted as a deprecated source on Wikipedia because of the threat we pose to the narrative. Wikipedia will soon become a source for AI, so when you use voice activated AI and say, hey, Siri or whatever it is, What is The Grayzone? It will read you the smears one after the other…and I am unable to edit or correct them. You are unable to correct them. There’s a cartel of less than 300 editors responsible for the majority of edits, and their concept of ‘reliable sources’ or vetted sources is synonymous with maintstream and corporate Western media.13 —Max Blumenthal, American journalist and author of The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
Within 24 hours of Blinken making the statement, our YouTube channel was shut down. Within 72 hours of that statement, our Instagram, Facebook was shut down. And over the course of the week, Tik Tok was shut down. And today, they shut down our Gmail access. That’s all of the shared drive. All the videos we have ever done on African stream, all the gmails (emails), all the stories we were working on…
The good thing about this is the nature of the work we do, the stories we cover meant that the (journalist) team knew this was a possibility. Because we covered the story of Patrice Lumumba, who they (the US) called “the Soviet Agent” and then he was killed, assaulted with acid, body dismembered, burnt and the only thing that remained was a tooth. We know when you step out and you expose imperialism (imposed on Africa) there’s a price to pay. This is clearly politically motivated. It happened just before the US elections are about to take place (in November 2024)…
We were only getting attacks from people who said we were hurting Kamala Harris’s (election) campaign. Before this happened there were two smear campaigns. The first was from NBC. They said we were spreading fake news to 40 million African Americans without a single example. They cited a report, the only thing publicly available is the summary of the report, and in the summary we are not even mentioned. It says email us if you want the full report. I emailed them months ago.14—Ahmad Kaballo, CEO of African Stream, Pan African news and analysis channel.
Why was DD Geopolitics banned?
Why was the Cradle banned too?
Why is anyone,
who exposes or questions Empire’s hand,
the system design or control,
denied equal rights, equal voice.
across tech giants’ home.
Africans cannot afford,
their usual beggar’s bowl role.
Africans need their own social media system,
their own control, a regional hold.
Africa is covered alot by mainstream (global) media but I think it is covered very badly. They tell a story and decontextualise it, so a person who does not know the nuances will be left with a certain perception. An example of that would be the Niger coup. The way the Western media covered it was military men have just taken power. We had somebody on the ground, in Niamey, spoke to people. People were filling up stadiums. People were lining the streets supporting this coup. The reason is, they recognise that since its independence, Niger has been in a neocolonial relationship with France. At the time, it was the second poorest country in the world. According to the World Bank, it is expected to grow 12.8% this year…In Africa, competition (with African Stream) is not fierce at all….We don’t take a Human Rights Watch report on face value. We investigate. We do some digging. We speak to the people on the streets. Some of these African media regurgitate what the mainstream media are saying. So even though it has “Africa” in its name, it is essentially controlled by the same centres of power from London, Brussels, Washington as the mainstream media.15 —Ahmad Kaballo, CEO of African Stream, Pan African news and analysis channel.
Why are imperialist critics,
being shoved,
into a different internet box,
Anne Applebaum, I think she’s called,
said global information,
needs to be better controlled,
should reflect “democratic values“,
but not censorship,
oh no, deary me, not that at all.
This is the same woman who said,
lately, genocide is an overused word,
ignoring UN’s Albanese report,
while evidence, horrific,
poured from social media platforms.
This is the same woman,
who failed to mention,
selective shadow bans,
during pro-genocide screaming fans,
during “non-existent”,
mainstream media propaganda,
brutality against western students,
a First World, authoritarian extravaganza.
And take it from me,
shadow banning is being used,
to censor exposure or criticism,
not hate speech or those being cruel,
such is not making S.African news.
I have forever been banned,
the only odd word used,
was “neoliberalism”,
twice criticising the liberal capitalists,
ANC and DA, was for Youtube inexcusable.
Try again.
Perhaps a bot made a mistake?
Try adding a comment,
and it takes you,
to channel creation,
preventing public critique of my national State.
Prior, I enjoyed a brief shadow ban,
for contravening Insta rules,
a comment on More Perfect Union,
on the neocolonialism effect,
detailing Marikana Farlam’s news,
our corporate economic malevolence,
seen as incidental corporate venomous.
What did three-to-six beanies say,
this year’s election would be swayed by YouTube,
he did not mention, not a word,
whether repression of voices takes place,
our voices unheard.
Designed to ensure maximising of one or two narratives,
only those that support,
foreign extraction, minority control,
not a redesigned boat.
Lesufi says,
the ANC has done so much.
Thirty minutes of an interview,
spent talking about the past.
Ah, bless…I get it.
Nostalgic ANC supporters,
DA disillusioned,
want rebranded status quo with bigger crumbs,
for the downtrodden mostly-black losers.
But errr,
the middle-class hold a voice of wily range,
a paternalistic attitude,
what did Brian Kagoro say?
How can you ask poorer people,
what they want,
if they don’t know what is possible,
you’d rather leave them stunted.
ANC lives in a delusion.
DA lives in resentful fear or contempt.
And I say that with clear eyes,
I voted for both parties,
my complicity with their sins, not exempt.
You don’t get to come now,
and lecture the ordinary,
on who to vote for,
after enabling corporate blood suckers,
how rich am I, black fronters,
bought political game punters,
seeing African indigenous or African-born shunters,
live to die slowly,
masses quickly going under.
From before 1994,
the liberal capitalist game was set.
The remember me,
white elites matter,
as true in 1983,
the push-back-on-change Thatcherettes,
in tune with the look at me,
from past liberation seas,
just focus on Nelson Mandela,
but a version from before 1993.
You did this!
You led the country and yourselves,
your ruling class friends,
into your idea,
of socialist seven hells.
You did this!
You thought you were better than us,
thought you were special,
you used millions for votes,
believing your zebra dishonour was essential.
Why should anyone trust you?
You put lower classes in a hole.
Lower classes are supposed to believe,
you act in their best interests,
after what you two enabled for decades long.
Shifting colonialism,
into apartheid,
white settler colonialism,
re-dressed as white immigration spotlights.
Then, you shifted apartheid,
into liberal capitalism,
our neocolonial hell,
forcing us into a liberal democracy shell.
You never told us about trade deals,
choking our neck.
You kept hidden,
Investor State Dispute Settlement effects.
You never mentioned,
the propaganda-by-omission media,
avoiding African imperialism,
elite anti-African, pro-western medians.
(Muserref) Yardim noted that the colonialist mentality still exists in Europe. She said France passed the law on colonialism on Feb. 25, 2005, to impose (on) teachers to teach the positive effects of the French presence in North Africa to students. But the bill was withdrawn due to the public(‘s) reaction. “Although the law was strongly condemned by Algeria and other colonial countries, France still believes in colonial policies, continuing to say that (colonial) policies are for the benefit of the colonised nations,” she said. “The mission of ‘civilizing the colonial people’ remains in the French policy, showing that although the colonies have declared their independence, France still does not withdraw from these countries and tries to protect its sovereignty,” she added.16
You said nothing about foreign control,
the foreign aid, foreign paid,
anti-corruption watchdogs,
uninterested in baked-in corruption,
from old white elites,
monies buried in European wealth streams.
You failed to investigate,
foreign NGOs,
and what role they play,
in solidifying our neocolonial decay.
You largely ignored racial abuse,
interpersonal and institutional,
anti-majority from minority elites,
who assaulted black poorer, we got receipts.
It was Socialism,
that went toe-to-toe,
with those violent middle class,
or white-lives-matter by policy,
while you remained meek and cowardly.
It was Socialism,
that said in no part,
of majority land,
will majority people be left to fend alone on their sand.
GNU touts the ANC years later,
as “Socialist”,
laughable, if was not so sad,
before their first IMF loan,
a social democracy could have been planned.
But it’s been thirty years,
I was ten in 1994,
now forty with stretchmarks and gray hair,
you betrayed class liberation, showing us you didn’t care.
Year after year,
Socialism would do the work,
you should have done,
calling out public sector outsourcing,
that you failed to mention,
in Gauteng’s governing run down.
You did this!
You did this to yourselves,
now pretending,
your vacuous audacity,
is multiculturalist sagacity.
I don’t trust you.
You left us to die!
Holding onto minority-benefits,
economic minority domination and abuse,
when you could have made it better, mos.
You sought to serve self,
your zebra what’s-in-it-for-me,
my elite kind,
and then pointed fingers,
as if we were all blind.
In the meantime,
children at college starved,
private school land claims grew,
they’ll charge you a million Rand,
for a one-bedroom flat in Sandton,
who can afford housing in a privatisation stew.
We have to pay for petrol,
pay for tolls and transport,
we have no national economic control,
the real rainbow prays on Facebook,
on groups searching for help,
desperate for jobs, they look,
but once they get a job,
in our neocolonialst,
white-now-zebra dominated abyss,
they’ll be paid below inflation, suffer frozen salaries,
while rainbow management’s conscience is amiss.
No where to go when rumours of union busting,
against Indian lower classes,
in KwaZulu Natal,
from healthcare schemes,
legal intimidation baring their teeth.
Indian askaris enforcing indentured labour houses,
while white elites say,
if you have a problem, get out,
unemployment is where you can run your mouth.
But, of course,
let’s look at Socialism.
Okay, let’s look,
Socialism started a labour desk,
resolving almost 97 000 cases,
for the abandoned poor,
workers ignored by media, their privilege now shook.
Sad that that’s what you’re good for,
numerous smear campaigns,
magnified distractions, villains rearranged,
Zille voters were anti-ANC,
next, anti-Socialism,
then my family’s told to be anti-MK,
do they even now know what to say?
Now, minority black middle class,
GNU is gunning for EFF,
sjoep stil on the system,
it’s full colonial picture still obscured, they’re quite adept.
Sudan for Israel is very symbolic. In 1967, there was a conference that happened in Khartoum called the Khartoum Conference, where the “three Nos” were established: No peace, No recognition, No normalisation. By getting Sudan to normalise (with Israel) was an important part of Trump’s (US) Abraham Accords. We know Saudi Arabia wants to normalise relations with Israel. But what Saudi Arabia’s goal is, if you can get all the other countries to normalise first then it doesn’t seem as big a deal that the custodian of (Muslim holy sites) Mecca and Medina also normalises relations...
What was interesting about the documentary is I interviewed the Information Minister who was also the Transitional Government spokesperson (for Sudan) and he gave the most honest and frank interview. To my surprise actually…He basically said that in the lead up to the 2020 election, the Trump administration put immense pressure on Sudan to normalise relations with Israel…At the time, the Sudan economy was free falling. The Minister explained to me that they took this decision to normalise relations (with Israel) because they needed a lifeline...
There was a French president…Chirac, he said that without the business arrangements that we have with Africa we would be a third world country. He knew that as part of their (French) surivival, they need to keep this uranium deal they had with Niger, where Areva, a French-backed company takes 96% of the royalties. They realise that their existence, the status that their civilians have, that their (European) elites have, relies on exploitation of not just Africa, but primarily of Africa, and generally the Global South…Ideology is number one (that sustains the neocolonialist exploitation). We saw it in the Russia Ukraine conflict, in the way that they talked about it. We saw clips of people saying, it is blue-eyed people like me being killed in Ukraine. the premise of that is it is okay if it happens in Palestine, it is okay when it happens in Sudan and Somalia.17—Ahmad Kaballo, CEO of African Stream, Pan African news and analysis channel.
But make no mistake,
our political class is a mess,
you’re talking, not talking,
aligning, not aligning,
for what purpose,
is anyone’s guess.
Instead of redesigning the system,
not just plugging holes,
making just, actually fair,
you sell us drama,
scandals, rather than visionary hope.
No one is easier sold,
than our academia and political class,
’94 bandmates and others,
must make the upper class laugh,
for a few extra bucks,
they’ll wrap themselves in feathers.
while the majority,
lower classes get whipped and limed,
African slaves trying to escape,
hear, hear, to our democratic lives.
Hollywood possesses between 60% and 75% of shares of the international film market..Since the Second World War, the US government financed movies aimed towards national security topics. The produced films fight against Nazi ideology or denounce the Communist threat, awakening citizens’ patriotic feelings. A direct link was established between the War Department and Hollywood. It would never be broken…
These films also promoted – and even propagandized – the American army, which lent its equipment and men for filming purposes. The 1986 film Top Gun is a perfect example (translator’s note: as much as its 2022 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick). This film even helped to recruit many American soldiers, with the army setting up recruitment booths at the end of screenings…Hollywood films not only unite a nation around the values and geopolitical representations of the United States, but also the entire world. The conflicts and threats that the United States and its allies face are scripted. Plots dating back from the second half of the 20th century battle Nazi ideology and the Communist enemy during the Cold War. Cinema was part of the logic of the National Security State Doctrine, put in place under the Truman administration. The scenarios also illustrate the shift and evolution of conflicts and threats. Cyber-attacks, the threat of terrorism, drug trafficking and gangs have all been featured in plots since the 2000’s…
Furthermore, the films provide an American representation of history by using heroic figures. Examples include Rambo 2, about the Vietnam War, and Rambo 3, about the war in Afghanistan. These films also serve to attenuate – or even glorify – the role of the American army in conflicts: American Sniper, released in 2015, pays tribute to a soldier who took part in the conflict in Iraq (translator’s note: one could also mention Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, released in 2023).18
Socialism is not merely high taxes,
that’s status quo capitalism,
with a bigger State budget.
Socialism is collective enrichment,
based on restructuring,
economic control,
economic ownership.
not merely social welfare democratic,
a rebranding automatic.
You can run around,
espousing higher family grants,
more jobs, more tourism,
Haha from old leaders coining Rands.
For years, talking black lives matter,
but not in substance,
no global competitive power,
no regional economic control.
I am not talking about racial exclusion,
I am saying,
honour majority lives,
the majority are working class,
not the upper-middle,
the majority are black,
coloured second,
but that’s not how our economy was devised.
And if more of the working youth,
lower class,
the masses, mostly black,
don’t figure out,
when they’re under elite attack,
they, too, will spend their lifetime,
like we did, hustling for more,
looking up to bent-knees,
who would do anything,
to stay second-in-charge lords.
Be careful is what I am saying,
of “non-racialism” masks,
if it does not include,
a reimagining,
an economic control task,
you’re being had, once again,
by the liberal dominant zebra class.
The people who captained us,
into international debt,
more private profits, liberalising regulation,
trying to separate the political,
from an economic system,
our thirty-year democracy tricked-little.
And so stay alert,
stay informed,
the media machine is coming for you,
it will ban or label African voices,
creatively channel,
your African votes to their view.
It will tell you,
economic control questions,
are racist, exclusionary.
It’ll tell you foreign ownership,
is investment and investment is king.
Wees gewaarsku,
you are their useful sheep,
their exploitable African skins.
If we want to talk honestly,
about socialism,
read a damn article or book.
Start with the problem.
Take a look.
Nkrumah’s last stage,
of imperialism,
clearly defines,
a warning lived in real African time.
Or perhaps Babu’s,
African socialism,
or socialist Africa,
writes what before was unwritten.
Having a real critique,
would require real engagement,
real sincerity,
not these bland, deliberately skewed,
fables on Venezuela.
Malema and his party believe the government should nationalise the banking industry, businesses, mines, take peoples’ properties by force, and so much more that violates human rights and would undermine South Africa’s young democracy…The ideas that Malema and his party sell as a solution to South Africa’s socioeconomic problems, have been tried before in many countries around the world, and they failed dismally. Even today they are still being tried in countries like Venezuela…And guess what? All these countries are poor, and ruled by despots who repress civil liberties and muzzle the press.19—Phumlani Majozi, a South African macroeconomist and political analyst, author of a new book “Lessons from Past Heroes”
To really understand what’s going on in Venezuela, you obviously don’t have to start with (Hugo) Chavez. You have to start with the period before Chavez. Venezuela is a victim of what’s been called 500 years of social disaster. In 1499, the era of colonialism began when it was invaded by the Spanish Empire and Venezuela (like every other colonised country in the world) suffered genocide, to be transformed into a mono-crop, slave State to be devoured by foreign powers, while the people of the country went deeper and deeper into poverty, misery and death. That legacy of underdevelopment still plagues every formerly colonised country in the world, trying to emerge in today’s economy having one export, not having any infrastructure and things of that nature...
When neoliberal reforms hit the country in the (19)80s it devastated them just the way it devastated every other country that was hit by these predatory neoliberal reforms. Poverty was close to 50%, infant mortality was a shocking 20 in every 1000 births and widespread illiteracy amongst other problems. In 1989, the country was in total economic collapse, far greater than anything we see in Venezuela today. When people rose up in protest, they were massacred by the right-wing government who murdered an estimate of 4000 citizens in just a matter of days. It was out of that movement that Chavez emerged as a leader…
“John Oliver:’When that (oil) company protested some of the (socialist) changes he (Chavez) was making, he responded by using his TV show to address his executives directly'”. Well what were they (the corporate executives) protesting? They were protesting the democratic election of Hugo Chavez, and the way that they were protesting was to shut down oil production in the country. So when you have over 95% of income coming into the country coming from oil, shutting down the oil industry is a major act of (corporate) protest, shutting down the entire economy. And what was their (corporate) demand during the protest? For Chavez, democratic leader, to step down from office. Yeah, he fired those people, he took back the oil industry and used the wealth from the oil industry (instead of going into the pockets of those very rich, oil executives) he used it to revolutionise the country…Not only was poverty reduced by half, but extreme poverty fell from 17% to under 7%; pensions for the elderly went from under 400,000 to over 2 million; malnurtrition went from 21% to 2%; unemployment fell from under 17% to 6% and cut the infant mortality rate in half; children in school went from 6 million to 13 million and illiteracy was totally eradicated. Just to be fair.
“John Oliver:’Some of Chavez’s reforms could have been sustainable, if he pursued a sound economic policy and run a tight ship, not only did he stop saving revenue in a rainy day fund but oversaw a government that Transparency International found to be the most corrupt country in Latin America'”. He (John Oliver) cites Transparency International, an organisation that has most of its funding coming from Western governments and big business. For example, one of the biggest donors is the British government, other major donors include the US government (very hostile to the Venezuelan government) and guess who else? Shell and ExxonMobil, the oil companies that really want Venezuela’s oil. And guess where the data came from for this report? It was compiled by an anti-Chavez activist who was part of the 2002 coup against Chavez, so not one to trust as a basis for your argument, John...
Since Chavez’s death and the price of oil has plummetted, the social programmes (in Venezuela) have advanced and have been maintained. For example, a free quality healthcare has expanded to more of the country, making it available to people in historically left behind, impoverished areas, in particular indigenous areas in the Amazons and so forth, causing the United Nations Programme for Development to place Venezuela amongst the countries with the highest human development index in the world, surpassing most Latin American countries. Since Chavez’s death and under Maduro, they reached the goal of building 2 million new housing units for the poor, still moving forward, building about 500 000 new homes a year. Today, Venezuela has the second-lowest rate of homelessness in all of Latin America, despite economic difficulties. They have the highest literacy rate in all of Latin America. For example, oil revenue has decreased by 87% but they (Venezuela) has still increased social investment: socially invested resources in relation to income has gone from 39% to 74%. “John Oliver: ‘It is easy to see why Maduro has pissed people off. He has managed he has managed Venezuela’s economic crisis in the worst possible way. He (Maduro) has doubled-down on Chavez’s most unsound policies like unrealistic policies and price controls while attempting to make up for missing revenue by creating more money and as a result inflation has exploded. Inflation is just one of many reasons why many Venezuelans are struggling to find or afford basic necessities like medicine or food.'” Well, if that’s just one of many reasons, what are the other reasons? He doesn’t list any of them. Here’s a big one: an economic war that is being undeniably waged from within the country, from the biggest corporations, and outside superpowers that have the ability to sanction the country, prevent it from getting loans, increase the price of its debt. You think that would be worth mentioning…
Regarding (Venezuelan) inflation, 70% of the country’s inflation is due to the rate of exchange with the US dollar. This value of Venezuela’s currency is arbitrarily determined by outside superpowers. Perhaps the biggest cause of inflation is ‘extraction smuggling’ where big capitalists, those that have the ability to have large sums of cash, actually smuggle cash out of the country into Columbia and other places and exchange them there- This reduces the amount of cash in the country and raises inflation…
Chavez was elected to power in 1999 on the basis of creating a new constitution. When he took power he started a process of drafting a new constitution. The way this was done was millions of Venezuelans all across the country had mass meetings, discussions, debates and proposed things to be in the constitution. Drafts to the constitution went out, people amended them, discussed them, debated them and ultimately this constitution created by the people was put a national vote. Among the voters that came out, over 70% of voters came out to approve this constitution. The creation of the constituent assembly was completely within the bounds of their constitution that the people created. Now, the constituent assembly, as John Oliver likes to say, he just created it, stacked it with all his people, his relatives and it was sham vote. But the constituent assembly process was a democratic process…every citizen could run as delegates, including the opposition. But the opposition refused to participate in the democratic process.20 —Mike Prysner, Iraq War US Veteran, Political Activist and the Producer/Writer of the TV documentary and interview series, The Empire Files.
And that’s what is missing,
ringing hollow for thirty years,
genuine elite respect for ordinary lives,
the majority Africans who lent you their ears.
Corporate elites and political puppets,
upper-middle pro-capitalists, now liberals,
obfuscate and lie by ommission,
choosing intellectual dishonesty,
as the basis for their trickle-down economy.
What elite games have been played,
at our expense,
you’re not going to say,
because you’d have to examine your puckered face.
For decades, the Soviet Union experimented with EFF’s ideas – to very limited prosperity coupled with political repression.19—Phumlani Majozi, a South African macroeconomist and political analyst, author of a new book “Lessons from Past Heroes”
The Soviet Union existed for less than the (human) life expectancy in most countries today, only existing for seventy years. People judge these (socialist) experiments with such a harsh ideological attitude. They don’t want to see what these people (the Soviets) accomplished in seventy years. What they want us to say is that it was a (complete) failure. And I think that’s a failure of the imagination, not of the Soviet Union.22—Vijay Prashad, Indian historian, editor and journalist...
While the Russian Revolution happened in 1917, the Soviet Union as a formal legal entity is created in the early 1920s…At the time of the Russian Revolution, the Russian economy was about one-twelth the size of the US economy, by 1970, they were the second largest economy in the world and the first country to go into outer space. At the same time, every worker had a right to a job, you were guaranteed a right to affordable housing (housing could never be more than 6% of your income or something like that, which doesn’t mean there wasn’t cramped housing or a housing shortage), childcare was free, maternity care for mothers was a year or two years of childcare if maternity care wasn’t immediately available at your workplace, you received a one-month vacation when you started employment. And this was done while competing in a very hostile (anti-Soviet Western) environment. You had a society that was predominantly “peasant” and the society is super poor, very illiterate, even in Russian. In 1917, the literacy rate in Uzbekistan was 2%, by 1970, Uzbekistan had more college graduates per capita than France. The social advance was unlike anything that was happening anywhere else in the world at the time.23 —Brian Becker, journalist and host on Breakthrough News
Have a curious,
in good faith,
informed discussion,
on what socialism,
capitalism means,
to African us.
Don’t lie,
by omission,
or sell straight-up falsehoods,
don’t pretend your Masters or PhDs,
are anything but covers,
for minimising, excusing or denying,
neocolonialism imposed on us,
minimising, excusing or denying,
how it impacted most of our lives,
don’t lie,
that all lives matter,
when only your life is amplified.
Don’t lie,
that you’re good people at heart,
when you prove how self-absorbed,
you are from the start.
Conscious tools,
sitting in upper-middle class rooms,
ensuring elites win,
at the expense of most of their country,
most of their continent.
You could have been better humans,
allegiant Africans,
but you too might get banned,
it’s easier to stay comfortable,
well-paid,
by foreign or local, mostly western hands.
But while I thankfully,
don’t have to be sickened,
anymore,
by your elite, one-sided bullshit,
I will not be silent,
for what is obvious,
a duplicitous, Western-allegiant,
traitorous friendship.
You are seen,
by me, at least,
little ol’ South African,
a born lower-middle class nobody.
I see you.
All of what you did and do,
the game of deflect, deny,
the upper classes who lie, lie, lie,
by omission, obfuscation,
honing in on the incidental,
not the system design abomination.
Opting for intellectual laziness,
hiding resentful fear or contempt,
or just plain self-enrichment within economic haziness.
No honest assessment,
no moral core or clear vision,
corralling the minds of Africa’s millions,
to ensure their comforts are cemented,
liberals, never-really social democrats,
revealing their African elite deliriousness.
Stop!
Just…stop!
Take a look at yourselves,
centuries-old politicking,
has left you zebra higher class stars,
you can’t ignore pain,
dismiss or belittle,
you can’t carry on pretending you care,
when you’re in the too-comfortable upper-middle.
You have to grow the F up!
Grow a soul or a spine,
ideally both.
You have to get your knees off the floor,
look at your idols, the upper class,
and say, no f’ing more!
And if neocolonial national asset owners,
suffer a bee in their bonnet,
tell them to take a hike,
we will take our assets, those of note.
And to the moderate middle-class,
the black majority minority,
hoping for answers and maturity,
Please, for the love of God,
would you stop putting good vibrations,
a rainbow nation,
before economic control,
system design.
Would you stop making a mockery,
of valuing all black lives.
Your constant “let’s be friends”,
is childishly immature and politically inept,
please round-up some self-respect,
when the class of people you invite,
need African exploitation,
foreign or western neo-control,
to live better lives at working class expense.
Grow up!
Stop scapegoating Socialism,
because you’re miserable, weak, three-decade failures,
or sick, soulless slave-owners.
We will not tolerate Venezuelan-like elite games,
we are learning
how United States names,
it’s preferred home-bound stooges,
messing with elections,
by creating news reels, framing who should lose.
So John Oliver, if you can acknowledge the record of US intervention in the region, that “we have done terrible things before but just not in that instance”, then how can you imagine that somehow today with that history…that the US is not meddling in Venezuela’s affairs right now? But we don’t have to speculate that that’s what the US wants to do. We know that that’s what the US government has been pursuing for almost twenty years and still to this day. Recently, there’s been numerous threats of military intervention to overthrow the (Venezuelan) government…
On August 10th, President Donald Trump threatened a military option in Venezuela if the election outcome wasn’t what they wanted. Three days later, Mike Pence followed up (by) saying, President Trump made it very clear that we will not stand by while Venezuela collapses into dictatorship, reaffirming this threat of a military option. In February, then Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson openly called for a military coup. In the same month, powerful Senator Marco Rubio called for a military coup, and this was echoed by the main media organs of the US government, from the Washington Post to Foreign Policy magazine, they ran op-eds openly calling for a military coup against the elected government as “the best path to democracy”. Not to mention as we reviewed already that we know the US is funding destabilisation efforts, meeting and coordinating with opposition leaders…24—Mike Prysner, Iraq War US Veteran, Political Activist and the Producer/Writer of the TV documentary and interview series, The Empire Files
Funny that, South Africa!
Does the DA want to tell us again,
how their private meetings,
with US and Euro before our election,
was about their operational feelings,
not geopolitical, elite scheming,
sounds pretty undemocratic,
to me, deary,
but sure, upper-middle class pretends,
to neither critically see or hear this.
Don’t stir ordinary’s ire,
anymore than you already have,
lower class majority,
are growing aware.
Your time of getting richer than rich,
funnelling resources to foreign others,
your time of putting minority interests,
maintaining your zebra elite rudders,
is over,
soon,
your manipulative,
media election smirk,
will fade,
as people start talking at work.
Colonialism,
to Apartheid,
Apartheid to liberal Capitalism,
the minority held neocolonial crusade,
must end.
It is an old mentality,
an indifference to equal humanity,
denying the majority racial justice
economic control,
true independence,
from imperialists and their neo-colognes.
If you love “self” so much, just leave,
and never come back,
leave dehumanised ma Africa,
and don’t look back.
Colonise Mars,
that’s the plan, hey?
Just leave ordinary Africans,
so they can finally be free,
of your elite, self-serving ways.
I will however remember you,
everytime you distract,
with Springbok games,
or Heritage Day snacks,
I will remember you, African elite,
upper-middle class henchman,
how you lied, our media for decades,
downplaying with a straight face,
or ignoring Palestine’s ethnic cleansing,
to us, your rainbow mates.
I will remember,
the smug arrogance,
of calling ordinary South Africans,
“rats and mice”.
We who don’t own the means of production,
who don’t own strategic national assets.
We who were forced to watch,
black, brown and white lower-class,
circle and sink into the drain.
Your disgust for us,
will never be forgot,
I will remember in my dismay,
the economic majority being betrayed,
I will remember in my grief.
I will remember you on voting day.
*Bousculade: Scrambling
*Pàiduì: Party
*Bhaiya: Brother
*Jaan: Darling
*Mos: After all
*Sjoep stil: Very quiet
*Wees gevaarsku: Be warned
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