Kees van der Pijl - States of Emergency

In this urgent new study, veteran international relations scholar Kees van der Pijl shows how the ruling groups exploited the Covid-19 virus to impose a worldwide state of emergency and a psychosis of fear that allowed them to extend their power and control at a time when global capitalism is beset by crisis. Brilliantly researched, impeccably sourced, the story is told in an engaging style and with great analytical acuity. Here is a dire warning against the slide into authoritarianism to contain the revolt of restive populations who can take no more deprivation. It must be read by the broadest possible public.

WILLIAM I. ROBINSON, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara

The Covid-19 event is fast shaping up to be a deception of epic proportions, whereby a constellation of powerful actors exploit events in order to usher through profound political and economic changes. More than ever, people are waking up to the fact that this is not about a virus Derailing these nefarious agendas is without doubt the most urgent task facing humanity today and States of Emergency provides a powerful, thought provoking and critical starting point on the road to awareness and resistance.

DR. PIERS ROBINSON, Organisation for Propaganda Studies

The Project for a New American Century wrote in Rebuilding Americas Defenses that advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool. They wrote it, they meant it, and were now living it. Biological warfare, perfected at the cellular level, can now target distinct populations for annihilation under the guise of a naturally occurring biological phenomenon. But, all populations are not equally subjected to the mortality of Covid-19. Who is going to die? Who constitute the surplus population no longer needed? How do we fight back when our bloodstreams are the battlefield? Kees van der Pijl goes further than most in addressing our current concerns and circumstances, but perhaps even that isnt far enough to capture the pure evil that confronts humanity today.

CYNTHIA McKINNEY, former Congresswoman and Green Party Candidate for President, most recently editor of When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis

KEEPING THE GLOBAL POPULATION IN CHECK

KEES VAN DER PIJL

Clarity Press, Inc.

2022 Kees van der Pijl

ISBN: 978-1-949762-48-8

EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-949762-49-5

In-house editor: Diana G. Collier

Cover design: R. Jordan Santos

Cover photo, top: As the protests grow, Seattle Police Department closes down roads surrounding the East Precinct on Capitol Hill. Photo by Derek Simeone

Cover photo, bottom: Los Angeles, California, USA, May 1, 2020 People in front of Los Angeles City Hall protest the states COVID-19 stay at home orders in a Fully Open California protest. Photo by Matt Gush

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T his book originally appeared in Dutch in June 2021. I owe a debt to the publisher, Tom Zwitser of De Blauwe Tijger in Groningen, and to the editor, Dr Henk-Jan Prosman for his conscientious work on the text. I worked on an English version during the production process of that edition, adding additional information that had meanwhile become public, and was lucky to get the attention of Diana Collier at Clarity Press, for which I also thank Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research in Canada and British publishing legend, Roger van Zwanenburg.

In doing the research and writing, I owe a great debt to Karel van Wolferen, who like no other has used his experience as a foreign correspondent for Asia and academic to investigate the Covid crisis, on which he is meanwhile editing a successful biweekly, Gezond Verstand. Along with other print publications and Internet channels, this has become a major source of documentation without which I would not have been able to write the present study in a relatively short time.

Others who helped me in various ways with the current version include Gary Burn, Ab Gietelink, Elze van Hamelen, Olaf Harleman, Stan van Houcke, Alexander Kovryga, Bhabani Nayak, rsan enalp, Jaap Soons, Sebe Vogel, and a number of anonymous Twitter correspondents. David Klooz kindly sent me his two self-published books on the subject. One of the leading figures in the democratic resistance in Germany, Ullrich Mies, just in time passed me two recent studies on the topic published in Germany. Christine as always was my unfailing supporter in the undertaking. Diana Collier edited the present version with exceptional care and insight. Her erudition and profound understanding of the thrust and implications of the argument have greatly improved the original text.

Obviously none of these mentioned can be held responsible for the errors that remain.

S ociety as we know itglobal capitalism with its home base in the Westhas entered a revolutionary crisis. After years of preparation, the ruling oligarchy, which today exercises power across the globe, has seized on the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the respiratory disease attributed to it, Covid-19, to declare a global state of emergency in early 2020. This seizure of power is intended to prevent the Information Technology revolution (hereafter: IT revolution), the impact of which can be compared to that of the coming of the printing press at the end of the Middle Ages, from ushering in a democratic transformation.

In 2008 the capitalist speculation machine unleashed twenty years earlier came to a crashing halt. The casino was reopened after a short time with mainly water damage, or so it seemed; yet in the meantime, unprecedented unrest has arisen among the global population. Unlike the eve of World War I, the mass discontent this time has no clear-cut political orientation, as the IT revolution did not bring forth, as the Industrial Revolution had done, an organized revolutionary force such as the socialist labor movement, drawing its power from an industrial working class. With the decline of industrial production in the West, and concomitantly of unions, the unrest that arose after 2008 went in all directionsthe Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the Yellow Vests in France, and so on. Strikes, riots and anti-government demonstrations, as well as mass migration and drug abuse since then have broken all existing recordsuntil the World Health Organization proclaimed the Covid outbreak a pandemic. Governments across the globe swiftly followed by imposing states of emergency, which paradoxically were then tightened as the virus subsided and henceforth followed an obviously political calendar.

This book aims to address and dispel the psychosis of fear into which the world has been plunged. In the process of research and writing, I found that the pandemic is not a simple, one-off fraud, or a grand scheme cooked up by Klaus Schwab, the oracle of Davos, and obediently executed by national governments. Rather, it is a complex, historical crisis, giving rise to a seizure of power by the global ruling class that has been initiated from different starting positions. Much about the Covid pandemic is still shrouded in mystery. It seems certain that the virus did escape from a laboratory, but from which one, we do not know. What we can conclude is that the official account of what is happening around us is patently untrue and that it will therefore eventually collapse. The timescale on which this will come about should not be underestimated, as the mainstream media constitutes a key part of the complex of forces that have seized power in this process; its deception and propaganda regarding major historical events have become routine since the 1990s.