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e-Con e-News 25-31 August 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

US and Australian air forces practiced \u2018hot pit\u2019 bomber exercises southwest of Sri Lanka in this ocean called Indian recently \u2013 unreported by media in Sri Lanka. It was all part of \u2018an overall US Bomber Task Force (BTF) Mission<\/strong> deployment to exhibit \u2018joint force lethality<\/strong>\u2026 in the Indo-Pacific by demonstrating the US Air Force\u2019s ability to operate anywhere in the world at any time\u2019 <\/strong>(see ee Random Notes<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add these old colonial practices to the evidence dribbling out that the IMF\u2019s bitter prescriptions are aimed at creating further chaos in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MP Wimal Weerawansa recently pointed out in Parliament, that it is useless to keep electing leaders, without dealing with the promoters and funders of \u2018color revolutionaries\u2019, who keep thwarting the people\u2019s mandate, and keep destabilizing elected leaders, if they do not toe the white line: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>, CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution Using Elections in Indonesia). We will not point to Korea, Gaza, the Sudan or the Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dive no deeper then, than into that sunken unsinkable yacht<\/em><\/strong> in the Mediterranean. That once-luxurious yacht is giving up more secrets from its depths, quite revealing of the vested mathematics behind calculating Sri Lanka\u2019s so-called debt<\/strong>. Add Sri Lanka-linked bankers, media, accounting firms, law firms and consultants, to the company owned by the drowned \u2018tech wizard\u2019, which \u2018boasts a veritable closet of former operatives<\/em> on the books: MI5, MI6, CIA, NSA, & FBI.  One multimillion-pound investor, with a family long linked to the colonization of Sri Lanka and to the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O)<\/strong>, which still controls our oceanic shipping, is Alexander Arbuthnot<\/strong>, whose father is a former English war (defence) minister, and mother, the Westminster chief magistrate, \u2018Lady\u2019 Emma Arbuthnot<\/strong>, who \u2018presided over part of the lengthily cruel & prolonged extradition proceedings of Julian Assange.\u2019 (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The links of spy agencies in the USA & England to the \u2018financiers\u2019 & \u2018advisors\u2019<\/strong> who drowned and survived in that luxury yacht, expose their now-soggy fingers deep in \u2018insider\u2019 stock market manipulations. The practices of debt advisor Clifford Chance<\/strong> & Deloitte<\/strong>, the accounting firm responsible for selling off Sri Lanka\u2019s national assets, offer insights into the \u2013 no doubt legal \u2013 practices of that world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Meanwhile, there is still no word about, or name given, to the Sri Lankan crew member still being detained in Baltimore USA, following the crash of the Maersk-chartered ship <\/strong>into a bridge on March 26. Still no name or personality given to the Sri Lankan passengers or crew onboard \u2018the English-flagged luxury yacht The Bayesian<\/em> [which] capsized in a storm early Monday, August 19 off northern Sicily with 22 people aboard\u2026 The 12 passengers & 10 crew members were believed to have hailed<\/strong> from Canada, France, Ireland, Myanmar, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, England & the USA\u2019 (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Politics<\/em><\/strong> appears clearer in Sinhala<\/strong>: \u2018Politics\u2019 is desha + palana<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 the ruling of a country, and politicians, those who would rule the country. According to the capitalist mass media, politicians, those who rule Sri Lanka, are all corrupt<\/em>. So if the politicians of the country don\u2019t rule us, who should? The capitalist media? Artists? The unelected judiciary (who jump on the boards of private corporations at the first chance)? The armed forces, then? The multinational corporations (MNCs, larger than countries), and their subsidiaries, branch plants, whatever it is they call them now? Wish to be ruled by a former microfinancier & Nobel Prize-winning usurer? How about offshore rule? <\/strong>Indian National Security Advisor Ajith Doval dropped in and met with Ministers and Generals\u2026.(see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>, Poliitical Officers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The media use of surveys and polls in a supposedly democratic electoral process, is rather pernicious. The pollsters named in most news items admit to being \u2018funded by the Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust, England\u2019s National Institute for Health & Care Research (NIHR), The Asia Foundation in Sri Lanka, and others.\u2019 The USA\u2019s Asia Foundation<\/strong> is a notorious CIA front<\/strong> (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>, Political Economy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Looking through the fog of fine words about diversity, and inclusion & equality, transparency, sustainability, etc, the USA, like their colonial predecessor England, clearly has no solution to \u2018the continuing development of Sri Lanka\u2019s underdevelopment\u2019<\/em><\/strong>. The US is both working to unite the UNP & SJB, while putting pressure on both these merchant and usurers\u2019 parties. They wish to weaken and strengthen certain tendencies, to especially contain \u2018national feeling\u2019, in all the parties. Likewise, they are also funding the JVP\u2019s NPP, and promoting them in the media. This is meant to help stoke the JVP\u2019s fantasies, as well as help to \u2018whip\u2019 certain sections of the UNP & SJB into uniting against that eternal specter of \u2018Marxists\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imperialism still controls the media in Sri Lanka, in Sinhala, in Tamil, in English. As is evident in Bolivia, Venezuela, and the USA itself, it is the corporate media that influences or can cast doubt on elections, regardless of the voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     All sides could be provoked to collude in unleashing or subjecting people to violence prior to any election, which would eventually help the current unelected President Ranil Wickremesinghe to stay in office under certain provisions of the Constitution. They are fattening chickens to feed monkeys, or fattening frogs for snakes. This is meant to exacerbate instability. An NPP government may not last for even 2 years, given the type of superficial criticisms \u2013 corruption, tax avoidance, etc \u2013 legal or not, which do not get to the root of the crisis. These usually unsubstantiated accusations could also be used by and against any opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither will a UNP-SJB government last. The US has no plans to enrich or resell the country, since their main plan is to prevent any increasing relations with China. They would prefer to promote a Ukraine style-chaos rather than help resolve any of the longstanding economic underdevelopment<\/strong> after centuries of colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Last week, ee<\/em><\/strong> reported on how \u2018the colonial project created an international division of labour to ensure that the colonized would never achieve modern industrialization & development<\/strong>\u2026 The fetters placed on Sri Lanka\u2019s fiscal & monetary sovereignty appear almost tailor made to perpetuate its underdevelopment & prevent modern industrialization<\/strong>\u2019(Shiran Illanperuma).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     In this ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> Indian economist<\/strong> Prabhat Patnaik<\/strong> shows how Bangladesh entry into an IMF agreement has furthered economic disaster<\/strong>, meant to accelerate long-term chaos. More importantly, the IMF seeks to block the state\u2019s \u2018capacity to intervene<\/strong>\u2019 so that it cannot<\/strong> \u2018promote domestic industrialization<\/strong>\u2019. They have no wish for countries to actually pay back supposed debts. To promote production, requires \u2018some degree of protection of the home market<\/em><\/strong>. This protection is however disallowed by the IMF.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Patnaik<\/strong> recalls how the World Bank & IMF after having hailed Bangladesh: as an economic \u2018miracle\u2019 just a few months ago, calling it \u2018a success story of export-led growth\u2019, are now actively pushing it into chaos. Wholly dependent on \u2018garment exports\u2019, and remittances from overseas workers, Bangladesh was hit by the \u2018restrictions\u2019 on such world trade by the pandemic. Bangladesh also depended on imported fuel, which saw spikes blamed on the NATO war on Russia. Then Bangladesh approached the International Monetary Fund (IMF)\u2026. This sounds rather eerily familiar to our ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Patnaik concludes: \u2018the transcendence of neoliberalism requires the mobilisation of people around an alternative economic strategy that gives a greater role to the state, focuses on the home market, and on national control over mineral & other natural resources<\/strong>.\u2019 This is what ee<\/em><\/strong> has always advocated for Sri Lanka. However, ee<\/em><\/strong> still wonders what the term neoliberalism<\/em><\/strong> includes, and leaves out\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Indians will not reap the fruits of the new elements<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of society scattered among them by the British bourgeoisie<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

till in Great Britain itself the new ruling classes shall have<\/p>\n\n\n\n

been supplanted by the industrial proletariat<\/strong>, or till the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hindoos themselves<\/strong> shall have grown strong enough<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to throw off the English yoke altogether.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karl Marx, Manuscripts on the Polish Question<\/em> (1863-64)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Neoliberalism is often associated with a set of economic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

liberalization policies, including privatization, deregulation,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

consumer choice, globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

& reductions in government spending =100% IMF Proposals<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Often associated<\/em>\u2019 may be the key words here. This above definition came up during a social discussion of \u2018neoliberalism<\/em><\/strong>\u2019. But let\u2019s see what neoliberalism & the IMF is not<\/em> \u2018associated\u2019 with, especially in Sri Lanka? 1) Imperialism<\/strong>, 2) Anti-Marxism-Leninism<\/strong> (particularly anti-Stalinism). All of which amounts to anti-industrialization<\/strong> \u2013 to prevent the country from capturing the \u2018commanding heights of the economy\u2019 (Lenin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Imperialism<\/em><\/strong> was taken out of fashion almost suddenly, in the white world (let say, after 1976). No self-promoting academic would want to use such words, especially at a time when the white world was absorbing Asian & African \u2018scholars\u2019 (US Vice-Presidential Candidate JD Vance\u2019s wife & other \u2018Green Card\u2019 Indians etc, are the manufactures of an immigration category called B1?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     But in one shot the mighty eraser fogged out our major contradiction (500 years of contradiction at least \u2013 so now their calculations say: we owe them!)<\/em><\/strong> just as they were (expanding) launching their latest round of genocidal world wars (talk about real Keynesian \u2013 military \u2013 \u2018welfare, and, Schumpeterian \u2013 military \u2013 \u2018creative destruction\u2019) to keep capitalism going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Then, while taming their working classes (actually saying \u2018goodbye\u2019 to them) and smashing unions, they welcomed an amorphous supposedly leaderless autonomous \u2018multitude\u2019 \u2013 ara gollo<\/em>, indeed!). All this while also assassinating and massacring modern leadership, they also made nationalism<\/em> a bad word<\/strong>. Especially industrial nationalism, the yakada nationalism<\/em><\/strong> of steel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     After all, USSR leader Joseph Stalin, despite misrepresentations, gave leadership to gathering the late-19th<\/sup>C and early 20th<\/sup>C working genius around world into the USSR \u2013 expertise not only obtained from England & USA \u2013 to build an industrial state that can still defend itself \u2013 if it wishes to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     So, they made the type of industrialized nationalism<\/em><\/strong>, of the USSR, PRC, DPRK, Eastern Europe, etc, a bad word, from which we are not supposed to study and learn, especially about the forms of organization<\/strong> (cadre party, central committee, politbureau) and machinery required<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The word neoliberal<\/em> is also so academic (using it, may make an academic, \u2018edgy\u2019 & \u2018radical\u2019 but retain their tenured career) and confusing (We doubt the word liberal<\/em> was\/is even used in daily (Sinhala) conversation. And also because few people even know what the 2-faced role of just \u2018liberalism\u2019 alone has been (the \u2018freedom\u2019 to own slaves<\/strong>). Neoliberal <\/em><\/strong>may mean even less but larger concentrated groups of slave owners. The original Rockefeller-funded economists who coined the word, also wished to call their attack, New Capitalism<\/em><\/strong>, and were clear this was about holding the rest of the world back<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     So now \u2018analysts\u2019 go into great details on \u2018neoliberal\u2019 policies \u2013 but these policies (free trade, globalization) have been there all along. Colonialism has been a \u2018private \u2018enterprise of the English state to keep its ruling class happy!? Again, people\u2019s understandings of what \u2018socialism\u2019, \u2018imperialism\u2019 and \u2018communism\u2019 means, have also been happily confused, especially by so-called well-funded \u2018Westernized\u2019 Marxists (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>, Distorting Political Economy in Sri Lanka)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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