The Weekly Forum - 29 August

The definition of a conspiracy theory is that it is a visionary analysis of an obscure situation by intelligent people, which turns out to be true and becomes widely accepted many years after the event. The original visionaries are often not credited for their perspicacity. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, has just validated this rule in a letter addressed to the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives. He confirms the truth of two ‘conspiracy theories’ which have been energetically dismissed as disinformation for four years – not only that the US government pressured Facebook to censor Covid discussions and news about Hunter Biden’s laptop but also that Facebook gave in to this pressure and did censor its platform. Facebook also facilitated what turned out to be fraud in the 2020 US presidential election. Zuckerberg regrets his decisions and has resolved not to repeat them but these revelations demonstrate how deep the links are between the deep state and specifically the Democratic Party: the Hunter Biden laptop story was dismissed by 50 so-called intelligence experts and officers but it was true. They lied in order to get Trump out of the White House.

Read FVD's statement on Zuckerberg here

The rule of conspiracy theories has also been validated by recent revelations about the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022. FVD was the first to allege that the Americans were responsible – a view dismissed as ‘total nonsense’ by the then Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, in a reply to Thierry Baudet in Parliament last year. Now German prosecutors have issued a warrant against a Ukrainian for blowing up the pipelines and so the whole idea that this is ‘nonsense’ comes crashing down. It does not make any material difference whether it was a Ukrainian or the Americans because both are our allies, whereas the initial (absurd) claim was that the Russians had blown up their own multi-billion dollar infrastructure. Maike Gosch has written a fascinating piece about this revelation and its ramifications, and on the way the news has gone down in Germany, the principal victim of the attack.

Read Maike Gosch's article here

In the second of a series of three articles, Sid Lukkassen returns to the question of Caesarism which, he argues, characterises modern politics. Today’s states are becoming increasingly authoritarian, along the lines of the old ‘Oriental’ vision of top-down sovereignty, whereas the West’s true tradition is ‘bottom up’. This is what the German medievalist, Walter Ullmann, called the ‘descending’ and ‘ascending’ theories of statehood. Sid concludes that we need to live through the current crisis and come out on the other side, building our own structures and communities rather than just opposing the current system.

Read Sid Lukkassen's second article here

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