We are at the End of Neoliberalism

The United Kingdom is now taking the lead when it comes to provoking a military conflict with Iran. Trump, mindful that a U.S.-initiated war would doom his re-election prospects, has passed the baton to the poodle. Last week Great Britain seized an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar. This morning the British are claiming a standoff in the Persian Gulf with three Iranian vessels:

In its statement on Thursday, the British government said three Iranian boats had attempted to stop the British Heritage in the early morning as it headed toward the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage out of the Persian Gulf that is a vital channel for international oil supplies.

A British warship, the Montrose, had been escorting the tanker in an effort to guard against any Iranian interference. After a short standoff, the British warned the three Iranian boats to back away and they did, the British government said in its statement.

“H.M.S. Montrose was forced to position herself between the Iranian vessels and British Heritage and issue verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, which then turned away,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

From the British perspective, it sounds too good to be true. John Bull standing tall and the little Persian ferrets scrambling away in terror. What poppycock!

The UK is in a prolonged meltdown: Two reeking Tory cadavers compete to head a government that has almost no popular standing, while the opposition is being torn apart by a fictitious plague of anti-Semitism -- and the Brexit bell set to toll on Halloween.

The Iranian revolution is part of the ontology of the neoliberal age, now more than 40 years old. This confrontation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a confrontation with the foundation of the West's own frozen neoliberal paradigm. We are at the end of neoliberalism. Something new is about to be born.