An urgent warning for the West

Another pandemic, likely in 2025, could be the next stage in the decline of the West on the way to a totalitarian world government

In bright red lettering across the cover are emblazoned the words ‘A warning to the Western world’. It’s a prophetic new book freighted with moment, indispensable in its timeliness and deserving of the widest readership.

In The Fall of the West: The story behind covid, the levelling-down of the West and the shift of power to the East with the rise of China (O-Books, November 2022), cultural historian and philosopher Nicholas Hagger warns that historic happenings from the ‘War on Terror’ to covid-19 have brought the Western financial system to the brink of collapse and shifted power from the West to the East and neo-imperialist China.

The Fall of the West is the third instalment of Hagger’s trilogy on the West. In The Syndicate (2004), he described how, in the twentieth century, a group of elitist mega-rich families — the Rothschilds, Rockefellers and co-operators — levelled down leading Western countries by promoting revolutions, wars and independence movements against their empires, and planned a New World Order and world government to control the earth’s resources for their own benefit.

In terming this group, ‘the Syndicate’, taking the dictionary definition — a group of individuals and/or organisations combined to promote a common interest — Hagger equates it with the West’s ‘military-industrial complex’. His The Secret History of the West (2005) traced the Syndicate’s roots back to secret Freemasonic organisations and revolutions that undermined the West from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.

A prolific author spanning four decades, Hagger presents evidence for the ‘fall of the west’ as if to a jury in a court of law, but with a commendable impartiality, inviting a verdict from the reader. I read the book with a grim fascination.

The cover depicts graphically, in blue, those parts of the world that have signed documents relating to China’s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative of infrastructure projects which seeks to increase communist China’s role in international affairs, indeed to pursue a global empire which the US must try to counter.

To date, 149 of the world’s 195 countries have signed up in a round of what has been described as ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ — snaring countries in debts which, when they cannot be repaid, are translated into support for China’s geostrategic interests.

Clearly, the writing is on the wall and it seems to me that The Fall of the West is a major publishing event.

Its concern, no less, arising from in-depth research, is the origin of the covid-19 virus in gain-of-function laboratory research, begun in the US and continued in China, and its role in the levelling-down of the West towards an authoritarian world government — a regime such as the ‘Great Reset’ proposed by the World Economic Forum and its founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab, under which private property would be abolished, the ‘free West’ being made considerably less free with citizens stripped of human rights and personal freedoms.

This would go hand in hand with the capping of the world’s population at a ‘sustainable’ eight billion (reached in November 2022), this figure being derived from the ‘Global 2000’ and ‘Global Future, Time to Act’ US reports of 1980–81 which foresaw population rising to 10 billion by 2030 and 30 billion before the end of the century, numbers regarded as unsustainable in terms of food supply. These reports have guided US economic and foreign policy to the present day.

How is the population to be prevented from increasing by two billion ‘useless eaters’, a phrase used in the reports? By ‘quotas and culls’, asks Hagger, or by nuclear war? Or by the dying off of those unvaccinated against pandemic, or those who have been vaccinated, depending upon your point of view?

Gain-of function medical research alters an organism genetically to enhance biological function in ways which can increase development of a disease (virus) and its transmissibility. It’s given rise to fears about biosafety and biosecurity over accidental or deliberate release of a pathogen into the population, as well as to questions of the ethics of such research.

Strangely enough, there were two ‘dress rehearsals’ for a pandemic before covid-19 arrived on the scene: ‘Lock Step’ in 2010 and ‘Event 201’ in 2019, both Syndicate-linked.

The former formed part of the report Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development, produced by the Rockefeller Foundation and the US-based Global Business Network, and discussed how to cope with a global pandemic.

‘Event 201’, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the CIA, was an exercise in preparing for a coming severe pandemic, requiring cooperation between governments, industries and international institutions.

In 2017, the Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security completed a ‘SPARS’ exercise plan — clearly extrapolated from SARS (Severe Anti Respiratory Syndrome — for 2025–28 after most of the world had agreed to a coronavirus vaccine, suggesting a rehearsal for a virus that will arrive in 2025.

Hagger says the most urgent immediate policy of the West’s governments and intelligence services is to make sure the West does not fall to a new virus by 2025: it’s vital to understand what has happened to date, and how it happened, without making things worse — hence his new book.

In The Fall of the West Hagger finds that the three main features of covid-19 were man-made by American medics — funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Pentagon and the State Department, and patented 73 times since 2008.

And that the virus was seemingly surreptitiously used as a bioweapon — perhaps during the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019 — in a Syndicate plan to limit the rise of China and its expanding trade. The move backfired, however, becoming a self-inflicted wound on the West, perhaps having provoked retaliation from China in allowing the virus to spread worldwide, building new missile silos, and making plans to invade Taiwan, China’s economy becoming still stronger all the while.

If the case is ‘not proved beyond all reasonable doubt’, Hagger says there is enough circumstantial evidence ‘to present an extremely worrying picture indeed — the picture on the completed bits of jigsaw evidence …’

He says: ‘I am now looking at the picture and I regret to report that it shows an American lab rather than a Chinese lab responsible for the first gain-of-function research that resulted in SARS-CoV-2.’

The ‘evidence jigsaw’ he has assembled reveals ‘a possible deliberate America-Syndicate release of engineered SARS-CoV-2 in an attempt to prevent the world’s population from rising above eight billion in 2023 and to maintain it at eight billion thereafter (while setting back China’s rise to number-one superpowerdom)’.

Although offensive biowarfare research was ended in the US in 1969, and both the US and China signed a treaty banning the development of bioweapons, defensive bioweapons research was, and still is, allowed.

Hagger writes: ‘I can look at the picture the evidence provides from an intelligence point of view and see what is probable and state my opinion even if I am the only person in the world to reach that conclusion.’

With the Nuclear Age now being supplanted by a precarious new Biological Age, where the threat is biological warfare rather than nuclear, Hagger sees a challenge being made to the ‘post-covid West’s dream of creating a good New World Order’: ‘a vaccine-protected democratic, presidential, part-federal world government and world state with sufficient authority to abolish war and solve the world’s post-covid problems’, as he describes it — the ‘great hope’ before a nuclear or biological disaster happens.

For indeed, the challenge comes from the self-interested Syndicate’s levelling-down exercise, he suggests; and to survive, the West could first have to go along with the Syndicate’s plan for West and East to draw together in an authoritarian world government involving China before democratisation can take place at a later date.

Claiming that the Syndicate was behind both Soviet and Chinese communism, Hagger says the world government it envisages would be mixed with communist authoritarianism.

*** As The Fall of the West was completed before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and, as Hagger thinks the war there could further weaken the West and NATO unless an imaginative way can be found to extricate Russia, I have interviewed Hagger about this major issue, the interview published here at Medium as a prompt follow-up to this book review.

Nicholas Hagger is a man of letters, cultural historian, philosopher and poet who has written sixty books. He has lectured in English literature at the University of Baghdad in Iraq and the University of Libya, and was a professor of English Literature at Tokyo University of Education, Keio University and Tokyo University in Japan.

He has studied Islamic and Oriental philosophy, and led a group of Universalist philosophers. He was awarded the 2016 Gusi Peace Prize for Literature, and in 2019 the BRICS silver medal for ‘Vision for Future’.

His substantial literary output includes 2,000 poems, two poetic epics, five verse plays, three masques, two travelogues and 1,200 short stories, and he has written innovatory works on literature, history, philosophy and international politics. His archive of papers and manuscripts is held as a Special Collection in the Albert Sloman Library at the University of Essex.

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