Nakanishi Ryota

It’s a series of lectures sharing the same principles and context of Joseph S. Nye Jr.’s masterpiece, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation (2011-2017). Undoubtedly, the most influential teaching in the field of political science and international politics. There are several important things in it. Such as unipolar, bipolar, multipolar worlds; the balance of power; interstate dependency; state, non-state, and transnational actors; and so on. The lecturer explains the initial phase of the 19th-century multipolar system that couldn’t prevent the big wars to the present post-Cold War multipolar world while denying the hegemony of the US. In general, the lectures cover alternative views as well as official rhetorics and conspiracy theories to distinguish historical truth. There is no better series of lectures on the topic for any political spectrum.

以哈戰爭的交戰方主要是包圍和恐襲以色列的加沙（哈馬斯），黎巴嫩（真主黨），胡塞運動（也門）等中東恐怖主義組織（還包括其他在舒利亞及伊拉克展開作戰的伊斯蘭原教旨主義恐怖組織）以及操縱這些代理人的伊朗恐怖主義神權政治。重點是，這不是種族或宗教之爭，而是民主主義（反恐）與恐怖主義（神權政治專制主義）的戰爭。以色列國內有約兩百萬持有以色列公民權的所謂巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人，因此，所謂種族滅絕或種族清洗或宗教清洗等支持恐怖主義勢力的媒體及其煽動者的指控都根本站不住腳。在不同種族和宗教之間平等享受公民權之下不構成基於種族歧視的所謂種族清洗或排除異教的所謂宗教清洗。甚至，以色列民主最先進的地方之一是，內閣的實際任期是每個禮拜履新的，而非三年或五年。在每個禮拜，以色列內閣是受國會監督和嚴格審核而履新的，換言之，以色列民主是若發現不適宜，每個禮拜就可換內閣的。這是對政府最嚴格的民主制度要求。當然，只懂得在政治上投機取巧，只轉播國際新聞的香港媒體根本不報導這點給公眾知悉的。香港媒體的報導方式是，就國際新聞而言，它的魔鬼在其片面的報導方式（貼標籤，斷章取義，移花接木，以偏概全，一竿子打翻一船人；轉播和引述）；就包括社論在內的評論或評論性報導節目而言，則是純然的一面倒。甚至，國際新聞的取態和各評論的取態有時不一致。社內不一致的現象也體現其兩面人的性質以及不專業的狀況。主要是由反猶太主義媒體，東方日報，香港01等最為代表的為廣告主博取最大流量的激進民粹主義，這難免與本港特色的族內外歧視有關。即使激進民粹主義利用所謂基層議題批判政府，但也不能搞錯的是，它服務的階級性質仍是資本階級的。那麼，對他們而言，在以哈戰爭（所謂以巴衝突）上，採取反猶太是它們生態的必然結局。這足以顯示一個社會的政治和傳媒水平是不能超過其民度的。差不多一百年前，所謂文化水平，當今最適切的最佳同義詞則是民度。簡言之，當面對以哈戰爭議題時，香港的傳媒土壤顯著不佳。本文是基於這個社會窘境下分析和總結以哈戰爭在中港的情形。為此，馬克．奧尼爾的《異地吾鄉：猶太人與中國》（2018年中文版）是個很好的材料。

The guru of international counterterrorism is undoubtedly Bibi and the advanced democracy in the Middle East, Israel. Bibi is now practicing his counter-terrorist theory depicted in this book on the Gaza and Lebanon war successfully. In short, they’re consciously reversing the fatal and suicidal policy adopted in the past by Israeli governments after Oslo, the land-for-peace policy. Also, another point they’re facing is the jailed terrorist-for-innocent hostages’ exchange. As Bibi reflected in the 1990s and at the time 911, both polices backfired, and resulted in more terrorist threats and attacks after their implementation. This is the shortest sum of the essence of this book. On the international level, anti-Israeli, anti-Semite, anti-Zionist propaganda continue. They can only be defeated by military victories of Israel on the battlefield. And it also repeatedly proved that, as we can see in the global hatred and hysteria instigated by Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran against Jews via biased, populist, clickbait media reports, global Jews need Israel as a haven. The existence of Israel is in the public interest of all Jews. Both Israelis / Zionists and diaspora Jews.

“Reality was put to work faking itself, and exhausted minds were not even permitted to dream any longer.” Although it’s funded by Rockefeller and the Pentagon for counterintelligence and counter-propaganda purposes against Nazis, the most important thing about the book is that the author’s analysis of films from the 1920s to 1939 in Germany is necessary for today’s film analysis and art writing in general with historical context and class consciousness in mind. For me, it’s not an old book but it’s an everlasting piece. Nosferatu is a landlord. Caligari is just an illusion of a madman. Hitler is a middle-class jingoist. Of course, we can’t mix them up in mind even though the author’s analysis of the Nazi and Nazi films is correct.

LAND MONOPOLY is not the only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies -- it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly. - Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 消除地產霸權！ 嚴禁壟斷資本！ 促進真自由競爭！ 地產霸權是香港產業轉型的桎梏！全港企業的成本競爭力與利潤率都可望大幅度升漲！ 「消除地產霸權，為香港人‘結構性解決’居住問題。」 反修例風波和新冠肺炎疫情都淪為地產霸權吸納廉價土地的絕佳機會。甚至在未改壟斷資本的經濟模式之下，明日大嶼填海得來的土地都必將會落入地產霸權的手裡而已。因此消除地產霸權的壟斷資本的同時，增加土地供應才會有意義。 從事政治或研究政治經濟，社會的中文讀者最應該閱讀的香港書籍正是這本書。關於香港統治階級（其主要部分是以本地地產業為主的壟斷資本跨國多行業企業財團）的書籍當中，這本書仍然是最重要的研究書。無庸置疑，此本也是香港本土出版的經典。目前在表面的國安法滅聲風波當中，香港政治的實際整體目標是如何為壟斷資本的寡頭們而順利推動明日大嶼工程項目。香港政治經濟是由壟斷資本主宰的，而不是所謂虛幻的自由競爭主導的。只要壟斷資本集團存在，就不會有自由競爭。 壟斷資本是自由市場的否定。誠然，香港的高樓價是壟斷的市場操縱的結局，而不是自由競爭的結局。 此書的結論是反壟斷。 換言之，重啟八萬五政策；全面擴大既有競爭條例的適用範圍；土地和稅收制度的改革；一國內反壟斷法的全面貫徹實施，或是人大推動港區反壟斷法。

We support all the political forces, including the opposition forces, and we’re going to continue to do that. – CIA Regrettably, the general principle in some countries is to support people who have extreme views to get help fighting people who are seemingly their enemies. The radicals understand that the intelligence services want to use them to fight for their interests and they get money, they get support, they get arms, and then they deal a heavy blow to their benefactors. Let me say once again that the best way is not to add fuel to these disputes, to these contradictions. These disputes should not be tried, and shouldn’t be used to secure someone’s position in the region. – Putin This book is recommended for understanding Putin and cross-ideological manipulation by intelligence agencies of today because it can provide insightful knowledge and viewpoints on the themes. The latter as a common media phenomenon is critically important today in international politics. In other words, it is essentially about media literacy and rampant influencer marketing (commercial star system).

Roger’s book Land Administration and Practice in Hong Kong (5 editions published between 1998-2022) covers land administration (Lands Department / 地政總署) of Hong Kong government from the start of modernization (colonization by UK) 1841 to the post 1997 era the mid 2022. In general, there is no fatal flaw within the land administrative system itself to prevent this city from handling the apocalyptic, never-ending lands and housing issues according to this book. The systemic postponement and bureaucratic degradation of living standard of residents of this city are mainly about the operational aspect in the administrative process. Thus, any formal law amendment and reshuffling of the structure occurred in both pre-AELABM (Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, March 15, 2019- January 7, 2021) and post-AELABM phases could not even improve the situation slightly or dramatically as citizens witnessed. In other words, Hong Kong’s lands and housing issues are artificially created by the vested interest groups (‘uneasy partners’, ‘neoliberal corporatists’, ‘cronies’, ‘朋黨’, ‘家天下’ , officially they themselves favourably name it ‘elitism’ which is literally stealth dictatorship by a small crony within the ruling class. The separation of cronies in this city is totally fake and shallow while they are enjoying cross-membership among various kinds of ‘crony front organizations’) . As a result, there are only two poles, one pole is politically, economically and culturally dominant monopolistic capital; the other pole of this class society is ‘fish and meat on the chopping block’ precariat. The only-growing poverty rate and only-widening income gap will cause two ultimate results, one is a riot; the other is an exodus. Hongkongers have only two ultimate political scenarios, either a riot or an exodus in permanent povertization. The latter EXODUS (at this moment, about 230,000 Hongkoners immigrated aboard recently) is a realistic peaceful solution for pure individuals as long as there are no genuinely independent and reliable opposition forces in this city to tackle aggravating social issues. In fact, Povertization (including endlessly raising the consumer prices) is a form of class warfare against the workers. This also prepares a social meltdown and acceleration of the process even though the ruling oligarchs of this city constantly import ‘overseas’ cheap mainland workers to try filling the growing gap. During the permanent povertization, if workers politically failed to solve grave social issues at the end, there will only be either a riot or an exodus. In this book, Roger thinks there were lands and housing issues partially behind both the 1967 riot and 2019 AELABM correctly. Similarly, both political events led to introduction of new laws, such as Employment Ordinance (1968) for the former; HKNSL (2020) for the latter.