A Brief history of Neo-imperialism-History and Methods

Till the 1960’s, Neoliberalism had the same status in economics as Wahhabism (a supremacist, fundamentalist and intolerant version of Islam) had in Islam. (1). How it became the guiding principle of Western countries is an interesting question.

Neoliberalism claims that human beings are best served by liberating the entrepreneurial class through strong private  property rights, free market and free trade. State’s only role was to protect these by guaranteeing integrity of finance by legal means and also by deploying the police and the army. Education, health and welfare would be taken care of by those who needed it. Environment would take care of itself.

Even old style welfare states in Northern Europe and New Zealand embraced it. Nelson Mandela betrayed post apartheid South Africa by adopting neo-liberal policies.

Neoliberal pundits occupy academia, media, think tanks,  corporations, finance ministries and international finance  institutions.

 

            Aggression and Coups in Service of Corporations:

 

On 9/19/2003 Paul Bremmer in Iraq ordered full privatization of public enterprises, full repatriation of foreign profit, full ownership rights to foreign firms, elimination of trade barriers; thus giving away the real reasons for the invasion (2).

Strikes by the coolies were forbidden, unionization restricted, flat tax unrelated to income imposed; never mind that all these impositions were in violations of Geneva and The Hague Conventions. 3

“Sovereign” Iraqi Government took over in 6/2004 with power only to confirm existing laws and shortly before that Bremmer added copyright and intellectual property rights (4).

First attempt at a Neoliberal state was made after Pinochet’s coup on 9/11/73 which implemented Neoliberal policies facilitated by  thousands of killed and disappeareds. A team of Chicago boys, adherents of Milton Friedman, were called in. (5).

The US had also been training and funding Chilean economists at Chicago since the 1950’s to counteract left wing tendencies in Latin America.

The experiment went sour all over in the continent’s debt crisis of 1982 (6).

Import substitution-promotion of indigenous industry via Tariffs and Subsidies had been promoted Post WW II to prevent threat of another depression. 7). Undiluted Capitalism and communism had failed. (8). Breton-Woods agreement and institutions like UNO, WB and IMF were attempts to stabilize international relations. The price of Gold was fixed at $ 35 per ounce. (9).

USA and Europe turned into liberal-democratic states and concentrated on Keynesian full employment, economic growth, welfare, and state intervention in national industries. The USA underwrote growth, promoted class compromise between labor and  capital, but for much of the third world it remained a pipe dream. The state internalized class conflict, the left and unions had real influence.

By the end of 1960’s, unemployment and stagflation were up. Britain was bailed out by the IMF in 1975-76. (10). Tax and welfare expense were reduced. US dollar escaped into European banks. Fixed exchange rate of currencies was abandoned in 1971. (11).

Socialist parties advocated more intrusive regulation-open market socialism. The left acquired power in Portugal, France, Spain, Britain and Scandinavian countries. Even the USA passed regulatory reform, but they did not go beyond social-democratic solutions (12).

The corporatist world reasserted and the result was Washington consensus of 1990’s. (13). Clinton and Blair both were closet  Neoliberals.

Stagflation had hurt every one. Discontent goaded the state to contemplate the possibility of a true socialist alternative to papering over of the class divide.

That was a clear threat to capitalist hegemony. In Sweden, Rehn-Meddner plan to buy out private business gradually and turn the country into a worker’s democracy was adopted (14).

There was substantial change.  Share of the top 1% of the population in the national income fell from 16% in the pre WW II USA, to less than 8% by mid-1970’s. It was due to the loss of control over finances. (15).

Coups, subversion and civil wars in Latin America, Iran and Indonesia were one kind of solution but suitable only for the third world countries. But that was not practical in the countries of the West

Neoliberal agenda was restoration of class power.

By the end of the 20th century AD, the share of wealth of top 1% had gone up to 15%  (21% by 2010), ratio of worker-CEO salary from 1:30 in 1970’s to 1:500 by 2000. Bush Jr made it more acute (16).

Britain and USSR as well as China followed suit, but Mexico and India and  OECD countries were more loyal than the king (Ambani brothers of India are worth more than 90 billion US dollars, while more than 500  million people live on less than a dollar a day). (17).

That theoretical Utopianism-Freedom of the market equates individual freedoms is only an attempt at legitimation of the  the power of the capital.

In 1947, Neo-liberals Ludwig Von Mises and Milton Friedman, among others gathered around philosopher Friedrich von Hayek to create Mont Perelin society named after the Swiss spa they had met in first and issued the Founding statement:

“The central values of civilization are in danger…the position of individuals and voluntary groups …undermined by extension of arbitrary power…the group holds that these developments…question the desirability of the rule of law…fostered by a decline of belief in private property… with out (which)…difficult to imagine a society …freedom may be effectively preserved  (18).

There is a contradiction between free market and individual freedom, between human dignity and the need of coercive state apparatus, as well as the judicial trick of defining corporations as individuals. (19).

The elite, fearful of mixed economy, were prepared to accept the whole range from McCarthyism to Neoliberalism. Nurtured by the likes of Heritage Foundation and the Chicago School, the movement moved center stage in 1970’s. The prize controlled by Swedish Bankers; Nobel went to Hayek in 1974 and to Friedman in 1976.

It really came into its own with the advent of Thatcher and Reagan who demolished the Post WW II Social Democratic state. She declared, “No such thing as society, only individual men and women (20).

In 10/1979, Volcker dramatically changed USA monetary policy. Fight inflation at any cost. Ditch Keynesianism. By July 1981 interest rate had risen close to 20%; recession was unleashed to empty factories and break unions, driving debtor countries to insolvency through structural readjustment, the Volcker shock (21).

Monetarism had hitherto been paralleled by acceptance of union power and welfare-statism.

Carter started the reversal by shifting to deregulation (Airline and Trucking). Reagan went far further by facing down Air Traffic Controller’s union in 1981. Federal minimum wage fell 30% below poverty level by 1990; there was fast decline in real wages as well.

Having won against  Air Traffic Controllers, Reagan decided to go  the whole hog; deregulation (tax breaks, transfer of investment to non-unionized South and West (after working class leaders attain power, they behave worse than those used to power-Thatcher and Reagan compared to the Rockefellers).

Outsourcing started in real earnest. Top tax rate fell from 70% to 28%. (22).

After the 1973 OPEC oil embargo, prices shot up. British intelligence reported that the USA had planned to invade Saudi Arabia and other oil states, but the states agreed to recycle all their petro-dollars through NY banks (23).

The banks loaned money to third world countries and obtained secure conditions through the USA government.

The USA functions through satraps. In the 1920’s and 1930’s the USA intervened in Nicaragua and found Somoza to fight nationalist Sandino. Somoza opened the country and assisted in other Central American countries. This was the model adapted in Post WW II. CIA coup in 1953 in Iran was a link in the same chain (24).

Before 1973, the US investment was direct; exploitation of raw material (oil, minerals and agriculture), Telecom and auto. Now banks focused on lending capital. Borrowers were forced to borrow at usurious rates (25). Rise in USA interest rate exposed the countries to default; Mexico 1982-84. Reagan had it rolled over in return for neo-iberal reforms. All Keynesian influences were removed from IMF (26).

Under liberal regimen banks take losses; under Neoliberal, borrowers pay through the nose, no matter the consequences and that includes surrender of assets. The USA capital got high returns (27).

Large manufacturing corporations became more financial institutions even though they still engaged in, for example auto manufacture loss in production was offset by gain in investments. Mergers helped along by deregulation diversified interests. US Steel bought interest in insurance (28).

Neoliberalism meant financialization of every thing. It deepened the hold of finance over economy including the state (29). Shareholders were bilked out of millions; immense fortunes made in short periods through speculation (Warren Buffet and George Soros). Carlos Slim took over Telecom in Mexico and expanded into Circuit City and Barnes and Noble (30).

Walton-Wal-Mart integrated into Chinese and retail world wide-sales $ 500 billion/year.

Net worth of 358 richest people is equal to that of world’s 2.3 billion people. 200 richest people are worth $ 1 trillion.

Top three billionaires are worth more than the GNP of all least developed countries (31).

All 247 editors of Rupert Murdoch papers supported the war in Iraq (Tony Blair consulted him before taking major decisions on a regular basis). (32).

The idea of freedom, “Thus degenerates into a mere advocacy of free enterprise- and explains the Neoliberal authoritarianism of G.W.B (33).

Corporations withhold AIDS drugs (34). Halliburton makes  profits from wars which seem to be designed specifically for the purpose (35). Neoliberals created immense concentrationof power and wealth in energy, Media, Pharmaceuticals, Transport and retailing and have the power to persuade that every one is better off.

 

The Evil Quad: Public Opinion manipulated:

 

Neo-liberals regimes were established in Chile and Argentina through what we call the ‘Evil Quad- landowners, the clergy, the army and bureaucrats’; army coups, backed by the USA.

In the UK, the USA and other developed countries, opinion was   indoctrinated through cultural socialization and by distractions like cultural prejudice, belief in God and country, status of females, fear of socialism, fear of immigrants and slogans like freedom (36). Corporations and the Media owned by them, Think Tanks, Universities and Churches funded by them and professional associations together control the whole spectrumof opinion in mainstream parties. The state used its coercive apparatus to maintain consent. WB, IMF are freely used before coups and subversion.

The left was already in disarray due to its internal contradictions. Further, Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1968, student upheaval of the same year, which demanded social justice were brutally suppressed.

Individual freedom and social justice are not wholly compatible.Social justice requires sacrifice. In 1968, there was a conflict between students (freedom) and the left (social justice-France CP and students in 1968). Neo-liberals drove a wedge between the two in the name of freedom.

In the USA, the left has never been able collect on one platform. Its agenda was hijacked by mainstream parties. In 1960’s

Vietnam was the catalyst to bring some cohesion in the left. They also took up Civil and women’s rights. Lewis Powell, soon to be elevated to SC, wrote a secret memo to the Chamber of Commerce that opposition to free enterprise had gone far enough. Strength to oppose it lies in organization…planning……consistently…indefinite…years ….  financing…political power…lead assault on major institutions” (37).

In 1970’s Corporations spent nine hundred million per year on political process. It rose close to 2 billion/year in the 21 century AD. Think Tanks, Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute and other foundations sponsored research and an avalanche of books followed by TV programs (38). Universities had been the hotbed of the left and were especially targeted.

Because of bureaucratization and deindustrialization, NYC and many large cities had urban crisis in 1960’s. Neo-cons reduced federal aid in early seventies.
In 1975 investment banks led by the Citigroup (Chairman Walter Wriston had equated government intervention with communism) refused to roll over debt. Bail out involved wage freeze, cutbacks on welfare and public service and decline of trade unions. CUNY had to introduce tution. (39) Unions kept demands low or face loss of pension  due to bankruptcy of the City (40).

The working class and ethnic groups descended into racism and crack cocaine in mid-1980’s and were further hit by AIDS in 1990’s. Crime became the main recourse for the poor. Guiliani’s claim to fame was fascistic persecution of the victims.
Thomas Edsall, “During 1970’s business refined its ability to act as a class…dominant theme…defeat of bills…consumer protection…enactment of antitrust legislation…” and moved to capture the Republican Party (41).

1971 campaign finance law legalized financial corruption. In 1976 SC defined corporations as individuals and corporate contribution to political parties protected under first amendment freedom of speech. Political Action Committees (PAC) dominated both political parties, and the number went from 89 in 1974 to 1467 by 1982 and favored Right Wingers (42).

Democrats were ambivalent, though enjoying a popular base, they could not pursue an anti-capitalist course (43). Republicans sought alliances with the Christian Right to get a popular base. Jerry Falwell’s moral Majority offered what appealed to the working class, which was cheated out of its share by the affirmative action. Cultural nationalism, racism, homophobia and anti-feminism mobilized the base. The likes of Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz provided “intellectual” foundation to moral values, gave bad name to liberalism, distracting attention from unbridled commercialism. (44).

The duo of big money and Christian Right managed to exclude liberals from the Republican Party and persuaded the working class to vote against its interests. (45).
Democratic Party under Clinton chose corporate links over its traditional base, tightening the belt of the poor, and loosening that of the rich, as Blair had done in the UK (46).

Reagan had cut back on the budget and regulation. (47). The National Relations Board
took little time to reverse the decisions deemed by business to be favorable to labor. Regulation was good only for labor. New tax depreciation on investments let corporations get away with out tax. N.I.H funded drug research products were  handed over to  Pharmaceutical firms (48).

Reagan had crushed Air Traffic controllers in 1981 and accommodation between corporations and unions was over. (49).

Jobless % in mid 1980’s was 10%. Jobs went South, and assisted by tax breaks to Asia, manufacturers threatened plant closures and did it in many cases. Labor unions had been de-clawed, and their leadership often in the pocket of capital. Real wages stagnated and fell and benefits cut back under Neo-lib dogma, that unemployment was always voluntary because it was underwritten by welfare.

Clinton dealt a body blow to welfare system. Government intervention was the actual problem. Harvard, Princeton and U.Penn business schools were munificently funded by MNCs. They train foreigners too.

In the UK, there was no viable Christian Right. Corporations were class based, with links to levers of power. Labor party was beholden to the unions. Post WW II, Conservatives had shied away from hitting at the benefits to the poor; socialized health, education. (50).

The city of London remained a center of international finance. It has always been monetarist rather than Keynesian. Protection of finance capital with interest rate manipulation conflicted with the needs of domestic industry. It was hit with balance of payment crisis in 1970’s.

In 1975, inflation rose to 26% and jobless to over 1 million. State and the unions got into conflict. Coal miner’s union went on strike in 1972 and 1974, the first since 1926. The conservative government under Heath declared
national emergency, three day working week and called an election in 1974  which it lost. Labor settled the strike in miner’s favor. But Labor could not afford settlement terms. In 1975-76, there was a financial crunch; choice was to submit to IMF terms or declare bankruptcy and lose integrity of sterling. It, of course chose IMF course with cutbacks in welfare (51). Workers launched a series of crippling strikes in the winter of discontent 1978 (52).

The government fell. Thatcher came in and made monetarism the state policy. She provoked miner’s strike in 1984 which lasted a year. (53). Miners lost.
She opened the country to foreign competition and further reduced labor power. She also demolished steel and ship building Industry and offered the country to MNCs especially to Japanese auto manufacturers as an offshore base for European operations.

Thatcher fought rearguard action against municipal councils and that included jailing of half the councilors in Liverpool. She cut back central funding of municipalities. When they raised taxes on property, she took away their right to tax.

She privatized state enterprises whole sale, shedding labor to make them attractive;  giving away family silver. Subsidies were hidden by not including valuable land and assets, public housing sold to tenants, helped other privatizations.

Finally she imposed a poll tax, which was too much to bear even for her neo-con supporters and led to her downfall.

She tried to demolish education, health care and welfare, bureaucracy and judiciary, but did not meet with quick success. She introduced tuition in higher education.

Thatcher was supported by the middle class and by the splintering of working class.
She brought the consumer and debt culture and made the minority position into mainstream.Blair and Clinton followed suit.

The Neo-liberal state is riven by contradictions and is an unstable political form. It favors private property law, rule of free market/trade. The state must use its coercive apparatus to protect these rights. They are very keen on privatizing assets in the third world. Ground rules for market competition must be properly observed. Privatization and deregulation will increase efficiency and improve its competitiveness in the international market. Each individual has to take responsibility for welfare, education and health (pension privatized in Chile and Slovakia).

GWB proposed it for the USA.

Free mobility of capital was crucial; all limitations like tariffs, taxes, environmental planning must be removed. State sovereignty must be surrendered to the market, except for the vaguely defined national interest. States must be forced to open their markets, except the labor one.

Neo-lib is highly suspicious of democracy, and views it as a luxury possible only
where a strong middle class exists; governance should be by the elite and experts ought to be preferred by the executive and judiciary order to parliamentary decision making. (54).

Contradiction and Grey areas:

Electric grid, water sewerage and gas lines are natural monopolies and competition in the same geographic region would make no sense. When costs are externalized e.g. pollution, some less irrational neo-libs conceded need for state intervention (hard boiled ones claim that cure will be worse than the disease) but should be through the market, like pollution trading. Competitive failure resulting in rise of costs e.g. currency speculation should be dealt with by the market and not by regulation.

Better informed players have the advantage (55). Patents set monopoly prices. Neo-libs are in a state of denial. New Pharmaceutical products require invention of new diseases; the system contains an inherent flaw, which promotes instability in social relations (56). Individuals are free to choose but not to choose strong collectives like trade unions or vote for the state intervention parties. To fight that, neo-lib depend upon WB, IMF, Federal reserve and WTO etc but deny their core argument, intervene to suppress social movements.

A composite picture of neo-lib states can not be offered yet as they are still spread over a wide spectrum. Biases arise in treatment of labor and environment as commodities. But in a conflict, the state favors business to labor and quality of environment. They also favor financial institutions to general public welfare.

                                     But Opportunism plays a part. GWB imposed steel tariffs and subsidies
to US agriculture. Europeans do the same. (57).

Transition from communism or social democracy (East and West Europe) to neo-lib takes some doing and results in chaos (Russia). Rationally developing states-Singapore, Malaysia and China, keep state enterprises. Irrationally developing ones like India and Pakistan do not and pay little attention to social infra-structure, health and education too (58).

Opening of Capital markets is the conduit for IMF, and WTO membership and these states drawn into neo-lib circle. In the 1997-98 Asian Crisis saw core states fall into line. China and Taiwan had not opened capital markets and suffered less (59).

IMF covers risk in internal financial markets. James Baker, Reagan’s treasury secretary  used IMF to impose structural adjustment on Mexico and NY city investment banks, extracting resources from the third world to pay international bankers (60).
Third world entrepreneurs have to be backed by their own states.

The US lends resources at 12% interest while the US bonds pay 4% resulting in a net inflow from the poor to the rich.

Defaulters are forgiven part of the loan in return for neo-lib reforms.
Trade unions and social institutions (Greater London Council) have to be suppressed.
The State withdraws welfare and social support; people are impoverished. General outcome is lower wages, insecurity and loss of benefits and heavy dependence upon cheap labor in China, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh (61).

Under Margaret Thatcher corporations got a stronger role in writing legislations of Public Policy and Regulation. Dick Cheney refused to release the names of consultants who formulated Bush’s energy policy (62).

The state assumes risk; profits go to private corporations. Out of job workers who protest against the core belief on non-intervention, are jailed by the state. Boundaries between corporations and state are all but removed.
Judiciary is extremely expensive, so poor people have to give in. Class bias works too (63).
NGOs and GROs (Grass Roots Organizations) take over the role of reform-funded by corporations (64).

The real contradiction is between the aim of well being of all and restoration of class power.

Deregulation promotes behavior scandals that require re-regulation. Competition in
reality creates oligopoly-soft drinks, Coke and Pepsi, Energy and Media corporations.

It becomes difficult to control anomie and leads to anti-social behavior, revival of
interest in religion, fascism, racism and amounts to a back lash against economic globalization. Mood is one of helplessness and anxiety… in new brand of populist politician…easily turn into revolt (65).

Neoliberalization in authoritarian states (China and Singapore) is converging with
increasing authoritarianism in the USA and the UK. But they veer away from neo-lib in their concern for order.

Unbridled individualism, life style, sexual habits and self expression result in social anarchy-nihilism and make states ungovernable.Neo-cons emphasize militarization; highlight threats, real or imaginative-Thatcher against Europe and Falklands War (66).

Post cold War Islam and China were branded as threats. Waco, Oklahoma bombing
and race riots following the beating of Rodney King gave internal excuses. 9/11 crystallized the war on terror (67).

Neo-lib are a coalition of the elite and moral majoritarianism, white working class
cultural nationalism, Christian evangelism, right to life, anti-feminism, gay, affirmative action and environmentalism.

In principle neo-lib theory does not favor the concept of the nation, though it needs
a strong state. In the Neo-lib reform of 1990’s in Mexico, unity of state and nation fell apart. Rise of right wing fascist parties in Europe is a reaction to neo-liberalism.

Neo-lib appeals to national sentiment in China, SK, and Japan and was the major factor
in the success in pushing neo-lib policies and the rise of the BJP in India.

 

Development Hampered- Contextual conditions:

 

South Africa, emerging out of the collapse of Apartheid and desperate to be accepted in global
economy was coerced by IMF and WB to embrace neo-lib (68). Perhaps Mandela did not understand economics/or class conflict.

Demobilizing organized labor by subversion or violently (Britain, the US and Sweden, violent in Chili) is a necessary precondition for neoliberalism. It has faced problems where labor has managed to acquire power (SK). Capital, in the end, acquires control over state power (the USA) via financial institutions and buying elections (the USA) and academia and media.

Neoliberalism arises out of internal and external forces. In Chili the upper class asked for US support in the coup. In Sweden employers sought integration into Europe to consolidate Neoliberal agenda.

IMF can not impose with out collaborators on the ground. Argentina successfully challenged it, as did Malaysia and Taiwan. Through collapse (USSR and Eastern Europe) civil wars (Senegal and Nicaragua) degenerate ruling cliques (Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, India), external power gets the opportunity to orchestrate Neoliberal restructuring. Neoliberal policies produce social unrest and political instability (China, Indonesia and Argentina). It can be said
that it repels investment (69) Vulture capital is devastating. Neoliberal policies frequently attract just that. Civil wars and less disturbing events are fomented to bring a country to its knees (70).

Neoliberalism has a universal tendency to social inequality, concentration of wealth which has been unequalled since 1920’s. The genius pf Neoliberal theory is to …provide …mask of words like…freedom, liberty, choice and the right to hide grim realities of the restoration …of naked class power (71).

Chinese Style of Neoliberalism:

 

Mao died in 12/1976. In 12/1978, Deng Xiaoping announced a program of economic reforms.
They coincided with Neoliberal trends in the USA and Britain. China developed centrally controlled market economy establishing the intimate relationship between two as in other countries.

Egalitarianism was not given up, but individual and group initiative was unleashed and consequent inequality was tolerated. Deng promised pursuit of four modernizations-agriculture, industry, education and science/defense. Competition was allowed between the state owned and private enterprises. Political and economic powers were rapidly devolved to regions but confrontation with the power centers in Beijing was avoided. The country was opened up to
foreign trade and investment under strict state control. With emphasis on joint ventures, technology transfer and foreign reserves, it was concentrated initially in Guandong, next door to Hong Kong (72).

The emergence of neoliberal policies of 1980’s opened up a space of China’s entry into the world market, not possible under Bretton woods system.

China, by not acceding to shock therapy administered to Russia and central Europe in 1990s, avoided their disasters and developed state manipulated market economy with
stunning growth rates averaging 10% a year and rise in standards over twenty years
but also suffered from eco-degradation, increased social inequality and capitalist class
power under the aegis of the C.P. (73).

It kept the capitalist class off shore, making it easier to control. Finance
capital had to deal with state owned banks. Rather than compromise with state ownership,
only managerial autonomy was granted. The state, though, had to deal with the Chinese
Diaspora. Hong Kong was absorbed in 1997.  It was allowed into the WTO in 2001.

Worker protest started in 1986. Student protest ended up in Tiananmen Square massacre…
Simultaneously Wang, “monetary policy became a prime means of control… Shanghai-Pudong  development zone fully opened up and development zones…on track (74). In 1992 the whole country was opened up under close supervision of the Communist Party and democracy of consumption was promoted in urban areas.

In 1978, nearly everything was under state owned enterprises. They were efficient and
offered job security and social welfare. Agriculture worked under the communist system, but productivity was low. Village residents were less privileged and were kept separate from urban population with a system of residency permits which held back mass migration. Each sector in regional state plan was assigned targets. Banks deposit savings provided money for investment.
The system gave a social safety net. Open market was first created by dissolving communes. Town and village enterprises were created out of assets of communes. Wholly private sector was permitted only on small scale product/trade and gradually expanded with limits on employment of wage labor.

In 1990’s, FDI came in and were initially limited to joint ventures. Banks expanded
and substituted for the state to finance investments and line of credit (75)  .

By the end of 1980’s, communes were dissolved. Peasants did not own land, but could lease or rent it, hire labor and sell produce at market prices. From 1978 to 1984 rural incomes went up 14%, but stagnated later and fell by 1998. Disparity between rural and urban incomes increased; urban income per year was $ 80 in 1985 went up to $ 1000 in 2004, while rural income rose from $50 to $ 300. In addition they had to pay for health and school (76).

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Bio:

I was born in Dewa Sharif, UP, India in 1939.

I went to school from the fourth to eighth class in Gonda, UP and the 9th grade in Jhansi, UP, India.

We moved to Quetta, Pakistan and went to school for the 10th grade and intermediate college in the same town.

I was in Karachi University 1954-57, then Dow Medical College 1957-62. I Was in the National Students Federation from 1954 to 1962, trained in surgery in the Civil Hospital Karachi 1962-65, proceeded to England 1965 and trained in General surgery and orthopedic surgery till 73, when I left for Canada 1973-74, USA 1974-83, back to Karachi 1983 and built a hospital and went back to the USA in 1991, been in the USA since.

I retired from surgery in 2005.

I have worked in various HR and Socialist groups in the USA.

I have Published two books ,:”A Medical Doctor Examines Life on Three Continents,” and ,”God, Government and Globalization”, and am working on the third one, “An Analysis of the Sources and Derivation of Religions”.

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