THE WEST, ALL ALONE IN ITS LITTLE BUBBLE!

TRANSLATED FROM ENTREFILETS, 31/07/12

At the risk of seeming somewhat naive, we have to confess that here at entrefilets, we never cease to be amazed by the extent of the disinformation diffused by the Western Bloc on the subject of the Syrian and Iranian crises. And also, in more general terms, by the persistence of its astonishing need to put a virtuous gloss on even its most obvious machinations, and even its most outrageous acts of barbarism. It is a phenomenon which fascinates us because it signifies a total rupture with the reality that the rest of the world shares.

From Latin America to Asia, also taking in Africa and the Indies, there is a virtually unanimous rejection of this Atlantic claptrap, which bears witness to a vertiginous change in paradigm - the lies of the West no longer deceive anyone but the West itself. Its human-rights-narrative has fizzled out.

In fact, we are the very last ones, the only ones, who still believe in it.
Whether it’s a matter of Iraq or Afghanistan, or Libya, or Syria – and maybe Iran soon – the phony casus belli advanced by the West to justify their lucrative little attacks are now seen for what they really are.

LIBYA BEFORE AND AFTER

BACK TO THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS

TRANSLATED FROM THE BLOG DE PATRICK REYMOND, 24/08/12

The means of communication destroy information, the means of transport waste time, the health system alienates and kills. And to take up another Illich quote: “schools are factories for unemployment”

I have often said that the ‘American economic miracle’ owed more to geographical circumstances than to the merits of one economic system over another.

The USSR had to struggle with its own space, and its communication difficulties; as for the American model, it possessed in the Mississippi river valley, an advantage and an obvious major transport route, reinforced further by the work of man, in the 19^th Century by the digging of the Ohio and Erie canals, which transformed New York into a Mississippi port and multiplied its traffic tenfold.

Today, the model is limping, and even limping badly, at several levels. The Mississippi is finding it difficult, with the drought, to assume its role as a thoroughfare, through which 500 million tons transits every year, particularly cereal and coal.