Pepe Escobar- Gaza sous les bombes : le masque de la « démocratie libérale » tombe avec fracas

 Pepe Escobar, 17/5/2021
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Nakba, 15 mai 2021. Les historiens du futur marqueront le jour où la « démocratie libérale » occidentale a émis une proclamation obscène : Nous bombardons les bureaux des médias et détruisons la « liberté de la presse » dans un camp de concentration à ciel ouvert, tandis que nous interdisons les manifestations pacifiques sous un état de siège au cœur de l’Europe.

Et si vous vous révoltez, nous vous effaçons.

 

Entité sioniste, par Emad Hajjaj

Gaza rencontre Paris. Le bombardement de la tour al-Jalaa – un bâtiment éminemment résidentiel qui abritait également les bureaux d’al-Jazeera et d’Associated Press, entre autres – par « la seule démocratie du Moyen-Orient » est directement lié à l’ordre verboten exécuté par le Ministère de l’Intérieur de Macron.

À toutes fins utiles, Paris a approuvé les provocations de la puissance occupante à Jérusalem-Est : l’invasion de la mosquée al-Aqsa – avec gaz lacrymogènes et grenades assourdissantes ; les bandes sionistes racistes qui harcèlent et crient « mort aux Arabes » ; les colons armés qui agressent les familles palestiniennes menacées d’expulsion de leurs maisons à Sheikh Jarrah et Silwan ; une campagne de bombardements dont les victimes mortelles – en moyenne – sont 30% d’enfants.

Les foules parisiennes n’ont pas été intimidées. De Barbès à la République, elles ont défilé dans les rues – leur cri de ralliement étant Israël assassin, Macron complice. Elles ont instinctivement compris que le Petit Roi – un petit employé de Rothschild – venait de mettre le feu à l’héritage historique de la nation qui a inventé la Déclaration universelle des Droits de l’Homme.

Pepe Escobar: Bombing Gaza- The mask of “Liberal Democracy” falls with a bang

 Pepe Escobar, 17/5/2021

Nakba, May 15, 2021. Future historians will mark the day when Western “liberal democracy” issued a graphic proclamation: We bomb media offices and destroy “freedom of the press” in an open air concentration camp while we forbid peaceful demonstrations under a state of siege in the heart of Europe.

And if you revolt, we cancel you.

The Zionist entity, by Emad Hajjaj

 Gaza meets Paris. The bombing of the al-Jalaa tower – an eminently residential building which also housed the bureaus of al-Jazeera and AP, among others – by “the only democracy in the Middle East” is directly connected to the verboten order carried out by Macron’s Ministry of Interior.

For all practical purposes Paris endorsed the occupying power’s provocations in East Jerusalem; the invasion of al-Aqsa mosque – complete with tear gas and stun grenades; racist Zionist gangs harassing and crying “death to Arabs”; armed settlers aggressing Palestinian families threatened with expulsion from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan; a campaign of carpet bombing whose lethal victims – on average – are 30% children.

Paris crowds were not intimidated. From Barbes to Republique, they marched in the streets – their rallying cry being Israel assassin, Macron complice. They instinctively understodood that Le Petit Roi – a puny Rothschild employee – had just firebombed the historical legacy of the nation that coined the Déclaration Universelle des Droits de L’Homme.

The mask of “liberal democracy” kept falling again and again in a loop – with imperial Big Tech dutifully canceling the voices of Palestinians and defenders of Palestine en masse, in tandem with a diplomatic kabuki that could fool only the already brain-dead.

On May 16, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi chaired a United States Security Council (UNSC) debate via video link that had been stalled by Washington, non-stop, throughout the week. China presides over the UNSC throughout May.

The UNSC could not even agree on a mere joint statement. Once again because the UNSC was blocked by the – cowardly – Empire of Chaos.

It was up to Hua Liming, former Chinese ambassador to Iran, to break it all down in a single sentence:

“The US doesn’t want to give the credit of mediating the Palestine-Israel conflict to China, especially when China is the president of the UNSC.”

The usual imperial procedure is to “talk”, “offer you can’t refuse” Mafia-style, to both sides under the table – as the combo behind Crash Test Dummy, an avowed Zionist, had already admitted on an appalling White House tweet “reaffirming” its “strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself”.

Pepe Escobar: Brave new cancel culture world

 Asia Times, 30/4/2021

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If we need a date when the West started to go seriously wrong, let’s start with Rome in the early 5th century  

In 2020, we saw the enshrinement of techno-feudalism – one of the overarching themes of my latest book, Raging Twenties.

In lightning speed, the techno-feudalism virus is metastasizing into an even more lethal, wilderness of mirrors variant, where cancel culture is enforced by Big Tech all across the spectrum, science is routinely debased as fake news in social media, and the average citizen is discombobulated to the point of lobotomy.

Giorgio Agamben has defined it as a new totalitarianism.

Top political analyst Alastair Crooke has attempted a sharp breakdown of the broader configuration.

Geopoliticallly, the Hegemon would even resort to 5G war to maintain its primacy, while seeking moral legitimization via the woke revolution, duly exported to its Western satrapies.

The woke revolution is a culture war – in symbiosis with Big Tech and Big Business – that has smashed the real thing: class war. The atomized working classes, struggling to barely survive, have been left to wallow in anomie.

The great panacea, actually the ultimate “opportunity” offered by Covid-19, is the Great Reset advanced by Herr Schwab of Davos: essentially the replacement of a dwindling manufacturing base by automation, in tandem with a reset of the financial system.

The concomitant wishful thinking envisages a world economy that will “move closer to a cleaner capitalist model”. One of its features is a delightfully benign Council for Inclusive Capitalism in partnership with the Catholic Church.

As much as the pandemic – the “opportunity” for the Reset – was somewhat rehearsed by Event 201 in October 2019, additional strategies are already in place for the next steps, such as Cyber Polygon, which warns against the “key risks of digitalization”. Don’t miss their “technical exercise” on July 9^th, when “participants will hone their practical skills in mitigating a targeted supply chain attack on a corporate ecosystem in real time.”

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Pepe Escobar: An empire in love with its Afghan cemetery

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 The New Great Game 3.0 is just beginning with a hat tip to Tacitus and dancing to the Hindu Kush groove 

One cannot but feel mildly amused at the theatrical spectacle of the US troop pullout from Afghanistan, its completion day now postponed for maximum PR impact to 9/11, 2021.

Nearly two decades and a staggering US$2 trillion after this Forever War was launched by a now immensely indebted empire, the debacle can certainly be interpreted as a warped version of Mission Accomplished.

“They make a desert and call it peace,” said Tacitus – but in all of the vastness of the Pentagon there sits not a single flack who could imagine getting away with baldfacedly spinning the Afghan wasteland as peaceful.

Even the UN bureaucratic machinery has not been able to properly account for Afghan civilian deaths; at best they settled for 100,000 in only ten years. Add to that toll countless “collateral” deaths provoked by the massive social and economic consequences of the war. 

Training and weaponizing the – largely inefficient – 300,000-plus Afghan Army cost $87 billion. “Economic aid and reconstruction” cost $54 billion: literally invisible hospitals and schools dot the Afghan landscape. A local chapter of the “war on drugs” cost $10 billion – at least with (inverted) tangible results: Afghanistan now generates 80% of the world’s opium. 

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