\t26 septembre 2008 Il est vrai que la session annuelle de l’ONU a paru bien p\u00e2le, en sensation m\u00e9diatique et en importance des \u00e9v\u00e9nements, \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 des \u00e9v\u00e9nements de la crise financi\u00e8re puis politique courant de Wall Street \u00e0 Washington. Il n’en reste pas moins que la chose a, justement \u00e0 cause des liens qu’on peut \u00e9tablir avec la crise de Wall Street-Washington, une importance compl\u00e9mentaire tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressante. Effectivement, cette crise de Wall Street-Washington fut extraordinairement pr\u00e9sente \u00e0 la tribune des Nations-Unies, ce qui montre certes que les speechwriters<\/em> se sont adapt\u00e9s aux circonstances avec brio, mais surtout que les circonstances \u00e9taient irr\u00e9sistibles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tPar exemple, le Times<\/em> de Londres (ce 25 septembre<\/a>), comme toujours qualifi\u00e9 par nos soins de peu suspect d’anti-am\u00e9ricanisme pour faire mesurer sa pr\u00e9sentation par contraste, glose sur cette pr\u00e9sence \u00e9crasante de la crise US et de la crise du capitalisme \u00e0 la tribune de l’ONU. Le capitalisme US est en proc\u00e8s, si pas d’ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 condamn\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abAs the US sought to find a way out of the financial crisis, its critics at the United Nations were gloating over what they described as the crumbling of US capitalism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMiguel D’Escoto Brockmann, the former Sandinista revolutionary in Nicaragua who is now serving as president of the UN 192-nation General Assembly, broke with protocol in his opening speech to denounce the unbridled greed and irresponsibility of the powerful. More than half the world’s people languish in hunger and poverty while more and more money is spent on weapons, war, luxuries and totally superfluous and unnecessary things, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbCristina Kirchner, Argentina’s Pernonist president, said the world could no longer talk of the Tequila Effect or Caipirinha Effect emanating from developing nations such as Mexico or Brazil. Now we should talk about the ‘Jazz Effect’ coming from the centre of the world’s leading economy, she said. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, meanwhile, baldly proclaimed: The American Empire is reaching the end of the road.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbEven friends of the United States took aim at greed on Wall Street. We must not allow the burden of the boundless greed of a few to be shouldered by all, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil told the assembly.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tAutre commentaire \u00e0 retenir pour entretenir notre propos, celui de P\u00e9p\u00e9 Escobar, qui d\u00e9crit \u00e9galement le lien entre l’ONU et Wall Street, sur Atimes.com<\/em> du 26 septembre<\/a>. Il le place dans un contexte plus large, qui est celui de la transformation du monde vers un ensemble multipolaire, d’autant plus \u00e9vidente et acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e \u00e0 cette occasion que l’unipolarit\u00e9 essuie un coup terrible avec la crise du syst\u00e8me financier US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe George W Bush administration’s US$700 billion no-accountability scheme, globally, informally dubbed cash for trash, is making all the headlines. Simultaneously, there’s the small matter of the United Nations General Assembly sanctioning the troubled birth of a new, multipolar world. As a 21st-century counterpart to the Dadaist Manifesto, this chain of events is priceless.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOne just had to listen to the speeches. Brazilian President Lula da Silva passionately expounded the new political, economic and commercial geography of the multipolar world. He praised the Union of Latin American Nations (UNASUR) the first treaty uniting all South American nations in 200 years. He blast supranational economic institutions that now have no authority and no policies to prevent speculative anarchy.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy correctly described the Wall Street meltdown as the biggest crisis since the 1930s. He is proposing to rebuild capitalism in fact, in his original French, to moralize capitalism, not subjected to wily market operators, with banks financing development and not engaging in speculation, and with firm control of credit agencies. Sarkozy described speculators as the new terrorists. US Republicans of course call Sarkozy’s plan socialism as if the Ben Bernanke-Hank Paulson bailout scheme was not no-holds-barred socialism for the wealthy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbUN general secretary Ban Ki-moon urged the democratization of the UN. This would mean in practice a new International Monetary Fund and a new World Bank – both still controlled by the US and Western Europe.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n \tBien s\u00fbr, nous ne pouvons rater l’essentiel qui est ici \u00e0 r\u00e9partir sur deux points que nous prendrons comme autant de confirmations. La session de l’ONU a \u00e9t\u00e9 int\u00e9ressante dans cette mesure o\u00f9 elle a constitu\u00e9 une sorte de commentaire de deux \u00e9v\u00e9nements consid\u00e9rables.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nLes langues se d\u00e9lient<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n