Le 24 f\u00e9vrier 2011<\/a>, sur son site TomDispatch.com<\/em>, une excellente chronique de Tom Engelhardt. Il s’agit d’une description du moment historique que nous vivons, \u00aba global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history<\/em>\u00bb, marqu\u00e9 a contrario<\/em> et sans surprise par la plus compl\u00e8te (globale ?) incompr\u00e9hension de la part des autorit\u00e9s qui pr\u00e9tendent inspirer et diriger le monde. (Engelhardt cite Washington et s’\u00e9tend sur le cas, mais il pourrait \u00e9galement nommer quelques capitales europ\u00e9ennes ; Paris occuperait une place de choix.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tDans sa description de ce moment global, Engelhardt ne manque \u00e9videmment pas de lier les \u00e9v\u00e9nements du Moyen-Orient proprement dits, et ceux qui les accompagnent hors de cette r\u00e9gion, notamment Madison dans le Wisconsin. (A noter, sa r\u00e9f\u00e9rence<\/a> \u00e0 un \u00e9change Twitter<\/em> \u00e0 partir d’une photo prise en Egypte et montrant une pancarte port\u00e9e par un manifestant, avec l’inscription \u00abEgypt Supports Wisconsin Workers<\/em>\u00bb. La qualit\u00e9 de l’appr\u00e9ciation historique des \u00e9v\u00e9nements par Engelhardt est tr\u00e8s grande, notamment ses r\u00e9f\u00e9rences \u00e0 de grands \u00e9v\u00e9nements historiques significatifs. (R\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 1776 et \u00e0 1789, ce qui nous va parfaitement<\/a>, et encore mieux si l’on y ajoute la forme \u00e9conomique dite du choix de feu que repr\u00e9sente le Moyen-Orient en cours de destruction, c’est-\u00e0-dire un immense champ p\u00e9trolif\u00e8re exploit\u00e9 d’une mani\u00e8re inique par les am\u00e9ricanistes-occidentalistes.) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThis is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. Yes, comparisons can be made to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91. For those with longer memories, perhaps 1968 might come to mind, that abortive moment when, in the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and elsewhere, including Eastern Europe, masses of people mysteriously inspired by each other took to the streets of global cities to proclaim that change was on the way.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbFor those searching the history books, perhaps you’ve focused on the year 1848 when, in a time that also mixed economic gloom with novel means of disseminating the news, the winds of freedom seemed briefly to sweep across Europe. And, of course, if enough regimes fall and the turmoil goes deep enough, there’s always 1776, the American Revolution, or 1789, the French one, to consider. Both shook up the world for decades after.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut here’s the truth of it: you have to strain to fit this Middle Eastern moment into any previous paradigm, even as from Wisconsin to China it already threatens to break out of the Arab world and spread like a fever across the planet. Never in memory have so many unjust or simply despicable rulers felt quite so nervous or possibly quite so helpless (despite being armed to the teeth) in the presence of unarmed humanity. And there has to be joy and hope in that alone.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbEven now, without understanding what it is we face, watching staggering numbers of people, many young and dissatisfied, take to the streets in Morocco, Mauritania, Djibouti, Oman, Algeria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Yemen, and Libya, not to mention Bahrain, Tunisia, and Egypt, would be inspirational. Watching them face security forces using batons, tear gas, rubber bullets, and in all too many cases, real bullets (in Libya, even helicopters and planes) and somehow grow stronger is little short of unbelievable. Seeing Arabs demanding something we were convinced was the birthright and property of the West, of the United States in particular, has to send a shiver down anyone’s spine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe nature of this potentially world-shaking phenomenon remains unknown and probably, at this point, unknowable. Are freedom and democracy about to break out all over? And if so, what will that turn out to mean? If not, what exactly are we seeing? What light bulb was it that so unexpectedly turned on in millions of Twittered and Facebooked brains and why now? I doubt those who are protesting, and in some cases dying, know themselves. And that’s good news. That the future remains always the land of the unknown should offer us hope, not least because that’s the bane of ruling elites who want to, but never can, take possession of it.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n dedefensa.org<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La m\u00e9moire longue de Tom Engelhardt Le 24 f\u00e9vrier 2011, sur son site TomDispatch.com, une excellente chronique de Tom Engelhardt. 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