Full Circle<\/em> qui conduit de la surpuissance \u00e0 l’autodestruction.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe Race to the Bottom under global, militarized capitalism creates communities of shared misery. Increasingly, it is almost as dangerous to be inside U.S. borders as on the outside. Iraq was invaded with soldiers, guns and bombs. Detroit was invaded by the corporate suits’ who made a fast buck for themselves. Both are plundered by the same bandits. All of former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s incompetence could not have created the ongoing occupation of Detroit by the thieves in high places.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe ugly face of empire and disaster capitalism is visible all over the world. Detroit, Michigan, was once a thriving city but was sent into a tailspin by the deindustrialization of the United States, white flight, and institutional racism which blamed black people who were in fact the victims of catastrophe. The coup de grace was delivered by big banks like UBS, Bank of America and Barclays, which sold risky derivatives schemes to corrupt Detroit politicians. When the financial deal inevitably headed south, the banks were the creditors first in line for a payout.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbFar back in that line were the workers and people of Detroit. The emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, whose very position they had voted against establishing, rules the city. The new mayor is a figurehead and the people have no representation as the Republican governor and emergency manager remake the city for capital and the gentrifying settler class.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbA world away in Iraq, a nation is crumbling under the weight of eleven years of violent occupation by the United States. The once developing nation is now a ruin, with all of its infrastructure and systems from health care to education destroyed by western avarice. The prime minister who was chosen with America’s blessing, Nouri al-Maliki, has now become an inconvenience and faces a bleak fate. In the United States, residents of a major city must plead to the international community for the right to access water.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Bush administration and now the Obama team determined that promoting one side in sectarian political disputes would make for a smooth running and profitable occupation. Instead they brought war between Sunni and Shia and with goal of knocking down more dominoes, continued to fund jihadists who always upset their plans. Now Maliki is being told to get out of office if he wants help in crushing the enemies that America made for his country. Just as Iraq’s infrastructure has been destroyed, Detroit residents now live without basic services which ought to be regarded as the right of every human being. In the United States, a country which boasts of its high level of advancement, residents of a major city must plead to the international community for the right to access water.<\/em> […]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb…Iraq was invaded with soldiers, guns and bombs. Detroit was invaded by the corporate suits who made a fast buck for themselves. The end result is the same for Michiganders and Iraqis alike. They end up suffering in a plundered society while other people make out like the bandits that they really are.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe organizations which reached out to the U.N. took an important step in changing the Detroit narrative. Politicians and the corporate media dismiss the city’s troubles as the fault of incompetent black people. All of former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s incompetence could not have created the ongoing occupation of Detroit by the thieves in high places. The outreach to the United Nations is important for another reason. It points out that millions of Americans live an existence far from the myth of the great country. They are struggling to survive just like millions in the so-called third world. It is the gangsters who run the show in Baghdad and in Michigan too.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 27 juin 2014 \u00e0 06H45<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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