Detroit et l’Irak, victimes solidaires du Système

Detroit et l’Irak, victimes solidaires du Système

Dès que le désordre s’étend en un nouveau spasme paroxystique (comme il ne cesse de s’étendre, chaque nouvelle étape s’ajoutant à la précédente), ressurgit la “théorie du chaos” (nous préférerions “théorie du désordre”). En général, elle est mise au crédit des USA, ce qui permet de charger cette puissance d’une capacité machiavélique infinie, d’annoncer pour la nième fois son hégémonie, de rendre faussement compréhensible d’un point de vue rationnel ce qui dépasse la raison et la réduit à la subversion d’elle-même. Contre cette forme d’esprit qui cherche à rationaliser l’extrême irrationalité déstructurante et dissolvante du Système, un texte comme celui de Margaret Kimberley, activiste travaillant sur le site FreedomRider, est bienvenu. Il est publié le 27 juin 2014 sur Strategic-Culture.org, sous le titre «Detroit and Iraq: Plundered by the Same Bandits».

C’est-à-dire qu’il s’agit des mêmes causes (les “mêmes bandits”) entraînant les mêmes effets. Le désordre est le même, frappant partout avec des moyens différents, – la ville de Detroit, Michigan, autant que l’Irak. Les animateurs de ces carnages sont toujours les mêmes, directement ou indirectement les élites-Système et les directions politiques totalement subverties par le Système, animant une politique-Système totalement nihiliste et entropique. La “théorie du chaos” (théorie du désordre) n’a aucun sens humain, aucune cohérence géopolitique, aucune référence idéologique ; elle est nihilisme pur et n’a comme but que l’aveugle destruction du monde ... Detroit, USA, et l’Irak, et tant d’autres, – même bataille furieuse, même déstructuration, même effondrement. Le Système en mode turbo et selon ce schéma Full Circle qui conduit de la surpuissance à l’autodestruction.

«The 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.”

»The 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.

»Far 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.

»A 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.”

»The 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. [...]

»...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.

»The 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.»

Mis en ligne le 27 juin 2014 à 06H45