‘How the West Eats Its Children’
By Thierry Meyssan
For Thierry Meyssan, by taking to the streets, the French have become the first Western population to take personal risks to oppose financial globalisation. Although they do not realise it, and still imagine that their problems are exclusively national, their enemy is the same force that crushed the region of the African Great Lakes and a part of the Greater Middle East. In order to understand the project which inextricably unites these apparently disparate events, we have to take a step back.
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International relations experienced a
profound change with the paralysis of the
Soviet Union in 1986, when the State was
unable to control the civilian nuclear
incident in Tchernobyl [1], then with the
revocation of the Warsaw Pact in 1989, when
the East German Communist Party [2]
destroyed the Berlin Wall, and finally, with
the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.
At that time, the President of the United
States, George Bush Sr., decided to
demobilise one million soldiers and devote
the efforts of his country to its own
prosperity. He wanted to transform US
hegemony within its zone of influence, and
expand it into that of the leader of the
world, the guarantor of world stability.
With that, he laid the foundations for a «
New World Order », first of all in the
speech he gave side by side with British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at the
Aspen Institute (2 August 1990), then during
his speech to Congress (11 September 1990),
announcing operation « Desert Storm » [3].
The world of the après-Soviet Union is one
of free circulation, not only of
merchandise, but also world capital, under
the unique control of the United States. In
other words, the passage from capitalism to
financialisation – not the triumphant
culmination of free exchange, but an
exacerbated form of colonial exploitation of
the whole world, including the West. Within
the space of a quarter of a century, the
major US fortunes have multiplied many
times, and the global wealth of the world
has increased considerably.
By allowing capitalism to run wild,
President Bush Sr. hoped to extend
prosperity to the world. But capitalism is
not a political project, it is simply a
system of logic designed for creating
profit. The logic of the US multinationals
was to increase their profits by
delocalising production to China, where it
is now possible, and where workers are the
lowest paid in the world.
Those who were prepared to measure the cost
of this advance for the West were few and
far between. New middle classes began to
appear in the third world, and although they
were, of course, far less wealthy than those
in the West, they enabled new, mainly Asian
states, to play a rôle on the world stage.
But simultaneously, Western middle classes
began to disappear [4], meaning that it
became impossible for the democratic
institutions they built to survive. Above
all, the populations of entire regions were
to be entirely crushed, starting with those
of the African Great Lakes. This first
regional war caused 6 million deaths, in
Angola, Burundi, Namibia, Uganda, the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and
Zimbabwe, and was met with general
incomprehension and indifference. The aim
was to continue to seize the natural
resources of these countries, but to pay
less and less for them, which meant dealing
with gangs rather than with the States who
had to feed their populations.
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