In this section, Crescent International will highlight news and events that do not attract much media Attention. We will provide our brief analysis. Hyperlinked references will be provided for confirmation, corroboration and crediting purposes.
The emerging multi-polar world order highlights that Western thinkers like Francis Fukuyama are not the only ones who have the world’s attention. Now some Western institutions want to hear thinkers other than those dedicated to peddling the US imperialist narrative.
Washington based al-monitor.com published AFP’s interview with one of the Arab world’s leading intellectuals Imad Fawzi Shueibi, Damascus University professor in theory of knowledge.
In his interview, Professor Shueibi pointed out that “fundamental change on many levels—economic, political, intellectual and social—will not stop when it ends. An unexpected event sparked that change, like a butterfly effect, in which a simple event leads to very dramatic widespread change, just like the Austrian crown prince's assassination just before the First World War… At the end of the Second World War, there were winners and losers. But today, a new world order could be established, one in which everyone is a loser. This demands a pattern of cooperation between countries completely different from that which emerged after the Second World War.”
It should be noted that throughout the proxy war against Syria, Professor Shueibi remained in Syria and supported the government. This fact demolishes another corporate fairy-tale that all progressive thinkers in Syria supported the “revolution.”
Courtesy: al-monitor.com, AFP
As the popular uprising against the white-supremacist police regime continues in the US, even Western media institutions notice their own duplicity in how the people’s revolt is covered.
The Washington Post published a column by Karen Attiah, Ghanaian-American writer and Global Opinions editor for the paper titled, How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country.
In her satirical column Attiah points out how the Western media would dramatize the people’s revolt and push the interventionist narrative if it occurred in another country.
Attiah ends her column with a very real description of the current state of affairs in the decaying empire – “It’s sad that the Americans don’t have a government that can get them coronavirus tests or even monthly checks to be able to feed their families,” said Charlotte Johnson, an 18-year-old Liberian student activist, who survived the Ebola pandemic. “100,000 people are dead, cities are burning, and the country hasn’t had a day of mourning? Lives don’t matter, especially not black lives. It’s like they’re living in a failing state.”
Courtesy: The Washington Post, MSN.com
Writing for the Washington based al-monitor.com, Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, stated that “Israeli plans to annex the Jordan Valley and parts of the West Bank have drawn criticism from around the world, but most Israelis favor the goal.”
In his article, Inbar attempts to paint a rosy picture of an entity surviving on NATO handouts. The biggest challenge to the Zionist entity is “arguably the only rift within Israeli society still of social, cultural and political importance is the religious-secular divide,” according to Inbar.
The Zionist entity’s culture of incessant political warfare will further exhaust the regime. The ability of Western regimes to continue financing Israel will face further problems in a post-coronavirus economic order.
Courtesy: www.al-monitor.com
Free market and free entrepreneurship are not so free in Western capitalist systems when political matters come into the picture. The Texas-based multinational AT&T left Venezuela last week citing legal pressure caused by US sanctions.
In return, the Venezuelan authorities began seizing AT&T’s assets after the firm decided to abandon the country to reduce exposure to US sanctions.
According to venezuelanalysis.com, “at least three Caracas installations belonging to the US telecommunications multinational have reportedly been occupied by the state regulator CONATEL and the Bolivarian Armed Forces over the weekend, including its transmissions centre in Los Caobos, main administrative headquarters in El Rosal and principal commercial office in Las Mercedes.”
Ongoing merger of US business interests with the agenda of their government is likely to hurt US business opportunities abroad, as countries will view US companies as unreliable and susceptible to easy manipulation by their meddling prone government.
Courtesy: www.venezuelanalysis.com
