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What really mean the « End of history » and the western democracy ?

WHAT REALLY MEAN THE “ END OF HISTORY” AND WESTERN DEMOCRACY?

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the east European socialist bloc and the fall of Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama,  interpreting the thought-bottom and the state of mind of western ruling class, proclaimed the “End of history” with the indisputable triumph of western democracy. Here two questions must be addressed : first how has been expressed this so called end of history on international relations level and secondly what really means democracy in the mouth of the ruling classes in the West ?

Concerning the first question, and without going back to US crusade against the International communism at the end of the WWII, a crusade proclaimed by Trumann Doctrine of 1947 and the establishment of the CIA and its propaganda web through “Voice of America” and “Radio Free Europe”, a short history of international relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the communism in Europe seems to be very instructive so as to learn something about what realy means the so-called “end of history”. The “end of history” means firstly endless and bloody wars initiating by US and its satellites in Europe and across the world, a series of military aggression and occupation waged in the name of “democracy” and “western values” and ‘western humanitarian interventionism” against defenseless and weaker countries (branded by western propaganda failed states), without effective technological or miliatry self-defense, causing hundreds thousands causalities inflicted starvation on entire populations with economic and environmental devastations. The so called “end of history” according to Fukuyama and its neoconservative (neocon) followers means the destruction of a relatively peaceful multi-ethnic and independent state, the ex-Socialist federation of Yugoslavia during the 1990s. the “end of history” means also the destruction and the occupation in 2003 of a rising power in the Middle East, Iraq nationhood. The “end of history” means many years later, the destruction in 2011 of another country in North Africa, Libya. The “end of history” means today a proxy war waged by US and its satellites in Europe and in the Middle East against a another Arab nationhood , Syrian Arab Republic

To answer the second question, what is really the western democracy ? I must to be short here with general ideas and some generalization to be ultimately more developed in a separate and detailed study. According to classical and academic and political science textbooks, democracy is often declared as the best system of government in the world that the other countries across the world must take as a model and pattern to be imitated and to be implemented. The liberal democracy is based on popular sovereignty requiring that people ought to freely choice their own rulers and governments rather than having it imposed on them by outsiders. The liberal democracy originates in American and French revolutions that proclaimed both the popular sovereignty as source of any legitimate government. However, in course of time and in the long run, the popular sovereignty and what democratic features do exist are despised and subverted by a hidden form of dictatorship, the parliaments within which gather elected lawmakers setting up as Judge of what is good and what is bad for people. Indeed, albeit their pretention of speaking in the name of people, such elected lawmakers use rather the election and the elective mechanism as a tool to legitimate rtheir dictatorship and their domination on the whole society. Such elections have in fact no impact on the government’s policies since they are aiming not to express the popular wishes but only to designate the members of the ruling class whose the principal objective is to legitimate their political, economic and ideological domination.

Contrary to received ideas, the western states are not led by their elected parliaments and governments at all but by a hidden authorities and obscures civil and military servants, by powerful lobbies who form the “deep state”, a community of unelected figures who decide what is best for everyone and who dictate their own policies and their wishes to the elected head of state and to incumbent governments. The western democracy is nothing other than the shallow ritual and a masquerade organized at Olympic intervals (every four or five or six years) aiming at legitimatizing the violence of the ruling class that will not hesitate, in case of necessity, to resort to armed thugs so as to repress any potential surge against the established order. In order to maintain its rule and its domination on the whole society, the ruling class possess the monopole of political propaganda, this redoubtable device destined according to Serge Tchakotine the rape of  masses.  For the maintain of hits hegemony on the society the ruling class has to weaken its class enemy and to do so, the voters must be manipulated based on prejudices held or inculcated  and divided into smaller and smaller grouping and set against each other. Thanks to voter apathy, elected rulers are no more likely than a dictator doing anything and nothing no matter how unpopular . the so called opposition in western democracy is nothing but eye-wash, deceptive appearance and illusion to the extent that there are the same political parties that alternate in power n o matter what kind of rule follows all this reduces “democracy” to a sort of slogan as to justify the setting up of a police State on domestic level and endless and bloddy wars on international level.

Today, with the Syrian war, the western democracy reveals in broad daylight its real and deep nature. Everywhere polls show massive popular opposition to the bombing and no airstrikes but all popular cries fell on deaf ears as the western governments continue to ignore the popular wishes not to bomb abd not to kill Syrian innocent civil population. Nowadays, the so called western democracies are desperately trying since 2011 to overthrow a legitimate and democratically elected president  and to place an islamist and jihadist proxy regime in position.

 

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Syria : civil war or imperialist proxy war ?

Syria : civil war or imperialist proxy war ?

Western propaganda and its mainstream and corporate media try to depict the current war waged in Syria as a mere domestic civil war opposing the very” democratic forces”, the “kindly” and “moderate rebels” fighting for the “right cause” viewed through the western lens, that is, democracy, human rights, rule of law and multipartism against a horrific, thirsty blood dictatorship, that of Bachar Al Assad.

In order to better understand the nature of the ongoing Syrian war, we must beforehand reject all these false narratives and ideas and bias extensively spreading and disseminating through the mainstream media, academic circles and the so-called military and civil experts. We have to concentrate first and before all on the origin of all these political, ethnic, religious, sectarian and ideological convulsions that took place in the Middle East over the last 50 years. We have to go back to the history of this region more precisely to the First World War and to its aftermath and treaties of Versailles of 1919 when the two major imperialist powers at the time, France and Great Britain decided, according to Sykes-Picot Accords and Balfour Declaration, to divide among them the area into two spheres of influence and to redraw the map of the Middle East following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. When, at the end of the Second World War, the two old imperialist powers have been collapsed, they had been, at their turn, evinced and replaced in the area by a young and newcomer the United States of America. So, a century later, one can witness the same permanence of imperialism continuing to rule the region and contributing to exacerbate ethnic and religious conflicts in order to feed and fuel endless and bloody wars according to its own agenda. Once keeping this truth in mind, needless to say that, behind each conflict waged in the Middle East, over the past 50 years, there is this constant and perpetual hidden hand of western imperialism supported by proxy regimes in the Middle East. Nothing being new under the Sun, The ongoing Syrian must not be an exception to the rule in comparison with all wars that had been taking place in the Middle east over the past 50 years and more recently, those of Iraq and Libya.

Through their strategy of deception and manipulation, the western propaganda would like to make believe that the ongoing war in Syria is a civil war opposing domestic parties and local groups to the Syrian regime. One can remember that the term “moderate” rebels has been coined by the strategists of the Psy op waged nowadays against Assad and his regime. this strategy of deception aims to deceive and to make believe that there are “kind and very nice” rebels and “respectable” political forces struggling against a “nasty” and “evil” regime. By close and careful examination of the so called “moderate” rebels, we quickly arrive to another established fact that the Assad regime have to face not a civil war but a foreign infestation leading by a jihadist-led insurgency, unleashed in the Syrian territory since 2011 by Washington and its clients and satellites in Europe and in the Middle East with the main objective, overthrowing the legitimate regime and replacing it by an islamist regime pro-US.

These jihadist-led-insurgency, Washington call them “our guys” as it was the case with the Afghan mujahedeen branded by Ronald Reagan as “freedom fighters” and the French foreign minister vaunted them as guys “ making a good job”, in Syria. This appeal to jihadists groups is not a new strategy deployed by US imperialism to be in its military and gepopolical agendas since the creation in the late 1970 of the Afghan Mudjahedeen, a CIA offshoot–organized-armed Islamic jihadists when the US imperialism was leading a Crusade war against the communism and was fighting a secular pro-Soviet government in Afghanistan.

Now, in the ongoing Syrian war, like in Libya in 2011, we are witnessing the same strategy whose the main objective is to enlist jihadist groups being used as a military tools and geopolitical device to be in US led imperialism’s service. The Sunni jihadists deemed “moderate” by the West are in fact a patchwork of foreign mercenary jihadists, recruited from about one hundred countries around the world, such jihadists having been created from nothing by western governments and their Intelligence services committed to organize, fund, train and supply them by the last US and western manufactured and sophisticated weaponry, especially the TOW missiles supplied (anti-tank missile). Once recruited, armed and trained, these foreign mercenary groups are transiting by Turkish border to Syrian territory. According to a Munich based journalist interviewed by the BBC world on Wednesday 2 December, 70% of the fighters in Raqaa are foreign.

In Syria, Al Nusra Front, Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate, is allied with other jihadists including Ahrar al-Sham(apparently separated from Al-Qaeda although its senior leaders were drawn from Al Qaeda) and Jaish al-islam. Both militias are composed of Salafists militants, seeking the establishment of Caliphate in Syria. Both militias collaborate closely with Al Nusra and they are fighting side by side in the Saudi-backed Army of Conquest.  The Jihadists of Al Nusra and its allies are waging a sectarian war not only against the government but also against other components of the Syrian society, Shia, Alawites, Jews and Christians.  Ahrar al-Sham,  a jihadist group founded by Al Quaeda veteran and fighting alongside Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front.he “moderate” groups unleashed in Syria for regime change had been supplied with sophisticated weapons including TOW anti-tank missile.

For a mere political cosmetic purpose and in order to hide the infestation of Syrian soil by foreign jihadists and to confer a “syrian” veneer to their proxy mercenary, US imperialism and its satellites in Europe(France, Great Britain) and in the Middle east (Saudi Arabia, Qatar and turkey) are forced to enlist aging Syrian exiles among the Syrian Diaspora living in the West. Albeit this political cosmetic, the current rivalry and ongoing infighting between the “opponents” to Assad regime (groups backed by Washington fighting against groups backed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia) demonstrates once again that the so called civil war in Syria is a myth, that its background are neither ethnic nor religious but a foreign plot fomented by the western imperialism and its regional proxy regimes in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, all of them converging in the same geopolitical agendas and pointing to the same direction, albeit their interne rivalry and their proper agendas, the ouster of the democratically elected president Bachar Al Assad and imposition in Damascus of a slavish US puppet government as it was the case more than decade ago in Iraq and four years ago in Libya after the western powers, and their regional proxy regimes helped and supported by and their jihadists mercenary had been toppling and murdering the Libyan leader, Muammar al Kadaffi, and destroying a prosper and wealthy North African country

Keywords Syria, imperialism, ISIS, US, war

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« Assad must go » Eurocentric discourse

Assad must gp

« Assad must go »

Eurocentric discourse in International relations

The state system going back to the peace of Westphalia in 1648, contrary to dominant discourse in the mainstream media(MSM) and the content of the textbooks dedicated to the history of international relations is not of equal relations between all its members. A close examination of international relations since the peace of Westphalia shows that the modern world order have been profoundly shaped by unequal power relations, embedded over many centuries embedded in knowledge and ideas and concepts and in cultural body as Edward Said has obviously shown in his two seminal books, “Orientalism” and “Culture and imperialism”. This Eurocentric distorted thought must be linked therefore to imperialism and  its set of ideological and cultural corpus based on the belief that some people and races are superior on other, and that ultimately the Europeans peoples or their fellow all over the world, in the United states, in Canada, In Australia, New Zeeland, in south Africa, are considering themselves as superior to other “people of color”, have a duty and a special mission, that of civilizing the backward non-European peoples This Eurocentric and supremacist posture remains the prevailing feature of International relations, even longtime after the masquerade of the so called decolonization process and the political liberation from colonial rule of formerly colonized peoples and the accession of a significant number of “new states” to the “international society” .

Nowadays, a such Eurocentric and supremacist discourse shows obviously through the western imperialist waged against Syria supposed to be, according to the International Law, an independent member of the UN organization, in Syria.  At the beginning of the Syrian crisis, President Obama and Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton launched the slogan “President Bashar Al Assad must go”  Let us now dream and  imagine in the opposite direction where Assad and his foreign minister Walid El Mouallem would launch the slogan “President Obama must go” . or “President Hollande must go” or “David Cameroun must go” . The supremacist and Eurocentric mainstream media, the well thinking and the ruling class in the West would have retorted that first Obama and Hollande are two legitimate presidents democratically elected through fair and honest election and secondly, Assad and his foreign minister have not to interfere neither in the American nor in French and British domestic affairs.

By examining the two present cases, we can say without be mistaken that if Obama and Hollande were a democratically elected president, the Syrian president Bachar al Assad is a democratically elected president too. Let us remember that President Assad has been elected twice, in 2007 and last year despite the difficult conditions in which the presidential election has been held last year. Their outcome had been considered by delegates from more than 30 countries as “free, fair and transparent”

The Eurocentric bias and the imperialist foundations of International relations appear clearly in broad daylight when US imperialism and its allies in Europe and the Middle East were trying since 2011 to overthrow Bachar Al Assad and to change the regime in Damascus. Behind the slogan “ Assad must go” , we cannot find democracy and human rights but a will expressed by a hegemonic and imperialist power in its perpetual quest for domination and perpetuated hegemony over the whole world.

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