sentimental glances in the brains of journalists The facts of these days suggest many reflections. I say this because strange things happen, or rather things that may seem strange until you get hold of the logic that governs them. In these lines I will try to single out this logic.
To do this I focus on what can rightly be considered the week's events: the continuation of the protests in Tunisia, directed now against the provisional government of Fouad Mebazaâ, and the "discovery" that revolves around a large number of Berlusconi ... girls.
That now I would not have the facts in themselves, but their treatment by the media imperialists. I use this term also well obsolete for defining a precise category, of communication in the hands of large companies in each country, the local economic powers. These companies (primarily newspapers) have a tendency, for years, to look more like each other, to constitute an indistinguishable, or rather a swarm of media agencies that moves with straordianria compactness. Republic ripende the articles in the New York Times survey taken from El Pais, while the Courier published an editorial signed by a journalist of Le Monde that talks about the latest revelations of independence. This phenomenon is not mysterious is explained by recalling that the owners of these titles belong to the same class, they often attended the same schools are able to speak the same language and have the very same interests in the financial, economic and even geopolitical. Nothing strange, then.
These large publishers who dominate the world of communication from both sides of the Atlantic,
hate Berlusconi. I hate how they hated Craxi (as he sharply noticed the time), and almost for the same reasons, and as against Craxi, trying to hurl it down from the bench with subversive methods. L 'affaire
Ruby, like the previous D'Addario and Naomi, are resolved in these simple considerations.
brackets. From what is written may seem that I support the thesis of the coup of the judges 'red', exactly as representatives of the PDL, the script even copiassi Cicchitto. Error: I am convinced that something akin to a coup "painless" bark removed the crack of the AFC in '92-93, and you try to repeat today with Berlusconi, but I do not think the perpetrators of plot are the judges, anything, are journalists.
are no investigations to bring down governments, not the PM to upset the political coup with ulterior motives: is the media, with their unique ability to create "noise" and unleash a lot of noise to interfere with the democratic process. An indictment, and even an arrest, that does not raise the adequate publicity in the media, would not provide anything. Salvatore Cuffaro Remember? During the trial for aiding and abetting aggravated the President of Sicily had been the subject of a veritable crusade of Legality. Well, yesterday the topic was locked up in national prisons. The news is a back seat. Or is Steno Marcegaglia Antonio is known magnates of steel, have both been convicted in different circumstances, for corruption. This has perhaps prevented Emma Marcegaglia to become president of Confindustria? Not at all: the judges have exercised without discount the prosecution, but it's not the media pillory. Understand who does the coup?
digression. In these days of rage anti-Berlusconi, sent press TV and around Italy to find someone (a few) that would reveal the gory details on the exuberance of Berlusconi, will be the most overlooked one detail, the meeting between our Prime Minister
and that of Somalia. In the unfortunate African country, just as strategic, the civil war between the nationalist and anti-imperialist force (here in the form of political Islam) and committed the colonial system has reached a compromise with the formation of a coalition government : his meeting with Berlusconi wanted to clarify on which side is our country. Obviously, to be the wrong one.
This was news. You want to nail the head of government to its terrible responsibility? He speaks of his support for rapists of Somalia, a country transformed by the entire Western interests in a battlefield and
in a dump. is sketched on issues such as a serious advertising campaign, and see if the Italians are really so in love Elder Monza!
But the media imperialists can not do anything like that. policy followed by Italy in Somalia, just to be the case, is dictated by NATO. How do the newspapers De Benedetti or Fiat Berlusconi could attack with real issues, like his scandalous complicity in the occupation of Afghanistan or to blackmail by Mirafiori and Pomigliano, when that occupation, and those blackmail, were called for, defended and pleaded precisely those papers? We live in the paradoxical situation in which a man from countless drawbacks as our prime minister is criticized for its
only very few positives. In this the ultimate has reached the refined Bersani, when he publicly expressed concern that "after Berlusconi is a Chavez." Got it? The problem with Berlusconi, are his points in common with Chavez. So just because there is the siege of the media imperialists.
brings us to Tunisia. Here, too, do not talk about what happened in itself, but its treatment of media, subject to considerable discussion that surprises.
Ben Ali was indeed a dictator, a man "put there" back in '87 the French secret service and Italians (who have shown ingratitude sum denying asylum in need), an authoritative representative of the decline of Arab socialism to outside the borders of Iraq (where there never was any lapse, and we had to destroy a military invasion). Curiously vicissitutidini fate has superimposed the two presidents, Ben Ali, and Berlusconi, both debtors of their fortunes alo same character, Craxi.
I said that the Tunisian president was indeed a dictator, a dictator but a friend of the West. In theory, the guardians and masters of the West, the oligarchs that own the means of mass communication, they should defend their man, exasperated and defame the masses by giving them a negative connotation as much as possible in the public eye that counts, that is white and Christian.
media imperialists have not done so, and, in solidarity with the governments of respective countries, "let go" (
to drop down), happened in his time as the tyrant of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, the Arab tyrant, but went further. They have created a climate of solidarity and sympathy with the rioters, and found a nice name to the revolution (now "jasmine"). About the Republic of flipping through a few days ago, would be a beautiful map of despotic regimes in North Africa, indicating that seemed a hope, that the germ of revolt could infect the masses around the battered Arab world.
Now this appeal to overthrow the dictator is fully understandable in the logic that drives the imperialist media, with regard to Libya's Gaddafi, but Mubarak's Egypt? The old scavengers has transformed his country into a real outpost of the West, and guarantee Israel's security. Coem can hope to fall swept away by a popular uprising?
Avanzo a hypothesis. The 'habitus
mental average journalist coomunicazione occidentai agency was formed, roughly, in the '80s. The end of that decade and the beginning of the following are the historical moment of the anti-Communist riots (Solidarnosc in Poland, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Soviet regime in Ethiopia and Yemen, falling Ceusescu in Romania, attempted insurrection in Beijing , Yeltsin dismissed the coup, etc). From the standpoint of our friend who works in the imperialist media, the popular uprising of the
fuoi the borders of the West is democratic by definition. And so, for the conditioned reflex, you end up putting in a good light, putting them in the same pot, not just the "color revolutions" clear and widespread. like the one in Serbia in 2000, Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004, in Lebanon in 2005 and so on, but also events, events that have no link between them, as the demonstrations in Tehran in 2009, in Bangkok than in the same year to the sedition act in these days in Tirana.
The Tunisian case falls into this category: the reporter saw a popular uprising in a country-western, whose government is by definition
undemocratic. The cultural attitude of the educated and semi-educated class in Europe and the USA states that, outside the West, land of freedom, democratic governments do not exist: only the dictatorships of beasts: when the popular exasperation arises end to the power of these brutes, even if they were brutes exposures guardians of neo-colonial Western media fail to properly take the guidelines of geopolitics and go convenience to beat in solidarity with the rioters.
This approach, I would call almost instinctive, is the reflection of another belief, that the metaphysical: if governments outside the West are anti-democratic, those of Western countries are democratic forces, so that those who disputes without respecting them, not even tell you the law but the etiquette is necessarily a madman or an extremist. As I pointed out talking about the events of December 14 in Rome, violent protests, the protests
true are not accepted within the imperial metropolis, and what is heroic in Tunis is a scandal in Milan. Logically, this rule also applies to emanzioni Western governments-for-power Democrats, such as peacekeeping troops in
, so who dares to fight with the negligible order to liberate their homeland is a horrible terrorist . We therefore
the paradox: when the Iraqi resistance, standard bearer of freedom and dignity of Arab attacks the institutions of the occupant of his collaborators, he commits crimes are unacceptable, deserving of tremendous punishment, and when the Egyptian people, eager to that freedom and that dignity, take to the streets to win, all the applause of those who have so far condemned them to poverty and oppression.