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Lunedì 7 luglio 2008
SchNews | Nel funzionamento fino al raduno annuale e greet dai capi del mondo (e dal insurrection totale seguente dall'altro lato delle linee della polizia) alla sommità G8 nell'Hokkaido, Giappone, esso è tempo che abbiamo preso un altro sguardo al gruppo di otto (gli S.U.A., il Regno Unito, la Germania, l'Italia, la Francia, il Canada, il Giappone e la Russia). Il G8 è stato parte superiore delle liste di colpo degli attivisti dagli anni 90 in cui i capi del mondo lorded esso sopra il pianeta, giocante la popolazione del mondo come i puppets sulle relative stringhe con il WTO, il FMI (fondo monetario internazionale) e la banca del mondo, mantenenti la piattaforma di alimentazione internazionale e di capitale impilati saldamente per i rich. Il G8 a volte è conosciuto come il G7 più la Russia - che è stata l'uomo dispari fuori da quando si è unita (dovuto più alla relativa proprietà delle migliaia delle armi nucleari che la relativa posizione sulla lista ricca globale). È l'una tribuna internazionale che riunisce il commercio mondiale e le istituzioni finanziarie. Semplicemente gli è messo il cartello più grande del mondo. Durante il `90s, via i edicts suonanti innocui quale il Trattato del `per quanto riguarda i diritti di proprietà (VIAGGI - mantenendo conoscenza bloccata via fra una manciata di ditte di bio--tecnologia e di elettronica) e politiche corporative moderne le intere strutturali di registrazione del `' (un eufemismo per il saccheggio delle economie dai privateers di giorno), il mondo era completamente sotto il controllo degli S.U.A. e dei relativi alleati. L'Unione Sovietica era stata sconfitta dall'alimentazione di Democracy Inc. e gli Stati Uniti non hanno avuti rivale dovunque. Era democrazia di Noi-stile e di liberalism economico tutto il senso, con chiazza di petrolio Willy Clinton al timone. Era la conclusione del `di storia', come affermato trionfalmente dai thinkers di destra dell'ala. LA MISSIONE HA COMPIUTO? Ma interamente è risultato essere un piccolo prematuro. Nei mesi crepuscolari della gestione di Bush, il G8 osserva più come uno spectator globale che il solo giocatore. Attraverso i paesi del mondo che l'ovest aveva ottenuto usato all'ordinamento intorno hanno cominciato a ballare alla loro propria aria. Neppure gli alleati certi degli Stati Uniti del `' come l'Arabia Saudita non sono impauriti dire il `nessun' alla faccia degli Stati Uniti (recentemente hanno girato giù una richiesta di scaricare più olio nei mercati globali malgrado intervento personale del Dubya). Around the world the battle for drug patents has basically been won by the third world drugs producers (Brazil, Thailand, India) after the G8 realised that neither the western pharma companies or the WTO could stop them. Latin America has now pretty much thrown out the IMF and their ilk, refusing to sup from the poisoned chalice of Structural Adjustment any more. During the ‘80s and ‘90s Argentina followed the dictates of the IMF & World Bank faithfully, only to be rewarded with the total collapse of their country’s economy - banks and factories closed overnight, and the Argentinian people responded with massive strikes and worker occupations of bankrupt factories (See SchNEWS 350). The elites of Argentina sensibly saw which way the wind was blowing and stepped aside to make way for the centre-left (and hardly revolutionary) government of Nestor Kirchner, who chucked out the IMF, WB, WTO and their advisors and refused to listen to the financial advisors who predicted doom and catastrophe. They were wrong, and since they stopped listening to the globalists both the Argentinean economy and average standard of living (not the same thing by the way) have gone up and up. Since then two-thirds of Latin America has followed suit, and the hemisphere, once America’s back yard, has begun to make faltering steps towards integration - independent of the gringos - via organisations such as MERCOSUR and the (much more ambitious) Bolivaran Alernative for the Americans (ALBA).
But even this is just the tip of the iceberg. The economies of Asia, traditionally heavily dependent on the Americans, still remember the battering they took in the late 90s during the collapse of the ‘Asian bubble’. Since then they’ve made sure that there’s plenty of extra dosh in their state coffers, ensuring that no matter how bad things get they don’t have to go down the path of short term gain for long term pain of IMF loans. The lack of customers has effectively ruined the IMF. From a budget of over $100 billion four years ago, they can now barely scrape together $10 billion, most of which now goes to just two countries: Turkey and Pakistan. The organisation which once played the role of global loanshark is now feeling itself the pinch. Once Turkey pays off the last of its outstanding loans, the IMF will basically run out of fresh sources of cash from the world’s poor. The net result of the failure of these US created and led institutions is that the G8 has lost control of global policy, in what even people inside the establishment are calling ‘a guerilla assault on the Washington Consensus.’ There’s still plenty of countries that are suffering horrendously from the same privatise-and-be-damned ideology of neoliberalism, but the tide is noticeably turning. States from China to Bolivia are turning state coffers over to internal development and poverty reduction, and in the process creating markets outside of the control of the G8. Stuggling against the tide the G8 is bringing in some of the larger non-western countries into the fold, intending to co-opt them into selling out the rest of the developing nations and making it worth their while to play ball according to US/European rules. The so-called ‘Outreach Five (not the latest boy-band) consist of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa. Last year, whilst the black block was busy shutting the city down, the G8 nations were kick-starting the ‘Heiligendamm Process’ aimed to get these countries on board. The problem (from the G8’s perspective), is that these countries aren’t likely to leave it at the level of discussion. They’re demanding an ever larger slice of the pie. END OF AN ERROR? Just about the only place where you can see the aggressive introduction of old-school neoliberal policies on weaker nations is in the countries occupied as part of the ‘War on Terror’. In Afghanistan - and especially Iraq - entire state industries were privatised with a stroke of the American Proconsul’s pen. Water, health, education, industry were all declared open for the attentions of multinational corporations. The result has been as brutal as it has been predictable. Iraq’s public services (once the best in the Middle East) were destroyed almost overnight, spiralling its population further into poverty and easing Iraq’s population into armed resistance that has all but destroyed American plans for Iraq. It is to nobody’s surprise that the oil laws being drafted by the ‘sovereign’ state of Iraq allow for the return of all the major US oil companies, 36 years after they were kicked out by Ba’athist nationalism. The Iraq war looks more like one last desperate throw of the dice by a visibly weakening empire. Bush’s legacy may well be that the United States is now seen as a fundamentally dangerous country that smaller nations can band together against. In the process this has created organisations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – See SchNEWS 551) which now holds joint military exercises “to fight back against new threats and challenges.” They also have an energy policy, the Asian Energy Security Grid, which has the potential to effectively counter US control the Middle-East’s oil. With this shift in global political power the West is likely to get increasingly desperate as their economies go down the pan and oil resource pressures start to bite. The likely consequences may not be pretty as the US and its allies up their military spending and repression to counter the largely phantom threat of terrorism. But it’s reassuring to SchNEWS that there are still those in the beast of the belly willing to counter it. * More info on G8 in Japan: www.jca.apc.org/alt-g8/en and http://a.sanpal.co.jp/no-g8 Have Your Say: EMPIRE OF THE VANITIES Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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