Re: Italy
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:23 pm
The chickens return to the Washington chicken coop
by Giuseppe Sini
When asked about the assassination of JFK Malcolm X, with the usual icasticity, he replied that from his point of view it was a case of "hens returning to the hen house", and in his autobiography he pointed out that it was a reference to internal hatred of the USA - that which materialized, and materializes, in particular against blacks - and to its foreign projection, which struck, and struck, with equal violence both on the puppets of imperialism now considered useless, as Ngo Dinh Diem, as much as on his strenuous opponents like Lumumba. The effective image used by the leaderAfrican American is well suited to the assault carried out on January 6 by Trump's most agitated supporters in Congress, interrupting the session that was to certify the vote of the electoral college in favor of the Biden / Harris duo, an operation that was then carried out once control of what, in the prosopopoeia of our Italian subservient journalism, we insist on defining - quoting the newly elected president - the “temple of democracy”.
The scenes from Capitol Hill seemed to many a re-enactment of the assaults on institutional headquarters carried out by demonstrators supported by Washington in the global south, but not only: from Latin America, with Venezuela and Bolivia, up to Eastern Europe. with Ukraine and Belarus and China with Hong Kong, passing through the Middle East, with Libya and Syria, just to name a few examples among many. A sort of "those who wait for it" (as the declaration of Malcolm X is rendered in the Italian translation) is the warm reaction, entirely acceptable, of a Telesur journalist , who has claimed the right of the peoples of the south of the world - target of US imperialist policies - to giggle at what was happening in Congress in those hours [1].
Obviously, it would be excessive to expect the Western "media" to try to see in this story the grotesque reflection of the operations promoted by the USA, really too much of a shock for those who for decades have praised the effectiveness of the procedures of US institutions, and fair playthat would accompany them, guaranteeing, according to them, the continuity of the “greatest democracy in the world”. However, once the bewilderment subsided, the commentators scrambled to put the pieces back together, resorting to the ideological glue that unites sovereignists and their liberal opponents, or the revolting mush of Western supremacism, a globalized version of the white one that is raging in the United States and not only. So here are journalists and politicians ranting indignant about scenes from the "third world" and "banana republic", ignoring the fact that these were bloody creations of US imperialism.
The traditional homage to the paranoia of the stars and stripes was not long in coming, evoking the shadow of foreign interference: Putin's Russia or China, the latter agrees both liberal and sovereign observers, both in their moderate wing, now busy to distance itself from Trump, and the more conspiratorial wing, among whose ranks there is no hesitation in ranting about foreign infiltrations in the demonstration, as an alternative to those attributed to phantom BLM or "antifa" militants. Take for example Ben Rhodes, who a few months ago complained about the incompetence of imperialism in Trump-Rubio sauce, who gasps on twitter: “This is the day Putin was waiting for”; and then reprimand Senator Rubio who, as deemed co-responsible for the crime, would not be entitled to refer in a pejorative sense to the proverbial third world, a prerogative that Obama's former adviser would seem to want to reserve only for Western supremacism of a democratic brand [2].
As for Italy, we can mention Federico Rampini who, after having educated readers for years about the empire of Cindia - providing him with a sweetened version of the most trite reactionary clichés about Asia - has carved out a place in the hearts of our local Trumpians. , commenting favorably on the tough poses of their favorite with respect to China; today he defines "chilling, horrible", the images coming from Washington and Trump "ignoble, irresponsible", after having flanked him, together with the Molinari management of Repubblica, when it came to shoveling mud on Beijing. A few words should be said for that once socialist or communist area which - taken from the now cloying tendency to attribute to a generic left practically everything that has occurred since 1989 - does not hesitate to relaunch the "evidence" of BLM's infiltration in the demonstration which resulted in assault; and to say that the political character of this, if you really want to stick to the photos circulating on social media , is partly easily deducible also from the waving of Confederate flags, of the Iranian monarchy, Israelis and from the ferociously anti-Marxist cartels unlined by some participants [ 3].
Taking into account that even the comparison with the taking of the Winter Palace was not lacking - the proximity to the reactionary sewers of the internet leads to confuse the Bolsheviks with the black centuries - it should be clear the bankruptcy to which having spent the last few years to legitimize the puppet arguments of the reactionary right, culminating in the illusion of a presumed less imperialist aggression by the Trump presidency . Especially since indulging certain tendencies, even when shared by sectors of the working class, brings no consensus except to the original supporters of such positions, admitted and not granted it is right to sacrifice principles on the altar of approval.
Moreover, the "left" rightly insulted for having been the protagonist or accomplice of the post-eighty-nine capitalist restoration - that of the Clintons, the Blairs and their Italian epigones to understand each other - did not limit itself to implementing liberal and imperialist economic policies, but has often embraced, more or less explicitly and opportunistically, right-wing values and strategies on issues such as immigration, security and civil rights, albeit with a veil of humanitarian or rainbow makeup. Some of the homegrown remnants of this area have stood out for their littleness and classism in their painful attempts to "analyze" what happened on January 6, take the infamous tweet di Gori, completely indistinguishable from the signatures of the manor press such as Rocca, not to mention one of the bastions of Atlanticism such as the Foglio [4].
The newspaper founded by Ferrara, as already written in October , although harshly critical of Trump, has always given space or supported positions - especially in the field of civil rights and science - not dissimilar from those of many followers of the now next ex- US president, and already heritage of that evangelical right-wing base of that Bush jrtoday obscenely indicated as a positive example. Beyond the real juxtapositions, the convergence between sovereignists and liberals (conservative or progressive) on both sides of the Atlantic stands out in considering the United States, albeit for different and sometimes opposite reasons, as a beacon of freedom and democracy, bulwark against the assaults that, in the victim narrative that unites them, the West would be undergoing from within and above all from the outside.
A convergence that the Communists should denounce, together with the devastating effects on the working class of austerity policies - a real class beating in which the left has often played the role of those who hold the victim down or stand by - and the weight of these in the rise of the reactionary right; far from looking for dialogues or worse confluences, the latter must be pointed out as functional to a further enslavement to US imperialism, complicit in the aggression against the nations and movements that oppose it. As for Trump's suspension from twitter , it is worth remembering that accounts have been suspended or limited for some timeof officials, and even heads of state, of countries more or less hated by the US, from Cuba to Venezuela via China, or other subjects in some way attributable to them, without the supporters of the New York billionaire shouting at censorship. Therefore, no celebration of the measures taken by the social network , but also no indulgence with respect to the whining about freedom of expression, at most it should be noted that for four years the outgoing president has "incited violence", threatening to raze the 'Iran, the DPRK and others without the twitter leaders breaking up too much.
Returning to the assault on Congress, as long as it does not turn out to be just the last tragicomic act of Trump's four years - who after the bombastic declarations of the first hour would seem to have resigned himself to retreating with his tail between his legs - we must beware of the trend to see in the US events of the last few years the signs of an inevitable decline, but even if they are, this will be neither quick nor painless especially for the oppressed both within the US borders and beyond. And indeed, if this were the case - which by the way does not imply a loss of the effectiveness of the mechanisms of imperialist, economic, military enslavement and repression, etc.. - the reaction of the USA will be increasingly brutal not only against those who explicitly question its global dominance, but also against those vassals who should give signs, however timid, of not wanting to be dragged down.
1) Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, wiht the assistance ef Alex Haley, One World Book, 1992, p. 347 (trans. It. Autobiography of Malcolm X, with the collaboration of Alex Haley, BUR, 2004, p. 354); https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/ ... 4454636546 .
2) https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1346933221141843968 ; https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1346940574964744193 ;
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar1bdWide-c ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IipcKO6fvK0 ; https://twitter.com/FedericoRampini/sta ... 5694143489 ; https://twitter.com/LalehKhalili/status ... 7995574272 .
4) https://twitter.com/giorgio_gori/status ... 0722878464 ; https://twitter.com/christianrocca/stat ... 2906045440
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by Giuseppe Sini
When asked about the assassination of JFK Malcolm X, with the usual icasticity, he replied that from his point of view it was a case of "hens returning to the hen house", and in his autobiography he pointed out that it was a reference to internal hatred of the USA - that which materialized, and materializes, in particular against blacks - and to its foreign projection, which struck, and struck, with equal violence both on the puppets of imperialism now considered useless, as Ngo Dinh Diem, as much as on his strenuous opponents like Lumumba. The effective image used by the leaderAfrican American is well suited to the assault carried out on January 6 by Trump's most agitated supporters in Congress, interrupting the session that was to certify the vote of the electoral college in favor of the Biden / Harris duo, an operation that was then carried out once control of what, in the prosopopoeia of our Italian subservient journalism, we insist on defining - quoting the newly elected president - the “temple of democracy”.
The scenes from Capitol Hill seemed to many a re-enactment of the assaults on institutional headquarters carried out by demonstrators supported by Washington in the global south, but not only: from Latin America, with Venezuela and Bolivia, up to Eastern Europe. with Ukraine and Belarus and China with Hong Kong, passing through the Middle East, with Libya and Syria, just to name a few examples among many. A sort of "those who wait for it" (as the declaration of Malcolm X is rendered in the Italian translation) is the warm reaction, entirely acceptable, of a Telesur journalist , who has claimed the right of the peoples of the south of the world - target of US imperialist policies - to giggle at what was happening in Congress in those hours [1].
Obviously, it would be excessive to expect the Western "media" to try to see in this story the grotesque reflection of the operations promoted by the USA, really too much of a shock for those who for decades have praised the effectiveness of the procedures of US institutions, and fair playthat would accompany them, guaranteeing, according to them, the continuity of the “greatest democracy in the world”. However, once the bewilderment subsided, the commentators scrambled to put the pieces back together, resorting to the ideological glue that unites sovereignists and their liberal opponents, or the revolting mush of Western supremacism, a globalized version of the white one that is raging in the United States and not only. So here are journalists and politicians ranting indignant about scenes from the "third world" and "banana republic", ignoring the fact that these were bloody creations of US imperialism.
The traditional homage to the paranoia of the stars and stripes was not long in coming, evoking the shadow of foreign interference: Putin's Russia or China, the latter agrees both liberal and sovereign observers, both in their moderate wing, now busy to distance itself from Trump, and the more conspiratorial wing, among whose ranks there is no hesitation in ranting about foreign infiltrations in the demonstration, as an alternative to those attributed to phantom BLM or "antifa" militants. Take for example Ben Rhodes, who a few months ago complained about the incompetence of imperialism in Trump-Rubio sauce, who gasps on twitter: “This is the day Putin was waiting for”; and then reprimand Senator Rubio who, as deemed co-responsible for the crime, would not be entitled to refer in a pejorative sense to the proverbial third world, a prerogative that Obama's former adviser would seem to want to reserve only for Western supremacism of a democratic brand [2].
As for Italy, we can mention Federico Rampini who, after having educated readers for years about the empire of Cindia - providing him with a sweetened version of the most trite reactionary clichés about Asia - has carved out a place in the hearts of our local Trumpians. , commenting favorably on the tough poses of their favorite with respect to China; today he defines "chilling, horrible", the images coming from Washington and Trump "ignoble, irresponsible", after having flanked him, together with the Molinari management of Repubblica, when it came to shoveling mud on Beijing. A few words should be said for that once socialist or communist area which - taken from the now cloying tendency to attribute to a generic left practically everything that has occurred since 1989 - does not hesitate to relaunch the "evidence" of BLM's infiltration in the demonstration which resulted in assault; and to say that the political character of this, if you really want to stick to the photos circulating on social media , is partly easily deducible also from the waving of Confederate flags, of the Iranian monarchy, Israelis and from the ferociously anti-Marxist cartels unlined by some participants [ 3].
Taking into account that even the comparison with the taking of the Winter Palace was not lacking - the proximity to the reactionary sewers of the internet leads to confuse the Bolsheviks with the black centuries - it should be clear the bankruptcy to which having spent the last few years to legitimize the puppet arguments of the reactionary right, culminating in the illusion of a presumed less imperialist aggression by the Trump presidency . Especially since indulging certain tendencies, even when shared by sectors of the working class, brings no consensus except to the original supporters of such positions, admitted and not granted it is right to sacrifice principles on the altar of approval.
Moreover, the "left" rightly insulted for having been the protagonist or accomplice of the post-eighty-nine capitalist restoration - that of the Clintons, the Blairs and their Italian epigones to understand each other - did not limit itself to implementing liberal and imperialist economic policies, but has often embraced, more or less explicitly and opportunistically, right-wing values and strategies on issues such as immigration, security and civil rights, albeit with a veil of humanitarian or rainbow makeup. Some of the homegrown remnants of this area have stood out for their littleness and classism in their painful attempts to "analyze" what happened on January 6, take the infamous tweet di Gori, completely indistinguishable from the signatures of the manor press such as Rocca, not to mention one of the bastions of Atlanticism such as the Foglio [4].
The newspaper founded by Ferrara, as already written in October , although harshly critical of Trump, has always given space or supported positions - especially in the field of civil rights and science - not dissimilar from those of many followers of the now next ex- US president, and already heritage of that evangelical right-wing base of that Bush jrtoday obscenely indicated as a positive example. Beyond the real juxtapositions, the convergence between sovereignists and liberals (conservative or progressive) on both sides of the Atlantic stands out in considering the United States, albeit for different and sometimes opposite reasons, as a beacon of freedom and democracy, bulwark against the assaults that, in the victim narrative that unites them, the West would be undergoing from within and above all from the outside.
A convergence that the Communists should denounce, together with the devastating effects on the working class of austerity policies - a real class beating in which the left has often played the role of those who hold the victim down or stand by - and the weight of these in the rise of the reactionary right; far from looking for dialogues or worse confluences, the latter must be pointed out as functional to a further enslavement to US imperialism, complicit in the aggression against the nations and movements that oppose it. As for Trump's suspension from twitter , it is worth remembering that accounts have been suspended or limited for some timeof officials, and even heads of state, of countries more or less hated by the US, from Cuba to Venezuela via China, or other subjects in some way attributable to them, without the supporters of the New York billionaire shouting at censorship. Therefore, no celebration of the measures taken by the social network , but also no indulgence with respect to the whining about freedom of expression, at most it should be noted that for four years the outgoing president has "incited violence", threatening to raze the 'Iran, the DPRK and others without the twitter leaders breaking up too much.
Returning to the assault on Congress, as long as it does not turn out to be just the last tragicomic act of Trump's four years - who after the bombastic declarations of the first hour would seem to have resigned himself to retreating with his tail between his legs - we must beware of the trend to see in the US events of the last few years the signs of an inevitable decline, but even if they are, this will be neither quick nor painless especially for the oppressed both within the US borders and beyond. And indeed, if this were the case - which by the way does not imply a loss of the effectiveness of the mechanisms of imperialist, economic, military enslavement and repression, etc.. - the reaction of the USA will be increasingly brutal not only against those who explicitly question its global dominance, but also against those vassals who should give signs, however timid, of not wanting to be dragged down.
1) Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, wiht the assistance ef Alex Haley, One World Book, 1992, p. 347 (trans. It. Autobiography of Malcolm X, with the collaboration of Alex Haley, BUR, 2004, p. 354); https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/ ... 4454636546 .
2) https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1346933221141843968 ; https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1346940574964744193 ;
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar1bdWide-c ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IipcKO6fvK0 ; https://twitter.com/FedericoRampini/sta ... 5694143489 ; https://twitter.com/LalehKhalili/status ... 7995574272 .
4) https://twitter.com/giorgio_gori/status ... 0722878464 ; https://twitter.com/christianrocca/stat ... 2906045440
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