What a wonderful world

Hoy el Washington Post publica este análisis, que no es el único que apunta hacia un renacimiento de la guerra fría, la subida de poderes no occidentales, la impresionante demostración China del viernes, la muestra del poderío ruso con su escalada contra Georgia. En fin.

A mi me suena a lavado de cerebro por parte de los poderes económicos y políticos que manejan -realmente- la política de los Estados Unidos. Están dictando o manejando, esta visión para asustar, de nuevo, al elector estadounidense y hacerlo votar republicano.

Éstos poderes conservadores no pueden darse el lujo de perder ahora su poderío y menos con quien promete un cambio en la política. Recordemos la Shock Doctrine de Naomi Klein, o la teoría de los enemigos imaginarios de Michael Moore.

Ahora resulta: no solamente están en guerra contra "el terror", sino ya re-apareció la necia Rusia y China demostró su poderío... Ambos han sido los mejores representantes del comunismo! y de qué tachan a Obama? exacto, de comunista. El poderío Ruso y Chino sería, en el imaginario estadounidense, un renacimiento de la amenaza roja: el comunismo, "el fantasma que recorre" al mundo y amenaza sus libertades y Obama, es el representante número 1: The One? o el Appeaser? no son críticas gratuitas.

Quién podrá ayudarles? pues nada más y nada menos que más de lo mismo! más Patriot Act, más Guantánamo, más extensión del Poder Ejecutivo, más militares, más guerra, más republicanos! más Bushismo...

Ahí se los dejo como reflexión.

The Drums of Change
By Harold Meyerson
Wednesday, August 13, 2008; A15
On or about last Friday, the world changed. With two very different coming-out parties -- the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and the invasion of Georgia -- China and Russia put everyone on notice that the power relationships of the past have been reshuffled and that formidable new powers are challenging the established order.
I don't mean to equate Friday's two events, of course. The invasion of Georgia was a chilling display of Russia's brute force. The Olympics' opening ceremonies were a breathtaking display of China's wealth, power, creativity and vision, one that billions of viewers marveled at and enjoyed. Yet, it was the opening ceremonies, more than the Georgian invasion, that announced the greater challenge to democratic values.
These events did not occur in a vacuum. Just a few weeks previous, global trade talks collapsed because China and India believed the proposed regulations would imperil their farmers. When these Doha Round deliberations began in 2001, it was inconceivable that they would be derailed by non-Western powers. By the summer of 2008, however, China and India had attained so much economic clout that they were perfectly capable of bringing the negotiations to a halt.
The summer of '08, historians will most likely tell us, signaled the rise of a multi-power, non-Western-dominated planet. It also was the time when it became clear that the American Century would not lap over from the 20th into the 21st.
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Olvidé pegar este otro del Financial Times también:

The new age of authoritarianism
By Chrystia Freeland

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, democracy was on the march and we declared the End of History. Nearly two decades later, a neo-imperialist Russia is at war with Georgia, Communist China is proudly hosting the Olympics, and we find that, instead, we have entered the Age of Authoritarianism.
It is worth recalling how different we thought the future would be in the immediate, happy aftermath of the end of the cold war. Remember Francis Fukuyama’s ringing assertion: “The triumph of the west, of the western idea, is evident first of all in the total exhaustion of viable systematic alternatives to western liberalism.”

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Para complementar recomiendo ver esta entrevista en 4 partes con Naomi Klein sobre China:

Real News Network. Naomi Klein on China and the Olympics.

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