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Monday, 26 August 2019
Migrants, the West pretends not to see. But omerta leads to revolt - Il Fatto Quotidiano
Mauro Armanino
Missionary, doctor of
cultural anthropology
and ethnology
- 25 AUGUST 2019
I recognize it, a month at home is not much. Just 30 days in a calendar that depends on the circumstances and the expectation of a visa to return to Niger, which expired even before leaving inadvertently. Of the Sahel and the Niger, at least so far, no trace on television, in newspapers or in speeches. We both ceased to exist and with us the sand and the daily deaths of the war entrepreneurs and the children of the poor who have long since stopped going to school. Teachers are threatened because they are considered supporters of the West who perpetuate their cultural and political colonialism with the school. Despite the story of the ships with migrants rescued from Libyan waters waiting to dock at Lampedusa, what happens upstream - indeed, in the desert - has been canceled.
The (self) complaints are the most dangerous and, as happened in other eras, could lead to further drifts on a continent that struggles to assume the consequences of the principles it proposes and often imposes on others. The unsustainable censorship of what constitutes reality, which is always a process to be interpreted, wanted or unexpected, of choices made in the contingency of time. Nothing is said of the migrants who were canceled by radar before they reached the thousands of detention camps in Libya. He has forgotten, guiltily, that now the European borders have also descended from Agadez, in Niger, towards the Atlantic coast. The locals are no longer free to stay or leave. How many, at their own risk and danger, are still trying to leave, are trapped in the "detention facilities" managed by the IOM. The latter, of International Migration, has made its Organization and that is the business in the name of the West that finances it.
The fact that migrants are now criminals to pretend to stop at borders is known and accepted by those who matter. Of the European policies that for decades and in particular, as regards the Sahel, since 2015 - the intercontinental meeting of Valletta - there are no longer any traces. And yet it is as a result of these policies that the salvation ships of people that the West condemns and then pushes to shipwreck appear.
People are not free to leave nor free to stay, because the dismantling of local economies and the systematic and consistent robbery of resources prevents or makes staying at least problematic. From fishing on the coast to minerals, to shift to agriculture, the global stripping system continues to rage in the Sahelian space. This happens with the complicity of the local elites, long acquired by the system and subordinate members of the international ruling classes. Obtaining visas and residence permits is a mission considered by the most impossible and the only way to go to be accepted as new slaves of the West is the journey in the desert or other impossible routes that last for years.
These things are no longer said because of this censorship which, like a blanket of smoke, prevents us from grasping history and limits itself to the news to be manipulated according to the dominant interests. The "political" is censored as a privileged area of common social construction and one replies on the administrative and romanticized management of politics.
The censorship understood as complicit concealment of the real brings as a consequence the unbearable betrayal of the poor. It starts from the eyes, subjugated to the merchandise and the dominant advertisements and involves at the same time the ears, prey of the cell phones, which rhythm the listening. You walk looking at the screen and listening and talking continuously in imaginary dialogues at a distance while the real faces of the people disappear, shattered by the absence.
Self-censorship, even more unjustifiable, involves the media, ordinary citizens and social and religious entrepreneurs. It assimilates and colonizes the political, educational and economic sphere of Western societies. The unmasking of this silence is the first step towards redemption. The second is called revolt, or conversion to faces.
Missionary, doctor of
cultural anthropology
and ethnology
- 25 AUGUST 2019
I recognize it, a month at home is not much. Just 30 days in a calendar that depends on the circumstances and the expectation of a visa to return to Niger, which expired even before leaving inadvertently. Of the Sahel and the Niger, at least so far, no trace on television, in newspapers or in speeches. We both ceased to exist and with us the sand and the daily deaths of the war entrepreneurs and the children of the poor who have long since stopped going to school. Teachers are threatened because they are considered supporters of the West who perpetuate their cultural and political colonialism with the school. Despite the story of the ships with migrants rescued from Libyan waters waiting to dock at Lampedusa, what happens upstream - indeed, in the desert - has been canceled.
The (self) complaints are the most dangerous and, as happened in other eras, could lead to further drifts on a continent that struggles to assume the consequences of the principles it proposes and often imposes on others. The unsustainable censorship of what constitutes reality, which is always a process to be interpreted, wanted or unexpected, of choices made in the contingency of time. Nothing is said of the migrants who were canceled by radar before they reached the thousands of detention camps in Libya. He has forgotten, guiltily, that now the European borders have also descended from Agadez, in Niger, towards the Atlantic coast. The locals are no longer free to stay or leave. How many, at their own risk and danger, are still trying to leave, are trapped in the "detention facilities" managed by the IOM. The latter, of International Migration, has made its Organization and that is the business in the name of the West that finances it.
The fact that migrants are now criminals to pretend to stop at borders is known and accepted by those who matter. Of the European policies that for decades and in particular, as regards the Sahel, since 2015 - the intercontinental meeting of Valletta - there are no longer any traces. And yet it is as a result of these policies that the salvation ships of people that the West condemns and then pushes to shipwreck appear.
People are not free to leave nor free to stay, because the dismantling of local economies and the systematic and consistent robbery of resources prevents or makes staying at least problematic. From fishing on the coast to minerals, to shift to agriculture, the global stripping system continues to rage in the Sahelian space. This happens with the complicity of the local elites, long acquired by the system and subordinate members of the international ruling classes. Obtaining visas and residence permits is a mission considered by the most impossible and the only way to go to be accepted as new slaves of the West is the journey in the desert or other impossible routes that last for years.
These things are no longer said because of this censorship which, like a blanket of smoke, prevents us from grasping history and limits itself to the news to be manipulated according to the dominant interests. The "political" is censored as a privileged area of common social construction and one replies on the administrative and romanticized management of politics.
The censorship understood as complicit concealment of the real brings as a consequence the unbearable betrayal of the poor. It starts from the eyes, subjugated to the merchandise and the dominant advertisements and involves at the same time the ears, prey of the cell phones, which rhythm the listening. You walk looking at the screen and listening and talking continuously in imaginary dialogues at a distance while the real faces of the people disappear, shattered by the absence.
Self-censorship, even more unjustifiable, involves the media, ordinary citizens and social and religious entrepreneurs. It assimilates and colonizes the political, educational and economic sphere of Western societies. The unmasking of this silence is the first step towards redemption. The second is called revolt, or conversion to faces.
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Climatic emergency, multinationals change their mask. And the risk of extinction becomes a business - il Fatto Quotidiano
Paolo Martini
Paolo Martini
Journalist
- 25 AUGUST 2019
The support of the Western media to the "Fridays for future" movement was just a warning of spring, with the easy consecration of Greta Thunberg as an icon. But it is with the scorching summer more told than ever that the big names of Ordoliberal capitalism have decided to change the mask.
The 181 most important American managers, gathered in the Business Roundtable, on 19 August wanted to draw up an unusual eco-ethical statement, "The purpose of the company", announcing that to save the planet they can give up some profit margin and even cut their colossal salaries.
A few days later, in Paris, the representatives of 32 luxury and fashion groups signed the new Fashion Pact: these multinationals suddenly became so good (among which sports brands accused for the exploitation of child slaves stand out) , now undertake to replace polluting production facilities, to properly dispose of toxic waste and to reduce the environmental impact of packaging.
The theme of this sustainable packaging, on which the giant of drinks that has sown millions of cans and bottles in the world moves, and now launches the Www campaign, world without waste, and encourages the Byob (Bring Your Own Bottle, brings the your bottle), with vending machines where the consumer who is armed with a water bottle will be provided with free water and various drinks at very reasonable prices. The world leader yellow+blue of furniture has also been noted, who announced that he wants to become climate positive within a few years.
Massimo Gaggi (Corriere della Sera, 23 August) highlighted another key move in the new eco-capitalist scenario: the rating giant Moody's, whose figures keep the same banking and financial balances of planetary turbo-capitalism, at the end July decided to purchase a young and dynamic company from Berkeley specializing in the analysis of the consequences of climate change, "Four Twenty Seven" (the original name refers to the objective of California emission reductions, which in 2020 should take precisely to 427 million tons of carbon).
Moreover, the only business of environmental catastrophes in the United States is calculated at 2,500 billion dollars in 2019. And various economists even argue that the "extinction risk" could be an opportunity for planetary growth, equal to the spring it generated the great boom of the second half of the twentieth century, or the catastrophe of the World War.
This umpteenth turning of the strong powers marks a qualitative leap with respect to the simple green washing (now washed green), now more and more brash, good by now right for the building speculators of the offshore principality that transport Greta to the sea. Now we are at the green disguise (green masking)...
Paolo Martini
Journalist
- 25 AUGUST 2019
The support of the Western media to the "Fridays for future" movement was just a warning of spring, with the easy consecration of Greta Thunberg as an icon. But it is with the scorching summer more told than ever that the big names of Ordoliberal capitalism have decided to change the mask.
The 181 most important American managers, gathered in the Business Roundtable, on 19 August wanted to draw up an unusual eco-ethical statement, "The purpose of the company", announcing that to save the planet they can give up some profit margin and even cut their colossal salaries.
A few days later, in Paris, the representatives of 32 luxury and fashion groups signed the new Fashion Pact: these multinationals suddenly became so good (among which sports brands accused for the exploitation of child slaves stand out) , now undertake to replace polluting production facilities, to properly dispose of toxic waste and to reduce the environmental impact of packaging.
The theme of this sustainable packaging, on which the giant of drinks that has sown millions of cans and bottles in the world moves, and now launches the Www campaign, world without waste, and encourages the Byob (Bring Your Own Bottle, brings the your bottle), with vending machines where the consumer who is armed with a water bottle will be provided with free water and various drinks at very reasonable prices. The world leader yellow+blue of furniture has also been noted, who announced that he wants to become climate positive within a few years.
Massimo Gaggi (Corriere della Sera, 23 August) highlighted another key move in the new eco-capitalist scenario: the rating giant Moody's, whose figures keep the same banking and financial balances of planetary turbo-capitalism, at the end July decided to purchase a young and dynamic company from Berkeley specializing in the analysis of the consequences of climate change, "Four Twenty Seven" (the original name refers to the objective of California emission reductions, which in 2020 should take precisely to 427 million tons of carbon).
Moreover, the only business of environmental catastrophes in the United States is calculated at 2,500 billion dollars in 2019. And various economists even argue that the "extinction risk" could be an opportunity for planetary growth, equal to the spring it generated the great boom of the second half of the twentieth century, or the catastrophe of the World War.
This umpteenth turning of the strong powers marks a qualitative leap with respect to the simple green washing (now washed green), now more and more brash, good by now right for the building speculators of the offshore principality that transport Greta to the sea. Now we are at the green disguise (green masking)...
Sunday, 25 August 2019
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