By Andre Vltchek
March 24, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Not long ago,
the Wall Street Journal insulted China, calling it
“the Real Sick Man of Asia”. China retaliated, and
then the U.S. counter-retaliated. Emotions have been
running high, journalists got deported.
Suddenly, various
Chinese officials expressed publicly what many in
both China and Russia have been, for weeks,
articulating in sotto voce: that it was perhaps the
U.S. military establishment, which brought the new
type of coronavirus (COVID-19) to Wuhan, in order to
harm China and bring the world back, through complex
backroads, under the West’s control.
Suddenly, the world
feels very uncomfortable. The way it is governed is
clearly perverse. People do not always know why,
they just feel frightened, prickly and insecure.
Actually, they always have, during the last few
decades, but this is somehow becoming “too much”.
Countries do not
trust each other. People do not trust each other.
People do not trust their governments. Capitalism is
despised, but nations have been robbed of
alternatives.
I work all over the
world, and I observe all this. What I see, I do not
like.
Increasingly, I am
fearful that what has been set in motion by
Washington and London, may not end well. That a
tragedy is waiting right around the corner.
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For many years I have been
warning that imperialism is murdering tens
of millions of people, annually.
Predominantly Western imperialism, but also
its offshoots in some places where the
elites learned from their former colonialist
master how to brutalize conquered
territories, such as Jakarta, New Delhi, or
Tel Aviv.
Genocides and
modern-day slavery have become the vilest
reflections of modernity. Not the only ones, of
course, but the vilest.
I recently wrote for
this magazine (NEO), that I have never seen the
world so fragmented.
Travel, Internet,
Social Media – they all were supposed to improve the
world, and to bring people closer to each other.
They did not. I see confusion and disinformation all
around me. People travel but do not see or
understand. They stare at computer screens for hours
each day, as they used to stare at the television
screens, but they do not have any clue how the world
functions.
People used to come
to us, philosophers, for advice. We used to
interact. Not anymore. And look at philosophy
itself: it has been reduced to a dry, controlled
university discipline by the regime. Before, to be a
philosopher used to be identical with being a
thinker. Now, pathetically, a philosopher is an
individual with a university degree in philosophy,
which is issued by some college that is part of the
establishment.
And anyway, now
almost each and every individual, at least in the
West, believes that he or she is a philosopher;
self-absorbed, posing and posting on social media,
using selfies, with grotesquely boosted egos.
Something has gone
wrong. Almost everything has. Humanity is facing
tremendous danger. Why? Because it does not
understand itself. Its dreams have been reduced to
some low, pathetic, sad ambitions. Its lofty ideals
that were formed over long centuries have been
belittled by the Western nihilist narrative.
And then, a new
coronavirus hit.
Do not underestimate
the coronavirus! It may have the mortality rate of
an ordinary flu, but it is much more dangerous than
that. Its danger is predominately psychological and
philosophical, much more than medical.
It arrived,
unexpectedly, and illustrated to the world, that
there is no global unity, no solidarity, anymore.
Countries are acting
and reacting in extremely brutal ways. It is
frightening. It all feels like some of the bad,
second-rate horror films produced by Hollywood.
Governments are
pointing fingers at each other, irrationally.
Airlines are lying, robbing customers, while
claiming that they are protecting them.
I recently “escaped”
from Hong Kong, after Korean Air unceremoniously
cancelled flights to China, doing nothing to
re-route stranded passengers. I flew for 5 days to
South America, home, through several Asian airports,
by the most bizarre routes, north and south and
north again, then via Amsterdam and Suriname,
zig-zagging through Brazilian cities, before
reaching Chile. Peculiarly, at one point along the
way, I ended up in Seoul, where I was earlier told I
was not supposed to be to begin with, experiencing
the proverbial South Korean racism on my skin, and
going through outrageous humiliation and
interrogation after uttering, at the gate before
departing for Amsterdam, that North Koreans
definitely treat people with much more respect and
dignity than Seoul.
I will write much
more about this, in the near future, but this is not
supposed to be the main topic of this essay.
What is essential is
that the logic itself has collapsed. The behavior of
many countries has become irrational, if the
rationale is supposed to be synonymous with the
advancement of humanity and improvement of the lives
of human beings. Now things make sense only when
seen from the point of view of the desire to control
and usurp, plunder and humiliate.
And the coronavirus?
Is the United States
trying to take advantage of the situation, to
monopolize the cure, and to save its economy and
currency, at the expense of billions worldwide?
On March 15, 2020, The Sun reported:
“Donald Trump
aides ‘offered huge sums to a German company in
a bid to grab the coronavirus vaccine for
Americans only.’”
One day later, on 16 March, 2020, the Mail
Online, amplified the story:
“German
officials are trying to stop the Trump
administration from luring German
biopharmeceutical company CureVac to the US to
get its experimental coronavirus vaccines
exclusively for Americans.
President Donald Trump has offered funds
to lure the company CureVac to the US. The
German government has made counter-offers to
make the company stay, according to a report in
German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
An
unidentified German government source told the
paper Trump is trying to secure the scientists’
work exclusively, and would do anything to get a
vaccine for the United States – ‘but only for
the United States.’”
The behavior of the Empire could easily make one
sicker than the coronavirus would itself.
The United States
occupies and antagonizes countries and then it
punishes them when they try to protect themselves.
Israel does the same. And so, do Indonesia, India,
and NATO as a block. Turkey is turning into a
maniac. Iran, Venezuela and others are screaming,
brutalized for absolutely no reason by sanctions and
embargoes. Russia is being constantly smeared, just
for helping injured nations, in the Middle East,
Africa and Latin America.
I watch all this and
I wonder: how much further can all this go? Is all
this banditry and idiocy going to go on from now on,
and forever accepted as a normalcy?
But back to the
coronavirus. It is all connected to what I mentioned
above, isn’t it? Billions of people are now being
stripped of their rights and will, pushed around,
and fully controlled, everything justified by a
disease with the mortality rate of an ordinary flu?
And do people notice that the victims are now being
treated like criminals, something that would have
been unimaginable just a couple of decades ago.
China, infected by
the U.S. or not, is being continuously insulted,
isolated and smeared. Western anti-Chinese
propaganda kicked in, almost from the start of the
epidemy. How ugly; how monstrous!
Western propagandists
are alert, waiting, monitoring the world. Like
piranhas, they attack with lightning speed, whenever
blood is spilt, or a piece of flesh gets exposed.
When disaster
strikes, they take full advantage of the weaknesses
of their opponent. They go for the kill. And there
is nothing human in their behavior. It is a
calculating strike against the victim. It is the
surgical swing of a scalpel, designed to kill, in
the most terrifying way.
China reacted in
totally the opposite way: when Italy got infected,
Chinese medics offered their help. They flew to
Italy with medicine and equipment.
And China is not
alone. Whenever disasters strike, anywhere in the
world, Cuban doctors and rescue commandos take off,
as long as they are allowed to travel and help.
Venezuela, too. It
used to supply cheap fuel, even to needy people who
happened to be citizens of its arch-tormentor – the
United States.
And Russia, in
whatever form (as the biggest Soviet Republic, or as
the Russian Federation), it has been helping dozens
and dozens of decimated nations: by treating their
sick, educating their students, building
infrastructure, spreading culture through books and
music, all in local languages.
Russia does not talk
much: it just does, performs, helps. And so do
China, Cuba and others.
I want to see the
world united. I want to experience humanity
embarking on a beautiful project: improving the
planet, searching, together, for an egalitarian
system, with no misery, no incurable illnesses, no
depravity.
But I am not naïve. I
see what the West and its extreme capitalism and
imperialism are doing to the world.
And I am convinced
that only the classic isms are capable of evoking
compassion and solidarity in the people.
Propagandists in Washington and London tell you the
opposite; they will lie to you that Communism and
socialism are dead, or at least totally outdated. Do
not trust them; you know that their goals have
nothing to do with improving life on our planet.
Whatever you hear from them, trust the opposite.
Right now, our human
race is like a sick, very sick person. Not because
of the coronavirus, but because of the response to
the coronavirus.
China is not at all
the real sick man of Asia. No matter how it
happened, China got infected, but then it rose to
its feet, fought with great determination and
courage, and began obliterating the disease. Chinese
doctors, Chinese people in general, are now
celebrating. They are ecstatic. They are winning,
their first hospitals dedicated to the coronavirus
patients are now closing down in Wuhan. Their system
is clearly victorious, created for the people.
Almost
simultaneously, China has started to help other
countries.
Actually, China and
its people are behaving like human beings are
supposed to behave. And, if that is called “sick”,
then what is “healthy”?
Andre Vltchek is a
philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative
journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in
dozens of countries. Five of his latest books are “China
Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting Countries,
Saving Millions of Lives”, “China
and Ecological Cavillation” with
John B. Cobb, Jr., Revolutionary
Optimism, Western Nihilism, a
revolutionary novel “Aurora” and
a bestselling work of political non-fiction: “Exposing
Lies Of The Empire”.
View his other books here.
Watch Rwanda
Gambit, his
groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DRCongo
and his film/dialogue with Noam Chomsky “On
Western Terrorism”.
Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and the
Middle East, and continues to work around the world.
He can be reached through his website and
his Twitter. His Patreon
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