An Angry Column from Andre Vltchek Attacks Western Hypocrisy in Regard to Ukraine — by Pointing to the Indefensible Things the West Has Done around the World — If You Can Get Past His Enraged Presentation, Much of What He Says Is True

04 April 2014

Citation

Andre Vltchek, Brainwashed - The Indoctrinated West, CounterPunch (07-09 March 2014)

Not pleasant reading, but the kind of thing that an Art of War aficionado would appreciate

The scope of our imperialistic hypocrisy is arguably best seen through the eyes of those who have witnessed it firsthand.

What investigative reporter Andre Vltchek said

His scorching lead in:

Is it really possible that the European public has no clue what was done to Ukraine?

Are the men and women of the continent that lives in hallucination, that it is well educated and well informed, really unaware how its own governments have created and supported that ‘opposition movement’ in Kiev; a movement full of fascists and bigots?

Unfortunately, it is possible, and it is to be expected!

After working in some one hundred and fifty countries, in all the continents, I have finally come to the absolutely clear conclusion:

there is no part of the world as brainwashed, so programmed, so indoctrinated, as are both Europe and North America.

The world is once again in flames, and both Europe and North America . . . are bulldozing, demolishing, moving out of their way everything that is still standing straight and proud; everything that is defending those who used to be defenseless, everything and everyone who is dreaming about, and actually building egalitarian and decent societies.

And the great majority of Europeans are clapping. They read their propaganda sheets and they are clapping.

Could this be true?

I think so, though obviously with significant nuances that Vltchek does not attach. It is difficult to be necessarily subtle and enraged at the same time.

Here are just a few of his elements of proof:

Russia is not an aggressor; it has been a victim, for at least a hundred years. Russia was attacked by Europe, again and again, and in just one century, tens of millions of Russian people were slaughtered by European fascists, imperialists and ‘democrats’.

In Yugoslavia, which I covered intensively from all sides, the West destroyed an entire country, a great country, one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement . . . .

In Africa . . . . Pretty close to ten million people, have been slaughtered in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone since 1995, by Uganda, and Rwanda, on behalf of Western geopolitical interests. DRC has uranium, Coltan, and diamonds… Its people do not matter.

The US-UK-Israeli coalition is undermining Somalia, using Ethiopian, Ugandan, Kenyan and Burundian forces.

Zimbabwe and South Africa are standing tall against Western imperialism, but in both places, the West directly finances the ‘opposition’, and propaganda viciously smears both nations.

In both Uganda and Rwanda, brutal and insane fascist regimes are clinging to power, coached openly by people like Tony Blair (advisor to President Kagame).

The Arab Spring has been fully derailed, and in Egypt, a country with powerful labor movements, that have been openly murdered. In the process, thousands of people have died, as pro-Western military and elites have overthrown a democratically elected moderate Muslim government.

The most horrendous religious regimes like those of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar, are being pampered and defended by both North America and Europe.

In Latin America, the governments of Honduras and Paraguay have been overthrown; Venezuela has had to face coup attempts and its own brutal ‘opposition’, fully and openly financed by the West. Cuba has survived countless terrorist attacks from the North, and the ‘opposition’ there is also directly financed and supported from abroad.

Bolivia and even Brazil were targeted by the malicious attempts to destroy their left-leaning governments, as is the case with Bolivia, even the geographical integrity of the country has been threatened.

The list goes persuasively on.

Andre Vltchek’s ability to persuade depends upon his readers having adequate knowledge bases and open minds

But he is justifiably pessimistic about opening our eyes:

[N]obody cares only about facts!

There are facts everywhere. Everything is documented. Coups all over the world, financed and planned by the US – it is all available, easily accessible. Yet nobody bothers to read about it!

The moral? — Fat Cats do not need to care about acknowledging the harm they do

Fat Cats have the power to do whatever their acquisitive impulses direct. Power and wealth corrupt.

Mr. Vltchek’s quarrel (and mine) is with predatory capitalism and its misuse of national power to oppress the people who own the resources we want and the ideologies we oppose.

Being virtuous is difficult work. It requires being open to other people’s pain.

Andre Vltchek speaks the same truth that journalist Chris Hedges does. If we were not afraid to look at ourselves critically, we would read what they have to say.

For the mature soul and the honorable nation, it is not difficult to sort our critics’ substantive messages from the rage of their delivery. For the immature soul and the imperialistically spoiled public, it is.

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An Angry Column from Andre Vltchek Attacks Western Hypocrisy in Regard to Ukraine — by Pointing to the Indefensible Things the West Has Done around the World — If You Can Get Past His Enraged Presentation, Much of What He Says Is True