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[Tom Cooper] As I’m writing this, the oligarchy of this planet (minus Russians, this time) — plus many of politicians bribed by it — is in the process of closing its gathering at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, in Switzerland. In between of enjoying hamburgers priced at €80 apiece and lots of networking necessary after two years of pandemic, they were mumbling about affairs like ‘collaborative, multistakeholder impact’, ‘unique collaborative environment in which to reconnect…’, and, time and again, such unimportant affairs like the Ukraine War and the possible famine it might cause in Africa and Asia, or energy crisis, and plastic pollution…
As so often before, one of ‘stars’ was Henry Kissinger. For youngsters between us: he’s a former National Security Adviser of the USA (from back in the late 1960s and 1970s), best known for involvement in lying to the US public about de-escalation in Vietnam War while widening the war into neighbouring Cambodia; for playing an instrumental role in a coup against President Allende of Chile of 1973; for putting the US Armed Forces on DEFCON2 (nuclear alert short of all-out war) during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War; for supporting Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor….and few other….’controversial’ affairs. To others, he might be famous for his statements regarding importance of oil and specific human beings….and to me, he’s best-known as director of the think-tank Kissinger Associates, which was instrumental in the US involvement in support of Paul Kagame’s ‘democratising’ regime in Rwanda, and its looting of the Congolese mineral wealth since 1996… |