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Titolo: Tutto scorre, anche se non ce ne accorgiamo

Mentre si guarda Iraq e Palestina, i cambiamenti piu' importanti,
forse, stanno succedendo altrove.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1731009,00.html
atin America and Asia are at last breaking free of Washington's grip
 The US-dominated world order is being challenged by a new spirit of
independence in the global south
 Noam Chomsky
Wednesday March 15, 2006
The Guardian
 The prospect that Europe and Asia might move towards greater
independence has troubled US planners since the second world war. The
concerns have only risen as the "tripolar order" - Europe, North
America and Asia - has continued to evolve.
Every day Latin America, too, is becoming more independent. Now Asia
and the Americas are strengthening their ties while the reigning
superpower, the odd man out, consumes itself in misadventures in the
Middle East.
Regional integration in Asia and Latin America is a crucial and
increasingly important issue that, from Washington's perspective,
betokens a defiant world gone out of control. Energy, of course,
remains a defining factor - the object of contention - everywhere.
China, unlike Europe, refuses to be intimidated by Washington, a
primary reason for the fear of China by US planners, which presents a
dilemma: steps toward confrontation are inhibited by US corporate
reliance on China as an export platform and growing market, as well as
by China's financial reserves - reported to be approaching Japan's in
scale.
In January, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah visited Beijing, which is
expected to lead to a Sino-Saudi memorandum of understanding calling
for "increased cooperation and investment between the two countries in
oil, natural gas and investment", the Wall Street Journal reports.
Already much of Iran's oil goes to China, and China is providing Iran
with weapons that both states presumably regard as deterrent to US
designs. India also has options. India may choose to be a US client, or
it may prefer to join the more independent Asian bloc that is taking
shape, with ever more ties to Middle East oil producers. Siddharth
Varadarjan, the deputy editor of the Hindu, observes that "if the 21st
century is to be an 'Asian century,' Asia's passivity in the energy
sector has to end".
The key is India-China cooperation. In January, an agreement signed in
Beijing "cleared the way for India and China to collaborate not only in
technology but also in hydrocarbon exploration and production, a
partnership that could eventually alter fundamental equations in the
world's oil and natural gas sector", Varadarjan points out.
An additional step, already being contemplated, is an Asian oil market
trading in euros. The impact on the international financial system and
the balance of global power could be significant. It should be no
surprise that President Bush paid a recent visit to try to keep India
in the fold, offering nuclear cooperation and other inducements as a
lure.
Meanwhile, in Latin America left-centre governments prevail from
Venezuela to Argentina. The indigenous populations have become much
more active and influential, particularly in Bolivia and Ecuador, where
they either want oil and gas to be domestically controlled or, in some
cases, oppose production altogether.
Many indigenous people apparently do not see any reason why their
lives, societies and cultures should be disrupted or destroyed so that
New Yorkers can sit in their SUVs in traffic gridlock.
Venezuela, the leading oil exporter in the hemisphere, has forged
probably the closest relations with China of any Latin American
country, and is planning to sell increasing amounts of oil to China as
part of its effort to reduce dependence on the openly hostile US
government.
Venezuela has joined Mercosur, the South American customs union - a
move described by Nestor Kirchner, the Argentinian president, as "a
milestone" in the development of this trading bloc, and welcomed as a
"new chapter in our integration" by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the
Brazilian president.
Venezuela, apart from supplying Argentina with fuel oil, bought almost
a third of Argentinian debt issued in 2005, one element of a
region-wide effort to free the countries from the controls of the IMF
after two decades of disastrous conformity to the rules imposed by the
US-dominated international financial institutions.
Steps toward Southern Cone [the southern states of South America]
integration advanced further in December with the election in Bolivia
of Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous president. Morales moved
quickly to reach a series of energy accords with Venezuela. The
Financial Times reported that these "are expected to underpin
forthcoming radical reforms to Bolivia's economy and energy sector"
with its huge gas reserves, second only to Venezuela's in South
America.
Cuba-Venezuela relations are becoming ever closer, each relying on its
comparative advantage. Venezuela is providing low-cost oil, while in
return Cuba organises literacy and health programmes, sending thousands
of highly skilled professionals, teachers and doctors, who work in the
poorest and most neglected areas, as they do elsewhere in the third
world.
Cuban medical assistance is also being welcomed elsewhere. One of the
most horrendous tragedies of recent years was the earthquake in
Pakistan last October. Besides the huge death toll, unknown numbers of
survivors have to face brutal winter weather with little shelter, food
or medical assistance.
"Cuba has provided the largest contingent of doctors and paramedics to
Pakistan," paying all the costs (perhaps with Venezuelan funding),
writes John Cherian in India's Frontline magazine, citing Dawn, a
leading Pakistan daily.
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan expressed his "deep gratitude"
to Fidel Castro for the "spirit and compassion" of the Cuban medical
teams - reported to comprise more than 1,000 trained personnel, 44% of
them women, who remained to work in remote mountain villages, "living
in tents in freezing weather and in an alien culture", after western
aid teams had been withdrawn.
Growing popular movements, primarily in the south but with increasing
participation in the rich industrial countries, are serving as the
bases for many of these developments towards more independence and
concern for the needs of the great majority of the population.

 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1731009,00.html
Non occorreva certo Chomsky per saperlo.
L'articolo č palesemente spostato veroso sinistra, ma č comunque
abbastanza realistico.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1731009,00.html
:Non occorreva certo Chomsky per saperlo.
:L'articolo è palesemente spostato veroso sinistra, ma è comunque
:abbastanza realistico.
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