Puzzling steps and methodologies

Bizarre! Puzzling steps and methodologies:

- 2008 financial crisis in the West (bank and corporate bankruptcies, evictions and inhuman desolation for small savers and surprises for big and medium investors in the stock market);

- 2010, start of the debt crisis in the Euro zone with surprising intervention of the IMF and changes of government without any direct democratic elections (Greece, Italy) and especially the losses charged to citizens and working class;

- 2011, Arab spring south of the Mediterranean, with the intervention of NATO in some cases and none in others but with a strong smell of human blood, and with no prospect whatsoever;

- 2012 military coups in sub-Saharan Africa (Mali, Guinea Bissau ...), with all the uncertainty that defeats any democratic inclination.

In short, a saga worthy of the best unending series in Hollywood.

It is useless to write more about it. Nobody is a fool.

Abdeslam Baraka

Rabat April 14 th, 2012

Translated by Abderrahim Loh

Journalism: not so eloquent!

It's a great pity that journalism, a noble and arduous profession as well as an exciting one, is not eloquent enough to continue reporting on the suffering of peoples caught between a rock and a hard place, left stranded after having been the subject of news and propaganda when the strategic actions of the international community had demanded it.

It seems that just like the image of the bitter and tragic failure of the global financial order, it would also be time for journalism to throw off the yoke of capital and manipulation.

Fortunately, very few journalists continue to provide us with truths at the tip of their quills, I would say, for these times, the rhythm of their keyboards, and often at the risk, more or less of losing their careers.

The Arab Spring promises to steal thunder storms from the winter season but the media seem to prefer to remain suspended at a certain aroma of jasmine.

Abdeslam Baraka
Rabat March 6, 2012
Translated by Abderrahim Loh