"Avante!" Article by Jorge Cadima, member of the International Department

There isn't any "journalistic criterion" able to explain how, five (5) years after upon disclosing Rafiq Hariri, the Lebanese ex-prime-minister's assassination thesis, had been the Syrian secret services' action, and why currently, and with the same enthusiasm, that enormous plot ( which gave the right to create a specific " International Court", yet in functions) is crumbling like a house of cards. A great effort is necessary in order to discover the news in which his own son and current prime-minister Saad Hariri, together with political forces which support him, currently recognize, the "Syrian track" was false and the investigation was politically corrupt ( in Asia Times, 10.09.10 ). It takes a great effort to find out the news, which, along these last months, numerous Israeli intelligence networks, involving many power structures high positioned Lebanese people, were dismantled ( in France24, 10.09.03 ), which indicates alternative reasons and much more convincing towards the 14th February 2005's crime, a year before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

There isn't any " journalistic criterion" to explain how the ever enthusiastic promotion of the Colombian guerrilla thesis holds responsibilities in massacres or in drug-traffic, coexists with a deafening silence when reporting the discovery of an over 2000 bodies' collective ditch ( almost all the September 11 dead ), outside La Marcarena, a Colombian military base. Nor even the recognition by the Colombian armed forces themselves of their responsibility towards the collective ditch ( in Counterpunch, 10.04.01 ) nor the visit of numerous European Parliament members, which consider they being civil victims of the current government's massacres ( in La Jornada, 10.07.24 ), deserves highlighting news. Nor the fact, the recently elected Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, at the time, minister of Defence, holding the direct responsibility for the armed forces actions, soiled the genocidal and drug - dealing Colombian oligarchy “exemplar democracy" praise campaigns.

None of this is surprising. The mass media does not report. It conceals or creates a "reality", according to the employers 'and the class interests' desires, it stands for. And therefore, one must register the increasingly less subtle media campaign promoting racism. Some might say they are mad outlaws. But they are mad outlaws, under the dominant class sectors' media promotion. During the racist concentration in New York, in September 11, Geert Wilders, the third largest party leader in "tolerant" Netherlands ( 15,4% votes June last ),delivered a speech. John Bolton, the USA's and ex -UN ambassador and Dr. Estranhamor's rival, also delivered a speech (in BBC, 10.09.11). Thilo Sarrazin, the (then), German Central Bank leader and SPD's member, published a book towards racism "legitimacy", a few days ago. In the respectable Der Spiegel (in 10.09.10) one can read supporting columns. Within Europe, from Berlusconi’s Italy unto Sarkozy's France, the Netherlands to Belgium, Germany to United Kingdom, and in Portugal’s mediatic "trawl", it is becoming more and more frequent to hear insinuations on immigrants’, Muslims or of any other scapegoat, blaming them for all. 80 years ago, at the height of another world’s great capitalism crisis, the speech was the same, although targets were Jews and the “Jewish - Bolshevik" conspiracy". Racism was used as a culture melting-pot in order to capitalism launch the most violent and brutal answer to its crisis - Nazi- Fascism and the war.

Yesterday as today, racism serves to divert attention from the true responsible ones for the crisis. Fits the discontent of broad social layers, which are being ruined by the crisis, does not address against the persons in charge for this crisis (that are also the owners of the social communication that is feeding the monster) but against scapegoats of opportunity Serves to open the way for repression and the criminalization of resistance. Serves to promote a more intense exploitation and war.