A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The Nonaligned Movement,
comprising two-thirds of the world’s nations, voted unanimously in
support of Iran’s nuclear power rights. “They rejected the dictates of
Washington and London and Paris, endorsing the fundamental principle
that Iran has the same sovereign rights as any other nation.” It is the
U.S. and Europe that are out of synch with the world.
Two-Thirds of Planet Backs Iran Against “West”
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
“Who, then, is isolated in the world – Iran, or the U.S. and Europe?”
The United States and its
European allies – the old imperialists and the new – tell their
countries’ populations that Iran is isolated in the world, and will have
to get rid of its nuclear energy infrastructure in order to be allowed
back into what they call “the community of nations.” Among the power
groupies that call themselves journalists in the West, Iran is routinely
referred to as a “pariah” nation, lurking at the very edge of
civilization and sanity. The United States, by this reasoning, is
showing great wisdom and forbearance, for not having already unleashed
its carrier task forces, Marine divisions, Special Forces commandos, and
swarms of drones on the crazed Iranians. Instead, the U.S., in it
infinite goodness, enforces a strangling economic and oil embargo, to
make the Iranian nation scream.
The Iranians are lucky,
Americans and Europeans are told, that the U.S. holds back its friends
in Israel, who are eager to give the ayatollah’s in Tehran a lesson in
how to behave. But, whatever happens at the end of this game to force
Iran to give up its lawful right to own and operate the full industrial
cycle of nuclear power, western audiences are assured that the
“international community” will approve. After all, Iran is a global
outcast. CNN and the New York Times tell us so every day.
“Someone is committing a crime, and its not Iran.”
Last week, the 120 nations of the Nonaligned Movement voted unanimously and without qualification
in support of Iran’s right to produce nuclear energy, and to enrich
their own uranium in the process. The Nonaligned Movement makes up about
two-thirds of all the nations of the world. As a solid block of
humanity, they rejected the dictates of Washington and London and Paris –
the imperial powers that for centuries enslaved most of the planet –
endorsing the fundamental principle that Iran has the same sovereign
rights as any other nation.
Who, then, is isolated in
the world – Iran, whose position is backed by two-thirds of the world’s
countries, or the U.S. and Europe?
Clearly, the Americans
and Europeans still believe that the only world opinion that counts, is
the white world. The arrogance of the colonizer and imperialist is
infinite, but their power is not – not any longer. The Nonaligned
Movement vote is a global referendum, not on Iran’s lawful pursuit of
its internal development policies, but on U.S. imperial bullying and
criminality. Because, if Iran is within its rights, then the U.S. and
the European Union are in the wrong in waging economic war, and
threatening military assault, against Iran. Someone is committing a
crime, and its not Iran. Two-thirds of the world says so.
The vote is all the more
remarkable because the Americans and Europeans, and even the Israelis,
exercise great influence over the affairs of much of what used to be
called the Third World. Yet still, the former colonies and subjugated
nations of the Nonaligned Movement voted unanimously, and on principle,
rather than kowtow to power.
There is a lesson here.
The Empire remains militarily strong and capable of great crimes. But it
has lost much of its powers of coercion – without which, Empire must
ultimately cease to exist. For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the
web, go to BlackAgendaReport.com.
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