for a real democratic change in middle east

For a real democratic change in the Middle East

The real story of totalitarian Arab nationalist regimes is not yet told fully by the Western liberal media . let s talk , for example , about my country : Syria . We have been told that the Bush s administration was constantly criticizing the Syrian regime since the fall of Saddam regime because of the oppressive practices of this regime and that the real intention of Bush s administration was to substitute this regime with a democratic one as a part of its project to democratize the middle east . While , in fact , the real reasons of that conflict were related to the administration s project to dominate the middle east , starting with Iraq . As the Syrian regime felt the threat , his major focus turned to keep the American troops busy in Iraq . Its role in sustaining the resistance against the Americans there was vital , a thing that Bush s administration did not forgive at all . Another cause that is openly stated by the administration officials is Palestine , and Lebanon , where the Syrian regime "supported" rhetorically the forces of resistance in order to use them later in the bargain with Americans and Israelis . Bush himself , and other high ranks from his administration , continuously argued Syrian regime to change its conduct in order to ease the American pressure on it . In this context , the western media were able only to observe the oppression of the regime against the elite , failing even to see the dreadful impact of the regime s policies on the living conditions of the masses , the majority of Syrians . In fact , these conditions were not that bad like this anytime before , the steadily increased prices of essential goods , increased unemployment , and the rise of a new class , that is organically rooted in the ruling bureaucracy , due to wide privatization of industry and services , led millions of ordinary Syrians into more poverty , misery and even hunger . These sufferings were simply neglected by the champions of democracy as they presented themselves , simply because they were the outcome of exactly the same neo-liberal policies that were forced everywhere in the of name of capitalist globalization , leading to the same outcome everywhere . That is in contrast to the noisy coverage of the regime s repression against a small group of elitist intellectuals and politicians that embraced neo-liberalism as the only explanation of freedom , which means to consider the US pressure or even direct invasion of our countries as the main power that will force a real democratic change . In fact this helps to reveal the real meaning of democracy as breached by Bush and Rice for the whole previous eight years , the rule of a satellite elite , or a friendly one , as the new rulers of post- Saddam Iraq were found to be less pro-American as thought before . The fact that Bush is going to leave the white house doesn t mean that this is going to change . In fact , Syrian regime , and even Saddam and Al-Qaeda itself , were , in times , allies to America , that was in the middle of the cold war when Soviet Union was there to offer these regimes political support and arms supplies . This can mean only one thing , which was right from the beginning , that the real democratic change means only the liberation of our peoples and that this has nothing to do with the US domination over oil sources in our region . That the conflict between the oppressive powers , either local or foreign , "nationalist" or global , over domination isn t related to the struggle of our peoples , including Syrian and Iranian , for freedom and justice , for better living conditions . And that the only part that has real interest in total freedom is these masses , the real victim of the policies of the regime and the western champions of globalization at the same time . And that even the creation of multi-polar globe , in contrast to the total control of US now , doesn t mean democratization of our world , it only means that the pie will be divided between more than one greedy power , not that it will be justly divided .

Mazen Kamalmaz
Syrian Activist
[email protected]

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