Mediterranean Graveyard: Death at the Hand of the ‘Four Horsemen’
In 1955, Césaire stated, “at the present time the barbarism of Western Europe has reached an incredibly high level, being only surpassed – far surpassed, it is true – by the barbarism of the United States.” – Aimé Césaire
Mediterranean graveyard is where ‘Ghost Ships’ of the ‘Wretched of the Earth’ are led to die by the hand of the ‘Four Horsemen’ – Conquest, War, Famine, and Death.
Alternative? Leave their fate to the decisions of their leaders: “Humans Be Damned! Build and Perish at Your Own Risk!”
Legacy of death continues in a sea separating Northern Africa from Europe. “Deadliest shipwreck in living memory occurred on April 18, 2015, when an overcrowded fishing boat collided off Libya with a freighter trying to come to its rescue. Only 28 people survived. Forensic experts concluded that there were originally 1,100 people on board.”
Sadly, June 2nd was not a ‘good Friday’ for some, especially children. The Times of Malta reports, “Tunisian coastguard finds drowned child’s body after migrant ships sink.” Says BBC, Tunisia reports “over 900 drowned” these past seven months.
Disaster strikes again the bloody sea! On a vessel sailing from Libya an “estimated 700 migrants were on the boat when it sank June 14.” But reports of migrants drowning are not new to Libyans. Five years ago, the Gulf News reported on June 29, 2018, “100 migrants feared drowned off Libya’s western coast,” and pictured the ‘bodies of babies.’
A picture is said to be worth a thousand words. But how much worth do leaders put on their people and babies? Hundreds of refugees using their life savings to board a fleeing ship from Libya, “Officials say the victims paid the smugglers between $5,000 and $8,000 for the voyage.”
Now, juxtapose this image to a 5 man crew paying each $250,000 to board a June 18, 2023 expedition, said to be operated by American tourism. Or, what I call ‘joyrides’ for the rich. Not only did the U.S. Navy and other agencies take part in the search and rescue for the missing ‘submersible titan’ at taxpayers’ expense but included other countries as noted by the U.S. Coast Guard:
- Canadian CGS Ann Harvey
- Canadian CGS Terry Fox
- Motor Vessel Horizon Arctic (ROV)
- French Research Vessel L’Atalante (ROV)
- His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Glace Bay (mobile decompression chamber and medical personnel)
- Air National Guard C-130
- ROV from Magellan
How does the world reconcile the global media coverage of an American research vessel with the European nations’ appalling response given to Libyan and Tunisian migrants? What of this “United Nations” farce?
Of course, the incredible measures the U.S. and U.N. have taken to welcome and sponsor Ukrainian refugees far supersede that of other countries including their own southern border.
Real or Imagined Borders, Enemies, and Bogeymen
Enemies at its imagined borders have long been the subject of contention for Western powers. Ukraine may wish to heed the outcome of Western exploitation resulting in wars, disasters, crime and socio-economic crises that gave rise to refugees in Mexico, South America, Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya……
Ukraine, sure, the West welcomes you with open arms now. But, I remind you Libya was “a country plunged into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime autocrat Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.” If only the Iraq leader killed for WMDs which never materialized could have warned Gadhafi.
Of course, Joe had no choice but to bow his head to the King and Prince of Saudi Arabia. But U.S. likes to have the final say on who NATO can befriend or bully. Reports of corruption surrounding Ukraine do not seem to faze Joe sending billions. But then again, what country isn’t corrupt?
Sweden, is there still toxic waste near children’s homes in South America? Boliden, did you see Chile as the ideal dumping yard for your waste?
And yet, U.S. + nato congratulate Sweden proclaiming Russia an existential threat. The only existential threats are the ones you create via proxy wars and dirty business. Will the world discover Sweden’s Waste: The Other Chemical Weapon?
President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, stated in a recent interview with Stephen Sackur on BBCs HARDtalk, that Chile’s “high environmental standards same as theirs” referencing the E.U. Does that include Sweden?
Mr. President, I remind you of your words upon being elected, “If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave. Do not be afraid of the youth changing this country.” What about protecting the youth of your country? As I note in my December 2021 paper, Where “Children of Men” Play: Swedish “Poisonous Wastes” Dumping Site in Chile.
Stricter environmental rules? I hear you’re looking to “bring lithium under state control.“
Listen closely to Sackur’s questions to influencers (celebrities and athletes) whose answers reveal their road to profits and hell are paved with ‘green’ intentions. Find you will an oil or chemical dark money investment connection of the same culprits they critique. Not surprising their spokespersons tend to be attractive and charismatic charmers.
Confuse not actual human right’s activists with the likes of those who purposely convolute in their misguided attempt to address all rights but save none as the French know first-hand given their history with surrender. Time they resign. It’s in their nature.
New NATO members by U.S. design? Know ‘ method to their madness’ and you may soon wish to be ‘careful what you wish for.’ Because for now and in the end, you will serve U.S. + nato. But will Ukrainians in the end join members of the wretched?
Who better to speak of the “Wretched of the Earth” than Frantz Fanon whose book bears the title? Fanon states “Seen through its eyes [national middle class] its mission has nothing to do with transforming nations….which today put on the mask of neo-colonialism.”
Dastardly devil is in the details of Western agendas, which capitalizes on a country’s resources while feigning peace and friendship. Present-Past motto is the same. Fanon notes, “The national economy, formerly protected, is today literally controlled.”
Decades later, what has changed? World Bank, International Monetary Fund as Transnational Corporations continue to have a hold on susceptible countries as do Intel agencies, mercenaries, and contractors masking themselves as government sponsors, supporters, and smugglers. Corruption prevails as the weak fall.
Case in point: Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) stood out in stark contrast to what a Wall Street economist termed the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain). And as the European debt crisis ensued, one by one joined the ‘Wretched of the Earth.”
Visiting Firenze, Roma, Milano and other cities of Italia I saw how once revered fashion houses exchanged craftsmanship quality for quantities of lire, as it bred cultural divide between Italians and Asian immigrants. Open borders facilitated the growth of China’s “world factory” and early technology transfers between the West, China, and India.
As I noted in June 2020, one can make a strong argument that the ‘prime movers’ of the spread of COVID-19 were globalization and drone strikes. Real time analytics originally point to China as being in the “eye of the storm.”
Initially, South Korea coming second to China can be explained by its proximity to the “eye.” However, Italy, nowhere near China, had no explanation for its high infection and death numbers.
In an April 16, 2018 article with the headline, “Made in Italy”, D. T. Max a staff writer for the New Yorker, writes “The first significant wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in the industrial zone around Prato, a city fifteen miles northwest of Florence, in the nineteen-nineties. Nearly all of them came from Wenzhou, a port city south of Shanghai.”
E.U., Italy and African Connection? “Prato is believed to have the second-largest Chinese population of any European city, after Paris, and it has the highest proportion of immigrants in Italy, including a large North African population.” Italy, looks like you’re responsible for bringing pestilence to your people and Europe via a Chinese migrant deal. Speaking of deals…
Greek Prime Minister, have you like Italy, forgotten the humiliation of the financial crisis and pandemic that you have lost sight of the use of words? “Greece’s caretaker prime minister, Ioannis Sarmas, declared three days of national mourning, “with our thoughts on all the victims of the ruthless smugglers who exploit human unhappiness.”
Sarmas, do not confuse Western depression and ‘unhappiness’ with desperation. Reports of refusing to assist the vessel from Libya, true or false? “Officials in Athens say the passengers refused any help and insisted on proceeding to Italy.”
Either way, it doesn’t reflect well on your country. What does it say about your people if passengers chose to risk their lives rather than be rescued by Greeks or set foot on your land! Perhaps they learned to beware of Greeks bearing gifts?
Fire! Fire! Fire! Greece, what does it say of thousands of your people along with tourists fleeing your land? Karma? Tell us Greeks, how does it feel to desperately seek shelter? No, the dead don’t talk. But they hold tightly the names of their enemies in their final breath until you join them!
‘Four Horsemen’ Deadly ‘Double Dealing’?
The “Deal of the Mediterranean” was announced by “Ms. von der Leyen, Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy and President Kais Saied of Tunisia.”
It seems to me, my ‘well ridden’ horsemen, I have crossed this path with others like you in centuries past. Much like the Caribbean Sea, migrants south of the Mediterranean continue to fight an up sea battle.
Yet, unlike the islands, Libya and Tunisia hold an ace in their pockets: power of energy (oil, electricity and nuclear). E.U. too is happy with its trade deals with Tunisia, about two thirds in imports-imports. Trading migrants is another story.
In the recent deal, “EU describes as “strategic and comprehensive”…to boost Tunisia’s economic growth…” Boost for them or YOU? Heard about UKs “modern day slavery?”
Or, is it simply pay to patrol their own people? “European bloc promised Tunisia 105 million euros, or $118 million, for equipment like patrol boats and drones…” Interesting, U.S. pays Israel in the billions yearly to defend itself. Still, it can’t pay Mexico and supply it with tech support to patrol its southern border?
E.U., why close your doors now? Oh, right, thanks to NATO, the influx of the WHITE “millions of Ukrainian refugees having arrived in Europe over the course of the last 18 months, asylum systems are overburdened.” Or, could it be that “for years, the European Union has been bankrolling the Libyan Coast Guard…repeating the same scenario with Tunisia.”
Come now! One has only to look at the borders of the Americas. Or what they call MCA Deal. Like the ‘Three Amigos’ deal, I find it’s looking like “Europe is ready to turn a blind eye to its values to provide a short-term fix to a migration problem,” as noted by Camille Le Coz, associate director of the Brussels-based Migration Policy Institute.
Le Coz adds, “What’s missingis a reference to protection concerns and the human rights abuses against migrants.” Of course, this is to be expected. As with NATO, the E.U. follows in U.S. dirty footsteps.
It is well documented who leads the ‘Four Horsemen’ – Conquest. The same purveyor of the ‘original sin’ where past slave-owning men continue to ask God to bless its ‘free’ America.
‘Four Horsemen,’ know well path you are on for many before you dared take it. The ‘gift’ of Democratic idea and Republican concept stem from Greeks and Romans. Need I remind you of the fate of Troy and Caesar.
“Exactly; but if I turn my attention from man to nations, I note that here too there is great danger; that colonial enterprise is to the modern world what Roman imperialism was to the ancient world: the prelude to Disaster and the forerunner of Catastrophe. Come, now! The Indians massacred, the Moslem world drained of itself, the Chinese world defiled and perverted for a good century; the Negro world disqualified; mighty voices stilled forever;…” – Aimé Césaire