Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be really global?

A terrifying scenario emerges from the ceaseless escalation of pressures and threats against Syria and Iran, pitting, for the first time since the NATO-OECD Empire won the Cold War two decades ago, the Western trio of the UN veto club (U.S., U.K., France) against its non-Western duo (Russia and China).

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MONTRÉAL - Un article d'André Pratte, chef de l'Éditorial à La Presse, posté sur son blog le 5 mars 2012, a attiré mon attention. Il était intitulé « Mulcair a raison ».

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Montréal - André Pratte, head editorialist at La Presse, wrote a piece on March 5, 2012 which caught my attention. It was titled "Mulcair a raison" (Mulcair is right).

Were he alive today, Faiz Ahmad Faiz would have, all at once, been thrilled and alarmed by the fast-changing world order and the shaking hegemony of Western imperialism and its local linchpins.

How indeed can a lover of Faiz's poetry, even a very imperfect one as myself, witness the so-called Arab Spring and the toppling of dictators like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali without thinking of his famous poem Hum Dekhenge (We Will See)?

If you thought the $4-trillion Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan quagmire, and the loss of standing and credibility that goes with it, would bring the declining West to its senses, well, think again.

Even as I write this, drums of war are beating in Israel and across Natodom to "bomb, bomb, bomb" Iran and Syria, and go "free" them with the drones and the missiles of "regime change."

With Libya in ruins, and its oil pledged to NATO multinationals, the screws are now tightening on Iran and Syria. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is meeting in Vienna to discuss its latest report on Iran, while Israel openly threatens to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. And the Arab League (AL) has suspended Syria to force "regime change" in Damascus.

In less than one week, the New Botton Line movement in the U.S. has exploded into a viral Occupy Wall Street and We Are the 99% peaceful uprising against the growing economic injustice fostered by the greed of corporate America and its mounting hegemony on U.S. (and world) politics.

It was on Sept. 17 that a handful of students and activists, backed by people like documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, set up tents on Wall Street to focus attention on the crippling power of money over the life of ordinary Americans.

The short and swift way to stop the ongoing holocaust in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) goes through Rwanda: the Anglophone Tutsi minority that has ruled Kigali since the 1994 genocide must be brought to reconcile with the Hutu majority, and accept its full participation in open democratic elections.

All other measures, from so-called "peace processes" to emergency aid and human rights campaigns, albeit necessary and praiseworthy, will be just more band-aid remedies applied to the symptoms of the crisis. The root cause of the "looters' war" is in Rwanda: it is the continuation, on Congolese soil, of Rwanda's unfinished civil war of 1990-94.

Within days of each other, Fidel Castro and Ian Paisley relinquished power after a reign of four decades over the respective destinies of Cuba and Ulster. The coverage of these two events reflects the inherent biases of our media âe" and of our own "world view."

Castro âe" Cuba Si, Yanqui No âe" got world "star" treatment ever since his "barbudos" came down on Havana from the Sierra Maestra in 1959, at the height of the Cold War.