On September 17, a new activist
website in America dedicated to exposing the abuse and corruption of
high-ranking corporations and banks based in New York was propped up, aptly
titled ‘Occupy Wall Street’ whose fundamental objectives include shutting down
of defaulter banks and institutes, diverting government expenditure on bailouts
towards spending money for the betterment of American citizens by providing them
with better healthcare and especially employment opportunities so that they can
atleast maintain their most basic standard of living. The anonymous activists
behind this powerful website rightly say that money has taken over politics and
that a group of high-level bankers and industrialists exert their influence on
both sides of the electoral playground. This can be summed up in an allegory,
“They win, whether the coin lands on heads or tails”.
This synopsis of social and economic control of the world’s populace at the
hands of a few multi-billionaires with common agendas is what directly coincides
with the reality-based concept of totalitarian bankers and lobbyists playing
their favorite game of transcontinental geopolitics to intake trillions in
income and enjoy a bit of dummy control along the way i.e. controlling
governments and their economies through stock exchanges and monetary
organizations. This advanced more rapidly after the demolition of the former
Soviet Union which took along Communism’s leftovers to be buried in the sands of
Afghanistan.
Keeping China as a Communist power aside, the capitalist world at large is now
also following in the footsteps of its Russian Communist counterpart. It has
been burying itself in the sands of Afghanistan also. Trillions of debt for
waging wars in Iraq and especially Afghanistan resulted in exceeding the limit
of domestic loans from the Federal Reserve. Naturally, the cost of living in the
United States of America became less and less affordable for the ordinary
public.
The activists who have been calling for an end to capitalism ignited a fire that
swept across America from Zuccotti Park on Wall Street, New York to San Franciso
on the West Coast. A few days later, protests erupted in no less than 82
countries across the globe. Thousands upon thousands of people raised slogans
against feudal capitalism, whereas those in the Muslim world availed of this
opportunity by demanding imposition of the Islamic economic model. Financial
hegemony by satanic bankers in Wall Street and the City of London had to be
rebelled against sooner or later. Now that people have been taking strong notice
and action against these clutches, it is highly surprising where Pakistani media
is amidst all these developments. I would not like to talk about the American
media at large, since almost its entire mainstream is itself corporate and
agenda-oriented. It takes injections of small millions in each channel to shush
them.
On the contrary, alternative news channels such as Russia Today, Iran’s Press TV
and China’s Xinhua are giving regular coverage. Russia and China have their own
pro-Communist leanings. What about Iran though? Iran’s President Ahmadinejad
recently gave another statement that the US is trying to frame his country on
false terrorism charges simply to divert world attention from the latter’s
crumbling socioeconomic endeavors. Will this massive “Anti-Capitalism Spring”
succeed in uprooting the evils of capitalism? Time will tell. For now, as far as
our Pakistani media is concerned, I feel no hesitation in only assuming that
someone might be funding/prohibiting it from airing these most crucial
geopolitical events. A few headlines and sliding tickers on screen will not do.
Our media is acting sluggish and ignorant. What is it that the Pakistani media
fears? Why are there no proper talk shows on this issue and where are our local
‘golden boys’ of economic affairs to explain the worldwide resentment and
uprising against capitalism?