Wed30Mar - LONDON - Transformation In The Muslim World

[TonyGosling]

Transformation In The Muslim World

House of Lords Committe Room 4a
Westminster London SW1A
Wednesday March 30 2011 3pm
http://www.globalvision2000.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=887

The Jasmine revolutions continue to pave a path of sweeping change charging across the MENA region. This has shaken both Davos and Wall street. Two authoritarian rulers have fallen and a third is struggling for survival and making his last stand. Opec's chairman warns of instability in Saudi Arabia and Brent crude surges past $120 per barrel so where is this all heading? Whilst parallels with 1789, 1848 and 1989 in Europe are being drawn more relevant is the Islamic domino theory which discards tyranny and dictatorship in the Islamic world and returns the Islamic Khilafate is deeply embodied in Islamic eschatology. This new era has dawned and we need to learn to coexist with it rather than manage it. The centre of the storm is Libya now and Gaddaffi has declared war on his own people and threatens a scorched earth policy if the revolt continues. If this strongman falls as the longest serving Arab ruler with a brutal tyrannical track record it is clear that the green light for all out change will intensify and no regime will be able to avoid change.

Cameron admits that the UK has made mistakes supporting dictatorships assuming that the only choice was them or extremism. He has scored a spectacular own goal by snubbing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt the largest opposition party and kingmaker in a national unity coalition government. Also rushing out to the region with a posse of arm dealers touting arms is naive opportunism. The Arab street wants to bring in a new era in which it's leaders are judged in their ability to represent aspirations of the people and be held accountable for their actions. It is clear that without democracy it has metamorphosed into ugly Western client hereditary dynasties riddled with corruption, nepotism and crony capitalism in which countries are treated as their own private companies. A perfect storm has been ignited with the tinderbox of a bulging young population, poverty, unemployment and food hyperinflation.

If we take oilrich Libya alone it's political economy shows that it has a 30% unemployment rate with over 60% of the population living on $2 dollars per day. This is in a country which has 3% of world energy resources producing 1.6 million barrels per day of which 1.2 million barrels per day come to Europe. Western derivative traders have been speculating in commodities inclusive of oil and cereals which has led to soaring food prices. This has fuelled poverty and hunger and ultimately overcame the fear of a totalitarian police State. Let us be clear that the people are not revolting against dictators alone but Western neoliberal policies and the Washington consensus which has led to the privitising of State resources to multinationals. They are revolting against a Western controlled bankrupt debt based financial usurious system which is also on it's last legs. This system is only surviving because of quantitive easing and it has led to hot money exporting inflation globally and leading to instability.

The implications of this include that Blair and other Middle East advisors be removed immediately as they are deeply tainted and implicated in the status quo and are damaging British interests. The FCO needs a new broom which can deal with the new era. The Sykes-Picot world war 1 treaty which has frozen MENA needs to be discarded as the artificial borders prevent Arab unity and sustainable economic development. The energy rich regions have to be integrated with energy poor regions in MENA. The revolts will not be complete until there is a holistic revolution which satisfactorily addresses the question of to whom do the energy resources of the region belong? To whom should they be sold? At what price? To date they have been given away at subsidised rates to the West and this racket has to cease.

Global Vision 2000 will go beyond the hype and ask the questions:-

The spate of seething, youth-inspired Middle East uprisings that are toppling governments, reshaping the geopolitical landscape and roiling world markets blindsided the world’s intelligence community. What's the real causes and what's next?

What are the differences between this and 1789, 1848 and 1989?

Are there parallels with pre World war 1 and 2 eras with economic collapse and depression?

Are we witnessing global insurrection against Western neoliberal financial usurious economic capitalism, militarism and imperialism?

What is the significance of a combination of "leaderless decentralised revolutions" and the "new media revolution" in the Middle East?

Will the "March of democracy over autocracy " by people power prevail?

How can the "Interim leadership" in countries such as Tunisia and Egypt deal with the transition from military to civilian controlled governments?

What role can Islamic finance and new economic partnerships play in terms of building a moral political economy?

What action is required for the restoration of misappropriated assets?


SPEAKERS

Moeen Yaseen Global Vision 2000
Lord Nazir Ahmed House of Lords
Jeremy Corbyn MP House of Commons
Muhammad Rafeeq Global Vision 2000
Dr.Makram Khoury Machool University of Cambridge
Adel Darwish Journalist and Commentator
Mahesh Jayanarayan UMEX Capital Markets Group
Chris Cook University College London
Vijay Mehta Uniting for Peace


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