A Green-Washed Global Economy – A Delusion That May Crash It

Alastair Crooke- Today, the western Establishment is implementing a double re-boot to its dilapidating legitimising myth.

Today, the western Establishment is implementing a double re-boot to its dilapidating legitimising myth.

‘Modernity’ and the Middle East historically have never made for comfortable bed-fellows. Nor has this tense co-habitation been an uplifting experience; far from it – it has been hugely disruptive. It has encompassed enforced population transfers, the disembedding of people from community, from culture and from their land. It has been accompanied by episodes of mandated secularism, even extending to requiring obligatory modes of western dress. It saw the 19C Islamic Renaissance overshadowed by westification, old myths gone and Islam hanging on in the 1920s by its merest finger nails – and with the regions’ youngsters captivated by the lures of an alien socialism.

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