The Greek “indignados” and Global Research

The following letter was sent to the Editors of “Global Research”* on June 28th 2011, as a reply to Mr. Yorgos Mitralias’ article “The Battle against Neoliberalism: Massive Popular Uprising in Greece”, which was published in their portal. It was followed by a kind request from the author to know about their view on the matter, as Mr. Mitralias’ article is, to my view, “deeply irrelevant to the cause of the anti-globalization movement, important part of which is Global Research", I thought that, ideally my reply should also be published in their portal, so that a balance between, on the one hand, the reformist view on Neoliberal Globalization and the movement of the"Indignants", and, on the other, the anti-systemic view could be achieved.Nothing happened, and the author sent again a letter to the editors of Global Research on July 10th, asking again (at least) for their opinion on the matter and whether they considered publishing the author’ s reply. Yet again, no reply was given to the author, not even a formal one to swiftly reject his submission, this way showing that the editors of this anti-Globalization portal do not even abide by the standard principles that bound all serious editors and electronic journals and portals in the World.So, it makes no surprise that although “Global Research” does a good job in exposing the mechanisms of propaganda and geo-political expansionism used by the elites of the US and some European countries, it never scratches the surface of a mainly “geostrategic” and sometimes “conspiracy-theory” kind of analysis and conclusions, without even implicitly referring to the crucial systemic factors underlying these mechanisms. And this is why utterly reformist views like these of Mitralias, or Chomsky for instance, are welcome to their portal, whereas antisystemic views are virtually non-existent!