Unelected Attali wormed his way into President Mitterand's private circle and convinced him to abandon his socialism and quest for detente, for neoliberalism and more anticommunism.
In December 2014 the daily Libe'ration opened its article on Attali with the rhetorical question, "And what if it turns out that Jacques Attali, 71, is the real President of France?" This thought was inspired by the fact that at that very time, Attali was guiding his prote'ge', Emmanuel Macron, through his first big political job as Minister of Economy in the Socialist Government of Franà §ois Hollande, designing laws to reduce worker rights.**
Gadfly Cohn-Bendit (with his fellow traitor Fischer of the German Greens) gutted the Greens of their quest for peace and disarmament, so dear to Johnstone's (and my) heart, in favour of R2P , their crowning achievement, the 1990s the destruction of Yugoslavia.
Johnstone's crowning achievement is undoubtedly Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, Nato, and Western Delusions (2003), which sifts through the bombed-out rubble of poor Yugoslavia, revealing the real story, the real culprits. In the fine tradition of western media, she faced screaming silence, unable to get the message into the mainstream. I wondered at her passionate devotion to this particular cause, but after reading Circle , I understand. At the tender age of 19, she was able to join a pre-Peace Corps (SPAN, the Student Project for Amity among Nations) visit to Belgrade, just months after the death of Stalin in 1953. Serbia circa 1953 was simple but civilized, full of spirit, building a new society.
My own such experience, studying Russian in Moscow in 1979, had the same impact on me, and accounts for my own struggle to save at least the 'memory of memories' of that lived reality so different, faulty but in many ways, far superior, to what US-Israel has left behind after our Doomsday Machine ate up that tasty morsel.
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*Eric Walberg, Canada Israel Nexus, Clarity Press, 2017, 66.
**Johnstone, op.cit., 160.
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