New Eurasia:
A New Vision for the
Third Millennium
By NEW DAWN RESEARCH TEAM
The New Eurasian worldview is the inevitable outcome of the search for a viable alternative to a world dominated by the United States and Western Europe. A search for a new vision of life and society suited to the needs of a new century unencumbered by the West's sterile materialistic values and egocentricity.
The Western-led war against Iraq in 1991 and the collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to a so-called "New World Order" dominated by the United States. A unipolar world in which the US and its European NATO allies seek to direct and control all nations, while exporting free market capitalism to every corner of the globe.
At the end of the 1990s, the forces of independence and dignity in Asia, Africa and South America, representing the majority of the inhabitants of our planet, began to call for a multipolar world in opposition to the unipolar order shaped by Washington. Confronted by the reality of globalisation and the subtle neo-colonialist agenda of the West, Africa is seeking greater unity and cooperation. South America is looking for regional integration and a united continental response to common problems. The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s forced the countries of South East Asia to reexamine their relationship with the United States and Western-controlled global financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, speaking at the 2000 meeting of OPEC, noted that the 21st century is "not going to be unipolar. The 21st century should be multipolar, and we all ought to push for the development of such a world."
In Russia, the Speaker of the State Parliament (Duma) Gennady Seleznez warned of the dangers posed by a unipolar world:
In the present moment we have two global scenarios of this world order in formation - the unipolar (American-centred) one and the multipolar one (alternative to the America-centred). The unipolar world, which today is de facto established as a result of the exit from the world scene of the mighty Soviet bloc, generates more problems than it solves. At the basis of the unipolar project of "globalisation" or "mondialisation" lays the idea of the so-called "Pax Americana", of the "American-way-of-peace". It supposes not simply the guiding role of the US in the creation of such a world system, but also imposing on all peoples and states on earth the "American way of life", the liberal-democratic system of values, the universalisation and forced assimilation of those cultural, social, political and economic principles which historically developed only in one sector of mankind - in Western Europe - and reached their apogee in the Anglo-Saxon environment (Great Britain, after the US).
Confronted by a world dominated by the US capitalist oligarchy, the Russian opposition leader Gennady Zyuganov commented, "We [Russians] are the last power on this planet that is capable of mounting a challenge to the New World Order - the global cosmopolitan dictatorship." Zyuganov's position has much in common with some of the 20th century's great spiritual teachers who, despite the ravages of war and repression, saw Russia as the future home of universal renewal. They praised the deeply rooted mystical spirit of the Russian people and looked to Russia to provide the "light from the East to irradiate the West".
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"...Russia to provide the 'light from the East to irradiate the West.'" Indeed, I guess that New Yorkers were first to see the light on September 11, 2000.
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