“Andre Vltchek is humanity’s and journalism’s immeasurable loss. Andre honoured the description ‘maverick’ -- he was a maverick without peer. Whenever a vital issue was pushed into the recesses of our memory, Andre would rescue it and remind us why we should never forget: why we should keep fighting for what was right. Perhaps above all, he understood the nature of imperialism and tore away its modern disguises with his powerfully moral, bracing prose. I salute him.”
~ John Pilger
COVID-19 THE WEST IS CURING COUNTRIES UNTIL DEATH
As part of the 'The Message for Humanity by Andre Vltchek' series, Badak Merah publishes the present book of essays on COVID-19 written by Andre Vltchek between January and August 2020. They were published initially in NEO, China Daily, 21st Century Wire and republished in other publications. The author wrote the essays not to analyze the scientific and medical aspect of the virus but primarily to chronicle Western imperialism's destructive force at work. At the same time, his essays attest to the power of united communist and socialist countries and solidarity amongst them in times of the global pandemic.
In his own words:
'COVID-19 is not just a disease; it is also a state of mind, a psychosis, a fear. It is an event that, all over the world, unleashed irrational behavior by the governments, individuals, and media. It triggered speculations, bizarre analyses, and selective 'cut-and-paste science … COVID-19 ruined countless lives. But at least now it is clear, who is who, what is the gangrenous essence of corporatism and imperialism. While China, Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, Iran, and others are fighting for human lives, the West is struggling to preserve the global status quo for its own unsavory purposes. It does not want to save or improve the world. It wants to control it. And it wants to own it. Nothing else. Full stop.'
About the Author
Andre Vltchek was a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker, investigative journalist, poet, playwright, and photographer.
Having convered dozens of war zones and conflicts from Bosnia and Peru to Sri Lanka, DR Congo, Timor Leste, Syria and Afghanistan, he was a revolutionary, an internationalist and a globetrotter. In all his work, he confronted Western imperialism and the Western regime imposed on the world.