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The Spectacle Blog
While Palestinian leaders are issuing their standard official statements condemning all kinds of violence following the slaughter of 5 members of a Jewish family (including a three month old girl), Ynet reports:
Gaza residents from the southern city of Rafah hit the streets Saturday to celebrate the terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Itamar where five family members were murdered in their sleep, including three children.
Residents handed out candy and sweets, one resident saying the joy “is a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank.”
Of course, this is just typical Palestinian behavior, if you remember the video of them celebrating after Sept. 11th.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian media is attempting to do a two step — say they condemn the murders, but then blame Israel anyway. For instance, one Palestinian news editor says murder is wrong, but then goes on to point fingers at the occupation…and you guessed it, the loss of olive trees! Because human lives are just the same as olive trees.
Here’s what he had to say, according to the left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz:
“I don’t believe that the incident in Itamar is an act of resistance, but rather an act by individuals whom we condemn, in the event it was carried out by Palestinians. Stabbing children in their sleep is not a heroic act but rather that of the heartless, like some of the occupation soldiers and settlers, who murder children,” Hafez Barghouti, editor-in-chief of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, wrote on Sunday.
He added that the “real murderers in Itamar are the zealous settlers and anyone who burned a tree, vandalized the cemetery in Awarta, forced out the residents of Khirbet Yanun, took control of a plot of land or robbed an olive harvest …. The act at Itamar was a message to the occupation and to the world … whose meaning is clear - the occupation must go.”
If you haven’t been following the story closely and have a very strong stomach, watch the video below (via BigPeace). You can get a sense of the brutality of the attack.
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dC| 3.14.11 @ 11:40AM
I'm waiting for the anti-Semitic leftist trolls to weigh in on this one. I wouldn't blame anyone in Israel for simply deciding that the "Palestinians" (no such people exist, of course, they're just Arabs that their own Arab countries won't house, feed, or support--so US tax dollars support them) ought to be exterminated like the murderous vermin that most of them clearly are.
Thank God for the 2nd Amendment here in what remains of America--anyone who thinks that this sort of treatment isn't what most U.S. Muslims would wish upon their non-Islamic "countrymen" is smoking crack. I don't doubt that there are (much quieter) celebrations in Persian-rugged rooms all over this country. But as these baby-murder cheerleaders know, enough houses in America are armed to the teeth, so that their luck in perpetrating such violent cowardice is highly likely to get them dead before they manage to murder any more Christian or Jewish toddlers.
By the way, where's our buddy GW Bush mumbling about the Religion of Peace?
Sam| 3.14.11 @ 4:42PM
I don't miss Mush Mouth W.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 12:58PM
Indeed. Israel should finish the Wall, and then shut them off. Ron Paul is dead wrong on this one, and I expect Clint to come in on the side of the Baby-killers, as he is a Terrorist catamite.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 1:00PM
Just so I cover all bases, Dennis Kucinich is wrong on this one, too. Ron Paul and Dennis regularly vote to murder babies, because they are vermin, just like their supporters.
Clint| 3.14.11 @ 1:39PM
You're A Chickenhawk Coward Slandering Liar Fanatic Israel Firster Troll Tool Job.
"Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country."
-Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan endorsed Dr.Ron Paul & Dr.Ron Paul was one of only four Republicans to endorse Ronald Reagan in 1976 against Gerald Ford.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:09PM
He also is opposed to Israel defending itself. That's no slander; truth is an absolute defence against Libel, Clint. Glad to see you weighing in on the side of the baby murderers, Clint.
When I see something from Ron Paul supporting Israel's right to defend itself (something RAND Paul has done) then I might back off. But screaming at me won't change the truth about the Nazi-sympathiser Paul.
As for you, discuss with me why and how you oppose Islamic terrorism, and why you think that is best done with Israel destroyed, diarrhea mouth.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:10PM
Oh, and Clint, I don't care for you much as a person, I hope you know that, troll.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:11PM
Incidentally, you ever volunteer for service? I did.
Clint| 3.14.11 @ 2:29PM
What was your MOS Fanatic Israel Firster Troll Tool Job ?
You're Up Chickenhawk Coward .
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:36PM
They didn't need me. I applied for a Naval ROTC scholarship after having been accepted to two US Medical schools. Unlike now, where I would have been taken, it was 1988. What's your MOS, scumbag. Your dad served, but I never hear about you. (My Granddad was infantry in the trenches in WWI. My Dad was 14 when Korea ended, and had two kids when Nam was heating up. My father in law served in Navy and Army. My brothers in law were all military. My wife's roommate is a Major is a Colonel in Air Force intelligence, now. Again, they didn't need my Medical skills when I applied and volunteered.)
Clint| 3.14.11 @ 2:58PM
If you weren't in the military. don't pretend you were.
Now, when are ya gonna Walk Your Talk & Join The IDF,Chickenhawk ?
You're Up Chickenhawk Coward.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:41PM
Incidentally, thanks for your condolences on the death of the baby, Clint. You're all class.
Clint| 3.14.11 @ 3:03PM
As A Tea Party Patriot I'm more concerned about Our Troopers In The Field, in Afghanistan & Iraq and The Virginia Deputies ,who were just killed than Foreign Nationals.
Don't try to Play your cheap political Victimhood Card on Me, Agenda Troll,Tool Job.
NoLib| 3.14.11 @ 3:49PM
Do you have children, Clint? Only a monster wouldn't be horrified that these animals slit the throat of a newborn. Please show a modicum of decency.
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:47PM
I don't like seeing Babies or The U.S. Seamen of The U.S.S. Liberty Killed.
Let's See How Much Respect You Have For What The Survivors of The U.S..S,Liberty Say About Israel Deliberately Attacking & Killing Our U.S. Seamen.
You're Up.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 9:01PM
You are a scumbag, Clint. And a coward.
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:02PM
You're an Obsessed Israel Firster Fanatic who is all upset because Our Tea Party Mission Statement, Sarah Palin & Jim DeMint endorsed Tea Party Senator Dr.Rand Paul & Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr. Rand Paul don't Asskiss Your Personal Israel Firster Agenda.
You're The Chickenhawk Coward & Pussy ,who tried to pass yourself off as a Volunteer Military Vet.
Shove Off Cunt.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 9:06PM
So, babies are fine to kill, then, Clint. You're probably a Truther, too.
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:06PM
You're A Slandering Liar Fixated Israel Firster Screwball Tool Job.
Neither Babies nor The U.S. Seamen of The U.S.S. Liberty are fine to kill ,Israel Firster Chickenhawk,Tool Job.
Wanna make somethin' of it,Pussy?
Hmmm Girl ?
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:13PM
What I despise most about you, Clint, is that this article was about Ron Paul's buddies murdering a Jewish infant. That doesn't seem to bug you much either, Stormfront loving, coward, terrorist Catamite Paul supporter.
Clint| 3.14.11 @ 2:43PM
Awwww ! Twerpy Fixated Israel Firster Troll Tool Job is all Atwitter & PMS'y because many of We Tea Party Patriots & Dr.Ron Paul & Senator Rand Paul are America First Patriots & not Agendists, like You, for those Middle East Tribal Nations.
Shove Off Creepy Little Sorry-Assed Troll.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 9:07PM
No, they support people who kill Americans, like you do, Clint. When you're not being their CATAMITE, boy.
dC| 3.14.11 @ 2:18PM
Hmm. Clint, this has little to do with Ron Paul or his son. It has everything to do with the nature of America's enemies, who happen to live in close physical proximity to Israel, which has to deal with them a lot more often than America does. And frankly, while I'm not Jewish, never will be, and can't begin to understand why most American Jews are utopian socialists, I marvel at the restraint of Israel's leaders in not turning "Palestine" and its supporters into a sea of radioactive glass.
So answer the question, jackass...were these murdering Arab vermin justified or not?
And feel free to try to copycat their violent cowardice in any majority "red" county in this country, see if your corpse is even identifiable by dental records afterwards.
Bottom line: you support these filthy baby killers just because they kill Jews. Well newsflash, idiot, they also hate (not necessarily in this order) Americans, Christians, and anyone who doesn't mutilate their own females, piss in their own churches, and swear holy submission to a 7th century brigand, camel jockey, and child molester. Take your co-religionists of peace and go die in the desert. Or try to bust down the door and copycat murder a toddler in a rural red state county and meet your fate more quickly.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:31PM
Thank you, dC. It is people like you, the Righteous Gentiles, that make living in the US as a Jew the best experience the Jewish people have had in over three millenia of existence. It is people like you that make the US the greatest Country on Earth. Thank you for existing.
And as a Jew who is NOT an utopian socialist, I can't explain most of my co-religionists either. It seems that the majority of those who have a true survival, conservative bent go to Israel. That's good for Israel, but not so good for the US.
Clint| 3.14.11 @ 3:16PM
I agree with Ronald Reagan AC/DC Cupcake.
Ronald Reagan:
“The United States has thus far sought to play the role of mediator. We have avoided public comment on the key issues. We have always recognized and continue to recognize that only the voluntary agreement of those parties most directly involved in the conflict can provide an enduring solution. But it’s become evident to me that some clearer sense of America’s position on the key issues is necessary to encourage wider support for the peace process. . . . the immediate adoption of a settlement freeze by Israel, more than any other action, could create the confidence needed for wider participation in these talks. Further settlement activity is in no way necessary for the security of Israel.”
Clint| 3.14.11 @ 3:23PM
Ya wanna see how much of a " co-religionists of peace ", I am, come & push me to physically defend My Catholic Tea Party America First Self & I'll show Ya Keyboard Toughie Girl.
Your Mouth is writing a Check ,Your Body can't Cash, Pussy.
NoLib| 3.14.11 @ 3:53PM
Your immaturity negates any point you're trying to make. How old are you?
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:09PM
Old enough to deal with Israel Firster Slandering Liars, who attack Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr.Ron Paul & Our Tea Party Senator Dr.Rand Paul.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 9:03PM
You threaten a lot, Clint. You don't argue well, however. You also don't know crap about Israeli security. You also like seeing babies killed.
You're filth, Clint. Please tell me your MOS. Have you ever volunteered, boy?
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:14PM
You're a Slandering Liar Fixated Fanatic Israel Firster , Tool Job.
You're A Chickenhawk Pussy,Who Writes Checks with Your Keyboard that Your Body Can't Cash.
Get Bent Israel Firster Fanatic Cunt,Tool Job.
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:20PM
The Chickenhawk Israel Firster,Tool Job got caught tryin' to Play Soldier.
I don't go around playing Pretend Soldier & Combat Wannabe like You, Chickenshit Chickenhawk Liar.
You weren't in The United States Military & Ya ain't got the guts to back Your Chickenhawk Mouth & Fight with The IDF.
You're The Worst Kind Of Pussy. Israel Firseter Chickenhawk, Tool Job.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 9:12PM
You think the Pope would like your attitude on the 3 month old baby, Clint? I don't. he's a good and decent human being, unlike you.
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:35PM
You're A Serial Slandering Liar Israel Firster Fanatic Tool Job.
Do Your Homework on Our Pope, Israel Firster Screwball Tool Job.
"The Pope gave his most forthright endorsement of a Palestinian state yesterday as his Holy Land pilgrimage took him to a refugee camp in the shadow of Israel’s controversial “separation barrier”.
“The Holy See supports the right of your people to a sovereign Palestinian homeland in the land of your forefathers, secure and at peace with your neighbours, within internationally recognised borders,” Benedict XVI told Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President.
The German pontiff, who had incurred Israeli anger for not appearing to show enough remorse during a visit to the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, was greeted with exuberant warmth in Aida, a shabby suburb of Bethlehem that started life as a camp for Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war with Israel. "
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 9:13PM
Haven't threatened you physically. Never will. Does a man threaten a piece of dog excrement?
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:28PM
That's A Moot Point for You Chickenhawk GirlieBoy,Tool Job.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 9:11PM
No condolences on a 3 month old being massacred. You filthy, subhuman piece of garbage, Clint. You vicious terrorist loving swine. No, most Tea partiers are not like you, you Nazi piece of excrement. And then there are your fairy threats.
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:42PM
Condolences for Babies & The U.S. Seamen of The U.S.S, Liberty ,You Sorry-Assed Excuse for An American,Israel Firster AgendaPussy.
You're The Fairy,who's asking about Threats.Chickenhawk Israel Firster Pussy.
FastJohnny| 3.14.11 @ 1:04PM
Yes, yes, these are the people that the UN backs and the European world believes deserve statehood. I am surprised that they Palestinian spokespersons haven't spun this to be the fault of the Zionist United States or even better, the NYT or some leftist bloggers making it out to be rightous. There is a reason why Jordon threw the Palestinians out.
GREENFELD MEIR | 3.14.11 @ 2:15PM
this family murder by the world not only by palistinan murder /
united nation , united state , European community ,
and the world call our prsent as occuption ,
the world activest or world murder , this people kill this family .
greenfeld meir
NoLib| 3.14.11 @ 2:36PM
Don't forget the Leftist Jews in the US who help elect politicians like Obama.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 2:39PM
And there are some who oppose him. But the Jews didn't elect Obama. Contrary to some conspiracy fantasists, there are only 5 million Jews. We are a sliver of the US population. It is true that too large a percentage of this sliver voted for Obama, but if you are a Jew who likes guns and the military, Israel wants you, and promotions are easier there for Jews.
NoLib| 3.14.11 @ 4:04PM
I was responding to Greenfeld Meir's post. If he's going to point out that the US is responsible for this massacre, I think it's only fair to note the role of Leftist American Jews, too. They're more to blame than I.
Leftists are responsible for this mess.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 9:05PM
Can't disagree with you. Tikkun's editors suck.
Tell me, Clint, how much security did Israel get for giving up Gaza? Get off the blog and go back to reading StormFront, Terrorist Catamite.
Clint| 3.15.11 @ 7:25PM
Tell it to Ronald Reagan Israel Firster Tool Job.
Let's See Ya make me get off American Spectator,Tool Job Chickenhawk Pussy.
You're Up Girl .
LiveFreeOrDie| 3.14.11 @ 2:38PM
What a horrible, sad and senseless loss. The video (and a few others) should be standard viewing for "Palestinian" supporters.
NoLib| 3.14.11 @ 4:05PM
I honestly don't think they'd care.
OLDRAY| 3.14.11 @ 3:31PM
The Palestinians haven't changed. When I was in South Lebanon as a Journalist with the forces of Major Haddad (SLA) the PLO (who occupied much of South Lebanon after being expelled from Jordan) were in conflict with the Mixed Muslim-Christian local militia, Captured a Christian Lebanese youngster from Ein Ebel Village and dragged him to pieces by towing him on the ground behind a Jeep.. About the same time A medical Doctor at the beautiful mountain village of Dier Mimass , who served a dozen Christian and Moslem Villagers in the area, and whose car had a Chistian flag on one fender and a moslem flag on yhe other was ambushed at a road junstion as he went to house call his patients . When I went to the site their were dozens of spent AK47 rounds on each side of the car.. By the way there was a Un outpost a tew hundred yards away. They said they heard nothing. No they haven't changed and will not because hatred of the infidels is drilled into them from childhood.
William K Hobaugh| 3.15.11 @ 8:39PM
Why does Israel built on land it conquered or stole in 67 in the middle of thousands of Palestinians that have lived their for generations. Bull doze their homes and built their and call it a settlement when all is really is is thievery. If Israel behaved like the compassionate people they claim to be maybe their would be two state solution. But they hold up this process so they can steal more land!
Ron Lewenberg | 3.15.11 @ 9:44PM
Which part of that arguement does not apply to the US, just with different years. We are a settler nation, and those who denigrate Israel as such are unAmerican, if not anti-American.
Zilla | 3.16.11 @ 9:34AM
Linked to this post at my blog:
Don't Let Them Sweep this Horror under the Rug
http://zillablog.marezilla.com.....under.html
Lots of information there. Obama's first response in the aftermath of this atrocity was to denounce Israel. The horror of what happened is even worse than most people are aware, they decapitated little baby Hadas as she lay sleeping in her parent's bed. The Palestinians are celebrating that one of their own cut off a baby's head. Tamar, the 12 year old daughter who discovered her family slaughtered, expressed to Benjamin Netanyahu that she is worried about Obama's wrath over Israeli building.
Obama hates the Jews as much as he hates Americans.
Marty| 3.19.11 @ 10:45PM
My heart breaks at the amount of hatred there is.
My prayer goes to the little girl who found them.
kate| 3.23.11 @ 4:06PM
Clint
You are an awful person.
This website should not let scum like you comment.
William H. Depperman| 3.27.11 @ 10:26PM
THE U.S. INVASION OF LIBYA IS PART OF AN
ATTEMPTED U.S. REGIME CHANGE GAMBIT IN
THE MIDEAST, GULF STATES AND BEYOND AND
REFLECTS THE FINAL STAGE OF CAPITALISM—
PERMANENT WAR AND STATE TERRORISM!
The U.S. Invasion of Libya is one part of the U.S. REGIME CHANGE GAMBIT IN THE MIDEAST AND GULF STATES is one more graphic example demonstrating that the United States and the capitalist world has reached the Final Stage of Capitalism: Permanent War and State Terrorism. The U.S.-led Invasion of Libya is being carried out under cover of a RELENTLESS FALSE PROPAGANDA DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN consisting of two parts: 1.) THE FALSE PRETEXT OF “PROTECTING INNOCENT CIVILIANS” and “PREVENTING A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER” combined with 2.) A campaign DESIGNED TO SIMULTANEOUSLY GENERATE MAXIMAL CONFUSION AND DENIAL surrounding the U.S. role in the Invasion of Libya. CONFUSION is always a prime objective of the capitalists’ media and educational system on virtually all political issues today. The reason is that a confused person cannot act because he/she does know what to think! This helps to neutralize the opposition to capitalism-imperialism at all levels. The U.S. regime reveals by its words and actions that it has total contempt for the intelligence of its own people!!! The U.S. dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires is waging war not just against multiple countries around the world but against it own population through a campaign of economic, biological and psychological warfare and has now lost all legitimacy to rule and all right to sovereignty!
“Protecting Innocent Civilians” and “Preventing a Humanitarian Disaster” are the kind of FALSE PROPAGANDA and Big Lies right out of the George Orwell novel: “1984” where there was a new language called Newspeak! Inscribed on the central pyramid in the main square in the book were 3 slogans for the new society: “War is Peace” “Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength.” The novel “1984” was written in 1948, which was the original title, but the publisher required that Orwell change the date to the “future” date of 1984 so people would not think that world had already arrived! But it had arrived and here is Obama still telling us that WAR IS PEACE! This is also known as BRAINWASHING by use of the BIG LIE TECHNIQUE. (See below.) The daily U.S./NATO air strikes against Libya with Tomahawk Cruise Missiles and fighter jet bombing attacks KILL HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT LIBYANS EVERY DAY! The capitalist dictatorship covers this up and prints false claims that Qaddafi is “just taking already dead bodies out of morgues (!) and placing them around” to make it “appear” as if the U.S. Proxy Rebels killed them! (New York Times, March 23, 2011) In addition, on a daily basis the U.S. calmly bombs innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere with drone bombers and shoots them dead in the street everywhere and anywhere they want! “Protecting Innocent Civilians” and Preventing a Humanitarian Disaster!” That’s a hot one! Another Big Lie! See below! Simultaneously the U.S. dictatorship has attempted to generate maximal confusion and denial with a smoke and mirrors campaign by stating that it is “turning over operations in Libya to NATO.” What a joke! The U.S. IS the LEADER of NATO! The U.S. is NATO! Period! Libya is a NATO campaign!
That’s the same as falsely claiming that a “pause” or even a “freeze” in settlement building in Zionist Occupied Palestine could serve as a basis for a peace agreement between the U.S. Proxy, so-called “Israel” and the Palestinians. Although Hamas, won the 2006 election with over 70% of the vote with a 80% turnout in Gaza (the Zionists stopped the election in the West Ban immediately after learning the result in GAZA!), are not permitted to be represented in ANY negotiations about ANYTHING! Instead the United States and its Proxy “Israel” only agree to deal with their stooge, Muhammed Abbas and Fatah, which lost the 2006 election and ALL CREDIBILITY. Muhammed Abbas and others is Fatah helped poison Yasser Arafat in 2004! (See Materialist Analysis of the Mideast.) The truth is that the only possible basis for any sort of genuine Mideast peace agreement at the present time would require that the Zionists exit the entire West Bank and LEAVE ALL the settlements in place for use by the Palestinians. When the Zionists signed the agreement with Egypt in 1979 they vacated ALL settlements in the Sinai, which were then demolished, which was a really bad idea. But the U.S. and its so-called “Israel” proxy have no such intentions so everything is done to string people along while steadily waging a WAR OF EXTERMINATION against the Palestinians. The truth is that the only real solution for the Middle East is one secular state of Palestine which has as its precondition Socialist Revolution in the United States!
By 2007 National Public Radio Reported the U.S. Capitalist
Dictatorship had Already Caused the Deaths of 1.2 Million
Iraqis! Today that Number is Close to 2 Million Dead Iraqis!
The United States hypocritically vilified Saddam Hussein as the “Butcher of Baghdad” and the war-mongering Reagan regime which invaded Lebanon, Grenada and ran multiple Proxy Wars in Latin America amd around the world while carrying out a runaway nuclear arms race against the USSR, ludicrously labeled Qaddafi the “Mad Dog of the Middle East.” But Saddam Hussein and Qaddafi are small potatoes compared to Barack Obama and George Bush, their predecessors and successors. The real Butchers of Baghdad and Afghanistan and elsewhere have been the Bush and Obama Regimes and U.S.-led world capitalism-imperialism, which has caused the deaths of over 1.2 million Iraqis since the start of the U.S. invasion in 2003, according to a blipped report on National Public Radio Online, “Survey Puts Iraqi War Dead Above One Million.” Day to Day NPR Radio Program, way back on September 19, 2007 (!), http://www.npr.org/templates/s.....=14501232. Previously the British Medical journal The Lancet (October 11, 2006) reported the death of over 655,000 Iraqis since the start of the U.S. Invasion, “an increase which would not have occurred without the 2001 U.S. Invasion.” The United States had been after Libyan oil for over 40 years and think that now is the time to take it while they are taking it every where else! “Protecting Innocent Civilians.” What a cynical Big Lie pronounced with grandiloquent pretentiousness and tyrannical puffery by the haughty poseur and Fascist charlatan Barack Obama! Regarding U.S. domestic statecraft, it should be noted that Obama works closely with the Republicans and Tea Bags who provide him his “left” cover, meaning a form of political manipulation where they falsely and comically denounce Obama as a “Socialist” or a “radical” in order to provide him the necessary support from among the traditional Democratic party constituencies, so that he and his fellow Fascists are able move the entire political spectrum ever closer to outright Fascism. This is moreover in accordance with the (now) One-Way Dynamic of Capitalism. That same dynamic makes George Bush look like a choirboy compared the Obama! See below.
So-called “Facebook and Twitter’ Revolutions are
U.S. Orchestrated Attempts at Regime Change!
Because the situation has deteriorated to such a degree for the United States in the Mideast and elsewhere due to rising organized, militant Islamic Fundamentalism provoked by multiple U.S. Wars and aggression, for example in Afghanistan where the Taliban has completely pushed the U.S. out of large geographic areas, the U.S. dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires has organized a campaign of Mideast-wide and Gulf states-wide REGIME CHANGE carried out simultaneously against multiple regimes to try to counterbalance U.S. defeats elsewhere. The U.S. is attempting to tweak many of their comprador regimes to make them more manageable, while opening full-scale wars against other nation states which possess huge natural resources and which are unfriendly to U.S. imperialist domination such as Libya. A Comprador Regime is a nation state with a government ostensibly led by native citizens but really controlled by large imperialist countries. The U.S-led world capitalist dictatorship is also targeting Iran, the Peoples' Republic of China, Cuba, the Russian Federation, as many enemies as possible as well as regimes considered VERY friendly to the U.S. dictatorship. We all recall how often Bush called for "regime change" in Iraq and elsewhere.
What is happening in the Mideast, the Persian Gulf and North Africa is precisely REGIME CHANGE using the capitalist Internet organizing tools such as FACEBOOK, Twitter, etc. to help instigate, manipulate and organize the regime change sought by the U.S. capitalist dictatorship. (THAT is why Time magazine made the CEO of FACEBOOK the “Man of the Year.”) There are no ”revolutions” going on in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Syria or elsewhere at the present time unfortunately! A genuine revolution in today’s world with an international Working Class is a Socialist Revolution and involves a CHANGE IN PROPERTY RELATIONS. It means getting rid of the dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires. This is obviously not happening in ANY of the countries with so-called “Facebook and Twitter Revolutions!” The primary objective of this orchestrated Regime Change Gambit is to try to increase the stability of those U.S. comprador regimes by trying to substitute the sham “elections” of “democratic capitalism” and false “democratic reforms” for the very unpopular U.S.-backed strong men who have been in power, many of them for over 30 years, and to overthrow governments deemed unfriendly and opposed to the U.S. “interests,” such as Libya and Syria. The U.S. organized and directed Regime Change Gambit has been set in motion to try to make those targeted comprador regimes more easily controlled and manipulated through the false claim that “democratic reforms” and “human rights” will be the product of the (sham) “elections” under capitalism, whose outcome is determined by the fact that no candidate can deliver what the masses really want and really need: a new economic-political-social system based on human need not private profit—Socialism! The reason for this is that capitalism cannot be turned into Socialism because of its (now) One-Way Dynamic or Development Sequence. The U.S.-led world capitalist dictatorship usually determines the outcome of “elections in comprador regimes by controlling all or most of the key candidates and the militaries of most of these countries, except Libya where there is only partial control of the military and Syria where there is apparently no control of the military. “Elections” under capitalism keep the false hope of change alive and actually are designed to perpetuate that false hope! The primary weapon of deception of the capitalists in the United States is the Presidential “election” and ALL elections by extension. There are no exceptions to this! The reason for this is that “elections” perpetuate the Number One Big Lie of Capitalism—That capitalism can supposedly be reformed. But capitalism can NOT be reformed because of its (now) ONE-WAY DEVELOPMENT SEQUENCE or DYNAMIC.
The U.S. Regime Change Gambit Being carried Out in SYRIA
is Actually Also Targeting Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, Which
Form the Political Leadership of Lebanon and the Palestinians!
The U.S. is using its FACEBOOK and Twitter Internet organizing tools to maximally instigate and organize an attempt to overthrow the Bath Socialist Regime led by Bashar al-Assad. The problem with all of the Mideast regimes is that there is no genuine Communist, meaning Marxist-Leninist leadership anywhere! Communist leadership would instantly expose the Bush/Obama Regime Change Gambit for what it is, an attempt to take over the entire Mideast in ONE BLOW virtually by manipulating the masses with false promises, which can NEVER be realized under capitalism. The reason for that is that capitalism is now in its Final Stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism, which the present Regime Change Gambit is just one part. Human need does not enter that equation! Proper Communist leadership would expose the fact that the U.S.-Orchestrated Regime Change Gambit is designed as a means to more easily steal the oil and ALL natural resources from the Mideast and Central Asia. And to give the people NOTHING in return just like in the United States, where the U.S. has opened a war of extermination against its own people using economic, biological and psychological warfare, and has now lost all legitimacy to rule and all right to sovereignty! See below. How difficult would it be for these regimes to use their own media to explain this manipulation to the masses? The U.S. Proxy so-called “rebel leaders” in Syria are all committed anti-Communists and anti-Socialists and in practice support the world capitalist dictatorship. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship has been trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad and the Bath Socialist Party for years. And have used their “Israel” proxy to bomb Syria with the totally unsubstantiated claim that Syria was building nuclear weapons! Syria was allied with the Soviet Union! So those who follow the U.S. so-called “rebels” are chasing an illusion and the genuinely FALSE PROMISES of capitalism! Meanwhile THE UNITED STATES IS THREATENING TO CARRY OUT AN AIR WAR AGAINST SYRIA as soon as a couple of weeks after it hopes to have overthrown Qaddafi in Libya. (Yahoo News, March 25, 2011) This is truly and undeniably Permanent War and State Terrorism!
Just like Bush, Obama Supports the CONTINUING U.S./Israel War on Gaza
Which was Carried Out to try to Weaken Hamas and Force a Fraudulent
2-State Solution—so-called “Peace Process”—Down the Throats of the
Palestinians Who Are To Live in Prison Behind the Apartheid/Prison Wall!
Obama said nothing except that he was supposedly “monitoring the situation” when the U.S. authorized and directed its Proxy Israel to begin the War Against Gaza starting with a relentless bombing campaign on December 27, 2008 which was followed by a ground invasion on January 3, 2009, which killed over 1300 Palestinians and wounded over 6,000 Palestinians, made more than 20,000 homeless, destroyed over 40,000 houses and caused at least $2 billion worth of damage in trying to bomb GAZA back to the Stone Age. The U.S. proxy, so-called “Israel,” openly used white phosphorus against civilians and Gaza and enhanced their atrocities with delayed action anti-personnel bombs designed to look like harmless toys to entice children to pick them up and die. The U.S. did this also in their 2006 bombing and invasion of Lebanon. Both the U.S. and “Israel” are in violation of the Geneva Convention but that means nothing to the U.S. and its proxy “Israel.” The United States ordered its Israeli proxy state to attack Gaza prior to Obama actually taking office in order to try to change the facts on the ground by weakening and undermining support for Hamas which won the election in Gaza in 2006 by 72% of the vote and is now supported more strongly than ever! When Fatah, which supports Israel and the U.S. and is in fact also their proxy, tried to take over militarily in 2006 Hamas routed Fatah because they were traitors who were well known to work with “Israel” and the U.S. against Palestinian interests. Fatah had also helped murder Yassar Arafat, their front man when he ran out of credibility. Fatah has virtually no popular support and was driven out of Gaza. The U.S. authorizes its proxy so-called “Israel” to keep bombing the tunnels where virtually ALL supplies come through from Egypt, which ALSO has carried out a campaign against the tunnels!
The so-called “Palestinian Authority” is controlled by Fatah, despite the fact that Fatah had won only about 28% of the popular vote in the 2006 election! The West Bank is controlled entirely by the U.S. through its proxy state of “Israel.” The capitalist dictatorship believes that it can enforce a ridiculous “2-state solution” on the Palestinian people! Obama thinks he can send George Mitchell, who refuses to meet with the group which won 72% of the Palestinian vote, and impose “peace” with a “2-state solution.” They think that the Palestinians will be more likely to agree to living behind the Apartheid/Prison Wall, which is more than 5 times as long and over twice as high as the Berlin Wall! To accept such a “peace” would be ridiculous! It would be like telling the inmates at Leavenworth Penitentiary that they are now citizens of the “free and independent state of Leavenworth...Penitentiary!” The answer is a secular state of Palestine! This implies the abolition of “Israel” and Zionist rule but does not permit any anti-Semitism or any anti-Islamism! This goal can ONLY be achieved by first carrying out a Socialist Revolution in the United States as explained further below.
Despite the Fact that the United States is Behind the Regime Change
Gambit Communists Must Give support to ALL Oppressed Peoples
Despite the fact that the goal of those involved in the Regime Change Gambit is not Socialism, just the opposite, it is still important to support the struggle against what in many cases is autocratic rule by the U.S. backed strongman despite the fact that the end result sought by the “opposition rebels/protesters is only to substitute sham rigged capitalist “elections” for the benefit of capitalist stability and to take over the Mideast. With capitalist “elections” the political climate may loosen up enough so that it eventually becomes possible to actually organize a genuine (Marxist, Engelsist, Leninist) Communist Party in those Islamic countries. This is an example of where the class interests of the capitalists and the Communists coincide. Another important example would be the fact that the German Kaiser, a capitalist warmonger, allowed Lenin the leader of the Bolshevik Party to pass through Germany from Switzerland where he was living as an exile and expatriate (!) and eventually to Russia during World War I because it was believed that Lenin would at the very least create trouble for the Russian Czar and possibly organize a revolution in Russia which would take Russia out of the war. Ultra-leftists criticized Lenin for accepting the help of the German Kaiser but that campaign went nowhere and turned out actually to be instructive for all Workers. After a Socialist Revolution is carried out in the United States, the center of world capitalism that still leaves the rest of the world to deal with. The Socialist Revolution will triumph simultaneously in all developed countries but not so easily in backward theocratic autocracies, for example. If the basis for theocratic autocracies is undermined through the present U.S. orchestrated Regime Change Gambit that is a good thing. That is why Lenin always recommended giving support to ALL oppressed peoples. This admonition does not apply to the situation in Libya and Syria, which already support oppressed peoples!
The Definition of The Big Lie and the Media:
First, it is crucial to define and explain the Big Lie Technique which is used on virtually all topics by the capitalist media and educational system and most of the Internet: There are 2 parts to the Big Lie: 1.) The first part of the Big Lie is that the lie must be BIG, because most people only tell little lies and are entirely unprepared for a Big Lie. 2.) The second part of the Big Lie Technique is to repeat the lie over and over again from every media source and “educational” source including textbooks and films until it is accepted as truth or accepted at least as partly true, when it is most invariably entirely false. In addition, lies may be lies of commission or important lies of omission. Both are unacceptable. The MEDIA, including the medical and science media is simply a privatized arm of the U.S. “intelligence agency,” an actual army of legions of professional liars which control every point on the political spectrum and every academic discipline and includes even so-called “comedians” working in service to the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires. The U.S. media is very similar to Blackwater, Dyncorp, Custer Battles and Triple Canopy, etc. the armed military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, except that the media has always been privatized. The capitalists are trying to head off the growing Islamic Fundamentalist movement in the Mideast, Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. They want to head off Islamic Fundamentalist change under the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, which at this point in Egypt is quite docile and has been taken over from within so that it can be integrated into an "electoral democracy." So now was the time to move for the U.S.-led world capitalist dictatorship. Be advised that "democracy" under capitalism is nothing but a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement. "Elections" are the Number One Primary Weapon of deception of the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires. Because whoever wins in a capitalist "election" you and I lose! Because capitalism CANNOT be reformed! CAPITALISM OFFERS A WORLD WITH NO FUTURE!
Ronald Reagan murdered the daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and almost killed Qaddafi himself on April 15, 1986. After that the United States—NOT QADDAFI—NOT LIBYA—brought down the Lockerbie jet airliner on December 21, 1988 with a bomb as a MASS PROVOCATION killing 243 passengers sacrificed as part of an escalating war against Libya and Qaddafi in order to take control of Libyan oil. THINK MOTIVE! The Lockerbie Airliner Provocation was used as the pretext to wage a never ending media onslaught against Qaddafi and Libya combined with years and years of economic sanctions, only lifted when Qaddafi, who finally became a total opportunist, agreed to plead guilty to something he and Libya had nothing to do with in order to have the economic sanctions lifted. A very high-ranking scapegoat, bdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, the former Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Tripoli, agreed to go to jail for the sake of having the economic sanctions removed. The Scottish government with the support of British Petroleum, who knew the whole thing was a total farce, later freed him. British Petroleum wanted access to and concessions from Libya which they got! The U.S. has a long history of blowing up airliners and sinking ships and then blaming the victim in order to create a pretext to start wars and invade countries. On June 23, 1985 the U.S. blew up Air India Flight 182 after Rajiv Ghandhi during his visit to the U.S told Ronald Reagan he had no intention of becoming a political ally of the U.S. and taking a position against the USSR. THINK MOTIVE! The Air India bombing occurred shortly after that. Later, Rajiv Ghandhi was assassinated outright on May 21, 1991 by the U.S., which is the only country which had the actual MOTIVE, which was to set a precedent and intimidate any others who would thumb their nose at the United States. The U.S. is also the only country which had the so-called “intelligence,” the spying capability and technical capability to know precisely where the extremely popular Rajiv Ghandhi would be in order to allow the transportation of the Tamil Tiger assassin/suicide bomber Thenmozhi Rajaratnam to the tiny obscure village, Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu state.
The 1983 Korean Airliner Provocation
The U.S. has a well-known and long history of engaging in provocations designed to blow up airliners, including the Korean Airliner Provocation 007 on September 1, 1983. The Soviet pilot who finally shot the Korean airliner down after it had deviated greatly from its assigned flight path and continued to make evasive maneuvers up and down even after the fuselage had been depressurized by cannon fire reported: “A LARGE SECONDARY EXPLOSION.” (!) That “large secondary explosion” was apparently an altitude bomb to make sure that the plane exploded even if the Korean pilot decided to land the plane instead of following his instructions given to him by RICHARD NIXON who was flown in specially to the Anchorage Alaska stopover to speak to the Korean pilot. Personally! Nixon apparently assured the Korean pilot that the Soviets would DEFINITELY NOT (!) shoot the plane down, assuring the Korean pilot that HE, Richard Nixon, knew the Soviets better than any other living person (!) and that this “test of Soviet air defense capabilities” was essential, even while instructing the pilot to do everything conceivable to provoke an actual shootdown, including instructing the pilot to keep the window shades ALL drawn and closed to conceal the actual passengers from the Soviet intercepter jet! The MOTIVE for the Korean Airliner Provocation 007 was primarily to DISCREDIT the German Communist Party-led opposition to the placement of Pershing II First Strike Nuclear Missiles in Germany 10 minutes from Moscow, which changed the political equation to LAUNCH ON WARNING, a step up from MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). After this provocation those First Strike nuclear missiles were placed in Germany in late November 1983 and in 1988 Gorbachev, after internal maneuvering in the Soviet Union after taking state power in April 1985, surrendered to the United States to prevent a nuclear war, the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race, which was instigated by the United States, as part of the strategic FULL COURT PRESS against the USSR in the 1980’s after the U.S. had given up on peaceful coexistence.
The Soviet surrender also demonstrated Soviet recognition of the One-Way Dynamic of Capitalism. See below. There was NO collapse of the USSR whatsoever, economically or in any other way! There was the 1991 START nuclear weapons agreement and what amounted to a surrender agreement which both sides agreed to. There were also several quid pro quos, which included ending the official rule by the Communist Party in the USSR in 1991 through a STING/”coup d’etat” carried out by Mikhail Gorrbachev (see elsewhere by this writer). In exchange the U.S. engineered the freeing of Nelson Mandela of the ANC in South Africa where the U.S. abandoned support for that regime. Gorbachev also gave the green light to the brazen assassination of the charismatic and hugely popular Cris Hani, the General Secretary of the South African Communist Party in April 1983 so that the South African Communist Party would not follow Nelson Mandela and the capitalist ANC! Gorbachev also had assassinated a veritable laundry list of Soviet diplomats and “bad memories” for the U.S. capitalist dictatorship including Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in July 1989, Kim Philby in May 1988, a Soviet Agent who had led the Russian division of British Intelligence (!) for 19 years (!) and “Gorby” agreed to the assassination of NAZI Rudolph Hess I Spandau Prison by the U.S in August 1987, to name just a few key personnel These events were followed by a long and painful dismantlement of the Soviet Worker’s State during the 1990’s. The CIA, which at that time did not want to be known as a false propaganda source because it would decrease morale, came on network TV news in 1991 and stated that they “had no evidence that the USSR was headed for an economic collapse.” The reason that they “had no evidence” was because there was no economic collapse of the USSR. That is the Big Lie False Propaganda Media Campaign!
The 911 Attack was a U.S. Government-Assisted Provocation:
The 1988 Soviet surrender set the stage for the 1991 Persian Gulf slaughter, the 911 Trade Center Attack/Provocation orchestrated by the United States and the U.S invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and the present Regime Change Gambit and Invasion of Libya. In the 2001 Trade Center Provocation the Bush Regime kept the U.S. military jet interceptors on the ground for over an hour in order to permit the Islamic Fundamentalists to fly their hijacked jets into the Trade Center and Pentagon in order to create a provocation and pretext to invade Central Asia and later, after a bait and switch using the fraudulent “weapons of mass destruction” as the pretext, to invade the main target—Iraq. Both the Clinton and the Bush Regimes allowed the 19 Islamic Fundamentalists to enter the United States, followed all of their movements by constant telephone, computer and email surveillance and made sure that those who were going to fly the planes received the higher education they needed at special flight schools to fly jumbo jets into the World Trade Center. When lower level FBI agents reported their suspicions to FBI headquarters in Washington they were told to shut up and they were reassigned. This all appeared within the first 3 weeks in the New York Times after the Trade Center Attack. See www.tenc.net for the timeline documenting how the interceptors were kept grounded (we do not support the political position of this site which supports “Israel”) and see: newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf (pages 51and pdf 63). The latter is the website of the Wolfowitz document entitled: “Rebuilding Americas Defenses,” a totally hair-brained scheme by third-rate intellects, which nevertheless is the present continuing game plan of the U.S. government, which is being carried out with virtually no deviation despite the fact that everything in it has been a fiasco from its inception. That game plan, which calls outright for projection of U.S. military power into Central Asia and the Mideast, the overthrow of the Peoples’ Republic of China, etc., was published in September 2000, one year before the 9/11 Attack, states on page 51: “Further, the process of transformation (the Fascist game plans of the Bush Regime), even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a New Pearl Harbor.”
Incidentally, there were no “bombs in the Trade Center!” Single issue anti-Communist groups supposedly attacking “the official explanation” of the Trade Center attack such as 9/11truth.org, etc. deliberately make the false and completely unsubstantiated claim that the Trade Center buildings came down because of planted “bombs” in all 7 Trade Center buildings and that the attacks by the Islamic Fundamentalists in those huge planes filled to the brim with 90,000 liters of jet fuel and the totally flimsy design of the Trade Center Buildings and subsequent huge fires in all 7 had nothing to do with it! What a joke! The bombs claim is known as straw man disinformation meant to 1.) Cover up the fact that the 911 Attack was a U.S. Government-Assisted Provocation, 2.) To discredit the true claim that the Bush (and Clinton) regimes orchestrated the 911 Attack and 3.) Cover-up the UNDERLYING MECHANISM of the capitalists’ so-called “War on Terror”—A CONTINUOUS CYCLE OF PROVOCATION FOLLOWED BY RETALIATION—where the Islamic Religion is systematically and deliberately attacked, provoked and manipulated on a continuing basis in order to illicit retaliation from Islamic Fundamentalists, which is then used in turn as the fraudulent pretext for the Final Stage of Capitalism—Permanent War and State Terrorism!
The Libyan So-called “Protesters/Rebels” Function as U.S./NATO Proxies!
The U.S. Invasion of Libya starting with the usual air attack of 110 cruise missiles the first day (!) and using “NATO forces” as their proxy for the ground invasion amounts to a total overthrow of the Libyan government, which began as an attempted coup d’etat. The “protesters/rebels” are actually a well-organized and supported group of manipulated and instigated U.S. proxies. Those fighting against Qaddafi will not get anything in return for laying down their lives for nothing but BUSH STYLE—REGIME CHANGE, which is precisely what is going on!! They want “elections,” but everything is being carried out to steal Libyan oil! They do not see it yet because of their youthful enthusiasm and deliberate misleadership by the United States which is orchestrated the entire thing! But Qaddafi did make several large mistakes: 1.) He invited the capitalist oil companies into Libya. 2.) He promised but did not follow through on his pledge to redirect the oil money to the Libyan people. Hugo Chavez actually has redirected the oil wealth to the Working Class and the Poor of Venezuela and he has no problem with popularity. Chavez is hugely popular despite unrelenting U.S.-directed false media propaganda campaign against him and non-stop provocations. 3.) Qaddafi also made the mistake of not watching his back. The Libyan people DO have LEGITIMATE grievances, which will NOT be improved one iota with a U.S. INVASION OF LIBYA and a take-over by the oil companies and private contractors, which is the United States objective. The U.S./NATO objective is first to divide Libya as the capitalists did with Korea and Vietnam. The U.S.-led world capitalist dictatorship intends to divide Libya with Bengazi being the “capitol” of the U.S. Proxy controlled “Protester/Rebel” controlled Kingdom of Libya (!), The Kingdom of Libya led by King Idris was overthrown by Qaddafi in 1951! The Libyan people should smell a rat but they don’t! The U.S. doesn’t care what it’s called. The U.S.-led capitalist dictatorship just wants the oil! The division of Iraq into Sunni and Shia factions was another wonderfully brilliant demonstration of how well the capitalist dictatorship is able to implement this essential Divide and Conquer Rule of capitalist statecraft! Maintaining the racial, ethnic, religious, national, age, sex and sexual division in the United States and elsewhere keeps the U.S. dictatorship on its toes!
The oil companies and the United States bought off all the Libyan ambassadors and some sections of the Libyan armed forces to take a position against Qaddafi. The U.S. controls the militaries of virtually all of its Mideast allies. The U.S. and NATO was given the green light to invade Libya beginning with a “no fly zone,” when it looked like their coup d’etat is about to fail miserably!!” A “no-fly zone” is an act of war first requiring that the US/NATO first bomb Libyan air defenses! The U.S. capitalist dictatorship has also now instructed 11 puppet members of the 22-member Arab League, to make a special request to the U.S. and NATO and the United Nations to please, please come invade Libya, beginning with a “no-fly zone,” because it was obvious that the U.S. proxy “rebel army” was collapsing. Capitalism is in its Final Stage designated Permanent War and State Terrorism. The “War on Terror is the pretext to maintain capitalism in its final stage. Capitalism is fundamentally based on war, mass murder, crime and subjugation to steal new resources and markets in order to increase private profits. It should be very clear to any person who knows the history of Libya and the U.S.-led capitalist dictatorship what is happening in Libya today! The combination of: 1.) total absence of any Communist Party or organized Working Class in Islamic countries and 2.) U.S. control of the military in most of these countries through training of their officer corps often in the United States and direct supply of war materiel and money to those militaries is how the U.S. is able to ensure that under no circumstances that the deliberately created social unrest which capitalism has created naturally through the exploitation and super-exploitation of the Working Class and which is organized through “Facebook” and “Twitter” to perform the bidding of the U.S.-led world capitalist dictatorship, gets organized in the correct direction of a Socialist Revolution. Islam is the most REACTIONARY of all religions which are ALL inherently reactionary. That helps keep the lid on for the capitalist dictatorship.
The U.S. Government—meaning the U.S. Capitalist Dictatorship—
Has Lost ALL LEGITIMACY TO RULE and
ALL RIGHT TO SOVEREIGNTY IN THE UNITED STATES!
The United States is waging economic war, biological war and psychological war against its own population! Let’s look at the history and the present situation both in the U.S. and in Libya. We can not change the future without knowing the past. The reason for this is that if we do not learn the lessons of the past, our class enemy will and will apply those lessons against the Working Class and its allies. Therefore, we have to examine some history. The real story of the New Deal: What actually happened in the 1930's was that a million-strong Communist movement in the United States generated the pressure which forced Franklin Delano Roosevelt to come up with the New Deal—16 Social Programs which included the Social Security Act. At that time and most recently on Channel 13 Public Television Roosevelt was given credit for "saving capitalism." "Saving capitalism," from WHAT pray tell? From a Socialist Revolution in the United States! It was that close! So, the New Deal, which TODAY is only a dream—instead we get the No Deal and The Bad Deal because there is currently a ZERO Communist movement in the United States—was actually just a BRIBE in the 1930's. The Working Class did not have to take that bribe! So WHY did they take that bribe??? At a point in time when they did NOT have to take that bribe!
The Importance of Genuine Communist Leadership:
The answer is that they took that bribe, the New Deal, because of the deliberate misleadership of Josef Stalin, who himself was NOT a Communist although he was a member of the Communist Party and had wormed his way into becoming the General Secretary, a position which Lenin opposed! Prior to the 1917 Russian Revolution, the most important and significant event in the Twentieth Century, Stalin voted against taking state power on each and every vote that was take prior to the revolution. He always voted with Kamaniev who always voted against! This included the vote taken the night before the Bolshevik party led the Working Class, (70% of whom supported the Bolsheviks) and 30% of the Peasantry which included the all-important military WHICH WAS IN MUTINY, to take state power. Stalin played a counter-productive role in the Revolutionary War and much later in 1924 after becoming General Secretary, poisoned Lenin while Lenin was recuperating from his second stroke. All the details of what was well known since the 1920's were all published in the Moscow News, Jan-Feb, 1989. Stalin murdered the remaining leaders of the Bolshevik Party most of them in a series of show trials but others through outright assassination. His position internationally was well known: Socialism in one country--in practice meaning Socialism in no other country. The USSR was only a Workers' State not Socialism, the first stage of Communism. Communism is a stateless society which has never been practiced and can never be put into practice until capitalism has been overthrown in its center--the United States. In addition to sabotaging the Working Class movement in the U.S. and throughout Europe, Stalin sent 50,000 Chinese Communists to their deaths before Mao got his head together and stopped accepting directives from Stalin. Finally in 1943 Stalin ended the Communist International altogether. So much for Stalin being a "Communist." Stalin rode the back of the 1917 Russian Revolution and drew all his power from it and was compelled to defend it albeit rather poorly starting out as mentioned by murdering Lenin. We have to build back a million-strong Communist movement her in the United States like there was in the 1930’s and carry it through to a Socialist Revolution in the United States. CAPITALISM OFFERS A WORLD WITH NO FUTURE!
The One-Way Dynamic of Capitalism:
Every capitalist administration since the beginning of Imperialism, which correlates approximately with the beginning of the Twentieth Century has been to the right of the one which preceded it whether it has been Republican or Democrat, it makes no difference, with the exceptions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the two New Dealers which followed him, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, a Democrat who ran as a Republican, and Lyndon Johnson another New Dealer. These exceptions applied domestically ONLY. Roosevelt orchestrated the Pearl Harbor Provocation in order to get the U.S. Congress to declare war on Japan and reverse the anti-war sentiment in the United States. Seven months after the U.S. cracked the Japanese code and the U.S. heard the Japanese approaching Pearl Harbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled the 2 aircraft carriers in Pearl Harbor out to sea because they did not want the decks of those carriers to be damaged in the coming attack. Reflecting the overwhelming will of the U.S. people the U.S. Congress had just passed the Neutrality Act because the horror of WWI was so fresh in people’s minds and Roosevelt needed a provocation, “a Day Which Would Live In Infamy,” in order to justify asking Congress to declare war on Japan, which it did the very next day after the attack on December 8, 1941 The reason that the capitalists are able to get away with their lies and waging economic war, biological war and psychological (brainwashing) warfare against their “own” people with virtually NO ORGANIZED OPPOSITION is that today there is no Communist movement in the United States! Communists are the only ones who represent the interests of the Working Class. But right now here in New York City 95% of those interviewed do smell a rat and agree, given the choice, which they are NOT, that we need a new system based on human need not private profit. That means Socialism not Fascism. How do we achieve Socialism?
Capitalism cannot be turned into Socialism because of its inherent (now) ONE-WAY dynamic which leads to Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization, a DYNAMIC which is totally independent of the WILLS of the individual capitalists and politicians who nevertheless RIDE that dynamic to the top based on the extent that they express and further the interests of that dynamic. The system controls them NOT the other way around. This is hard for most people to understand. People are taught to think in terms of individuals and good guys and bad guys and this forms the basis for elections under capitalism, which is the primary weapon of capitalist deception. Under capitalism there are NO good guys and bad guys. Under capitalism they are ALL BAD GUYS, AND THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE. (There is an exception to every rule--including this one!) The proof for this is that there is not ONE capitalist politician anywhere who is saying that capitalism is a failure and has had its day and can only be replaced with Socialism through a Socialist Revolution in the United States. ALL capitalist politicians try to encourage the false illusion that capitalism can be reformed. That is the basis for the Presidential elections and all elections by extension, which are the Number One Weapon of Capitalist Deception.
“Elections” under capitalism perpetuate the false illusion of “reform” under capitalism, which is the Number One Big Lie of capitalism. The word “democracy” under capitalism is simply a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement. That applies here in the United States and everywhere else as well. And if you tune into any news show or cable show only ONE question is actually being discussed no matter what the issue it is. All discussion reduces to only one question! What question is that??? The only question being discussed under capitalism is HOW BEST TO PRESERVE CAPITALISM! Nothing whatsoever about human need! So we need to organize back the one million strong Communist movement we had in the 1930's. The Declaration of Independence is actually a transitional document for a Socialist Revolution in the United States. Google up the Declaration of Independence and Check it out. So we actually have a legal basis and justification for calling for a Socialist Revolution in the United States and as a first step for calling for MUTINY in IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN and all U.S. armed forces as in Vietnam, the real reason and the ONLY REASON that the Vietnam War ended in 1975! Disarming the capitalist dictatorship is thus the Precondition for ALL social change in the United States and worldwide.
The U.S. Government meaning the U.S. capitalist dictatorship has lost ALL LEGITIMACY TO RULE and ALL RIGHT TO SOVEREIGNTY in the United States! This must be repeated from the rooftops! Let’s stop talking about reforming capitalism! This is not your country and it is not my country. This country belongs to the dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires. Not you and me! WE own NOTHING! The banks and dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires owns everything. If you miss a payment on your mortgage you are in the street. Same thing with your car! Miss a payment on your car and you have no car. So lets stop talking about “why don’t we do this or we do that.” Who “we?” Never ever say ”we” or “our” when talking about the U.S. Refer to the US as the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires or capitalist dictatorship because that is what it is! We are NOT talking about changing the government! That is already done with the periodically staged sham, phony U.S. “elections,” which the capitalists use as take-off points for further and intensified wars in order to steal their natural resources and/or to try to overthrow as many regimes as possible which are opposed to the U.S.-led world capitalist dictatorship. We have to talk about getting rid of the economic-political-social system of capitalism, which can ONLY be accomplished through a Socialist Revolution in the United States. Lets STOP identifying ourselves with the crimes of the dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires who stage sham “elections, where whoever wins the “election,“ WE ARE THE LOSERS! We have to stop thinking in terms of reforming capitalism through “protests” which are really aimed at leading seriously motivated people to defeat while allowing them to VENT their energy uselessly and harmlessly to the capitalist dictatorship. Protest demonstrations are just what they say—begging the capitalist dictatorship to please, please be nice and “do the right thing.” Protest demonstrations are carefully designed to keep those opposed to the actions of the capitalist dictatorship always within the framework of continuing to support the capitalist dictatorship. The U.S. government operated fake “opposition” NEVER EVER connects up the crimes of the capitalist dictatorship with the need for Socialism, a word which is never even mentioned! Or for the need to organize an economic system based on human need not private profit! And the need to abolish capitalism through a Socialist Revolution in the United States! The discussion must center on how precisely to organize and carry out the Socialist Revolution in the United States.
The U.S. Masses Would be Receptive to a Socialist Revolution in the
United States but There is NO GENUINE ORGANIZED COMMUNIST PARTY!
When 95% of New Yorkers already agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit, that is a Communist response actually. And that means that the masses WOULD BE RECEPTIVE RIGHT NOW TO A SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES! Although those polled would not necessarily identify themselves as Communists because they have been brainwashed that Communists are "the bad guys." In other words the capitalists have inoculated the masses against the only solution to the entire complex of problems confronting humanity, the majority of which have been created by capitalism, now in its Final Stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism and do not understand: that the enemy of my enemy is my friend and the friend of my enemy is my enemy. This is inductive reasoning the reasoning of science! The capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires (capitalism) is our primary enemy although few actually understand that completely or are able to explain it in as many words at this time because of the relentless brainwashing and campaign to beat down and demoralize the U.S. Working Class. Remember that in the final analysis all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement begins with the call. The capitalists have presently demoralized their own subject populations, which have no Communist organization of any kind at the present time. And the capitalists know it! The masses have been rendered ANTI-COMMUNIST! That's why the capitalists are able to wage economic war (and biological war and psychological war) against their very “own” populations right now, for example, using the false pretext of budget deficits, which they methodologically and deliberately create through the failure to create large scale Federal Jobs Programs and deliberate FAILURE TO TAX ALL INCOME and implement a progressive tax structure. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship which has lost all legitimacy to rule and lost the right to sovereignty by carrying out war against its “own” people. For example, the capitalists are able to wage economic war against its own people by substituting Supply-Side Economics/Trickle Down Economics, Bush/Obama Tax-Cut Economics, $4.7 Trillion Bank Bailout Economics, Budget Deficits, etc. for large-scale public jobs programs as in the New Deal and WWII, and then blame the present Depression (NOT Recession!) on the masses themselves for "living too high off the hog." Combined New Deal and WWII spending in standard capitalist Keynesian Deficit spending to 37% of the Gross Domestic Product is what lifted the U.S. economy and then the world economy out of the Great Depression.
ZERO public awareness, ZERO organization and ANTI-COMMUNIST BRAINWASH is why the capitalist dictatorship is able to get away without taxing ALL INCOME but only the first $106,800 (!) and get away with it!!!!! Then they falsely blame increases in healthcare costs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as the cause of the budget deficit and for the “need” to eliminate pensions, jobs and social programs. Those millionaires and billionaires have drained us totally dry! When they talk about ”taxpayers” they do not mean themselves! They mean the Working Class and the Poor primarily! The ”Middle Class” designates small business people, doctors, lawyers and the direct servants of the capitalists. The capitalists try not to mention the Working Class and substitute “middle class” whenever possible in order to falsely flatter the Workers so that the Working Class does not understand its own identity and its destiny, namely to overthrow the capitalists and organize a Socialist society, which can only be created by overthrowing capitalism at its center. Do not for one moment be led into believing that “of we just send the right message to Obama” or someone else “they will do the right thing.” This is what the International Action Center and Workers World Party, etc would like people to believe. The capitalists have total contempt for the intelligence and organization of the Working Class. Right now with good reason! And the situation is going hell bent for leather to the right as this is being written.
Why is the capitalist dictatorship doing everything in its power to DELIBERATELY ALLOW THE ECONOMY TO CONTRACT in the U.S. and the Eurozone? The reason is because of “Globalism” or “Globalization,” which simply means competition to the lowest salary level worldwide among the world’s capitalists. According to so-called “economic experts on CNBC on October 9, 2009, decreasing the standard of living in the United States was announced as “a primary objective “of the Obama Regime “in order to make the U.S. more competitive under Globalism.” This is in the face of the greatest income disparity, the greatest income difference, in ALL HUMAN HISTORY! There is enough money in the United States today for every single person to live like a millionaire and that is no exaggeration! The possession or acquisition of huge material wealth automatically means poverty, misery and exploitation of others! The economy is NOT going to recover and CAN NOT REALLY RECOVER, despite the negligible effect of the capitalist business cycle, unless the government institutes huge Federal Jobs Programs equivalent to 37% of GDP, which is the only possible way to sufficiently stimulate DEMAND, the engine of the economy. This is basic Economics 101! That is why the capitalists are NOT hiring federal workers! That is why the capitalist dictatorship is doing the precise opposite and is firing Federal, State and City Workers as fast as possible precisely IN ORDER TO DECREASE DEMAND and to shrink the economy, all carried out with MAXIMAL DENIAL, while boisterously and pretentiously talking falsely about “creating more jobs.”! GreaZy characters like Paul Krugman of the New York Times and Princeton (!?), for example, are awarded the Nobel Prize to give more weight to his non-stop deceptive apologia and outright cheerleading of the ever-hardening capitalist dictatorship. Don’t be deceived. The only way to ever put people back to work is through Socialism, which can only be achieved by carrying out a Socialist Revolution here in the United States.
The basic question of every Socialist Revolution is that of state power. The state is nothing more than a machine for suppressing one class by another. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the Socialist Revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. Although the capitalist regime today is composed largely of Fascists we do not yet have Fascism in the United States. We have Rule By Decree, technically known as Bonapartism, in the form of a constantly hardening bureaucratic-military police state. What is most important to understand is that capitalism is a class dictatorship based on the fact that the capitalists own the means of production, the factories, the land, the banks, the military, the media (a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community”), the educational system, where the state begins the brainwash of the youth who become the brainwashed adults and are instructed to pledge allegiance to the hardening capitalist dictatorship, which is falsely labeled “a democracy,” and to be ready to fanatically fight and die for the capitalists’ interests only—never their own interests! Finally, the capitalists own and operate the entire political process with their 2 parties which represent only capitalist interests. Even under a parliamentary system such as in France, Italy or England the capitalists run all of the parties including those that falsely claim to be “Communist.” In addition, all of the presidential “elections” outcomes are rigged in advance, or if need be, during the election or after the election as they were in 2000 and 2004—and have been ever since Watergate. The Working Class, middle class, middle-income earners and the Poor can never be fairly represented under capitalism. Even the capitalists have no future under capitalism! The survival of civilization as we will see below therefore depends on carrying out a Socialist Revolution here in the United States, which will then follow automatically worldwide because there will be no more center of world capitalism-imperialism.
William H. Depperman, Coordinator
United Front Against Racism
And Capitalism-Imperialism
New York, N.Y.
Revised March 27, 2011
Seif Turki| 4.14.11 @ 10:13AM
seifturki
April 14, 2011 - 8:08 am Re:A Jewish Family Massacred By: By Philip Klein on 3.14.11 @ 10:55AM
By Seif Turki,
I don’t think your one sided biased article above can in anyway contribute to peace in the Middle East. On the contrary, I think that your generalization of the perpetrators as Palestinians will only frustrate the situation further. Somehow you and Hamas are on equal footings when it comes to the Palestinian issue. Hamas which is a despicable terrorist organization is riding the wave of Palestinian legitimate nationalistic search for freedom in their own homeland. You on the other hand is using such a barbaric horrible incident to propagandize Israel’s continuous quest of uprooting the indigenous Palestinians from their homeland through Israel’s unending expansion of their illegal settlements. The killing took in a settlement built on land stolen from the indigenous Palestinians.
If you would have exposed Israeli indiscriminate attacks on Gaza resulting in 1400 civilians killed including 490 children, then maybe you can retrieve your lost credibility and bias. I am an ardent enemy of all religious Islamic terrorist organizations, and have written books on the subject, but I cannot be hypocritical by being selective in choosing any barbarism. Ironically all the cheap propaganda used by you and others have not in the least, contributed to any peace in the Middle east, as the last 64 years can prove it, because helping Israel will never become fruitful until the homeless Palestinians would have their homeland liberated alongside Israel.
Palestinian rights go back long before Hamas was created, and therefore using Hamas as an excuse to attack the national and legitimate rights of the Palestinians would only contribute to further violence. If legitimacy takes its normal course in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, then you will find that the Palestinians will be the force that would fight Hamas and all terrorist organizations. Don’t forget that there are more than 500,000 Palestinian Christians plus 95% of the moderate Moslem public are against Islamic extremism and Israeli cruel occupation. It is your right to be biased, but you should also work to bring peace to the Israeli and Palestinian people. Your pro-Israel will not only br against the Palestinians but also against peace for Isr
CateringMelbourne | 12.7.11 @ 4:49AM
Nice post!